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EnglishWELL-TEMPERED BLUES, 8 New Blues Tunes for Classical & Fingerstyle Guitar. William Beauvais. CD TABLATURE
WELL-TEMPERED BLUES, 8 new tunes for classical & fingerstyle guitar. William Beauvais. CD TABLATURE
Product Description:
The blues present an opportunity to be deeply expressive. Every note can be colored with pitch bends, slides, vibrato, and all manner of attacks. The style makes it easy to own the music, to close your eyes and play as if you wrote it. These pieces are designed to be fun and entertaining as they work through the sharp keys, which are most friendly to the guitar. By working through these keys however, they develop a player's awareness of the different tonalities and the way patterns may be altered to facilitate key changes. Written in notation and tablature.
Preface
Well Tempered Blues is a collection of twelve bar blues pieces. I have sometimes used the baroque style of notation: writing a single line to make the music and rhythms more obvious. In these cases, such as "Chicago Style Blues" and "Twisted Fingers," try leaving the bass notes down as long as possible, and let your ear tell you what sounds the best. Slides have not been indicated but have been left for the player to decide. Try sliding into various notes and choose what sounds the best. There is a great deal of room for flexibility in these pieces. Some people have also suggested that these pieces can be used for jamming, with an improviser adding a solo line over the guitar part.
Blues is a style that demands that the player be deeply expressive. Every note can be colored with pitch bends, slides, vibrato and all manner of attacks. In tastefully adding these nuances, a player begins to own the music, to make it their own, to play each piece as if they wrote it. These pieces are designed to be fun, and entertaining as they work through the keys that are most idiomatic to the guitar.
About the Author: William Beauvais has been commissioned to write for the Royal Conservatory Children's Choir, the Canadian Music Centre, Philip Candelaria, Jeffrey McFadden, the Evergreen Club, and the Echo Women's Choir. His music has been heard across Canada, the United States, Denmark, and most recently in Chile, Argentina and Uruguay. His guitar music is recorded on 2 compact discs: TRACES [1996] and bridges [1994]. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre and a member of the guitar faculty of The Royal Conservatory of Music, Beauvais is an accomplished classical guitarist. He won first prizes at the Canadian Music Competition, and at the Martinique world Centre for Guitar. He is presently developing curriculum for group based learning system at the Royal Conservatory in Toronto. His music is published by: Mel Bay, Frederick Harris, Editions d'Oz, and Tuscany Publications
Format: Book/CD Set
Song Title: Composer/Source:
Chicago Style Blues William Beauvais
Cutback Blues William Beauvais
Deep Down Blues William Beauvais
Drinking Water Blues William Beauvais
Gridlock Blues William Beauvais
Rainy Weekend Blues William Beauvais
Snaky Blue Line William Beauvais
Twisted Fingers William Beauvais
