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RENBOURN JOHN, FINGERSTYLE GUITAR: Folk, Blues & Beyond; Celtic Melodies & Open Tunings; & The Jazz Tinge. SHEET MUSIC BOOK with 3CD & GUITAR TABLATURE . 

LIBRO DI MUSICA FOLK CON 3 CD.

SPARTITI PER CHITARRA CON GUITAR TABLATURE.

Product Description:
This comprehensive Guitar Workshop Audio Series book/3-CD set brings together a variety of fingerstyle arrangements featured in three of John Renbourn's video lessons. Illustrates unique and exciting fingerstyle techniques in the performance of traditional ballads and other tunes, using standard and several alternate tunings. In notation and tablature. Includes an extensive discussion about the tunes in the collection. 120 PAGES
Format: Book/3-CD Set

... memorized because I'd learnt the tune simply to find out how the parts were worked. So then once I'd got an idea of how you approached the harmonization I found I couldn't resist playing them on the guitar and it fitted OK in D. It probably fits in may other keys as well. And the same thing with Bunyan's Hymn. I tackled that because I liked the melody and the time changes in it and I kind of reharmonized it to fit in open G deliberately.

STEFAN: How about I Saw Three Ships?

JOHN: I Saw Three Ships is also a traditional English tune and a very charming one. It's very simple but it seems to have great appeal. I really like the tune and I know a lot of other people that have a great fondness for it. It seems to me to be a really old tune, I can't say how old but it could easily fit in with the concept of medieval dance tunes that I've come across without very much change and it flows very nicely. It has a little refrain to it and hat also fits very nicely in that same tuning. So I play the two together and I throw in an number of other tradition English tunes in that medley.

STEFAN: How did you find The English Dance?

JOHN: Well I think I must have heard that also a long time ago being played by a man named Francis Bain, who was involved pretty early on in the revival of early music. He was before David Monroe. Before the kind of better, more wide spread groups that specialized in early music. I think I liked The English Dance because it features a repetitive melodic tune in a major key. I think the instrument that Francis Bain played was the fiddelle which was an old type of bowed instrument larger than a violi. The English Dance has a real punch to it when it's played on a bowed instrument because you can get top string drones against the descending patterns and I happen to like that. I found that it fitted nicely on the guitar in the open G tuning.

STEFAN: On stage you joke that it's one of the few English dances from that period of English music.

JOHN; Well, there have been quite a lot of manuscripts supposedly of English music. Lots are lodged in The British Museum but how many of them are actually English manuscripts to start, with I don't know. I think in fact, a great deal of the early dance tunes are probably northern Italian, but I think there is a chance that this one is English. Not that it matters a great deal but there we are you know - there's a certain national pride I suppose.

STEFAN: Let's talk about how you found the open G minor tuning that you use for several Celtic melodies.

JOHN: OK. There were quite a selection of tunings in the Ggroup that were handy. I used to often use a tuning with the second string up to Cwhich meant if I was playing medieval dance tunes - I used to playa tune called Trotto and another titled Salterello that both fitted quite nicely in that tuning - you could play low drones and still keep he melody going. The G minor tuning is just a variation: the second string tuned to the minor third rather than the 4th or the 2nd or whichever you like. I can't remember what I first used it for. I have an arrangement of The Moon Shines Bright which is quite a long elaborate piece. This uses the tuning and later on I used it for Nine Maidens.

STEFAN: Where did you find Owen Roe O'Neill?

JOHN: Owen Roe O'Neill is noted in the O'Neal's collection under the Carolan tunes and I wouldn't be surprised if it in Bunting's as well. In fact, I think it's in Bunting's with a harmonization by Bunting, but I took mine from the op line and harmonized it. It fits pretty nicely on the guitar in the open G minor tuning.

STEFAN: And Mist Covered Mountains Of Home?

JOHN: Mist Covered Mountains Of Home is a tune I learned from a fiddle player who I think got it from Jody Stecher. It's a highland pipe tune and it's an unusual one. Someone some time back sent me a harmony part for a second bagpipe part. I don't know of many tunes that have two bagpipes in close harmony but apparently this one as been arranged that way. I've always imagined that it's was a song but I've never actually heard complete verses s ng to it. ...

Song Title: Composer/Source:

Abide With Me/Great Dreams From Heaven - John Renbourn
Anji - John Renbourn
Buffalo - John Renbourn
Bunyan's Hymn - John Renbourn
Cherry - John Renbourn
I Saw Three Ships - John Renbourn
Judy - John Renbourn
Lament For Owen Roe O'neill - John Renbourn
Lindsay - John Renbourn
Little Niles - John Renbourn
Lord Franklin - John Renbourn
My Dear Boy - John Renbourn
My Sweet Potato - John Renbourn
Sandwood Down To Kyle - John Renbourn
The Blarney Pilgrim - John Renbourn
The English Dance - John Renbourn
The Mist-Covered Mountains Of Home - John Renbourn
The Orphan - John Renbourn
The South Wind - John Renbourn
Tramps And Hawkers - John Renbourn
Transfusion - John Renbourn
Watch The Stars - John Renbourn
White House Blues - John Renbourn

DYLAN BOB, THE MUSIC FOR FINGERSTYLE GUITAR. Fred Sokolow. DVD TABLATURE, 72 pagine.

Product Description:
Learn how to play and sing nine classic Bob Dylan tunes from start to finish. You will learn how to fingerpick backup arrangements while singing. You will learn to play instrumental solos and how to begin and end each song. While studying Fred’s arrangements of these Dylan hits you will also learn a lot about fingerpicking: backup patterns, soloing ideas and various chord positions. Each song is played at regular speed and then slowed down with a split-screen that gives you a close-up look at the picking as well as chording hand. All the arrangements are clearly written out in tab and music in the accompanying booklet along with lead sheets and lyrics. 90 MINUTES

Song Title: Composer/Source:
Blowin' In The Wind
Don't Think Twice
I Shall Be Released
Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
Lay Lady Lay
Mr. Tambourine Man
My Back Pages
The Times They Are A Changing
Too Much Of Nothing

BUSTER B. JONES, HOT LICKS, RHYTHMS & GROOVES. TABLATURE DVD

"Buster B. Jones is the best fingerpicker I've heard since Jerry Reed. He Play like he's double parked."
Chet Atkins

Product Description:
Hot Licks, Rhythms and Grooves is a journey through 30 years of my musical life. I touch on many different styles and approaches to playing lead and rhythm guitar. My goal as a player is to expand these perimeters and express what I feel musically. My goal as a teacher is to present this in such a manner that you can absorb it, play it and then use the ideas and take them to new places. I hope you find this musical adventure to be as enjoyable for you to learn from as it was for me to make. Includes a 56-page tab/music booklet.

Buster B. Boogie
5TH SPLIT SCREEN - 1ST GROOVE
6TH SPLIT SCREEN - 2ND GROOVE
FIRST ENDING
ALTERNATE ENDING
7TH SPLIT SCREEN - 3RD GROOVE
8TH SPLIT SCREEN - 4TH GROOVE
9TH SPLIT SCREEN - THE WHOLE THING
2ND VERSE
3RD VERSE
INTERLUDE
4TH VERSE
5TH VERSE
AD LIBITUM FASTER

Buster's Lick
1ST SPLIT SCREEN
LICK IN A
LICK IN D
LICK IN E
G LICK IN A
G LICK IN G
2ND SPLIT SCREEN - KEY OF E
VARIATION
KEY OF A
KEY OF G
KEY OF C
DOUBLE-STOPS
DOUBLE-STOP LICK IN E
3RD SPLIT SCREEN
HOW TO PRACTICE THIS LICK
4TH SPLIT SCREEN - THE ENTIERE LICK
E LICK IN E
E LICK IN G
DOUBLE-PICKING THE E LICK IN G
DOUBLE-PICKING THE E LICK IN A

Nashville Lick
CHICKEN PICKIN'
FINGERPICKIN'
11TH SPLIT SCREEN

Sweet Georgia Brown
G LICK OVER THE D CHORD
C LICK OVER THE G CHORD
G LICK OVER THE C CHORD
C LICK OVER THE F CHORD
10TH SPLIT SCREEN - 1ST VERSE
2ND VERSE
3RD VERSE
 

In 1988, Buster B. Jones entered Guitar Player Magazine's International Guitar Competition with his own composition Back Porch Boogie and a rendition of Limehouse Blues. He entered on a whim, at the last minute, using a $1.50 K·Mart cassette tape and a boom box. There were almost 900 entries, and he won on the first ballot.
In 1990, he won the National Fingerpicking Championship at Winfield, Kansas.
In the last years he has performed with Chet Atkins, Tommy Jones, Marcel Dadi,
Thom Bresh and John Knowles. He is a regular at the annual conventions in Nash·
ville and France of the Chet Atkins Appreciation Society. In France they have dubbed
him LE MACHINE GUN.
"Buster B. Jones is an acoustic player, a lingerpicker, a country Ilavored soloist
- and he's one ot the linest players we've heard in years ... His technique is only a
means to an end. His true gifts are his melodic sense, innate musicianship, unlailing
human, and brilliant improvisational powers. He can drive a tune with lIuid rhythmic
lorce or stroke it with sensuous, loving touch ... He's a monster player with chops
galore, great ideas and an encyclopedic reservoir of guitaristic inlluences."
GUITAR PLAYER MAGAZINE

"HOT LICKS, RHYTHMS & GROOVES is a journey through
30 years of my musical life. I touch on many different styles and
approaches to playing lead and rhythm guitar. My goal as a player
is to expand these perimeters and express what I feel musically.
My goal as a teacher is to present this in such a manner that you
can absorb it, play it and then use the ideas and take them to new
places. I hope you find this musical adventure to be as enjoyable
for you to learn from as it was for me to make." - BUSTERB. JONES

Color· Running Time: 64 minutes
Special thanks to Godin Guitars, Simon & Patrick Guitars.
D'Aquisto Strings and Fred Kelly Thumbpicks

TEXAS BLUES GUITAR. DVD

Product Description:
The Lone State boasts many cultural riches, and its gifts to the blues tradition are among its most exemplary treasures. The range of Texas blues guitar styles, both rural and urban, is captured in this collection of fourteen per-formances by four legendary Texas bluesmen. Blazing 1991 performances by the great Albert Collins generate a heat which belies his Iceman moniker. Freddie King cooks at full boil in a 1972 set which includes his signature song Going Down. Rare 1960 footage of Lightnin' Hopkins shows how intense the downhome acoustic Texas blues could be. A 1968 performance by Mance Lipscomb traces the blues tradition to its work song taproot with Captain, Captain. Alternately stark and celebratory, the Texas blues of these per- formances comprise a legacy as expansive as the Lone Star State's legendary vistas. Running time 60 minutes.

Song Title: Composer/Source:
Baby, Come Go Home With Me - Lightnin' Hopkins - 1960
Big Leg Woman - Freddie King - 1972
Blues Band Shuffle - Freddie King - 1972
Bunion Stew - Lightnin' Hopkins - 1960
Captain, Captain - Mance Lipscomb - 1968
God Moves On The Water - Mance Lipscomb - 1968
Going Down - Freddie King - 1972
Going Down Slow - Lightnin' Hopkins - 1960
Head Rag - Albert Collins - 1991
Iceman - Albert Collins - 1991
Let's Pull A Party - Lightnin' Hopkins - 1960
Lights Are On But Nobody's Home - Albert Collins - 1991
Night Time Is The Right Time - Mance Lipscomb - 1968
Which Way Do The Red River Run - Mance Lipscomb -1968

BEGINNER'S BLUES GUITAR. FRED SOKOLOW. TABLATURE DVD

Product Description:
By the end of this DVD lesson, you will be playing the blues in several keys and styles. You'll know how to play blues turnarounds, boogie-woogie bass lines, several strumming and fingerpicking accom- paniment patterns, as well as blues solos, licks, and fills. Includes blues solos, licks, and accompaniment styles of Lightnin' Hopkins, Big Bill Broonzy, Jimmy Reed, Mississippi John Hurt and others. Classic blues tunes used as examples are: How Long Blues, Key To The Highway, Baby What You Want Me To Do, Blues With a Feeling, and Hesitation Blues. If you've always wanted to learn to play the blues, this is a sure-fire way to get started. A detailed tab/music instructional booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD. 70 minutes.

Song Title: Composer/Source:
Baby, What Do You Want Me To Do
Blues With A Feeling
Call Me A Dog
Hesitation Blues
How Long Blues
Key To The Highway
Spike Driver Blues