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El McMeen
El McMeen began playing the acoustic guitar while
attending Harvard in the mid-1960's. At the time he took up guitar, he was
an accomplished clarinet player and singer, and had studied piano. At
first, McMeen didn't approach the guitar primarily as a solo instrument,
but used it as accompaniment for his singing. Upon reapplying himself in
the early 1980's to the instrument, he encountered what he saw as an
incredible breadth of music that one could try to render on guitar. He
found himself attracted to Irish and Scottish music, alternative tunings,
and different approaches to rendering and arranging music.
After listening to Dave Evans on Irish Jigs, Reels, Hornpipes, and Airs
(1979, Kicking Mule, reissued on Shanachie 97011), McMeen became attracted
to the richness of the CGDGAD tuning and found it accessible, evocative,
and versatile, and extremely stimulating to his own creativity on the
guitar. After two decades of arranging pieces in that tuning, El has
become the leading student of the tuning, and he has written extensively
on it, including collaborating on the ground-breaking Mel Bay book The
Complete Celtic Fingerstyle Guitar Book, co-written with Stefan Grossman
and Duck Baker. El's music is characterized by lyrical beauty and a
sensitivity to melodic phrases enhanced with tasteful arpeggios,
cross-picking, and walking bass lines, and his uptempo pieces evidence
energy and pulse. His artistry has been praised by numerous publications,
including Acoustic Guitar Magazine, Fingerstyle Guitar Magazine and Guitar
Player Magazine. El's music has been hailed by critics as "stirring ...
unbridled acoustic beauty" and "drop-dead gorgeous" (Guitar Player
Magazine) and as a "treasure" (Dirty Linen Magazine)..
El McMeen - Christmas Carols & Songs For Fingerstyle Guitar - DVD
Using
various alternate tunings, unusual chord voicings, counterpoint lines,
alternating bass and arpeggio techniques, El McMeen explains his unique arrangements of Christmas Favorites.
Includes "Away In A Manger, Angels We Have Heard On High, Bring A Torch Jeannette
Isabella, Jingle
Bells, We Three Kings, A Soaling and We Wish You a Merry Christmas".
(70 min)
Booklet
Included.............................................................Price - $29.95
El McMeen - Irish Guitar Encores
- DVD
Presents El McMeen's unique approach
to arranging Celtic melodies in the CGDGAD tuning. Ed explains this tuning and shows how to use
harp-like arpeggios, counterpoint bass lines, melodic picking and alternating bass techniques for playing Irish
airs and songs. Songs
include "The South Wind, The Castle of Dromore, Danny Boy, Carolan's Receipt, Eleanor
Plunkett, and Lament for Owen Roe O'Neill".
(82 min) Booklet included. Fingerstyle...........................................Price - $29.95
El McMeen - Sacred Music For Fingerstyle
Guitar - DVD
In this DVD
lesson, El
McMeen demonstrates the use of various techniques including harp style arpeggios
and alternating bass
as
well as unique open tunings that add exciting new harmonic sounds to these
arrangements:
"In Christ
There
Is No East Or West, Be Thou My Vision, Not Alone For Mighty Empire, In The Bleak
Mid-Winter,
Amazing
Grace, This Is My Father's World , Silent Night"
(88 min) Booklet
included.............................................................Price - $29.95
El McMeen - Guitar Artistry of El McMeen - DVD
In this DVD, El shares his insights on music and guitar
playing, along with his evocative and distinctive guitar style. His music ranges
from Celtic songs and dance tunes, through alternating-bass Americana, sacred
music, pop tunes and his original compositions. Titles: Medley: The Fair Flower
of Northumberland*/Casadh*, Medley: Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young
Charms*/ Ned of the Hill*, Medley: Morgan Magan*/Carolan’s Receipt*, Medley:
October Winds*/My Mary of the Curling Hair*, Medley: Lament for Owen Roe
O'Neill*/The Rights of Man*/The Kid on the Mountain*, Jock O'Hazeldean*, Hector
the Hero*, Medley: Will the Circle Be Unbroken*/Joshua Fit the Battle of
Jericho*, Holy Manna*, Medley: Fairest Lord Jesus*/Give Me Jesus*, Just As I
Am*, Medley: Be Thou My Vision*/Amazing Grace*, Hyfrydol*, Le Mans*, Song for
Sheila*, Perfidia, My Girl, Still the One, Medley: Working My Way Back to
You/There Is a Rose in Spanish Harlem, Drifting Too Far from the Shore. PDF
files of the tab/music of those tunes marked with a star (*) are included on the
DVD.
(90
min).......................................................................................Price
- $24.95
El McMeen - The Art of Dropped D Guitar -
Book and CD
Instead of approaching
Dropped D tuning via the route of "Standard" tuning, El went directly from CGDGAD tuning, and has succeeded in
finding in Dropped D tuning musical qualities that are very unusual and compelling. The tunes range from Celtic, to
spiritual, to Americana, to pop music, with a classical piece also included. The
accompanying CD contains performances of certain tunes by Warren S. Haskell, an
acclaimed player, teacher and recording artist based in Northern California.
Warren's precise playing makes it easy for the student to hear and understand
the music. Songs include: "Danny Boy, Amazing Grace, America the Beautiful, The
Battle Hymn of the Republic, Greensleeves, The Irish Washerwoman, Ashokan
Farewell, All I Have to Do Is Dream, Guantanamera, Shenandoah Air, Jacob's
Ladder, Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring, The Kid on the Mountain, She'll Be Comin'
Round the Mountain / Shortnin' Bread, Drifting Too Far From the Shore,
Jerusalem, Hard Times, Bridge Cruise, Song for Sheila, Carolan's No. 179, Fanny
Power, George Brabazon - 2d Air, Hugh O'Donnell, The Rakish Paddy, Planxty
Irwin, The Mist-Covered Mountain of Home, The Star of the County Down, Hector
the Hero, The Red-Haired Boy, The Lover's Waltz".
Notation and
tab...........................................................................Price - $24.95
Jazz Guitar Chords & Arpeggio
Patterns - Stacy McKee
-
This unique book includes
300 jazz
guitar chord
formations and matching single note arpeggio patterns in a quick reference format
that no one has ever done before!
Cross indexing makes
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