African Guitar Solo Fingerstyle Guitar Music From Uganda CongoZaire Malawi Namibia Central Af

Product Description In this third lesson on Touch Technique Tony Keck presents a series of advance techniques. The tunes range from jazz blues to funk to country and demonstrates how versatile tapping can be. You will learn: . Improvisation . Diminished Approach Chords . Walking Bass . Country Blues Style . Muting and Dynamics . Creating Multipart Textures . Right Hand Triads . Finding Your Own Voice . Putting it All Together As you explore these ideas you will put them to practice with Yakety-Axe, Sitting On Top Of The World, Sleepwalk, Tony's Funky Excerpt and a 12 Bar Jazz Blues. A detailed tab/music instructional booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD. DVD is region 0, playable worldwide. Review Better than 100 books!!! This DVD might be the best tutorial for those interested in learning African accoustic (read: fingerpicking) guitar styles. Students of ethnomusicology/cultural anthropology will also find it useful. Sometimes the sound quality leaves much to be desired, but remember that these were field recordings from 12 to 40 years ago. Some truly legendary figures are filmed here, including Jean Bosco Mwenda, father of Congolose guitar. However, in my opinion, Malawi's Daniel Kachamba who steals the show, particularly his last song which ends in a full band treatment. There's more than just fingerpicking here. The plectrum attack of Namibia's Erasmus Ndara's second song is seriously funky, while Zambian Mose Yotamu uses a flatpick for an electric guitar style solo and strums barre chords accoustic rock style. These's also some dreamy slide guitar from Moya Malamusi. Africa being the poor continent that it is , we see the resourcefulness of these guitarists in several aspects; (i) playing with 5 strings due to missing strings and/or tuning posts (ii) using a stick as a pick (iii) sticks and rubber bands as capos (iv) a bottle as a slides. None of this takes anything away from the top-notch musicianship of these guys. --Muk/Amazon Customer Review