Folk and Blues Fingerstyle Guitar

by Dave Van Ronk

In these CD lessons Dave Van Ronk presents his arrangements of folk tunes and blues. These lessons are for the intermediate fingerstyle guitarist. The book includes an interview, a discography, and the 11 tunes taught on the three CD's in standard notation and tablature. LESSON The alternating bass technique is presented with four Green Green Rocky Road, Kansas City Blues, Stackerlee and Saturday Night Shuffle. LESSON Alternating the bass in 3/4 with The Ballad Of The IRT. Elizabeth Cotten's Wilson Rag, Blind Blake's That Will Never Happen No More and Miss. John Hurt's Spike Driver's Moan. LESSON Brownie Mc-Ghee's Sportin' Life Blues played in dropped D tuning. Blues in 12/8 with St. James Infirmary played in A minor.

32 pages, Paperback

First published July 17, 2001

Reviews

[Dave Peticolas · Rating 3 out of 5]

I bought this because it has an arrangement of Elizabeth Cotton's Wilson Rag. I don't much like the arrangement here, though, so I ended up learning it from another source. But there are some other good tunes in here and a transcription of an interesting interview of Van Ronk.