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Woody Mann - Guitar Artistry of Woody Mann - DVD
Mann has absorbed so many guitar styles that he can change moods on a dime,
weaving lyrical single string lines and chord harmonies that can take his tunes
across the musical divides between genres. - Acoustic Guitar Magazine. Among
guitarists and critics, Woody Mann is considered a modern master. While the
blues are his touchstone, he seems to draw inspiration from every direction,
blending a myriad of influences with ease and grace. Pioneering guitar legend
John Fahey said it well: "You can hear classical, jazz and blues approaches
somehow converging into a single sparkling sound – a sound completely his own.
Woody takes a fresh approach to his blues re-creations and his own compositions
defy category. If there was a category simply called 'great music' Woody's music
would belong there." In "Songs From the Blues", Woody showcases his songs that
are inspired by his love for the country blues and early jazz styles but brings
the past up to the present with his original guitar style and contemporary
songwriting. Mann's wizardry on the fretboard is matched by his ability to
convey deep feelings with his songs - creating moods that incite, delight, or
simply soothe. Mann blurs the lines between jazz, blues, classical, and world
music, creating his own sound in the process. Attempts to categorize his music
simply miss the point. This is brilliant playing that demands to be heard. -
Sing Out Magazine. Titles include: We’ll Be Alright, Little Brother, Cheap Cherry Wine, Snooks, Harlequin, Have Mercy, Delia, Early Hesitation Blues, Try Me One More
Time, On Her Way Home, Great Dreams, God Works in Mysterious Ways and A Little
Love And Kiss"
......................................................................................................Price
- $24.95
Woody Mann & Bob Brozman - Country Blues Guitar Duets -
DVD
While they
slowly illustrate classic country blues
guitar duets in the styles of Big Bill Broonzy, Blind Blake and Lonnie
Johnson -
Woody Mann and Bob Brozman explore the techniques and thinking that go into
creating cohesive
duet guitar parts that compliment each other. Each part is
taught separately. They explain and illustrate how
you can arrange a simple song
through the use of new chord positions, simple picking syncopation ideas and
open tunings as well as walking you through the basics of how to select a key,
use of a capo and listening to
the song in new ways. The duo presents effective
techniques for improving improvisational skills while
jamming with other
musicians. Each guitar part is a solo tune in itself. The ideas and techniques
covered in
this video offer creative approaches to expanding all aspects of your
playing. Titles include: "Lazy Blues,
Tampa Slow Grind, Mr. Blake, Long Gone
Blues, Tab Guitar Rag".
(62 min) Booklet included..............................................................Price -
$29.95
Woody Mann & Bob Brozman - Delta Blues Guitar Duets - DVD
In this unique
video lesson, Bob Brozman and Woody Mann describe and teach in
detail duet arrangements in the styles
of the great Delta blues guitarists:
Charley Patton, Robert Johnson, Willie Brown, Tommy Johnson and Son
House.
Techniques and ideas for creating a cohesive guitar part that compliments,
rather than competes or
conflicts, are discussed. Each part is taught separately
and presented in tablature and music notation.
Woody and Bob also present
effective techniques for improving improvisation skills while jamming
with
other musicians. The tunes presented in this lesson can be used as
repertoire pieces for either solo or duet
situations. All in all, a very unique
instructional video giving you twice the amount of ideas and challenges
from two
of today's blues guitar masters. Titles include: "Banty Rooster, Moon Goin'
Down, Bye Bye Blues,
Robert Johnson's Blues, Big Road Blues".
(70 min) Booklet
included..............................................................Price - $29.95
Woody Mann - Fingerstyle Blues Guitar -
DVD
Woody Mann illustrates how numerous
traditional country blues guitar techniques and styles can be extended and explored to
create new textures
and feelings. Woody demonstrates blues in the keys of A, D and E and shows how variations
and improvisational ideas can be developed. The playing ideas of Blind Boy Fuller, Big Bill Broonzy,
Lonnie Johnson,
Blind Lemon Jefferson, Rev. Gary Davis and Scrapper Blackwell are discussed. Woody
combines these
playing techniques and styles into a series of instrumentals that will illustrate new
possibilities for playing
fingerstyle blues. Songs include: "Weeping Willow Variations (Blues in A), Tribute
to Big Bill and Blind
Lemon (Blues in E), Texas Blues for Funny Papa Smith (Blues in A) and Blues For Bo Carter
and Lonnie
Johnson (Blues in D).
(66 min) Booklet
included.............................................................Price
- $29.95
Woody Mann - Art of Acoustic Blues Guitar: Early Roots - DVD
This DVD 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 damping, 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 today's acoustic fingerstyle guitar music.
Songs include: "Delta Blues For Patton, Jackson Moan, Blue Daze,
Shuffle, Blues
in G, Bullfrog Groan, Technique and Variations".
(75 min). Booklet
included.............................................................Price - $29.95
Woody Mann - Art of Acoustic Blues Guitar: Do That Guitar
Rag - DVD
In this
DVD, Woody Mann teaches the sounds and
techniques of the classic ragtime blues guitar style. Inspired by
the early
masters such as Blind Blake, Big Bill Broonzy, Rev. Gary Davis and Blind Boy
Fuller, Woody has
written original tunes that break down the complexities of the
music into clear and playable instrumentals.
Working in standard tuning, Woody
illustrates syncopated picking techniques, chord embellishments,
rhythmic bass
lines, classic ragtime riffs and demonstrates how to attain the characteristic
swinging sound
of ragtime blues. Included is a technique and variations section
that focuses in on how to play variations in
the songs and discusses practical
approaches to developing a solid overall picking technique. This DVD
lesson
demystifies the playing of the great ragtime blues artists and reveals how to
play the sounds and
subtleties of this exciting acoustic blues guitar style.
Songs include: "Midtown Fling, Late Morning Blues,
Manhattan Rag, Country Buck,
Mr. Blake's Dance, Technique and Variations".
(77 min). Booklet
included............................................................Price - $29.95
Woody Mann - Art of Acoustic Blues Guitar: Handful Of
Riffs - DVD
In this
lesson Woody Mann teaches five
repertoire building songs arranged for the intermediate fingerstyle guitarist.
Inspired by Woody's favorite traditional blues tunes, these easy to follow
arrangements teach a variety of
acoustic blues styles and sounds. Each song
spotlights a specific technique for developing fingerpicking
skills, rhythmic
grooves and dynamics in your playing. Woody illustrates the syncopated
fingerpicking of
Blind Blake, the single-line style riffs of Lonnie Johnson, the
melodic playing in open G tuning of Memphis
Minnie and the unique riffs in
standard tuning of Rambling Thomas and Bo Carter. Woody shows how the
"riffs"
and techniques can be applied from one tune to another and illustrates practical
ways to create
variations within a tune. In this fresh approach to teaching,
Woody Mann has taken the complex music
of the early acoustic guitar innovators
and distilled the sounds into clearly written instrumentals that
capture the
essence and beauty of the music. Songs include: "Along The Alley, Minnie's
Spanish Blues,
Feeling Bad Blues, New Old Devil, Rambling Blues".
(66 min).
Booklet included............................................................Price - $29.95
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
this manual
extremely easy to use and regardless of what style of music you play, we know
you
will find this
to be a
valuable, "must have" addition to your library. Stacy McKee was the
featured guitarist with "Les
Brown and The Band Of Renown" and for a limited
time only, we will include an exclusive copy of his book
FREE with
your first
order!
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Woody Mann - Art of Acoustic Blues Guitar: The
Basics - Book and DVD
This
will build a foundation of repertoire and technique for acoustic fingerstyle
blues. In these lessons, 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, and the music
of Big Bill Broonzy, Memphis Minnie, Willie Walker and Willie Moore. Songs
include: "Old Country Rock, Saturday Night Rub, One Time Blues, Soo Cow Soo, Pig
Meat Strut, South
Carolina Rag".
Notation and tab...........................................................................Price - $24.95
Woody Mann - Art of Acoustic Blues Guitar:
Logic of The Fretboard - Book and DVD
An easy and practical method for creating new chords and
variations in your playing. In this DVD
lesson, Woody teaches a new approach to
seeing the fretboard and techniques for "breaking down" chord
blocks into
smaller "pieces" and connecting them throughout the fretboard. As he teaches the
repertoire of
the masters of acoustic blues, he demonstrates how melodies and
harmonics can be derived from simple,
moveable chord shapes. It is a method for
relating the entire fretboard to the basic first position chord shapes
that we
all learn as beginners and using them to create new chords, melodies, and
variations in your music.
Songs include: "Crow Jane, Cold Rainy Day, Bye Bye
Blues, Sweet Jivin' Mama, Policy Blues, It Is No Secret".
Notation and
tab...........................................................................Price - $24.95
Woody Mann - Art of Acoustic Blues Guitar:
Ragtime and Gospel - Book and
DVD
This lesson
showcases the songs and techniques of two of the most fundamental and exciting
styles of
traditional fingerstyle guitar playing. It also presents the
music of the legendary Reverend Gary Davis, featuring
several of his well-known
songs. Woody Mann illustrates how the music of one of America's greatest
guitarists
offers a complete lesson in the beauty and subtleties of ragtime and
gospel guitar playing. Woody explores
syncopated picking ideas, new approaches
to chords and melodies, and explains how to apply Davis's method
for creating
endless variations and improvisations within a song. Songs include: "O Glory,
Death Don't Have
No Mercy, Let Us Get Together, Hesitation Blues, I Am The Light
of This World, Make Believe Stunt".
Notation and tab...........................................................................Price - $24.95
Woody Mann - Masterpieces of Country Blues Guitar - Book and 3
CDs
This book
contains 3 full hours of instruction
featuring note-by-note, phrase-by-phrase instruction from the playing
of Blind
Blake, Bo Carter, Scrapper Blackwell, Rev. Gary Davis, Blind Boy Fuller, Tommy
Johnson, Big Bill
Broonzy and Josh White. These are all taught by Woody Mann.
Songs include: "Weeping Willow" - Blind
Boy Fuller, "Policy Blues" - Bo Carter,
"Bye Bye Blues" - Tommy Johnson, "Long Tall Mama" - Big Bill
Broonzy, "Good Gal"
- Josh White, "Kokomo Blues" - Scrapper Blackwell, "Chump Man Blues, Southern
Rag" - Blind Blake, "How Happy I Am" - Rev. Gary Davis.
Notation and
tab...........................................................................Price - $24.95
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