JOHN DENVER

DENVER JOHN, LEARN FOLK GUITAR WITH THE MUSIC OF. 74 Pages. CD TABLATURE

LIBRO METODO DI MUSICA COUNTRY ROCK, CON CD. 

SPARTITI PER VOCE E CHITARRA CON: 

ACCORDI, PENTAGRAMMA, NOTE, TABLATURE. 

METODO, MANUALE, DIDATTICO, STUDIO. 

Series: Guitar Educational
Publisher: Cherry Lane Music
Softcover with CD - TAB
Author: Pat Bianculli

The music of John Denver has drawn millions to the down-home feel and universal messages of folk music. The body of work he laid out for others to follow can also serve as a master plan from which his fans can learn how to play folk guitar. If you yearn to take your guitar playing down country roads and through the Rocky Mountains, then Learn Folk Guitar with the Music of John Denver is uniquely for you. Starting right now you can learn everything you need to know to begin playing folk guitar-fingerpicking, strumming techniques, pick techniques, arranging, and more-by exploring the music of John Denver. With examples taken from the music he made famous, as well as full arrangements of some of his best-known songs, this book will have you strumming and picking in no time. A CD is included with recorded examples. 72 pages

Born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, Pasquale Bianculli began playing the guitar at the age of 13 under Joseph Cassano. In 1972, he began intensive srudy in classical guitar with ]erry Willard and Edgard Dana at the Guitar Workshop in Oyster Bay, NY. He received his M. Mus. degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1981, and holds a certificate from Teachers College Columbia Univcrsity as a Performing Artist in the Schools. As a recitalist, he has been heard across the D.S., Canada, Europe, and the Caribbean. In 1983, he made his New York solo debur at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. He has had the honor of performing for the legendary guitarist Andres Segovia in Granada, Spain. Both he and his wife, flurist Kathy McDonald, taught at the Edna Manley School of the Arts in Kingston, Jamaica, performing throughout that country. Together with guitarist Harris Becker, he formed Guitar x2 and, in 1999, released a CD of music for rwo guitars, Catgut Flambo, on the Musicians Showcase Recordings label. The composer Carlo Domeniconi wrote and dedicated his Long Island Suite to the duo in 2002. Pat has been on the faculties of Dowling College and the Pasquale Bianculli Rocky Ridge Music Center in Colorado and has served as adjudicator in music competitions sponsored by Queens College and the American String Teacher's Association. Currently, he is on the faculty of C. W Post Campus of Long Island University and the United Nations International School. This is his second book for Cherry Lane Music Publishing, his first being 101 Tips and Tricks/or Acoustic Guitar. This book is dedicated to Kathleen. Thanks to Susan Poliniak for her help throughour this project, to Kathleen McDonald for her assistance and continued support, and to Joe Turzo for the use of his photographs here.

Table of Contents:

John Denver-His Music, His Life

About: theAuthor

Acknowledgments

The Basics

Your Tools for This Journey 

Practice Advice 

About the Music Examples 

A Review of the Fundamentals 

Basic Right-Hand Technique 

Basic Lett-Hand Technique

Strumming Techniques

Strumming With the Fingers 

Simple Strum Accompaniments

"Take Me Home, Country Roads" 

A Little Technique Check 

A Simple Bass-Strum Accompaniment 

Alternating Basses .

The Basic Bass-Flick/Back Strum .

Flick/Back Variation # I-Playing in 3/4 Time 

"Starwood in Aspen" 

Flick/Back Variation #2-The SW'ing Feel, or a "Flexible" Beat 

Flick/Back Variation #3-Filling in the Gaps 

"Two Different Directions" 

Flick/Back Variation #4--Neighbor Note Hammer-Ons in the Bass

Bass Runs 

Playing the Melody in the Bass-Carter Family Style 

"Back Home Again" 

Fingerpicking Techniques

A Very Basic Arpeggio

Outside-Inside Picking

"This Old Guitar" 

Pinching .

Calypso Picking 

"Leaving on a Jet Plane" 

Playing TW'oTreble Strings at Once 

Fingerpicking in 3/4 Time 

"Annie's Song" 

Basic Travis Picking

"I Guess He'd Rather Be in Colorado" 

Travis Picking W'ith Pick and Fingers 

"Sweet Surrender"

Arranging 

"Poems, Prayers and Promises"

Epilogue

"Goodbye Again"

Annie's Song
Back Home Again
Flying For Me
Goodbye Again
I Guess He'd Rather Be In Colorado
Leaving On A Jet Plane
Poems, Prayers And Promises
Starwood In Aspen
Sweet Surrender
Take Me Home, Country Roads
This Old Guitar
Two Different Directions