It has sections played in the keys of F and C and is a challenging guitar solo that takes the listener from early morning to lights out in the day of a soldier. Davis's most popular show instrumentals was Soldier's March. This combines alternating bass with counterpoint techniques and single-string runs. This is followed by an arrangement of the 1928 Dallas String Band recording of Dallas Rag. We begin in a dropped D tuning with the classic rag Powder Rag. LESSON TWO: Two rags are presented in this lesson. High Society is a well known Mardi Gras instrumental. Mabel's Dream was popularized by the King Oliver Band. Both are played in the key of C with a style that combines an alternating bass with single-string runs and counterpoint lines. LESSON ONE: Two New Orleans standards are presented in this lesson. The three audio CDs give 3 full hours of note-by-note, phrase-by-phrase instruction. I highly recommend this book to any player who wants a solid introduction to ragtime fingerstyle.This is a challenging set of three lessons presenting a variety of tunes from string band rags to classic rags to novelty instrumentals. I have already begun to use “The New Art of Ragtime Guitar” with some of my students. The songs and format are identical to the original book except Richard has added one additional composition entitled, the “Absquatulation Rag”Īfter playing through the compositions in the book, I felt like I had found a long lost friend. I quickly ordered my copy again but this time there was no little flimsy plastic record but MP-s files downloaded from the Internet. Who knows?Īny way, I was ecstatic when I learned the book had been republished by Richard Saslow in 2011 under the title “The New Art of Ragtime Guitar” for $24.95 and was readily available on the net. It may still be buried in some unopened box from one of the family moves. Unfortunately some where along the line of the many moves from upstate NY to Atlanta I lost the book. Any student who digests Richard’s book will have a great foundation for ragging the blues in an ad hoc improvisational manner. Doctorow (shelved 6 times as ragtime) avg rating 3.89 42,565 ratings published 1975 Want to Read Rate this book 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars The New Art of Ragtime Guitar (Paperback) by Richard S. Did I mention the book Its a pdf with 80 pages of notation and tablature, a foreword. Ragtime Books Showing 1-27 of 27 Ragtime (Paperback) by E.L. The chords used in the compositions include a combination of open, barred and broken string chords and the songs are graded from the least challenging to the most challenging as the book progresses. An album of nine original rags and a waltz in the classic ragtime style. The tunes are written in C and few other sharp keys friendly to the guitar. The last section includes the complete scores of each composition and Richard’s songs are extremely musical, well constructed and fun to learn. This section is so complete that any student determined to play the ragtime style can learn how to do so with some concentrated practice. The second section included a very detailed analysis of segments of measures for each composition. Richard covered both the right and left hand essentials in great detail using pictures, chord grids, musical notation and tablature to great effect. The first section is a general review of finger style technique for the ragtime style. You can view the books on your PC, Mac, tablet or smartphone or you can print the. Richard had composed seven original ragtime pieces and he included extremely detailed instructions for each piece as well as the scores in musical notation and guitar tablature. You then expand step-by-step into Ballad style, Blues, Jazz, Ragtime. "The New Art of Ragtime Guitar" by Richard S. The book came a few weeks later complete with the little flimsy plastic record and I began to dig in. After all, I had been listening carefully to Blind Blake, Blind Boy Fuller and other rag guitar icons after being introduced to them by Boston ragtime guitarist Pete Kairo and Yazoo Records. Yahoo….and all for the whopping price of $4.95! I was sold. The finest book on finger picking guitar yet produced. The demonstration record, together with transcriptions, musical analysis, and nearly 100 instructional photos, make clear numerous finger picking techniques, some never before discussed in print. Complex finger picking moves you beyond traditional two and three chord songs and into the sounds and chord progressions of early jazz. Saslow’s book entitled “The Art if Ragtime Guitar” in 1975 in an advertisement in the back section of the November issue of Guitar Player Magazine.
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