Rev. Gary Davis was a musical giant. His ideas spanned a wide range of techniques and styles and his repertoire featured blues, rags, show instrumentals and gospel songs. Davis played with his thumb and index finger to pick out complex melodies, rhythmic licks and lightning fast single-string runs. In this book, seven of Rev. Davis 's blues are presented. These arrangements have been performed and recorded by a host of great artists including Bob Dylan, Taj Mahal, Hot Tuna, David Bromberg, John Renbourn, Bert Jansch and many others. These lessons are for the intermediate to advanced fingerstyle guitarist. The accompanying three CD lessons teach these arrangements phrase by phrase as well as presenting the original recordings. Lesson one highlights two of Rev. Davis 's most popular blues arrangements. Hesitation Blues is played in the key of C. Baby, Let Me Follow You Down is played in the key of G. Lesson two explores the party tune Sally Where'd You Get Your Liquor From (made popular by Hot Tuna). Rev. Davis used to joke that he could play Candyman in so many different ways that he would be able to play it nonstop for at least 8 hours without repeating himself. We look at two versions of this very popular folk blues with the regular Candyman followed by the Two-Step Candyman . In lesson three all 14 verses from Raggin' the blues are transcribed and studied on how this arrangement develops.
Buck Rag
Candyman
Hesitation Blues
Sally, Where'd You Get Your Liquor From?
Two Step Candyman
Walkin' Dog Blues
Candyman
Hesitation Blues
Sally, Where'd You Get Your Liquor From?
Two Step Candyman
Walkin' Dog Blues
| Arrangement | Guitar, Guitar Tab |
| Genres | Blues, Ragtime |
| Format | Instrumental Album |
| Level | 3 |
| NumberOfPages | 40 |
| Media | Sheet Music |
| Publisher | Mel Bay Publications |
| Contributors | Grossman, Stefan (Author) Davis, Gary (Artist) |
| Language | English |
| ISBN | 9780786659210 |
| UPC | 796279074049 |