revised edition!!! Country Blues Guitar
Wirtten(in Japanese) and performed by Tokio Uchida
Published by Rittor Music / 96 pages / accompanied with the 12cm
CD
„Tracing the history of rock music,
you will reach blues. Tracing blues, You will reach the world
of country blues played on the acoustic guitar. Country blues
has various styles and unique playings and is deep and fascinating
genre which is completed as guitar solo music. In this book a
lot of basic and advanced techniques are explored thoroughly with
tab/music notation, the explanations and the CD (60-min/including
26 tunes). You can learn various fingerpicking guitar styles of
the legendary bluesmen such as Robert Johnson, Mississippi John
Hurt, Blind Blake, Gary Davis, Lightnin' Hopkins, Lonnie Johnson,
Tampa Red and others. This is the MUST best-seller for
acoustic guitar fans and blues fans.
= MAIN CONTENTS =
Chapter 1 <<Introduction of fingerpicking blues>>
Country blues and fingerpicking / Basic knowledge of fingerpicking
/ Warm-up exercises
Chapter 2 <<Basis of fingerpicking blues>> Monotonic
bass playing / Alternating bass playing / Mute of bass note /
syncopation - Examples: "Will The Circle Be Unbroken?",
"I Want To Do Something For You", "Boogie Of Mance
Lipscomb", "Hey, Hey", "Shuffle Of Lightnin'
Hopkins","Blues In G Of John Hurt" and "Nostalgia
For Avalon"
Chapter 3 <<Application of fingerpicking blues>>
Delta blues / Ragtime blues / Sophisticated blues - Examples:
"Blues In E Of Robert Johnson", "Blues In A Of
Robert Johnson", "Pounding Blues Of Charley Patton",
"Haunting Blues Of Skip James", "Rag For Blind
Boy Fuller", "Slow Blues Of Blind Blake", "Blake's
Stumbling Rag", "Tribute To Rev. Gary Davis", "The
Blues In My Fingers", "Blues In G Of Lonnie Johnson"
and "Lonnie's Dazzling Blues"
Chapter 4 <<Bottlenec/slide guitar>> Basic
knowledge of slide guitar / Slide control / Use of open tuning
/ Styles using chord positions mainly / Modal approach / Styles
using fretting - Examples: "Bottleneck Rag Of Sylvester
Weaver", "Tribute To Muddy Waters", "Dark
Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground", "Evocative Slide
Of Blind Willie Johnson","Things 'Bout Coming My Way",
"Boogie Of Tampa Red" and "Crossroad Blues"
Chapter 5 <<References>> Introduction of
recommended CDs and videos
< CD-Book 01-2 > price with tax 2,940 yen (price without tax 2,800yen)
Play Open Tuning Guitar
- From acoustic blues to new age
sound -
Written(in Japanese) and performed by Tokio Uchida
Published by Chuo-art Publishing Company /112 pages /
accompanied with the 8cm CD
„Featuring a variety of alternate tunings:
semi-regular tunings, open "chord" tunings, modal tunings,
unison tunings, Nashville tuning and so on, you can learn various
sounds of fingerpicking blues, country guitar, bottleneck/slide
playing, Irish music, New age, etc. with tab/music and examples
(recoerded in the 8cm CD / 15 tunes).
= MAIN CONTENTS =
Part 1 <<What is open tuning?>> What is
"Open Tuning"? / History of "Open Tuning"
/ Function of "Open Tuning"
Part 2 <<Semi-regular tunings>> Drop D /
Drop G / Other semiregular tunings / Examples: "There
Will Be A Happy Meeting In Glory" and "Blues For Lonnie
Johnson"
Part 3 <<Basic open tunings>> Open D / Open
G / Examples: "Vestapol", "Amazing Grace",
"Spanish Fandango" and "Jambalaya"
Part 4 <<Open "chord" tunings>> Open
Dm / Open Gm / Open Dmaj7 / Other "open" chord tunings
/ Examples: "Crossnote Skippy Blues", "Sea
Gull"
Part 5 <<Modal tunings>> D modal / G modal
/ CGDGAD / Other modal tunings / Examples: "Pretty
Polly" and "Will The Circle Be Unbroken?"
Part 6 <<Bottleneck/slice playing>> Basis
of bottleneck/slide playing / Examples: "Blues For
Tampa Red", "Tennessee Waltz" and "Tribute
To John Fahey"
Part 7 <<Other alternate tunings>> Unison
tunings / Other unison tunings / Example: "Four And
Twenty" / Nashville tuning / Example: "Thanks
To Stefan"
Part 8 <<References>> List of cords in each
tuning / Recommended CDs, videos and books
< CD-Book 02 > price with tax 3,150 yen (price
with tax 3,000 yen)
Folk Guitar Mastered With A CD
- Enjoyable Book Lesson Leanred With
Eyes & Ears -
Written(in Japanese) and performanced by Tokio Uchida
Published by Natsumesya / 64 pages / accompanied with the 12cm
CD
„This book is composed in order for
beginners to learn surely and accompanied with the CD (99 tracks/60-min),
which compensates some obscure points that you might have if you
learn only with a book. "Tuning" which is a hurdle for
beginners is explained with a CD so that everyone can make it.
„However, the examples in the end are the challenging
guitar instrumentals in which various techniques are incorporated.
The open high chords and chromatic playing are utilized for "Acoustic
Delights". And the arrangement of "The Camptown
Races" is used an alternating bass technique and the
Carter family's picking featuring the melody.
= MAIN CONTENTS =
Part 1 <<Basic knowledge>> How to hold the
guitar / How to string the guitar / Tuning / Diagram and tablature
Part 2 <<Basic playing>> How to fretting
/ Let's learn chords / Exercises for basic chords and chord changes
/ Structure of barred chords / Arpeggio / Three finger picking
/ Chord stroke / Carter Family's picking / Finger rhythm backing
Part 3 <<Practical techniques>> Variations
of chords / Hammering on and pulling off / Bass run / Chord cutting
/ Mute / Combining several playing styles / Slide
Part 4 <<Applied playing>> Chord appointing
bass / Open high chords / Let add melody / Chromatic playing -
Examples: "Acoustic Delights" and "The Camptown
Races"
< CD-Book 03 > price with tax 1,575 yen (price
with tax 1,500 yen)
revised edition!!! Ragtime Guitar
Wirtten(in Japanese) and performed by Tokio Uchida
Published by Rittor Music / 112 pages / accompanied with the 12cm CD
„"Ragtime" is by nature melodious and nostalgic black piano music which was very popular from the end of 19th century to the early of 20th century. Also in acoustic guitar scene, it has uniquely developed as "ragtime guitar" which is based on its sounds and approaches. And today it has been established as fingerpicking solo music which we can play with one guitar.
„In this book, the styles of such "ragtime guitar" are classified into three section; <Folk Rags> where the traditional folk songs are featured, <Ragtime Blues> for which the country bluesmen's ideas are used and <Classic Rags> where the melodies of piano rags are arranged for acoustic guitar, and you'll learn the characteristic tunes in each of them. All of the tune are recorded on the attached CD (20 tunes). The tab/music for every tune is full scored with diagrams. You can learn "ragtime guitar" infallibly with the detail explanations, the comlete tab/music and the CD. Enjoy the world of challenging "ragtime guitar".
@MAIN CONTENTS@
* the additional tunes for this revised version
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< BASIC >
History of Ragtime music
Appearance of Ragtime Guitar
Basic of Ragtime Guitar
1.) Skip To My Lou (Ex.1`9)
*alternating bass
*syncopation
*walking bass
< FOLK RAG >
2.) Jesse James
3.) Red River Valley
4.) I've Been Working On The Railroad *
5.) Victory Rag
6.) Blue Bell
7.) When The Saints Go Marching In
|
< RAGTIME BLUES >
8.) Gary Davis' Pastime
9.) Rag In C
10.) Great Bs' Stomp
11.) Blake's Rag Continuation
12.) G Rag Journey
13.) Raggy Blues In E
< CLASSIC RAG >
14.) At A Georgia Campmeeting
15.) Silver Swan Rag
16.) Grace And Beauty
17.) Maple Leaf Rag
18.) The Entertainer
19.) Solace -A Mexican Serenade-
20.) Ragtime Nightingale *
|
< CD-Book 04-2 > price with tax 2,940 yen (price without tax 2,800yen)
*Also, we have the video version of "Ragtime Guitar"(Rittor-1004). It is effective to use both of the video and the CD-book!!
Take It Easy / Acoustic Blues
Wirtten(in Japanese) and performed by Tokio Uchida
Published by Rittor Music / 144 pages / accompanied with the 12cm CD
„Tha author Tokio Uchida is well known for many best-selling instructional videos and books such as "The Essences of Acoustic Fingerstyle Blues Guitar", "Real Acoustic Guitar/Country Blues" and so on. Many people think acoustic blues is technically difficult. But rather acoustic bluesmen use various unique ideas for their playing. Tokio introduces them for this instructional book. The policy of this book is that we use take-it-easy approaches but we can creat serious sound. 32 ideas are introduced for this book. You can start from any page.
Part 1 << backing playing for singing >> 8 items
Part 2 << fingerpicking featuring melodies >> 16 items
Part 3 << bottleneck/slide blues playing >> 8 items
< CD-Book 05 > price with tax 1,680 yen (price without tax 1,600yen)