Mamani Guitars

Arranged for Guitar Tab & Standard Notation With Chords & Lyrics. An incredible collection of 22 songs by 8 legendary early "Country Blues" guitarists. Includes a CD with the original artist recordings. Artists and songs: SCRAPPER BLACKWELL: (Blue Day Blues; Kokomo Blues); BLIND BLAKE: (Georgia Bound); BIG BILL BROONZY: (Big Bill Blues; Mississippi River Blues; Mr. Conductor Man; Saturday Night Rub; Stove Pipe Stomp; Worryin' You Off My Mind); REV. GARY DAVIS: (Cincinnati Flow Rag; Italian Rag; Sally, Where'd You Get Your Liquor From; Two Step Candyman); BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON: (Easy Rider Blues; Hot Dogs; One Kind Favor); LONNIE JOHNSON: (Go Back to Your No Good Man; Life Saver Blues); CHARLEY JORDAN: (Hunkie Tunkie Blues: Keep it Clean); JOSH WHITE: (Jesus Gonna Make Up My Dying Bed; Little Brother Blues).

Arranged for Guitar Tab & Standard Notation With Chords & Lyrics. A fascinating collection of 14 songs from seven pivotal early blues guitarists from the Mississippi Delta. Also includes a CD with the original artist's recordings. Artists and songs featured. Artists featured: WILLIE BROWN: (Future Blues; M&O Blues; Ragged and Dirty); SON HOUSE: (Dry Spell Blues; My Black Mama); SKIP JAMES: (Devil Got My Woman; Hard Time Killin' Floor; Special Rider); HAMBONE WILLIE NEWBERN: (Roll and Tumble Blues); CHARLIE PATTON: (Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues; Stone Pony Blues; 34 Blues); ARTHUR PETTIS: (Good Boy Blues); ROBERT WILKINS: (That's No Way to Get Along).

Arranged for Guitar Tablature & Standard Notation With Chords & Lyrics. Blind Blake was the greatest ragtime blues guitarist to record during the 1920s. His guitar styles and techniques were unique, capturing the pulsating rhythms of the blues, ragtime, and jazz music of the period. Book includes a CD containing the original recordings of Blind Blake so you can hear the music as he performed it. Contents: Georgia Bound, Hey, Hey Daddy Blues, West Cost Blues, Diddie Wa Diddie, Chump Man Blues, Early Morning Blues, Come On Boys, Let's Do That Messin' Around, That Will Never Happen No More, Policy Blues, He's In The Jailhouse Now, Wabash Rag, Guitar Chimes, Blind Arthur's Breakdown, Sweet Jivin' Mama, Down In The Country, Police Dog Blues

35 fantastic classics from the '50s and '60s: All My Loving * All Shook Up * Blue Suede Shoes * Do Wah Diddy Diddy * Fun, Fun, Fun * Hang On Sloopy * I'm a Believer * La Bamba * Louie, Louie * Oh, Pretty Woman * Rock Around the Clock * Surfin' U.S.A. * Twist and Shout * Wild Thing * Wooly Bully * and more.

The Early Masters of American Blues series provides the unique opportunity to study the true roots of modern blues. Stefan Grossman, noted roots-blues guitarist and musicologist, has compiled this fascinating collection of 14 songs, transcribed exactly as performed by legendary blues masters Rev. Gary Davis, Lonnie Johnson, Blind Boy Fuller, and Mississippi John Hurt. In addition to Stefan's expert transcriptions, the book includes a CD containing the original artist recordings so you can hear the music as they performed it.

The guitar fostered great creativity in the South as it evolved from a fragile gut-stringed instrument in polite parlors to the big, loud steel string instrument now found in our homes and onstage. There is no one more knowledgeable about old time American music than Mike Seeger. He s been playing it all his life, and spreading it around the world. Now Mike has put together an amazing survey of traditional guitar styles from the rural South that will teach you twenty-five songs and the guitar techniques that go along with them. These lessons, based on Mike s Smithsonian Folkways CD, Early Southern Guitar Sounds, are fun to play and will help you develop a full range of repertoire and technique. Included are banjo-like styles, rags, blues, parlor guitar-based pieces, slide guitar tunes, and many song accompaniment styles, most of which Mike has picked up directly from traditional players or their recordings - Maybelle Carter, John Hurt, Leadbelly, Sam McGee, Roscoe Holcomb, John Jackson and Elizabeth Cotten, among others. Each piece is played through, followed by comments on style and a slow split-screen repetition. Some of the songs will be familiar to you while others will add exciting new material to your repertoire: Arizona, Old Chisholm Trail, Johnny Doyle, Kenny Wagner s Surrender, Fishing Blues, Buckdancer s Choice, I m Crazy Over You, Can t Get a Letter From Home, Spanish Fandango, Weary Lonesome Blues, Birmingham Tickle, Worried Blues, White Oak Mountain, Pearly Dew, Shakin the Pines In the Holler, Joe Lee s Tune, John Henry, Guitar Rag, Smoketown Strut, Riley and Spencer, Leaning on the Everlasting Arm, After All Has Been Said and Done, Big Kid s Barroom, Black Jack David. These pieces range in level from easy to challenging. All intermediate and advanced players, as well as some beginners, will get great results from working with this program. Extra! Mike uses twenty-three different guitars to illustrate the variety of sounds that make up the traditional American guitar experience.

The pieces in this book are selected and designed around the various techniques addressed in the best-selling book Pumping Nylon. They are offered as an extension of the exercises presented in that book, and to provide attractive and easy pieces in which to apply the various techniques discussed. New compositions by Andrew York and other contemporary composers are included as well as classic etudes by Tarrega, Carcassi, Giuliani and Sor. The pieces are helpful for developing arpeggios, tremolo, scale velocity and more. The CD is beautifully played by Scott Tennant.

The Guitar Play-Along Series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily! Just follow the tab, listen to the CD to hear how the guitar should sound, and then play along using the separate backing tracks. The melody and lyrics are also included in the book in case you want to sing, or to simply help you follow along. The audio CD is playable on any CD player. For PC and Mac computer users, the CD is enhanced so you can adjust the recording to any tempo without changing pitch!This volume includes 8 songs: Fun, Fun, Fun * Hound Dog * Louie, Louie * No Particular Place to Go * Oh, Pretty Woman * Rock Around the Clock * Under the Boardwalk * Wild Thing.

Arranged for Guitar Tablature & Standard Notation With Chords and Lyrics. Blind Boy Fuller was one of the most popular "Piedmont Blues" artists, recording most of his work during the late 1930s. Close friends with Sonny Terry and Rev. Gary Davis, his "country blues" music and fingerpicking playing style influenced thousands of blues players. The book includes a CD containing the original recordings of Blind Boy Fuller so you can hear the music as he performed it! Also includes photographs and a 12 page biography of Blind Boy Fuller by Bruce Bastin. Contents: Black And Tan, Meat Shakin' Woman, Stingy Mama, Corrine, What Makes You Treat Me So?, Weeping Willow, Baby, Quit Your Low Down Ways, Piccolo Rag, Untrue Blues, Painful Hearted Man, Get Your Yas Yas Out, Thousand Woman Blues, Sweet Honey Hole, Screaming And Crying Blues, Walking My Troubles Away, Jitterbug Rag, Crooked Woman Blues. Lost Lover Blues, Mama Let Me Lay It On You, Worn Out Engine

Arranged for Guitar Tablature & Standard Notation With Chords And Lyrics. Reverend Gary Davis, also known as Blind Gary Davis, was a master musician who felt comfortable playing in a wide variety of styles and techniques. He could freely improvise on ragtime, religious and blues themes, and was an exciting and vibrant performer. An ordained minister, Rev. Davis often expressed a preference for gospel music, sometimes refusing to play the blues. In addition to transcribing all the songs in this collection, Stefan Grossman was also a student of Rev. Davis. Includes a CD containing the original recordings of Rev. Gary Davis so you can hear the music as he performed it. Contents: Goin' To Sit Down On The Banks Of The River, Great Change Since I've Been Born, A Little More Faith, Buk rag, I Am The Light Of This World, You Better Mind, Walkin' Dog Blues, Let Us Get Together, The Angel's Message To Me, Make Believe Stunt, Cocaine Blues, God's Gonna Separate. Also includes a 2 page biography by Bruce Bastin plus photos.