Folk and Blues Fingerstyle Guitar
by Dave Van Ronk
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Author: Dave Van RonkEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2001-07-17
ISBN: 0786659262
Number of pages: 32
Publisher: Grossman's Guitar Workshop
Book Reviews of Folk and Blues Fingerstyle Guitar
Book Review: Love Dave Van Ronk's lessons hate Mel Bay's Transcriptions
Summary: 4 Stars
For starters, I've fallen hard for Dave Van Ronk.
His style and class were truly one of a kind and I'd been feeling bummed out that we never met.
...but now it feels like we have.
He's somehow recorded as if he's right in the room giving you a lesson. And this is full-on Dave Van Ronk. Telling stories in-between explaining chords. It is truly as if you're sitting in his living room in the Village and he's made you tea.
Mel Bay's transcriptions, on the other hand, are HORRIBLE.
Somewhere down the line guitar tablature was standardized and Mel never got the menu.
Notes are highlighted with a number and a line going through a string.
"Is this line going through the 5th or the 6th string?" WHO KNOWS?!?
All I know is it's impossible to read from a distance. Especially if you're wearing glasses.
I almost want to throw the book in the garbage and keep the CDs.
I really wanted to rate this lower but I couldn't. The content on the CDs is just that good.
In fact if the CDs came without the book I would give it five stars easy.
Summary of Folk and Blues Fingerstyle Guitar
In these CD lessons Dave Van Ronk presents his arrangements of folk tunes and blues. These lessons are for the intermediate fingerstyle guitarist. The book includes an interview, a discography, and the 11 tunes taught on the three CD's in standard notation and tablature. LESSON ONE: The alternating bass technique is presented with four arrangements: Green Green Rocky Road, Kansas City Blues, Stackerlee and Saturday Night Shuffle. LESSON TWO: Alternating the bass in 3/4 with The Ballad Of The IRT. Elizabeth Cotten's Wilson Rag, Blind Blake's That Will Never Happen No More and Miss. John Hurt's Spike Driver's Moan. LESSON THREE: Brownie Mc-Ghee's Sportin' Life Blues played in dropped D tuning. Blues in 12/8 with St. James Infirmary played in A minor.Instruments & Performers Books
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