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Post by scripsit on May 11, 2014 6:41:31 GMT
My favourite fingerstyle album is Al Petteway's 'Dream Guitars Volume 1', on which he plays different high end guitars on each track. The tunes are from Celtic, blues and rag genres, all except one in DADGAD or standard tuning. There is a book of transcriptions available from the album, and in addition to stand out tracks like 'The Crossing' and 'Whitewater' there are plenty of other interesting and challenging pieces. Working my way through this book was the beginning of my obsession with fingerstyle guitar. It's also interesting to hear different, very exclusive, guitars recorded by the same player. A second volume is planned for later this year, and a KickStarter page has been set up to finance this: I've signed up for $US30 which will cover the cost of a CD, book of transcriptions and postage from the States. If you like Al Petteway's music I suggest you investigate this project. I'd highly recommend the first album if you like instrumental fingerstyle to listen to: I think it's still available from the Dream Guitars website. Kym
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Post by brianr2 on May 11, 2014 10:14:05 GMT
I am a great fan of his arrangements too and have also signed up.
Thanks for highlighting this.
Brian
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Post by marcus on May 11, 2014 17:27:19 GMT
Me three... I love the first album and am looking forward to the second instalment.
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Post by jonnymosco on May 16, 2014 21:14:36 GMT
Sadly the book is just in pdf form for all 'rewards' - still worth it though.
Jonny
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Post by scripsit on May 17, 2014 1:56:33 GMT
Sadly the book is just in pdf form for all 'rewards' - still worth it though. Jonny I must admit that PDF transcriptions are my preference, now. I have a stack of music books cluttering up a shelf in the library that never get touched once I've scanned the pages and digitised the result. The PDF version is portable (I can keep it in my dropbox, for instance) and always available (on phone, iPad, the computer at work...). If I want to work on a piece, the first step is usually to put it into Guitar Pro, which I usually do onscreen with the PDF windown on one side of the screen and the Guitar Pro on the other. The exercise of bar by bar entry is the first step towards me getting my head around the basic structure of the piece and start thinking about left hand fingering and the like. I can then start playing the piece from Guitar Pro in front of the computer screen. On a large screen I can fit about four or five pages of notation in Guitar Pro format, which usually covers fingerstyle pieces up to about 4 or so minutes in length. I still print out a hard copy 'cheat note' version from Guitar Pro for recording. I haven't yet found an effective digital method for putting the music up in front of me when microphone red light fever strikes. The iPad screen is too small to fit most pieces in their entirety, and I've got enough problems from the fan noise of the PC box which the DAW sits on without trying to fit in another computer. Kym
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Post by Akquarius on May 1, 2015 10:50:23 GMT
This is the thread I was actually looking for. Good news !
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Post by fretter on May 2, 2015 11:45:06 GMT
Really pleased that this thread has started. Al Pettaway is a great guitarist. He also does some very accessible tuition on You tube. His instrumental version of 'Wayfaring Stranger' is lovely, and is not that difficult to learn.
His best known tune is probably 'Sligo Creek'. This was used as the music to accompany an American TV series called 'National Parks. It has an incredibly catchy hook, and he can be seen performing it on You Tube. It is on an earlier album called 'Caledon Wood'. I bought a copy of the tab book very cheaply from the USA. This album also has a beautiful tune called 'Fy to the Hills in the Morning' (no spelling mistake!) which is in standard tuning. it really is a lovely tune and not too difficult to learn.
I have spent many happy hours learning some of his music, bar by painful bar! Very worthwhile.
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Post by scripsit on May 3, 2015 23:39:58 GMT
I've got both the album and the tab book for the second 'Dream Guitars' volume.
I can highly recommend both. Great variety in the pieces and the guitars used. I especially like 'Breton Dance' which, unusually for Al Petteway, is in standard tuning and a DADGAD piece called 'Raven's Flight'. There is also a DADGAD piece called 'One Yellow Rose' which is very easy to play but (from family feedback) sounds incredibly complicated to non-guitar players.
If you're fond of his recent drift into Appalachian/bluegrass type stuff there are a couple of tunes here, too. I'm thinking of learning one just for the discipline involved in doing something I don't usually do.
Kym
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