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Fingerstyle Guitar Heroes
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Jazz & Fingerstyle Guitar Heroes
Learn Signature Techniques of Jazz, Rock & Bluegrass Guitar Legends Jimi Hendrix, Doc Watson, Agustin Barrios, Kenny Burrell, Lenny Breau, and Ted Greene
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About this course
Every musician has a long list of other musicians, past and present, that have inspired, influenced and helped shape their own sound and musicality. It's the natural evolution of music.
We asked Tim Sparks to pass on to you some of the key learnings that his Guitar Heroes passed on to him…
”Jimi Hendrix, Doc Watson, Agustin Barrios, Kenny Burrell, Lenny Breau, and Ted Greene are just a few of the players that greatly influenced my sound. In this course, I’ll first show you a few of the techniques and approaches that I picked up from each one of them and then we’ll play through a series of performance studies for musical context.
We’ll start out with Jimi Hendrix, whose psychedelic soul was rooted in the blues. Next up, Doc Watson who was a bluegrass picker who came down from the mountain and showed us all how its done.
We’ll explore Agustin Barrios who was more than a classical virtuoso — I like to think of his music as Chopin from the rainforest. The jazz guitar of Kenny Burrell keeps it real with a touch of blues and we’ll also examine influences from Lenny Breau who was a free form fingerstyle jazzer who got way out there, but was always in control.
And finally we’ll check out Ted Greene - whose guitar style was a virtuoso marriage of jazz and classical — one of my favorite players of all time!”
Tim will first introduce his heroes to you and describe why he found them so influential. After each discussion, Tim will then present a performance study illustrating those influences in a musical context. A breakdown follows every performance study and JD will explain and demonstrate all of the key concepts and approaches in play.
You’ll get standard notation and tabs for all of the performance studies. Plus, you’ll be able to use TrueFire’s learning tools to sync the tab and notation to the video lesson. You can also loop or slow down the videos so that you can work with the lessons at your own pace. All of the backing tracks are included to work with on your own as well.
Grab your guitar and let’s dig in with Tim Sparks!
We asked Tim Sparks to pass on to you some of the key learnings that his Guitar Heroes passed on to him…
”Jimi Hendrix, Doc Watson, Agustin Barrios, Kenny Burrell, Lenny Breau, and Ted Greene are just a few of the players that greatly influenced my sound. In this course, I’ll first show you a few of the techniques and approaches that I picked up from each one of them and then we’ll play through a series of performance studies for musical context.
We’ll start out with Jimi Hendrix, whose psychedelic soul was rooted in the blues. Next up, Doc Watson who was a bluegrass picker who came down from the mountain and showed us all how its done.
We’ll explore Agustin Barrios who was more than a classical virtuoso — I like to think of his music as Chopin from the rainforest. The jazz guitar of Kenny Burrell keeps it real with a touch of blues and we’ll also examine influences from Lenny Breau who was a free form fingerstyle jazzer who got way out there, but was always in control.
And finally we’ll check out Ted Greene - whose guitar style was a virtuoso marriage of jazz and classical — one of my favorite players of all time!”
Tim will first introduce his heroes to you and describe why he found them so influential. After each discussion, Tim will then present a performance study illustrating those influences in a musical context. A breakdown follows every performance study and JD will explain and demonstrate all of the key concepts and approaches in play.
You’ll get standard notation and tabs for all of the performance studies. Plus, you’ll be able to use TrueFire’s learning tools to sync the tab and notation to the video lesson. You can also loop or slow down the videos so that you can work with the lessons at your own pace. All of the backing tracks are included to work with on your own as well.
Grab your guitar and let’s dig in with Tim Sparks!
What you'll learn
- Create blues turnarounds using slide voicing technique
- Blend blues sensibility with sophisticated jazz harmony
- Exposure to techniques from blues, rock, bluegrass, classical, and jazz traditions
- Learning to integrate diverse musical approaches into personal style
- Develop an orchestral approach to jazz guitar
Release date: 06/14/2021 • 1h 17m runtime
Sample lessons
Jimi in Morocco
Performance
Kenny Burrell
My Guitar Heroes: 4
Shout it Out
Overview
Shout it Out
Performance
What's included
26 lessons • 13 charts
My Guitar Heroes: Tim Sparks
When TrueFire asked me to consider a course on six of my guitar heroes, the first two guitarists that came to mind were Jimi Hendrix and Doc Watson, who both made a big impression on a young man coming of age in rural North Carolina in the 1960's. I also studied classical guitar and was imbued with Segovia's idea of the guitar as a miniature orchestra as revealed in the music of the Paraguayan maestro Agustin Barrios. The magic of orchestral guitar playing subsequently found particular expression for me in the jazz styles of Kenny Burrell, Lenny Breau, and Ted Greene.
Jimi Hendrix
The 1960’s were an era of revolutionary cultural upheaval and no one embodied the changes more brilliantly than a guitar player named Jimi Hendrix. After Jimi, the guitar would never be the same. Even though his music was ultra electrified, there are cool aspects of Jimi’s fretboard vocabulary that translate to the acoustic realm.
Jimi in Morocco
A visit to the Moroccan seaside town of Essouaria, where Jimi used to have a villa in the 1960’s, inspired this solo guitar study which blends the Blues with some North African style improvisation.
Jimi in Morocco
This study is grounded in the Blues structure that Jimi used in tunes like Voodoo Child. It starts in 4/4 and then morphs into a North African 6/8 groove.
Jimi in Morocco
Here is an explanation of a couple of Jimi’s favorite chord forms that are transposed to uncommon voicing and combined with open strings to get rich harmonic expressions.
Doc Watson
One of the interesting things about Doc Watson was his fingerings for both the fretting and picking hand. Being blind and mostly self taught, he intuitively developed very simple, "ergonomic" pathways to channel his virtuosity on the guitar.
Deep in the River
Here is a sample of how to morph some of Doc’s melodic flat picking feel into a fingerpicking melody.
+ 19 more lessons
Reviews
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Osokin
Verified buyer
08/28/22
A Spark Of Inspiration!
Tim Sparks is a super gifted player and teacher, and in this course he does a great job of providing us with deep insights into the playing of six of his personal guitar heroes. Great playing examples in the style of each player!
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