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Victory Rag
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The Victory Rag, made famous by Mother Maybelle Carter, is in good hands here. This is ragtime guitar at its very best.
fingerstyle acoustic guitar finger picking
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. The recording was cited by Guitar Player Magazine as, "An exhilarating, oddmeter minefield inspired by Near Eastern music. An important recording from a gifted composer, arranger and performer." Two more releases followed on the Acoustic Guitar label. In recent years, Sparks had been immersed in the ethnic music scene, performing on Oud in middle eastern ensembles, and accompanying on guitar in Greek and Klezmer orchestras. He was a featured performer with Crossing Borders at the Bethlehem International Music Festival in July of 1995 and has received two Arts Fellowships to pursue ethno-musicological studies. He spent one fall studying Fado and Portuguese Guitar in Lisbon. .................... The tunes featured on the music page here are from Tim Sparks' ROOTS RAGS & BLUES, a video instruction package produced by acousticguitarworkshop.com. ..................... Produced by - "an important recording from a gifted composer, arranger and performer". - "Sparks shows his tremendous versatility moving between jazz and the classics." - "A major contribution to the world of guitar transcriptions...Sparks is an extraordinary guitarist" - "Fresh, exotic, and totally cool." - "Sparks' musical goulash is spiced with Celtic, blues, and jazz flavors for a truly unique work. The effect is exotic, rich, and sensuous." - "You can hear Tim Sparks think. He plays by choice not habit: ideas not licks. I've heard him do this on guitars so badly intonated, they wouldn't make a good ashtray; the same guitars - I remember a piece called Blues on Bartok Street - are guitars in Tim's hands. Beautiful. I'm Tim Sparks' biggest fan. His stuff is very difficult to play but it doesn't sound difficult. I think that's real musicianship. He's really one of the best musicians I know."
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Blues • Country Blues
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Peak #4
Peak in subgenre #1
Author
Tim Sparks
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Tim Sparks/AGW
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September 02, 2006
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MP3 1.8 MB • 128 kbps • 2:00
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The Victory Rag, made famous by Mother Maybelle Carter, is in good hands here. This is ragtime guitar at its very best. And you can learn how to play this great classic with interactive digital video instruction. More details here... The collection of tunes on ROOTS RAGS & BLUES finds Tim Sparks returning to his own roots, the music he learned growing up in rural North Carolina. It was a world of tobacco fields, fire-breathing itinerant preachers, cornbread and collard greens, bluegrass and barbecue, moonshine on Saturday night and rapturous gospel singing on Sunday morning...and the country blues that seemed to come right up from the earth, out of the sun-baked, red clay Piedmont bottom land. Tim Sparks plays and explains new and original versions of three classic fingerstyle standards: Willie Brown's Mississippi Blues, Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag and The Victory Rag, made famous by Mother Maybelle Carter. In addition, he does a country gospel workout on Amazing Grace, shows some New Orleans style on the Original Jelly Roll Blues and finishes with a Klezmer classic recorded in the 1920's, Tanst Yiddlekh. Everything is presented using a fast-learning, cognitive approach featuring interactive video which shows both picking and fretting hand simultaneously. ROOTS RAGS & BLUES... PRODUCED BY ACOUSTIC GUITAR WORKSHOP The Acoustic Guitar Workshop specialises in acoustic guitar tuition, presenting packages on CDROM using computer friendly video formats, tablature, mp3... in fact everything the guitar student needs for a rewarding e-learning experience. ROOTS RAGS & BLUES is their latest production and is the fruit of much labour and collaboration with Tim Sparks, one of the leading exponents of fingerstyle guitar on the scene today.
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