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Post by 007 on May 16, 2014 8:53:44 GMT
I have reached that point where I am starting to fingerpick and I am getting some tuition from a chap at guitar club who mentioned he learnt of the John Pearse CD I have looked high and low for a DVD (nxt stop record library) but wonder if anyone knows if there is a DVD version which I think unlikely.
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Post by scripsit on May 16, 2014 9:34:55 GMT
The John Pearse website still only lists VHS video for the instructional stuff, so it doesn't look like he got around to converting to digital formats. I'm sure everyone will chime in with personal suggestions, but the first instructional material I bought was a Martin Simpson DVD from here: www.homespuntapes.com/Instruments/Guitar/acoustic-guitar-instrumentals-dvd-1This was when I had never played any fingerstyle at all, and had struggled with a couple of Bert Jansch tabs I found on the web. The tuning used on the first of the Martin Simpson DVDs is dropped D, which is hardly an exotic one to get your head around, and the first three tunes are easy (or, at least easy to convince yourself that you can play them after a while). I found that once I could struggle through these tunes with thumbpick and fingers I was equipped to attempt plenty more material, had gotten used to reading tablature, and in fact soon after discovered DADGAD, and was hooked. Martin Simpson and Al Petteway both write and arrange very 'guitaristic' tunes, meaning they tend to arrange with comfortable left hand stretches and practical picking patterns, so I'd suggest looking at YouTube samplers of the types of things they have available for instruction. It's only when it's too late that you find out that they also do extremely cunning things with middle finger whacks and very powerful and strongly rhythmic technique, but by then you will be wanting to do that stuff too. Kym
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Post by Martin on May 16, 2014 10:48:51 GMT
Paul,
I've got one or two decent fingerstyle tuition DVDs, not by John Pearse sadly, but good nonetheless.
Let me know if that might be of interest.
Martin
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Post by 007 on May 16, 2014 11:09:14 GMT
mmm which ones Martin
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Post by Martin on May 16, 2014 11:14:04 GMT
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Post by Akquarius on May 16, 2014 18:50:24 GMT
I have looked high and low for a DVD (nxt stop record library) but wonder if anyone knows if there is a DVD version which I think unlikely. Paul, this page might answer your questions: jpstringsJohn Pearse died in 2008 in south west Germany. In the seventies he was probably the first artist who got his own guitar teaching TV series. At the moment there's a project running to convert the VHS footage from this series to CD/DVD. As there are tons of comparable material from other artists available, this project is IMHO more of a memorial to John Pearse than anything else.
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Post by 007 on May 17, 2014 8:17:14 GMT
Thanks Bern as ever a fund of knowledge
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