KOTTKE LEO THE MUSIC OF. Tecnica, discografia completa. Ogni brano è suonato anche lentamente per facilitare l'apprendimento. Leo, nato nel 1945, nonostante il suo udito sia rimasto compromesso in un incidente durante il servizio militare, non rinuncia alla musica. Inizia a esibirsi in vari Club degli Stati Uniti girovagando in autostop. Decisivo per il suo futuro è l'incontro con il professionista John Fahey, che sarà per lungo tempo suo consigliere e maestro. Contiene: -busted bicycle -Jesu, joy of man's desiring -crow river walz -theme from "the rick and Bob report" -little beaver. CD TABLATURE
THE MUSIC OF LEO KOTTKE transcribed by Mark Hanson
Note-for-note transcriptions from Kottke's actual recordings. Includes each song recorded at half-speed on included CD! Tunes include, "Busted Bicycle," "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring," Theme from "The Rick and Bob Report," "Crow River Waltz," and "Little Beaver." Note/tab. 48 pp.
Busted Bicycle
Crow River Waltz
Jesu, Joy Of Man?s Desiring [Bach, Johann Sebastian]
Little Beaver
Foreword
For years guitarists have waited for someone to teach them the intricacies of fingerstyle guitar virtuoso Leo's music. Finally someone has taken the time to do just that.
With the publication of The Music Of Leo Kottke, and the subsequent Leo Kottke Transcribed, Mark Hanson has made the complexities of Kottke's seminal guitar playing accessible to not only the advanced player, but to the interme fingerpicker as well. And Mark explains the music and techniques in a manner that makes it easy to learn.
The printed music and tablature are clear and concise, and the instructional CD cuts right to the essence of the music. Leo's techniques and music structures are thoughtfully explained. Mark goes out of his way to assist the intermediate player with an occasional suggestion of an alternate approach that might better suit a player at that level. Yet there is no extraneous information here to clutter the process of you learning these tunes.
For anyone who is interested in playing Leo Kottke's music, I would highly recommend Mark's book-and-CD, The Music Of Leo Kottke and Leo Kottke Transcribed. Combined with some effort on your part, these packages put you well on the way to playing many of Leo's greatest instrumentals. Have fun with this material. I did.
- Tom Wheeler
Author, American Guitars
Consulting Editor, Guitar Player Magazine
Introduction
Welcome to The Music Of Leo Kottke, featuring transcriptions of some of the greatest guitar solos from fingerstyle virtuoso Kottke. These transcriptions have been notated from Kottke's commercially available recordings. We have chosen these versions rather than private recordings for the simple reason that those are the ones that most of you know and can readily hear.
Book and Recording
Both the standard notation and tablature are provided for most of the tunes in this book. We are justifiably proud of our innovative tablature. Not only does it notate the left-hand finger positions in detail, it clearly denotes the rhythm as well.
Another advantage of our tablature is the right-hand information provided by the use of different type styles on the staff.
notes picked by the thumb are notated in bold type. All notes picked by the fingers or slurred (hammer-ons, pull-offs and slides) are notated in regular type. For a full explanation of our tablature, please see the Tablature Guide in the back of the book.
A vital part of this package is the teaching recording, designed to make the absorption of the written music as easy as possible. The recording for this book features each tune played at slow speed for ease in learning. For those unlucky students ho have not yet heard Kottke's recordings of these tunes, a performance-speed excerpt is induded to ensure proper tempo.
Measure-by-measure instruction follows the slow and performance-speed performances on the recording. In this section you receive valuable insights into Kottke's technique and thinking processes. This information was culled from extensive in-person interviews with Kottke for Guitar Player and Frets magazines, as well as from countless hours spent listening to and transcribing his music. For each composition, the guitar is tuned to match Kottke's actual recording, allowing the student to move directly from the instructional recording to Kottke's actual recording without retuning the guitar. We hope you enjoy adding these pieces to your repertoire!
-Mark Hanson
Acknowledgements
My biggest thank you goes to Leo Kottke and Bug Music. Without their kind cooperation, fingerstyle guitarists everywhere would still be struggling to learn these tunes from Leo's recordings. Nearly as large a thank you goes to my wife Greta, our daughters, and my parents for their substantial assistance in this project.
Others whose help and support was invaluable include Jim Jasmin at Jasmin Consulting, DRUM! Magazine publisher Phil Hood, computer guru Patrick Mahoney at the MAC Resource Center, former Guitar Player Magazine Tom Wheeler, guitarist-teacher-author Jim Ferguson, recording magnate Charles Albert, Chris Ledgerwood for the design, Peter Fox for the cover photo, Pearwood Graphics, Dave McCumiskey of Music Sales, the crew at Gryphon Stringed Instruments in Palo Alto, and Kottke aficionado Tom Bowman.
And, as always, I must thank the innumerable guitar students I have had over the past several decades. Your assistance in teaching me to teach is greatly appreciated.
About The Author
In the late 1980s, Mark Hanson worked as an associate editor and columnist at Frets Magazine. He is a performaming guitarist as well as a writer, guitar instructor and publisher. He owns and operates Accent On Music, which publishes high-quality guitar music, ranging from Paul Simon Transcribed and the two Leo Kottke volumes to Mark's teachin", methods on the alternating-bass fingerpicking style.
His interview subjects have included such luminaries as James Taylor, David Crosby, Jorma Kaukonen and Larry Carlton. Mark also has interviewed Leo Kottke for both Guitar Player and Frets. Mark's guitar transcriptions and compositions have appeared regularly in both publications. He also writes for Acoustic Guitar and Fingerstyle Guitar magazines.
Mark's background includes a music degree from Stanford University, and three decades of teaching and forming experience. Mark has continued to work as a recording guitarist, performer, and a promoter of acoustic guitar music of all styles.
Other Publications By Mark Hanson
Complete Book of Alternate Tunings
Alternate Tunings Picture Chords
Leo Kottke Transcribed
Beginning Slide Guitar
Fingerstyle Noel
The Art Of Contemporary Travis Picking
Great American Tablature Songbook
The Art Of Solo Fingerpicking
12-String Guitar Guide
And many other titles
Tablature Guide
Tablature (TAB)is a music notation system designed to show guitarists at which fret to depress
a string when picking it. It has been in existence for centuries: Lutenists in the time of the European
Renaissance used a distinctive form of tablature.
Tablature has two main advantages over standard notation: 1) it clearly indicates the position
on the guitar neck of each note; and 2) it is much easier to learn to read. If you don't currently read
either standard notation or tablature, I recummend that you learn to read tablature. You'll be playing
the pieces in this book much sooner than if you take the time to learn standard notation.
Six horizontal lines represent the six strings of the guitar:
Notice in tablature that the bass string of the guitar is represented by the bottom line of the staff.
The treble string is the top line. This is inverted from the way the strings actually lie on the guitar. The reason for the inversion is simply to make tablature look more like standard notation: the low-pitched notes are on the bottom lines of the staff, and the high-pitched notes are on the top lines.
A number on a line indicates at which fret to depress that string as you pick it. Bold-type
numbers designate notes picked by the thumb. Lighter-type numbers are notes picked by the fingers,
or are slurred notes (hammer-ons, pull-offs or slides):
In Example 2 you pick the strings in this order:
1) fourth string open ("0"means an open string);
2) the third string fretted at the 7th fret;
3) the second string fretted at the 7th fret;
4) the first (treble) string fretted at the 5th fret;
5) then repeat the four notes.
The stems and beams underneath the notes denote the rhythm:
Book and 70-Minute CD Include:
• NOTE-FoR-NoTE TRANSCRIPTIONS FROM KOTIKE'S ACTUAL RECORDINGS
• STANDARD NOTATION AND TABLATURE
• EACH TUNE PLAYED AT HALF-SPEED FOR EASE IN LEARNING
• MEASURE-By-MEASURE INSTRUCTION
• PERFORMANCE-SPEED EXCERPT
"Designed by a master teacher and player."
"This is the best learning material I have found yet!"
"Your book has done more for my confidence than a two-foot stack of unused fingerstyle books. Good work!"
"I have been waiting years to learn how to play Kottke's 'Jesu.' Thanks for making the impossible possible!"
Table Of Contents
Foreword
Introduction
Leo Kottke the Artist
Kottke's Composing
Kottke's Technique
"Busted Bicycle"
"Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring"
"Crow River Waltz"
"Theme from 'The Rick and Bob Report'"
"Little Beaver"
Discography
Tablature Guide
Acknowledgements/ About the Author/Other Books By
CD Program
Tune
"Busted Bicycle" Introduction and Tuning
At Slow Speed
At Performance Speed
Instruction
"Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" Introduction and Tuning
(Cantata Bwv 147) Performed by Johann Sebastian Bach
At Slow Speed
At Performance Speed
Instruction
"Crow River Waltz" Introduction and Tuning
At Slow Speed
At Performance Speed
Instruction
"Theme from 'The Rick and Bob Report'" Introduction and Tuning
At Slow Speed
At Performance Speed
Instruction
"Little Beaver" Introduction and Tuning
At Slow Speed
At Performance Speed
Instruction
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