GERHARD ED, THE GUITAR SONGBOOK. Blue highway -crow -duet -farther along -homage -promised land -shallow brown -si bhig si mhor -the water is wide -wild mountain thyme. CD TABLATURE
Acoustic Masterclass Series: Ed Gerhard The Guitar Songbook
By Ed Gerhard
SERIES: Acoustic Masterclass
CATEGORY: Guitar Method or Supplement
VERSION: Guitar TAB
FORMAT: Book & CD
Guitar arrangements transcribed by the artists themselves, in standard notation and tab. Each edition includes a masterclass-style CD in which the artist walks you through the key aspects and techniques for each arrangement.
Ten of Ed Gerhard's most beautiful solo guitar pieces transcribed in full notation and tablature. On the accompanying master class-style CD, Ed carefully describes and demonstrates all the key passages for each song. Titles are:
Big thanks to Aaron Stang for his interest in this project, Mark Herndon for his great work with the transcriptions, and Chief Noda for his invaluable help and friendship throughout the years. Thanks to all of my friends and listeners around the world who have honored me with their attention and encouragement. Very special thanks and love to Kelli Bertram. Introduction I grew up listening to the world around me; for some reason, just the phenomenon of sound itself was enormously entertaining to me as a kid. It didn't even matter what kind of sound it was. Music, animals, machines, and voices-all held equal intrigue for me. When, at the age of ten, I first heard Segovia, watching him in the grainy flicker of a little black-and-white TV, I knew that this sound was different. I had never heard a guitar played alone before, and the sound that came out of that instrument changed me profoundly. Even at the age of ten I knew it. It wasn't until I was 14 that my Dad finally gave in and got me a guitar. My life was changed again the moment I put my hand on it. That was in 1970, when the accepted method for learning the guitar was to go to the local music store and learn to read music, play one string at a time, and generally struggle to play the uncoolest music ever. Where was the payoff? How far down the line would I get to enjoy the guitar? I lasted for about three lessons. I began teaching myself, learning from friends, and immersing myself in any music that had an acoustic guitar in it. I slowed down records to help figure out the hard parts. I fell in love with blues and wore out at least two copies of Mississippi John Hurt's Today! Within months I was making up pieces, experimenting with altered tunings, and playing slide. My appreciation for the guitar fueled my interest in all kinds of music, and I listened to everything from Blind Willie Johnson to Joseph Spence to Shostakovich to Debussy to Miles Davis.
General technical notes:
Weissnborn and Lap-style playing
Lap-style intruments
Slides, steel and bars
General playing
Vibrato
1993 - Blue Highway - ED GERHARD
1987 - Crow - ED GERHARD
1999 - Duet - ED GERHARD
2001 - Farther Along - ED GERHARD
1999 - Homage - ED GERHARD
2001 - Promised Land - ED GERHARD
1999 - Shallow Brown - TRADITIONAL
1999 - Si Bhig, Si Mhor - TRADITIONAL
1996 - The Water Is Wide - TRADITIONAL
1996 - Wild Mountain Thyme - TRADITIONAL
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