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Virtuoso acoustic
wizard and fingerstyle master, Tim Sparks presents Fingerstyle Roots, Rags
& Blues, an
insightful exploration of Early Americana Roots music and intensive
fingerstyle study program for intermediate and advanced students.
Fingerstyle Roots, Rags & Blues covers Delta Blues, Country Gospel, New Orleans, Ragtime,
Early Jazz and the most amazing version of "The Mississippi Blues" that
we've ever seen performed or heard here at TrueFire.
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player below for
a sample video from the course >>
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.
 Tim Sparks has been
redefining the acoustic guitar repertoire since he won the US National
Fingerstyle Championship in 1993 with a ground-breaking arrangement of
Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite. Since then, Sparks has continued to
surprise, challenge, and thrill audiences with his diverse repertoire and
stunning technique. Equally at home within the Country Blues, Ragtime, Jazz
or World Music genres, Sparks’ extraordinary ability to adapt virtually any
music to the solo guitar has earned him an international reputation as one
of the most innovative guitarists working today.
Sparks has
seven
solo CDs to his credit including The Nutcracker Suite, One String Leads
to Another and Guitar Bazaar on Peter Finger’s Acoustic Music Records. He
has also recorded four projects for John Zorn’s Tzadik label, Neshamah,
Tanz, At the Rebbe’s Table and Masada Guitars, (with Bill Frisell and Marc
Ribot).
Fingerstyle Roots, Rags
& Blues presents two completely different arrangements of
"Amazing Grace," a rendition of Mother Maybelle Carter's "Victory Rag" and
early Jazz and Blues by the likes of Jelly Roll Morton, Scott Joplin and Eubie Blake. Sparks breaks down each tune, passage by passage, in detailed
video explanations, notation and tabs that not only allow you to play the
songs, but also gives you a treasure trove of chord voicings, licks, scales
and turnarounds to use in your playing.
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WHAT YOU GET
Video software (Windows and Mac) with
TrueFire's
Lesson Player, PIP, full-screen,
looping, slow
motion, keyboard shortcuts, plus...
- 171 Minutes of Video
- Text Commentary
- Tab and Notation
- Power Tab
CURRICULUM
Intermediate to
Advanced
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"world
of tobacco fields, fire-breathing itinerant preachers, cornbread and collard
greens, bluegrass and barbecue, moonshine on Saturday night and rapturous
gospel singing on Sunday morning...and always the blues. The country blues
that comes right up from the earth, out of the sun-baked red clay bottom
land...."
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