This lesson will bring together my arrangements of three piano pieces from the ragtime and early Jazz era. I will discuss compositional features that are shared across each piece, as well as my technical solutions to musical problems that arise when arranging piano melodies for the guitar.
Mr. Jelly Lord - a braggadocious composition from New Orleans’ Jelly Roll Morton.
Blame It On The Blues - Charles Cooke’s awesome, albeit not-very-bluesy, 1914 ragtime piano composition makes for great grooves and riffs on the guitar.
Sunflower Slow Drag - Scott Joplin’s underrated, sublimely beautiful composition is worth the considerable challenge for your fretting and picking hands.
If I Live And I Don't Get Killed – CD
$20 USD
The Music of Jelly Roll Morton
$30 USD
Building a Guitar Rag: Forms, Techniques, Ideas
$30 USD
Allsorts Orchestra –
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Skillet Licorice
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DVD: Moveable Shapes for Fingerpicking Guitar
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Arranging Fiddle Blues and Jazz Piano for Guitar
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DVD: Introduction to Fingerpicking Guitar
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DVD: Advanced Techniques in Fingerpicking Guitar
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