GUITAR ATLAS AFRICA. Chi nel 2003 ha ascoltato il chitarrista classico John Williams in concerto, sarà ancora incuriosito dalle allegre melodie del continente africano. CD TABLATURE
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By Banning Eyre
SERIES: National Guitar Workshop
CATEGORY: Guitar Method or Supplement
FORMAT: Book & CD
Banning Eyre, a nationally recognized expert in African guitar music, guides you through a variety of important styles, including congolese, mbira, Malian blues and juju. Explore the history and origin of each style including the pioneering musicians that developed them, and learn the dominant characteristics and techniques necessary to play this remarkable music. All material and examples are presented in standard notation and TAB for both lead and rhythm parts. A CD demonstrating all examples and compositions in the book makes learning easy and trouble-free for all players.
Expand your musical horizons with guitar styles from the African continent.
Banning Eyre, a nationally recognized expert
in African guitar music, guides you through the elements that
are at the heart of the African guitar sound. Explore a variety
of important styles, from the intertwining guitar boogie of the
Congo and the serene, percussive weave of Nigerian juju
music, to the flashy fingerpicking of Mali and Madagascar.
The CD demonstrates ali the examples and compositions
featured in the book.
The author's travels and experiences with guitarists throughout
Africa lend this book unmistakable authenticity, and the
popularity of Afropop makes Guitor Atlos: Africo a must for
every player. This thorough yet concise introduction makes it
fun and easy to explore the fascinating styles of a continent
rich in musical traditions.
Guitar Atlas: Africa
Guitar Styles From Around the Globe
20450
African guitar is a big subject, as big as the continent itself. Africa is 54 countries and
many hundreds of distinct ethnic groups, and while most people think of African music
as principally drumming and singing, there is an astounding number of guitar styles
unique to particular African settings. Paul Simon's breakthrough 1986 album
"Graceland" focused international attention on South African pop music and initiated
a process of discovery for cutious music fans around the world. What they found was
the dazzling array of music styles we now call Afropop. From the tangled guitar boogie
of the Congo-soukous music-to the serene percussive weave ofNigerianjuju music,
to the flashy fingerpickers of Mali and Madagascar, Africa's treasure chest of beautiful
and originaI contemporary guitar idioms seems inexhaustible.
Many of these idioms deserve a book of their own. Some are extensions of ancient
musical traditions that used indigenous instruments for centuries before the first
guitars carne to Africa with Portuguese sailors in the 16th century. These "roots"
genres sometimes have rich, widely inrerpreted repertoires and diverse, demanding
techniques specifically developed to render the sounds of African instruments on
guitar. Even brazenly modern guitar styles, like those in the Congo, have achieved
a remarkable level of depth and rigor within a few short decades of developmenr.
For all the travel and study l've put in, l've only scratched the surface of Africa's
guitar wealth. But l've learned enough to convey a number of important principI es
of some key African guitar styles.
That is the limited objective of Guitar Atlas: Africa. The African guitar styles introduced
here are by no means the only ones worthy of study. They are simply the ones I have been
fortunate enough to discover, and the ones l've become intrigued enough to tackle as a
player. This book would not have been possible without the openness and generosity of
the many guitarists who have shared their wisdom with me. Using the principles and
fundamentals in this book as a starting point, players will be able to approach recordings
of African music with greater appreciation and understanding. Still, mere is no substitute
for sitting down with those who grew up playing these styles, especially ifyou can do so in
Africa. My fondest hope for this book is that it will inspire other players to dig dee per into
this underexamined world of guitar music. I hope others will make their own journeys,
write their own books and articles, and bring as yet undiscovered African guitar geniuses
to international attention.
Guitar Atlas: Africa assumes that you have some experience playing and reading standard
music notation and/or TAB, and that you have some experience with both
fingerstyle and flatpick playing. It also assumes that you have some understanding of
basic music theory-time signatures, rhythms and note values (ranging from whole
notes to sixteenth notes), intervals, harmony (chords and chord symbols), and so on.
Banning Eyre has played guitar professionally since me mid1970s,
working in genres as diverse as jazz, flamenco, dancerock,
and reggae. Since 1990, he has specialized in guitar
styles from Mrica, making six trips to the continent to research
guitar music. Over the years, Banning has played in a
series of Congolese soukous bands in Boston, in the West Mrican
folk ensemble Cora Connection, and with a variety of
musicians performing Zimbabwean mbira music. He teaches
Mrican guitar styles, both privately and in workshops at Tribal
Soundz in New York City.
During travels in Mrica, Banning has performed with the Super Rail Band of Bamako
and Sali Sidibe in Mali, and with Thomas Mapfumo and the Blacks Unlimited in
Zimbabwe. He plays on two Thomas Mapfumo albums, "Chimurenga '98" and
"Chimurenga Explosion," and on a track from Taj Mahal and Toumani Diabate's
"Kulanjan" (Hannibal, 1999), voted the Folk Roots Album of the Year in the UK.
Banning has written about international music, especially Mrican guitar styles, since
1988. He comments and reporrs on music for National Public Radio's All Things
Considered and contributes regularly to the Boston Phoenix, Guitar Player, Rhythm,
Folk Roots, The Beat, CM] New Musie Monthly, and the Musie Hound and All Musie
Guide series of books. He has traveled extensively in Mrica and produces regular
programs for the public radio series Afropop Worldwide.
In 1995, Banning co authored AFROPOPf.- An Illustrated Guide to Contemporary Afriean
Musie with Sean Barlow. His critically acclaimed book In Griot Time: An Ameriean
Guitarist in Mali (Tempie University Press, 2000) recounts his seven-month apprenticeship
with DjelimadyTounkara of the Super Rail Band of Bamako, Mali. He compiled a
companion CD, In Griot Time: String Musie from Mali (Stern's Mrica, 2000), including a
number of his own recordings of musicians in Mali. Banning is currently at work on a
book abour Thomas Mapfumo and the contemporary history of Zimbabwe.
Banning is the senior editor.
Amponsah
Balafon
Chimurenga
Clave
Diaoura
Dosongoni
Griot
Guirare etouffée
Hosho
Kaira
Kamelengoni
Karigamombe
Karagnan
Keme Burema
Kwaito
Kwassa-kvvassa
Marabi
Marche militaire
am-POHN-sah
BAH-lah-fohn
CHI-mur-EHNG-ah
CLAH-vay
jah-OO-rah
DOH-soh-NGOH-nee
GREE-oh
gih-TAHR AY-too-fay
HOH-shoh
KIE-rah
KAH-meh-leh-N GO H -nee
KAH-tee-gah-MOHM-bay
KAH-ran-YAH(n)
KAY-mayBRAH-mah
KWIE-toh
KWAH-sah KWAH-sah
mah-RAH-bee
MARZH mee-lee-TEHR
Marovany
Matonge
Mbaqanga
Mbira dza vadzimu=
Mi-solo
Ngoni
Pidigori
Seben
Son monruno
Songhai
Soukous
Sungura
Sunjata
Taireva
Ukapika
Valiha
Wassoulou
Yoruba
MAH-roh-VAHN
MAH-tohn-gay
mbah- KAHN -gah
MBEE-rah DZAH-vah-DZEE-
MEE-soh-loh
NGOH-nee
PIH -dee-goh-ree
SEH-ben
SOHN mahn-TOO -oh
SOHN-gie
SOO-koos
soon-GOO-rah
soon-JAH-tah
tie-RAY-vah
OO-kah- PEE-kah
vah-LEE
WAH-soo-loo
yoh-ROO-bah
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
PRONUNCIATION GUIDE
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER l-Palm Wine Piekers
Two-Finger Pieking
Palm Wine Basies
Parallel 6ths
Making It Swing
CHAPTER 2-Highlife and Juju
Rhythm Guitar
Juju IO
Juju Slow 1 O
CHAPTER 3-Congolese, Rumba, and Soukous
The Clave Rhythm
Congolese Rhythm Guitar
Matonge
Congolese Lead Guitar
Soukous Bass
Congolese Seben 1
Congolese Seben 2.
CHAPTER 4-Music of the Manding Griots
Kora Style
Balafon Style
goni Style
Keme Burema
Diaoura
Lydian Mode
Manding Swing
Manding Groove
CHAPTER 5-Malian Blues .
Major Pentatonie .
Songhai Piece .
Minor Pentatonie .
Minor Pentatonic Duet .
Dorian Pentatonie .
Dorian Desert Blues .
Wassoulou Musie .
Two-Guitar Wassoulou Piece .
CHAPTER 6-South African Piekers
and Strummers .
Zulu Fingerstyle Guitar .
Walking Song .
Zulu Song .
Mbaqanga .
Mbaqanga Song .
CHAPTER 7-Zimbabwe Rumba .
Sungura Stomp .
CHAPTER 8-Zimbabwe Mbira .
Mbira Fingerstyle .
Karigamombe Fingerstyle .
Flatpiek Mbira Guitar .
Pidigori .
Lead Mbira Guitar .
Pidigori Extended Lead .
Taireva .
1àireva (version 1) .
1àireva (version 2) .
CHAPTER 9-Miracles of Madagasear .
Sammy's Vamp .
Variation on Sammy's Vamp .
Malagasy Song .
Track
A compact disc is included with this book. This disc can make learning
with the book easier and more enjoyable. The symbol shown at the left
appears next to every example that is on me CD. Use me CD to help
ensure that you're capturing me feel of me examples, interpreting me rhythms
correccly, and so ono The track number below the symbol corresponds directly
to me exampleyou want to hear. Track l will help you runeyourguitar to this CD.
Have fun!
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