LP SILVERMAN, JERRY - THE ART OF THE FOLK-BLUES GUITAR (XTRA 1096) 1970 UK

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings is the nonprofit record label of the Smithsonian Institution the national museum of the United States. We are dedicated to supporting cultural diversity and increased understanding among peoples through the documentation preservation and dissemination of sound. We believe that musical and cultural diversity contributes to the vitality and quality of life throughout the world. Through the dissemination of audio recordings and educational materials we seek to strengthen people s engagement with their own cultural heritage and to enhance their awareness and appreciation of the cultural heritage of others. . Instrument(s) Guitar. Language(s) English. Year of Recording 1964. Record Label Folkways Records. Source Archive Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. Credits Artist Jerry Silverman. 101 Introduction to Blues Jerry Silverman 1:49. 102 Tablature -MELTAB and GITAB Jerry Silverman 2:29. 103 Basic Blues Arpeggio Jerry Silverman 11:57. 104 Another Blues Strum Jerry Silverman 7:00. 201 Choking the Strings Jerry Silverman 2:07. 202 Walking Bass and Boogie Woogie Jerry Silverman 2:57. 203 Flat Pick and the Church Lick Jerry Silverman 4:55. 204 Peripatetic Pinky Jerry Silverman 2:45. 205 Seven-Seventh Chord Jerry Silverman 2:03. 206 Finger-Picking and the Independent Thumb Jerry Silverman 3:35. 207 The Break Jerry Silverman 2:10.

Whether your favourite blues guitarist is Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Blind Blake, John Lee Hooker, Big Bill Broonzy, or Mississippi John Hurt, studying the basic techniques presented in this program is the first step toward being able to capture the essence of their traditional styles. In this book, Woody Mann shows you practical ways to develop fundamental technique and offers you insights into the musical logic of blues guitar. Woody walks you through each song, explaining the chord positions and picking techniques. He teaches blues in the keys of D, G, C, E, and A, presenting a wide selection of classic blues songs and instrumentals from the masters of blues guitar. Included in this program are the basics of the Delta blues of Robert Johnson, the ragtime style of Blind Blake (the man with the piano-playing guitar), and the music of Big Bill Broonzy, Memphis Minnie, Willie Walker, and Willie Moore. Each song illustrates how solo players approach the guitar like a piano, playing melodies and bass lines simultaneously. Developing this independent two-line picking technique enables you to get the feel, syncopation, and subtleties of the music. The songs in themselves are studies in acoustic blues technique and present the authentic elements of the acoustic blues sound and style including blues technique and ways to "play off" of the chords and improvise within a song. This program is recommended for beginning acoustic blues guitarists as well as electric guitarists and acoustic fingerstyle guitarists of all levels who would like to go beyond "pattern" picking and develop a more dynamic and syncopated sound. Woody Mann had his first schooling as a teenager in the living room of Rev. Gary Davis, the now legendary gospel and ragtime guitarist. Mann soon went on to perform and record with blues masters Son House and Bukka White as well as contemporary innovators including John Fahey. He has recorded extensively, performed throughout the world, and is widely recognized as one of the world's leading teachers and transcribers of acoustic blues music, having taught countless guitarists through his popular books and videos.

Like a kick in the gut or gravel in the heart, the blues and folk music of Lead Belly has a deep and stirring rawness that has resonated long after his death; his songs have been covered by Pete Seeger, the Beach Boys, Johnny Cash, Led Zeppelin, Bob Dylan, Nirvana and the White Stripes. In this instructional film for intermediate guitar players, Harry Lewman breaks down the techniques beneath eight of Lead Belly's great songs.

Teaches the song forms and techniques of early American folk and blues guitar styles. Acclaimed blues performer and educator, Woody Mann, teaches five blues songs based on the playing of such originators as Charley Patton, Son House, Robert Johnson, Big Joe Williams, Scrapper Blackwell, and Tommy Johnson. Written for the near beginner to intermediate student, each song illustrates the techniques and approaches of these innovators in a clear and easy to understand arrangement of a classic theme in Open G, Open D, and standard tuning. Woody teaches techniques including rhythmic fingerpicking, left-hand dumping, brushing and percussive right-hand techniques, and syncopating a melody. Included is a Technique and Variations section where Woody further explores the subtleties of dynamics and phrasing and shows how to create variations within a tune. Early Roots offers the student the tools needed to understand and play the music of the early masters - the roots of todayÆs acoustic fingerstyle guitar music. Each song chapter includes introduction, performance, explanation and slow performance with split screen. Songs include: Delta Blues For Patton, Jackson Moan, Blue Daze, Shuffle Blues In G, and Bullfrog Groan.

Chess (USA)

Whether your favourite blues guitarist is Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Blind Blake, John Lee Hooker, Big Bill Broonzy, or Mississippi John Hurt, studying the basic techniques presented in this program is the first step toward being able to capture the essence of their traditional styles. In this book, Woody Mann shows you practical ways to develop fundamental technique and offers you insights into the musical logic of blues guitar. Woody walks you through each song, explaining the chord positions and picking techniques. He teaches blues in the keys of D, G, C, E, and A, presenting a wide selection of classic blues songs and instrumentals from the masters of blues guitar. Included in this program are the basics of the Delta blues of Robert Johnson, the ragtime style of Blind Blake (the man with the piano-playing guitar), and the music of Big Bill Broonzy, Memphis Minnie, Willie Walker, and Willie Moore. Each song illustrates how solo players approach the guitar like a piano, playing melodies and bass lines simultaneously. Developing this independent two-line picking technique enables you to get the feel, syncopation, and subtleties of the music. The songs in themselves are studies in acoustic blues technique and present the authentic elements of the acoustic blues sound and style including blues technique and ways to "play off" of the chords and improvise within a song. This program is recommended for beginning acoustic blues guitarists as well as electric guitarists and acoustic fingerstyle guitarists of all levels who would like to go beyond "pattern" picking and develop a more dynamic and syncopated sound. Woody Mann had his first schooling as a teenager in the living room of Rev. Gary Davis, the now legendary gospel and ragtime guitarist. Mann soon went on to perform and record with blues masters Son House and Bukka White as well as contemporary innovators including John Fahey. He has recorded extensively, performed throughout the world, and is widely recognized as one of the world's leading teachers and transcribers of acoustic blues music, having taught countless guitarists through his popular books and videos.

The creative accomplishments of the Andean people of the highland region of South America are prominent among the folk art legacies of the world. This wide-ranging publication, examining over 850 works, is the first to present an overview of the religious, textile, costume, utilitarian, and festival folk arts made in the Andes in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, after the Andeans were free from Spanish colonial rule. The author offers an understanding of the development of folk art during the colonial period and shows how much of the work produced after independence reflects the interweaving of indigenous craft traditions with European art forms and techniques. Drawing from the renowned collection at the Museum of International Folk Art and other private and public collections in the United States, this book includes religious paintings, sculptures, portable altars, milagros, amulets, and ritual offerings. Traditional hand woven ponchos, mantles, belts, and bags are shown, along with women's skirts, hats, and shawls adapted from the Spanish. Jewellery, wooden trunks, silverwork, majolica ceramics, carved gourds, house blessing ornaments, and toys reveal not only the craftsmanship of the work, but the ways the objects function in everyday life. Also explored are Andean festival cycles Kith lavish costumes and a variety of masks. With over 400 colour photographs, this monumental book provides a window into the rich spirit and culture of the Andeans. This title is published to coincide with an exhibition to open at the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in April 2011.

Acoma

With more highly skilled luthiers at work than ever before, ours is a golden age of the electric guitar. Presenting superbly crafted electric guitars as fine art, this beautifully photographed book gives 125 master luthiers from 15 countries the spotlight--artisans who have custom-built instruments for the likes of Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, Steve Miller, Billy F. Gibbons, George Benson, Kirk Hammett, and Stevie Ray Vaughan. From the invention of the electric guitar in the 1930s to its development in the 1960s to present-day innovations, Electrified is a lovingly detailed look at these beautifully produced instruments . . . and the talented people who make them.Robert Shaw's engaging and informative text offers richly detailed portraits of these modern master builders and is complemented by more than 250 color photos of their jaw-dropping work, many of them reproduced full-page. All but a handful of the guitars in the book have been built within the last five years, so it offers a spectacular overview of the current state of the art. Electrified is a  must-have for every guitarist.Among the contemporary master builders profiled in the book are: --The Benedek brothers of Budapest, Hungary, who taught themselves how to craft every part of a guitar because they could not afford the rare and expensive American instruments they coveted while growing up behind the Iron Curtain. --John Bolin, who has collaborated with Billy F. Gibbons of ZZ Top on more than 200 unique (and often outrageous-looking) guitars and basses and has also custom-built more than 120 instruments for Steve Miller. --Michael DeTemple, a former professional guitar, banjo, and mandolin player whose Spirit Series guitars bring classic '50s designs to unprecedented levels of technical and sonic refinement. --Roger Giffin, who worked on guitars for Eric Clapton, Pete Townshend, Mark Knopfler, and other British rock stars before coming to the US to head Gibson's first custom shop and now hand builds his own elegant designs in Oregon. --William Jeffrey Jones, a Missouri sculptor who hand carves figural and ornamental designs into his guitars' bodies and headstocks, which he shapes from local woods such as walnut, maple, and sassafras. --John Page, the founding foreman of the legendary Fender Custom Shop, who is now creating functional art-furniture as well as what he describes as the instruments " I always wanted to build." --Claudia and Claudio Pagelli, a Swiss husband/wife team who recently built an extravagantly over-the-top guitar decorated with 60, 000 Swarovski diamond crystals. --Larry Robinson, one of the leading inlay artists in the world, whose remarkable work, done entirely by hand, has graced instruments by dozens of top luthiers and guitar companies, including Martin, Fender, and Fujigen. --Juha Ruokangas of Finland, who uses local materials like moose shinbone and Arctic birch in his meticulously crafted instruments and speaks for all independent builders when he describes his work as "purely a labor of love."--Ulrich Teuffel, a former industrial designer from Germany who has completely redefined the visual and sonic possibilities of the electric guitar and whose headless "birdfish" model also dispenses with a conventional body. --James Trussart, a Paris native and former professional fiddler whose "Rustomatic" finishes are created by leaving the stamped metal bodies of his guitars outside his southern California shop to corrode.

Teaches the song forms and techniques of early American folk and blues guitar styles. Acclaimed blues performer and educator, Woody Mann, teaches five blues songs based on the playing of such originators as Charley Patton, Son House, Robert Johnson, Big Joe Williams, Scrapper Blackwell, and Tommy Johnson. Written for the near beginner to intermediate student, each song illustrates the techniques and approaches of these innovators in a clear and easy to understand arrangement of a classic theme in Open G, Open D, and standard tuning. Woody teaches techniques including rhythmic fingerpicking, left-hand dumping, brushing and percussive right-hand techniques, and syncopating a melody. Included is a Technique and Variations section where Woody further explores the subtleties of dynamics and phrasing and shows how to create variations within a tune. Early Roots offers the student the tools needed to understand and play the music of the early masters - the roots of todayÆs acoustic fingerstyle guitar music. Each song chapter includes introduction, performance, explanation and slow performance with split screen. Songs include: Delta Blues For Patton, Jackson Moan, Blue Daze, Shuffle Blues In G, and Bullfrog Groan.