Mike Seeger has devoted his life to singing, playing and documenting
southern traditional mountain music. He has toured throughout the world as
a soloist and as a member of the Vanguard old-time music group The New
Lost City Ramblers, of which he was a founding member.
Mike plays a variety of traditional styles on banjo, guitar, fiddle, mandolin, trump, harmonica, quills, lap dulcimer, autoharp and other instruments. He has produced nearly 70 recordings and has been nominated for six Grammy Awards.
Mike Seeger - The Carter Family Guitar Styles - DVD
The Carter Family
(A.P., Sara, and Maybelle) of southwestern Virginia has been a seminal force in the history of
recorded country music. Maybelle's dynamic "thumb-lead" style in particular is
essential knowledge for anyone interested in playing traditional American folk
or country guitar. In the 1960s and early 70s, Mike Seeger toured with
Maybelle Carter and visited with Sara on several occasions, learning their
styles intimately. He teaches you how to get the famous Carter Family guitar
sound and incorporate it into some of their most significant songs. Even
near-beginners will be able to learn these pieces, while more experienced
guitarists will enjoy the subtleties of Maybelle's style. Mike is joined by
Janette Carter, who offers reminiscences of the family, demonstrates her mother
Sara's guitar playing, and sings on most of the songs. Maybelle developed
several innovative picking techniques, and they are each taught here, along with
an appropriate song. They include two of the most famous pieces in the
thumb-lead style, "Wildwood Flower" and "Jimmie Brown the Newsboy." Others
include country blues style "The Cannonball", Hawaiian style "Little Darling Pal
Of Mine", and flat-pick style "You Are My Flower". Also included is Sara
Carter's back-up style "Pretty Polly" and A.P. Carter's guitar style "I Will
Never Marry".
(85 min) Printable Tab Booklet............................................Price - $29.95
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Mike Seeger - Early Southern Guitar Styles - 2 DVD Set
These lessons, based on Mike's Smithsonian
Folkways CD, "Early Southern Guitar Sounds," are fun to play and will help you develop
a full range of repertoire and technique. Included are banjo-like styles, rags, blues, parlor
guitar-based pieces, slide guitar tunes, and many song accompaniment styles,
most of which Mike has picked up directly from traditional players or their
recordings - Maybelle Carter, John Hurt,
Leadbelly, Sam McGee, Roscoe Holcomb,
John Jackson and
Elizabeth Cotten,
among others. Each piece is played through, followed by comments on style and a
slow split-screen repetition. Some of the songs will be familiar to you while
others will add exciting new material to your repertoire: "Arizona, Old
Chisholm Trail, Johnny Doyle, Kenny Wagner's
Surrender, Fishing Blues, Buckdancer's Choice, I'm Crazy Over You, Can't Get a
Letter From Home, Spanish Fandango, Weary Lonesome Blues, Birmingham Tickle,
Worried Blues, White Oak Mountain, Pearly Dew, Shakin' the Pines In the Holler,
Joe Lee's Tune, John Henry, Guitar Rag, Smoketown Strut, Riley and Spencer,
Leaning on the Everlasting Arm, After All Has Been Said and Done, Big Kid's
Barroom, and Black Jack David." These pieces range in level from easy to
challenging. All intermediate and advanced players, as well as some beginners,
will get great results from working with this program. Extra! Mike uses 23
different guitars to illustrate the variety of sounds that make up the
traditional American guitar experience!
(205 min) Printable Tab Booklet..........................................Price - $39.95
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Mike Seeger Plays "Guitar Rag"
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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