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Charles Postlewate
Charles Postlewate began studying the guitar at age 12 with
Lloyd Hazelbaker but received his first college education as a cooperative
engineering student for Buick Motor Division at General Motors Institute
(now Kettering University) in Flint, Michigan.
During his final years of
engineering studies at GMI, he studied jazz with Bob Brown and played
electric guitar in jazz bands in the Flint and Detroit areas. He graduated
with a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering degree in 1964 and continued to
work for Buick for two more years to save up enough money to study music
at Wayne State University in Detroit.
He was a
theory/composition major who switched to classical guitar performance and
received the first Bachelor and Master of Music degrees (1969 and 1973) in
guitar performance in the school's history, studying with Joseph Fava. His
further studies on classical guitar include masterclass performances for
Michael Lorimer and Oscar Ghiglia. As part of his graduate studies at WSU, Postlewate developed
and taught classes in ensemble, literature, pedagogy, harmony and
improvisation for the guitar.
He has performed solo, chamber music, and
concertos with orchestra in concerts across the United States, Canada,
Mexico, Peru and the Caribbean. He has recorded three albums and three
CDs, to critical acclaim, for Prism Studios and his latest CD, Homage
to Villa-Lobos, is the result of a 14 year research project to
incorporate the little finger into the right hand technique of the
classical guitar.
Charles Postlewate is a founding member of the Guitar Foundation of America and
has published feature articles in their quarterly journal Soundboard
as well as in Guitar International, American String Teacher and
Guitar Player Magazine. He is presently Associate Professor at The
University of Texas at Arlington.
Charles Postlewate - Right Hand Studies For Five Fingers - Book
The culmination of a 14 year research project,
this book contains over 350 studies to thoroughly train the right hand of classical
guitarists in the use of all five fingers - adding the little finger to the present
four finger technique. These studies build a five-finger technique in the playing of
chords, arpeggios, tremolos and harmonics, beginning with the thumb and one-finger
combinations and increasing in complexity to the thumb and four fingers. The
studies are played over easy, yet interesting left hand chord progressions up
and down the fingerboard. Postlewate demonstrates how to develop your own right
hand studies by including examples from standard classical guitar repertoire
pieces by Fernando Sor, Federico Moreno Torroba and Heitor Villa-Lobos at the
end of the book.
Standard notation................................................................Price - $19.95
Charles Postlewate - Contemporary Anthology Of Solo Guitar Music - Book
This is the first compilation of guitar
music specifically composed for right-hand technique that includes the little finger. The
57 compositions include original pieces in the intermediate through advanced levels by
renowned guitarist/composers from Europe, North America, South America, and the
Caribbean. Music by Ernesto Cordero, Carlos Dorado, Jim Ferguson, David Flynn,
Gerald Garcia, John Hall, Ricardo Iznaola, James Lentini, John Oliver, Charles
Postlewate, Mirko Schrader, Burkhard 'Buck' Wolters, and Luis Zea show the
advantages of a five-finger technique in the playing of scales, chords,
arpeggios, tremolos and harmonics. They also show the advantages of using the
little finger for speed, accuracy, strength and balance. All of these
compositions are edited and fingered by Postlewate, pioneer in the use of a
five-finger technique.
Standard notation................................................................Price - 24.95
John Hall Plays "4 Etudes For 5 Fingers"
Charles Postlewate - Homage To Villa-Lobos & Other Compositions - Book
Includes original compositions by Charles
Postlewate -"Homage to Villa-Lobos, Variations on a Theme of Prokofiev, Improvisation on
Green Dolphin Street". Piano transcriptions by Claude Debussy "La Puerta delvino,
Dr. Gradus ad Parnassum". Two arrangements "Jose Maria" -Alicia Maguina, "Virgenes
del Sol" -Jorge Bravo de Rueda. New editions of standard classical guitar repertoire -"Study
in A Major: Opus 31, No. 19, Study in E Minor: Opus 6, No. 11" -Fernando Sor, Una Linosna Por Al
Amor de Dios" -Agustin Barrios. Excerpts of standard classical guitar repertoire -"Sonatina
III. Allegra" -Torroba, "Prelude #2" -Villa-Lobos.
Standard notation................................................................Price - $14.95
Jazz Guitar Chords & Arpeggio Patterns - Stacy McKee
- This unique book includes 300 jazz guitar chord
formations and matching single note arpeggio patterns in a quick reference
format that no one has ever done before! Cross indexing makes this manual
extremely easy to use and regardless of what style of music you play, we know
you will find this to be a valuable, "must have" addition to your library.
Stacy McKee was the featured guitarist with "Les Brown and The Band Of Renown"
and for a limited time only, we will include an exclusive copy of his book
FREE with your first order!
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