Joseph weidlich (142 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. (Guitar). This instructional book uses commercial recordings from 70 different "sides" from the 1920s and early 1930s as its basis to learn the principal guitar backup techniques commonly used in old-time country music. Topics covered include: boom-chick patterns * bass runs * uses o…

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. (Fretted). While many extant photos of string band artists show members holding a mandolin, it often can barely be heard in most period recordings because the most important instrument to capture was usually the fiddle or voice. This collection provides you with the opportunity to learn over 7…

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. (Banjo). Old Time String Band Banjo Styles will introduce you to the traditional, rural string band banjo styles as played in the southern mountains of the eastern United States, which were used to "second" vocal songs and fiddle tunes during the Golden Age of recorded string band music, from…

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. (Guitar). One of the most popular acts of the 1930s was the Monroe Brothers, featuring Bill on mandolin and tenor vocals, and Charlie on lead vocals and rhythm guitar. This great overview of Charlie Monroe's unique guitar performance style (he used just his thumb and index finger) presents 52…

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. (Banjo). Pete Seeger took an interest in playing the 5-string banjo when he was 16 years old after he heard it played at the 1935 Asheville Folk Festival in North Carolina. It wasn't long after, when he was able to have a short lesson with banjoist Bascom Lamar Lunsford, known as the Minstrel…

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. (Banjo). After the Civil War, the "up picking" finger style of playing the 5-string banjo came into vogue eventually finding its way into the Victorian parlor and, later, college glee and music clubs. The original down picking style didn't entirely die out, because throughout the reaminder of…

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. (Banjo). The Round Peak area of Surry County, North Carolina consists of a number of small communities which border Mt. Airy, NC. The Round Peak musical style is synonymous with the old time music pairing of the fiddle with the African-derived banjo and was considered to be the defining ensemb…

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. (Guitar). Explore how the traditional parlor style guitar backups used during the golden age of the Old Time Music string band performance style were further developed by guitarists during the Depression years of the 1930s. The genesis of those developments lies principally in the techniques p…

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. (Fretted). Examine the development of country mandolin performance during the 1930s with this book by Joseph Weidlich. During that decade, the mandolin became a featured solo instrument requiring players to quickly develop a new style of playing in order to give vocalists a break from singing,…

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. (Fretted). The focus of this book is on American mandolin music that was published circa 1900 during the "Golden Age of the Mandolin" in the United States (1885-1920), referred to by Mark Twain as The Gilded Age . After a brief overview of period mandolin techniques, a variety of popular socia…

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. (Fretted). The popularity of the mandolin in the United States between 1885-1915 led to the formation of many regional mandolin orchestras and mandolin clubs across the country, particularly in the urban areas of the Northeast and Midwest, but also as far west as San Francisco and as far south…

Hardcover. Zustand: new. Hardcover. (Guitar). Trading Licks: Charlie Christian and T-Bone Walker explores the musical commonality of the founders of electric jazz guitar and electric blues guitar respectively. While both were heavily influenced musically by the Kansas Territory blues bands, T-Bone Walker ended up working profess…