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Titles by: JOHN FAHEY
 
American Primitive Guitar (Book + Online Audio)
taught by John Fahey
In this series for the intermediate guitarist, John Fahey teaches a wide variety of instrumental solos. Critics have called John's style American Primitive Guitar. The book includes tablature and notation with access to online audio featuring note-by-note, phrase-by-phrase instruction. LESSON ONE: A general discussion of pattern picking and the use of the alternate bass. In Christ There Is No East Or West, Take A Look At That Baby and Some Summer Day. LESSON TWO: One of John's most requ...
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PRODUCT ID: 99802M
FORMAT : Book + Online Audio
Price:
$19.95
Fingerstyle & Slide Guitar in Open Tunings (Book + Online Audio)
taught by John Fahey
John Fahey was a pioneer in composing and arranging guitar solos in open tunings. In this lesson series for the intermediate guitarist, John teaches a wide variety of techniques, musical textures and styles. The book includes the notation and tablature for the lessons and access to online audio featuring phrase-by-phrase instruction. LESSON ONE:  Open G tuning: On the Sunny Side of the Ocean, Spanish Two Step and It Came Upon A Midnight Clear. St. Louis Blues played in a dropped ...
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PRODUCT ID: 99801M
FORMAT : Book + Online Audio
Price:
$19.95
Blind Joe Death (Book)
by John Fahey, transcribed and edited by Andrew Lardner
John Fahey transformed the world of acoustic flat-top steel-string guitar by bringing it to the concert stage as a respected, solo instrument. Blind Joe Death: Volume 1 looks at the important people and genres that shaped him as a composer. This volume focuses on Side 1 of the original 1967 Blind Joe Death LP, a collection of mostly traditional music that was adapted for solo guitar. Hints of Fahey's early influences endured throughout his career as a composer, yet early on, and in Blind Joe Death, a unique...
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PRODUCT ID: 30599
FORMAT : Book
Price:
$19.99
Blind Joe Death (eBook)
by John Fahey, transcribed and edited by Andrew Lardner
John Fahey transformed the world of acoustic flat-top steel-string guitar by bringing it to the concert stage as a respected, solo instrument. Blind Joe Death: Volume 1 looks at the important people and genres that shaped him as a composer. This volume focuses on Side 1 of the original 1967 Blind Joe Death LP, a collection of mostly traditional music that was adapted for solo guitar. Hints of Fahey's early influences endured throughout his career as a composer, yet early on, and in Blind Joe Death, a unique...
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PRODUCT ID: 30599EB
FORMAT : eBook
Price:
$17.99
The Guitar Artistry of John Fahey (DVD)
by John Fahey
One of acoustic music's true innovators and eccentrics, John Fahey was a crucial figure in expanding the boundaries of the acoustic guitar over the last few decades. His music was so eclectic that it's arguable whether he should be defined as a "folk" artist. In a career that saw him issue several dozen albums, he drew from blues, Native American music, Indian ragas, experimental dissonance, and pop. His good friend Dr. Demento has noted that Fahey "was the first to demonstrate that the fingerpicking tec...
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PRODUCT ID: 13121DVD
FORMAT : DVD
UPC: 011671312194
Price:
$24.95
Strings & Frets (DVD)
featuring Pierre Bensusan, John Fahey, Stefan Grossman, Jorma Kaukonen, John Renbourn, Martin Simpson and Bob Brozman
The seven fingerstyle guitarists you are about to watch have all put their own, highly personal stamp on the instrument, not only by the way they play, but also by the music they write and interpret and the emotions and images their music invokes. No other instrument has found such a vast, global audience in the last 40 years, and as you'll see and hear, no other instrument is capable of such a diverse range of sounds and styles. As divergent as these performances are, t...
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PRODUCT ID: 13088DVD
FORMAT : DVD
UPC: 011671308890
Price:
$24.95
Christmas Songs and Holiday Melodies (DVD)
Taught by John Fahey
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 expla...
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PRODUCT ID: GW946DVD
FORMAT : DVD
UPC: 796279093606
Price:
$29.95
The Guitar of John Fahey Volume 1 (DVD)
taught by John Fahey
In this first DVD lesson, John offers insights to playing seven of his best known instrumentals. Regular and open G (DGDGBD) tunings are featured. A detailed tab/music instructional booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD.77 MinutesDVD is region 0, playable worldwide.
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PRODUCT ID: GW944DVD
FORMAT : DVD
UPC: 796279093583
Price:
$29.95
The Guitar of John Fahey Volume 2 (DVD)
taught by John Fahey
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. In this second video lesson John explains and teaches eight of his best known Instrumentals Regular, Open G (DGD GBD) and Open D (D A D F# A D) tunings are featured.64-minutesA detailed...
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PRODUCT ID: GW945DVD
FORMAT : DVD
UPC: 796279093590
Price:
$29.95
Fingerstyle Guitar: New Dimensions and Explorations Volume 1 (DVD)
by John Fahey
This DVD features new and archival footage of performances by the preeminent names in steel-string fingerstyle guitar. The theme of this video is evolution, both stylistic and technological, as each of the ten performers takes a step beyond the footfalls of his influences. Features performances by , Jorma Kaukonen, Will Ackerman, John Fahey, Adrian Legg, Bert Jansch, Preston Reed, Peter Finger, Woody Mann, and Brad Jones. Running time 74 minutes DVD is region 0 playable worldwide
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PRODUCT ID: 13006DVD
FORMAT : DVD
UPC: 011671300696
Price:
$24.95
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