Folk Blues Fingerstyle Guitar - Softcover

Stefan Grossman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1513465996 ISBN 13: 9781513465999

Publisher: Grossmans Guitar Workshop, 2020

Synopsis

In Nashville, the studio guitarists joke that all the money is in the first five frets. It is those simple first position chords that make the hits. In this collection we will stay within these boundaries and explore fingerstyle folk, blues, gospel, and ragtime arrangements in the keys of A, C, D, E and G. All you need to know are basic chord fingerings for A, C, D, E, F and G. Tunes include: KEY of C Railroad Bill, Careless Love, I Am A Pilgrim, What A Friend We Have In Jesus, I’ll Fly Away, Troubles, Delia, C. C. Rider, Trouble In Mind KEY of G I’m Troubled, Easy Rider Blues, Try Me One More Time, I’m Wild About My Loving, I Couldn’t Help It, Ragged and Dirty KEY of D Take a Whiff On Me, C. C. Rider, Will The Circle Be Unbroken, Careless Love KEY of E, Oh, Mary Don’t You Weep, Crow Jane, I Shall Not Be Moved, Trouble In Mind, Careless Love, Betty & Dupree, M&O Blues KEY of A Monday Morning Blues, Spoonful, Weeping Willow, Careless Love, Trouble In Mind, Prison Cell Blues/Lemon’s Jump

About this title

About the Author

One simply cannot talk about people of importance to this genre without tipping the hat to the most masterful musician, teacher, musicologist, producer, folklorist and preservationist of the traditional blues. By now, Stefan Grossman is a venerated, iconoclastic and respected acoustic blues figure of mega-proportions. He came out of the vibrant Greenwich Village, New York, 1960s scene around Washington Square, where so many American folk and blues musicians launched their careers. His friend and occasional collaborator, Steve Katz, formerly of the Even Dozen Jug Band, the Blues Project and Blood, Sweat & Tears, once half-jokingly told this writer: "There we were, all these New York Jews playing the black blues." Indeed, the blues had a strong influence on young New Yorkers during the folk revival. These musicians, Stefan Grossman, Happy & Artie Traum, Danny Kalb, and many others, in turn had a powerful influence on the acceptance of the blues by the American baby boomer generation at large; and, they significantly helped to launch the folk, roots & blues revival, thereby reinvigorating the careers of many original blues musicians whose careers had waned. Many people know Stefan Grossman as the paramount teacher and entrepreneur in what has become the world's largest "blues school", Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop. He is one of the most skilled guitarists in the genre, having been a student of Rev. Gary Davis in New York City. He also picked up lessons directly from Mississippi John Hurt, Son House, Skip James, Mississippi Fred McDowell, and others.

Edition details

• Publisher: Grossmans Guitar Workshop
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1513465996
• ISBN 13: 9781513465999
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 132