The Gospel Guitar of Rev. Gary Davis

Product Description Rev. Gary Davis was a musical genius. His music and guitar playing spanned a century of different techniques, styles and ideas and touched on so many musical formats, such as blues, ragtime, folk, gospel, marching songs and tin pan alley hits. In this series of four full-length video lessons, Ernie Hawkins teaches fourteen of Rev. Davis's most requested and famous gospel guitar arrangements. Rare footage of Rev. Davis playing many of the tunes taught in this collection is featured. Ernie gives you a detailed rundown of each arrangement, analyzing the structure and timing of each phrase, verse and chorus and then replaying everything slower on a split screen with close-ups of both hands. A comprehensive 80 page tab/music booklet is available for PDF download. All in all, almost six hours of instruction is presented. DVD is region 0, playable worldwide. Titles included: Lesson One: Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning Samson and Delilah (If I Had My Way) Running time: 82 minutes Lesson Two: Children of Zion Oh Glory How Happy I Am I Belong to the Band Goin' to Sit Down on the Banks of the River Running time: 92 minutes Lesson Three: Death Don't Have No Mercy Twelve Gates to the City Let Us Get Together Right Now Running time: 93:30 minutes Lesson Four: I Heard the Angels Singing Crucifixion I Am the Light of This World You Got to Move Running time: 87 minutes Review He was the most fantastic guitarist I'd ever seen --Dave Van Ronk Gary Davis took you out of playing baby guitar and made you play it like a grown man. --Taj Mahal Gary Davis took you out of playing baby guitar and made you play it like a grown man. --Taj Mahal