Jody Stecher’s Fingerpicking and Flatpicking Special Combo – Jody Stecher
Jody Stecher’s three DVD lessons: Celtic Melodies for Flatpicking Guitar, Downhome Flatpicking Guitar and The Fingerstyle Guitar of Jody Stecher.
Celtic Melodies for Flatpicking Guitar
The colorful tones of the guitar are well suited to the music of Ireland and Scotland. Jody Stecher has developed a unique approach to flatpicking Celtic music drawing on the sounds and techniques of the harp, fiddle and pipes.This DVD lesson presents a graded course starting with simpler fingering with special attention to picking techniques. Building on a base of a confident and deliberate right hand, more challenging left hand work is gradually introduced. The typical ornaments of Celtic music are shown to be manageable and effective on the guitar – including rolls, which have been thought by some to be too difficult to achieve on guitar. Using memorable tunes in the keys of G, D and A, Jody teaches in dropped-D tuning as well as in standard tuning for a complex reel in the key of E minor. 76 Mins
Titles include: REEL Sheehan’s Reel, JIG The Connaughtman’s Rambles, MARCH A Trip To Mabou Ridge, STRATHSPEY The Devil In The Kitchen, REEL Muilleann Dubh, REEL Doctor Gilbert
Downhome Flatpicking Guitar
“Jody Stecher is a total musician with a sense for musical nuance which few of his peers can match. His repertoire is unbelievable.” – The Village Voice
Jody Stecher has long been America’s least generic flatpicker. From the teenage hotshot who won the 1966 World’s Champion Flatpicking Cup at Union Grove North Carolina to the mature and reflective artist who was twice Grammy nominated in the 1990s, Jody has always played his own style. Here he presents the technical nuts and bolts for you to make your own personal style.
This DVD is both a roadmap of Jody’s development as a flatpicking guitarist of mostly American vernacular music, and a guide to how any flatpicker can expand their expressive technique. Think of it as “Flatpicking According to Jody”. It’s a graded course starting with basics in which the technical relationship between fingerpicking and flatpicking is made clear. The first few pieces are great songs with memorable melodies but minimal fingering so that right hand fundamentals can be mastered. With each new tune more techniques are introduced and more and more fingerboard is used, both horizontally and vertically. The second half of the DVD is purely instrumental music and the tunes are more complex. 75 Mins
Titles include: Carter’s Blues, It’s Hard To Love, I Got A Bulldog, Leake County Blues, Arkansas Traveler, The Dawn and The Ship in Full Sail
The Fingerstyle Guitar of Jody Stecher- Traditional American Old Time, Blues and Country Music
“Jody Stecher, who is basically a teacher to me, opened up my ears to more beautiful music than anyone else ever did…than I ever knew existed. He is also one of my favorite musicians on Earth to play with. I have never known anyone so intensely and completely enveloped in music. It’s my suspicion that if you drained all the music out of Jody, you could carry what was left around in an eye dropper.” – David Bromberg. Jody Stecher’s guitar arrangements are blues tinged, banjo influenced and highly inventive. They are fluid, evolving and subject to flights of fancy and improvisation in actual performance. Yet, they contain a lot that is “fixed” or repeated from performance to performance. The seven arrangements presented in this DVD lesson are crystallizations of the motifs and patterns typically used by Jody when playing these tunes. Five tunings and four styles of picking are presented. 70 Mins
Titles include: Boat’s Up The River, Buddy Won’t You Roll Down The Line, Red Rocking Chair, Old Country Stomp, Casey Jones, Riley And Spencer and Those Two Blue Eyes
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