A Guitar Lesson with David Bromberg

Product Description Blues/folk guitarist David Bromberg presents a selection of his most popular arrangements, from the folk blues 'Delia' to the gospel classic 'Just a Closer Walk With Thee', Bob Dylan's 'It Takes a Lot To Laugh It Takes a Train To Cry' and Jerry Jeff Walker's 'Mr Bojangles'. As well as fingerpicking and flatpicking techniques, David covers vibrato, single string runs, cross-picking, the alternating bass, counterpoint lines and finding the groove. Each phrase is taught note by note and clearly illustrated on a split screen. Review Review: A former student of blues/gospel singer/guitarist Reverend Gary Davis, David Bromberg has continued to explore the possibilities of the guitar for more than four decades, mixing folk, country, bluegrass, blues, and rock n roll as leader of his own bands and as a sideman for Bob Dylan, Ringo Starr, George Harrison, Jerry Garcia, Jorma Kaukonen, Jerry Jeff Walker, Chubby Checker, and his wife s trio, the Angel Band. With his first instructional DVD, the Philadelphia born guitarist reveals the secrets to the many styles and techniques that he s mastered. Sharing his instrumental approach in softspoken, easily understood explanations, he reinforces the lesson with split-screen footage of his playing of traditional folk, blues, gospel, and old-time country songs, as well as his unique arrangements of Dylan s It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry and Jerry Jeff Walker s Mr. Bojangles. A 56-page booklet of transcriptions, also on the DVD as a PDF file, adds to this longoverdue instructional session. --Dirty Linen/ Craig About the Actor Inspired by the music of Pete Seeger and the Weavers, among others, he began studying the guitar at age 13. After graduating from Tarrytown High School, he enrolled at Columbia University intent on a career as a musicologist. During this period he discovered the old recordings of Blind Blake, Lonnie Johnson, Big Bill Broonzy, Marshall Owens, Luke Jordan and other great country bluesmen, as well as contemporary recordings of B.B.King, Freddie King and Albert King. He studied with Rev. Gary Davis for several years and as Rev. Davis said, I have no children but I have several sons . David was a son to the great Reverend. Drawn to Greenwich Village's flourishing coffeehouse folk music scene of the mid-1960's, David left Columbia University and opted to devote full