Roots, Rags and Blues is an interactive
instructional and performance CD-ROM that
includes 7 different Roots guitar tunes
taught in video and tab lessons plus 6
bonus performances of Blues, Ragtime,
Gospel, Early Jazz and Klezmer, all played
on a Vintage 1917 Gibson L-4. Featured
selections are, Mississippi Blues, Amazing
Grace (two different versions) Jelly Roll
Blues, Oriental Blues, Maple Leaf Rag,
Victory Rag, Carolina Shout and a
fingertsyle lesson on the 1918 Klezmer
classic, Tanst, Tanst Yiddlekh.
The
tunes in this collection evoke a time when
American Roots music crystallized and was
transformed by the effects of recordings
and radio. Some of these selections were
written for guitar, others are adaptations
from piano and jazz band arrangements. A
long list of Roots Music fingerstyle
guitarists particularly influenced the
material covered in Fingerstyle Roots,
Rags & Blues; Duck Baker, Pat Donohue,
Woody Mann, Steve James, Eric Lugosch,
Eric Schonberg, Ernie Hawkins, Dakota Dave
Hull, Phil Heywood, Guy van Duser, Lasse
Johansson, Andy Ellis and Teja Gerken.
This package captures American Roots Music
from the early part of the 20th Century,
as reflected through fingerstyle guitar.
The lessons and performances come with
matching tablature, notation and extensive
liner notes with internet hyperlinks.
Roots, Rags & Blues is optimized for
intermediate to advanced players and is
presented on 2 CD-ROMs (Windows and Mac
compatible). The course features 34
full-length video lessons, text overviews,
standard notation and interactive Power
Tab so you can "see" and "hear" the tab
and notation played out at any tempo. The
video lesson player features zoom, frame
advance, looping and other handy
controls.
The
tunes in this collection evoke a time when
American Roots music crystallized and was
transformed by the effects of recordings
and radio. Some of these selections were
written for guitar, others are adaptations
from piano and jazz band arrangements. A
long list of Roots Music fingerstyle
guitarists particularly influenced the
material covered in Fingerstyle Roots,
Rags & Blues; Duck Baker, Pat Donohue,
Woody Mann, Steve James, Eric Lugosch,
Eric Schonberg, Ernie Hawkins, Dakota Dave
Hull, Phil Heywood, Guy van Duser, Lasse
Johansson, Andy Ellis and Teja Gerken.
