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1. Black Rat Swing
2. Raise the Devil
3. Terminal Rag
4. Black Dog Rag
5. Hobo's Hop
6. La Grippe
7. Good News Waltz
8. Hula Hoedown
9. Monon Blues
10. Three Sisters' Waltz
11. Ladyfingers
12. Crooked
13. Hudson River Rag
14. Jesses' Jump
15. Ragtime Gal
16. Arkansas Ramble
17. Slovak Stomp
18. Maplewood
19. Monkeys On A Binge
20. Song For Samantha
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1. Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me
2. Raise the Devil
3. Crow Jane
4. New Orleans Hop Scop Blues
5. La Grippe
6. Last Kind Word Blues
7. Terminal Rag
8. Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?
9. Papa’s On the Housetop
10. Hudson River Rag
11. Nobody’s Fault But Mine
12. Main Street Blues
13. Built Right On the Ground
14. Good News Waltz
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1. River Of Joy
2. Hobo's Hop
3. Mood Indigo
4. Monon Blues
5. Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning
6. Ragtime Gal
7. Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams
8. Three Sisters' Waltz
9. Monday Morning Blues
10. Maplewood
11. Arkansas Ramble
12. Dink's Song
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1. Virginia Bound
2. Ladyfingers
3. Some Cold Rainy Day
4. Baby Please Don't Go/Green Onions
5. Bluesette
6. Going Down Slow
7. Run Sinner Run
8. Can't Afford To Lose My Man
9. Monkeys On A Binge
10. I Almost Lost My Mind
11. Yes Sir That's My Baby/I'll See You In My Dreams/Darktown Strutters Ball
12. Song For Samantha
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1. Good Love
2. Set In My Ways
3. Slovak Stomp
4. Nine Pound Hammer
5. Black Dog Rag
6. When I Go
7. Bad Juju
8. Jesse's Jump
9. I Hate That Train Called The M & O
10. Crooked
11. Big Foot Mama
12. Achin' Heart
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1. Your Baby Gave You Nuthin' But the Blues
2. Midnite Blue - Mary Flower
3. Stomp Down Mama
4. Arrangement for Me Blues
5. Hannah's Song
6. Mystery Train
7. Pony Blues
8. Cock-A-Doodle Blues
9. Two Days Straight
10. Cypress Grove Blues
11. Can't Sleep for Dreaming
12. Roll on, Mississippi, Roll On
13. Old Guitar
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Instructional DVDs |
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75 minutes, Music and tab enclosed
You can get ringing notes, rich tones and textures simply by retuning your guitar to an open chord.
On this easy exploration for novice players, Mary Flower teaches some tunings that will help you play
beautiful sounding songs and instrumentals almost immediately.
An expert player and an experienced instructor, Mary helps you work out well-known songs or instrumentals
for each tuning. She starts with a simple one -dropping the bass E string to D - and teaches a basic but
lovely fingerpicking version of the folk hymn, I'll Fly Away.
You'll then learn how to get into open G, G6, D and D minor tunings. Along the way, Mary shows how to
embellish your guitar work using various chord positions, scales, harmony lines, hammer-ons, pull-offs
and other essential techniques.
Songs include the traditional instrumental, Spanish Fandango; the powerful folk tune John Henry;
a "carnivalesque"e; tribute to Bo Carter; and gospel/spiritual songs Amazing Grace, I shall Not
Be Moved, Do Lord and Jesus Is On the Main Line.
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60 minutes, Music and tab enclosed
Learn five classic blues songs, especially arranged for intermediate-level
guitarists who want to eplore exciting new styles and repertoire. Mary Flower's
clear, step-by-step instruction will make these pieces fun to play for anyone with
some prior knowledge of blues fingerpicking technique.
Mary starts off with Leroy Carr's Papa's on the Housetop, first strumming
the basic chords to get you quickly into the tune. She teaches you how to play the
melody on the high strings, then adds harmony notes and finally finishes the
arrangement with a hot New Orleans bass line.
She then launches into equally detiled instruction for Bessie Smith's Backwater Blues,
with moving basses and unusual harmonies; Memphie Minnie's Black Rat Swing,
played in both standard and open D tunings, Jimmy Oden's Going Down Slow,
a 12 bar shuffle/groove blues, using "a combination of Charlie Pattone and
Jimi Hendrix licks" and New Orleans Hop Scop Blues, another great
Bessie Smith ragtime blues.
Mary's arrangements are challenging, fun to play and filled with musical
ideas that will inspire you and add great songs to your repertoire.
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Starting with the Delta style where the thumb pounds out its steady, compelling bass,
Mary shows you how to add single notes, up-the-neck bends, moveable chords and powerful
boogie-woogie patterns. Then she walks you through a plethora of blues turnarounds, the
figures that add color and spice to your arrangements when you use them between vocal lines.
Mary mixes classic and contemporary songs to add variety to her teaching and help you
diversify your own repertoire. In this video, she uses Leroy Carr's "Midnight Hour Blues"
and Big Bill Broonzy's "Key to the Highway" (made famous by Eric Clapton) as well as her
own tunes to show you how blues techniques and structures really work and how to make them
work for you. Songs and techniques are presented in a progressive order of difficulty.
Tab is included on the CD-ROM. Level is appropriate for advanced/intermediate players.
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Mary Begins by explaining the I-VI-II-V chord progression that gives the ragtime
blues their essential sound and demonstrates it in all five keys in which it is
traditionally used. Having established the basis, she then goes on to show you the
tools that will help expand your improvisational abilities, including moveable 7th
chords, bass runs and melodies. To help consolidate your playing in the context of
a real song she uses Blind Boy Fuller's classic "Rag Mama" for getting you used to
the progression and teaching you how to take it further. Mary then adds seven other
tunes that use this progression, a medley of ragtime blues songs and her own tune,
"Black Dog Rag".
The pieces and techniques shown on this video are arranged progressively, so you
can see your playing improve as you go along.
Tab is included on the CD-ROM. Level is appropriate for advanced/intermediate players.
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Mary will show the roadmap for playing in dropped D tuning. This
includes arranging melodies as well as holding down the bass for a
complete sound. Mary also demonstrates playing in other keys while
staying in dropped D, a wonderful technique rarely used.
Songs taught:
I'll Fly Away
River of Joy
Papa's on the House Top
Memphis Town
Mornin' Blues
Louis Collins
I Know You Rider
Virginia Bound
Mystery Train
Hard Times
Nobody's Dirty Business
(Also performs Monon Blues and Ragtime Gal)
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