John Fahey’s Fingerstyle Special Combo
Christmas Songs and Holiday Melodies
John Fahey is well known for his original instrumentals, but in 1968 he released his first album of Christmas songs and holiday melodies. This was greeted with great critical acclaim and John followed with several other Christmas albums. John says this of his arrangements: “The songs are, wherever possible, syncopated, not because I feel that syncopation or ’swinging the Carols’ is more in keeping with the times but simply because I prefer to play them the way I do.” In this DVD lesson John explains and teaches nine of his most popular and requested Christmas and holiday arrangements. Normal fingerpicking styles are used, along with slide techniques. Regular and Open G tunings are featured. 57 Mins
Titles include: Auld Lang Syne, The Bells Of St, Mary, The First Noel, Away In A Manger, Jesus Won’t You Come By Here, Go Tell It On The Mountain, It Came Upon A Midnight Clear, We Three Kings Of Orient Are, Greensleeves and Silent Night
The Guitar Of John Fahey Volume 1
“John Fahey is an enigma. His influences are so varied that his music is difficult to categorize. He seems unencumbered by technical considerations guitarists often give their music. The only boundaries John puts on his renderings are the boundaries of his imagination. His style is impressionistic and therefore not always of an immediate nature. His thematic explorations can be uncommonly structured, dissonant, and wildly rhythmic. Or they may be crisp, tightly structured, and very melodic… He is the modern day patriarch of fingerstyle guitar. He was one of the first musicians to realize that the style had a past and a future on the concert stage. For nearly a quarter of a century, John’s music has been folded, compressed, and thrown against the wall to see if it would stick. It’s still there and the effect has been monumental.” 20th Century Masters Of Fingerstyle Guitar, John Fahey has created a unique body of guitar compositions and arrangements as well as a distinct approach to fingerstyle guitar. He broke fresh ground in recording guitar music that drew from such diverse sources as Country blues, Old-Time music, Indian ragas, European classical music and Gregorian chants. He founded a loosely defined “school” of “American Primitive guitarists” that included Leo Kottke, Robbie Basho, and numerous others. Many fledgling guitarists have been inspired to try their hands at fingerpicking by the dozen or more Fahey albums. In these DVD lessons, John explains and teaches fifteen of his best known instrumentals. Regular, Open G (D G D G B D) and Open D (D A D F# A D) tunings are featured. 77 Mins
Titles include: In Christ There Is No East Or West, Claire, Some Summer Day, When Springtime Comes Again, Spanish Fandango, Spanish Two-Step and On The Sunny Side Of The Ocean.
The Guitar of John Fahey Volume 2 64 Mins
Titles include: Poor Boy Long Ways From Home, My Prayer, Marilyn, The Red Pony, Sunflower River Blues, Joy To The World, Steamboat Gwine Round De Bend and Steel Guitar Rag.
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