Western swing lead guitar styles pdf

Begin this lick by fretting the g strings seventhfret d note with your ring finger, then pick the string and bend it up a whole step with the. Eldon shamblin, the guitarist for the texas playboys has made a lasting impression on the western swing style of guitar playing. That helped the style gain a much wider following through the music of wills and. The music of bob wills by david stricklin different, creative, free al stricklin was working at kfjz radio in fort worth in 1930 when bob wills came to the studio with band mates milton brown and herman arnspiger. Product cost lessons instructors instructor help new lessons return policy.

Western swing master joe carr has transcribed the great guitar solos from the bob wills band and other greats and breaks them down note by note into useful licks that can be used to improvise original hot solos. The genre developed in oklahoma, texas, and california, and thrived in dance halls throughout the southwest during the 30s and 40s. Echo melody is echoing the vocalists efforts with short after the fact melodic runs, but staying out of the way of the vocalist and lead guitar augmenting not competing. Django reinhardt free sheet music to download in pdf. Oct 29, 2016 western swing is a unique fusion of musical styles and cultures, primarily encompassing country, jazz, blues, swing, and big band. Bob wills and his texas playboys were pioneers of this style. The cone closely resembles an audio loudspeaker, though made from spun. The first western swing record i heard was bob wills and the texas playboys tiffany transcriptions, vol. Over the c chord the lick bounces around the bb b7 of c where over the g chord the lick uses the b 3 of g.

Western swing music is a subgenre of american country music that originated in the late 1920s. Asleep at the wheels ray benson offers straightshooting advice about the famous tunes, techniques and special qualities of this exciting hybrid of country, jazz and blues styles. This one again highlights one note to exaggerate the differences between c7 and g7. The book in only 48 pages so the while well done there are not a lot of examples given. Matt munisteri is a guitarist, singer, and songwriter based in new. Western swing learn to flatpick the guitar and play. Western swing sheet music and music books at sheet music plus. Start out by getting the basic feel for the music and the most common approach to rhythm playing in this style. You will also learn how to comfortably move upthe neck and back down using slides, open strings, scale runs, harmonized scales, floating licks, and more. Theres very few musical styles that combine as many varieties of american roots music as western swing. How to improvise melodic lead western swing style western. Western swing lead guitar styles sheet music by joe carr.

Guitar country and western wikibooks, open books for an. In this guitar lesson youll learn how to play a jazzy sounding, western swing lead over a i, iv, v chord progression for a much more melodic sounding lead. Western swing is a unique fusion of musical styles and cultures, primarily encompassing country. The cornerstone of western swing is its slippery lead guitar, which straddles the boundary between country and jazz. For these particular arpeggios you are going to play a very specific shape. Western swing is a unique fusion of musical styles and cultures, primarily encompassing country, jazz, blues, swing, and big band.

Click here to download a printable pdf of this lessons notation. Lets put this style into practice with a typical chord progression. Ill cover techniques such as correct hand and finger posture, getting good tone and proper use of the pick. Volume 16, number 2 januaryfebruary 2012 al smith nick disebastian. Western swing master joe carr has transcribed numerous great guitar solos from the bob wills band and other greats and breaks them down note by note into useful. Hi im ray nijenhuis and welcome to the western swing guitar guidebook. Country guitar solo to sum up this country guitar theory guide, here is a 12bar solo based on a i iv v chord progression in the key of g. Compendium of fiddle styleswestern swing fiddle wikibooks. See all 4 formats and editions hide other formats and editions.

Western swing guitar guidebook ray nijenhuis truefire. I teach bluegrass, fiddle tune lead and backup, and western swing lead and rhythm guitar. Early jazz and swing guitar lessons technique for swing. Killer lead guitar, made simple lead guitar, play lead. Ill explain where the notes come from so that you can understand how to improvise in this style. The swing bands of the 40s and 50s generated an amazing group of players, most of whom are captured on this new vestapol video, including 23 clips recorded between the 40s and the present. Django reinhardt free sheet music to download in pdf, mp3. A few bands, like the light crust doughboys, utilize a banjo for rhythm, but most rely more heavily on drums. This series, one of the most popular in print today, features some of the greatest guitar players and groups from blues, rock, and. The home scale same as the key is sometimes used for the entire progression. Western swing music is a subgenre of american country music that originated in the late 1920s in the west and south among the regions western string bands. Joe carr tabs guitar solos, tab books, instruction dvds. Its stylistic origins lie in old time, western, blues,folk,swing. Joe carr western swing lead guitar styles book and online audio unlock the secrets of hot takeoff lead guitar as played by some of the greatest western swing players of all time.

See appendix 1 for a primer on rhythm guitar technique. The accompanying cd uses classic western swing song progressions and presents the licks at a medium, learnable pace. This solo was featured on several bob wills recordings including the bob wills special and milkcow blues. Guitar western swing lead guitar styles book and online audio. Ill show you how to play a few jazz runs by targeting the notes within the chord.

Country guitarists also absorbed elements from the blues and slide guitar started to be featured shortly after the success of the carter family. Swing or western swing whats the difference theres hardly any other style that combines so many varieties of american roots music as western swing. I had been listening to eddie lang records and other 1920s and 1930s guitar albums by carl kress, dick mcdonough, and george van eps. Nov 03, 2017 in this western swing guitar lesson, ill show you how to create a melodic lead by targeting notes from the chords and how to change the scale to match the chord throughout the song.

Ill explain several 2 and 3 note chord concepts and show you how to. In this weeks guitar lesson, youll learn how to play a western swing jazz style lead over the chord changes. Jul 29, 2017 in 2011, texas designated western swing its state music. Western swing master joe carr has transcribed the great guitar solos from the bob wills band. Nov 30, 2017 the joe carr western swing lead guitar styles book is very good, as are all of mr. What ops band mate really needs to study is charlie christian. Western swing is a great format for this because it combines, blues, jazz, and country and creates techniques that can be applied to any of those styles. Western swing guitar styles rhythm, mel bay publications mb94906bcd 60 hot western swing guitar licks lead, mel bay publications mb95101bcd milkcow blues duet solo here is a duet solo originally arranged and recorded by leon mccauliffe on steel and eldon shamblin in acoustic guitar. On beats 2 and 4, the left hand lightly mutes the chord before the next chord is. I could easily write 50 pages of guitar exercises to. Take a lead and rhythm guitar class from the maestro of western swing.

Now, its time to explore playing lead guitar in the westernswing style. Learn to play the 1920s and 30s chord melody and rhythm guitar styles of eddie lang, nick lucas, freddie green, carl kress, and other early jazz greats. Much work is done on getting a correct bluegrass rhythm guitar sound in the styles of pioneers like jimmy. You are going to play 2 notes on the 1st string, and 1 note on the 2nd string. The style relies heavily on the major scale with a penchant for the sixth and ninth tones. Over the c chord the lick bounces around the bb b7 of c where over the g.

Apparently, you couldnt buy a trumpet in texas in the 20s. Resonator guitars often mistakenly referred to as steel guitars some models have metal bodies, the acoustic resonator guitar is distinctive in not having a regular soundhole, but a large usually circular plate which conceals the resonator cone. It consists of a longshort, longshort rhythm pattern in which chords are strummed and sustained on the the 1st and 3rd beats of the measure. Using only the index and middle fingers of his left hand on his solos his third and fourth fingers were paralyzed after an injury in a fire, reinhardt invented an entirely new style of. This style was born in the late 1940s with the rise of western swing a hybrid of westernthemed songs with jazz rhythm and harmony. Pioneered in the 1930smost notably by milton brown and bob willsand developed throughout the 40s in the southwest, the sound featured an abundance of great rhythm and lead guitar styles. In 2011, texas designated western swing its state music. They had a string band with wills on the fiddle, arnspiger playing the guitar, and brown doing most of the vocals, and they wanted a show on the station. With chord melody solos to popular swing melodies, advanced rhythm guitar techniques, and acoustic jazz picking techniques. It is now a cliche solo, always played in milkcow blues.

Mar 08, 2020 the first western swing record i heard was bob wills and the texas playboys tiffany transcriptions, vol. He became an excellent travisstyled fingerpicker, following merle to the point of having gibson custombuild him a super4oo electric with inlays, pickups, and a vibrato unit similar to those used by travis. It was the souths answer to bigband music, minus the horn section. The solo is the same progression as a blues in g, though here there are no 7th chords, just triads, as that is also something you will hear and find in the country guitar genre. Western swing started to gain popularity in the 1920s. Thompson was one of the few western swing bandleaders to sing his own lead vocals and have hit country recordings well into the 50s. Western swing and much of the music that grew out of it. The most important ingredient is the intention and dedication of the student. This is one of four videos will take a look at 4 different solos corrine, corrina, roly poly. To understand more about triads, go to the guitar lesson on basic chord construction in the music theory section.

Remember, the whole point of this course is simplicity. Repetition is a very common technique in western swing guitar and the second lick is another great example of this. Western swing lead guitar styles paperback may 19, 2015 by joe carr author 4. Guitar recorded versions are notefornote transcriptions of guitar music taken directly off recordings. Western swing style guitar lesson lead guitar lesson ep171. The examples include both lead and rhythm aspects of western swing guitar. Apr 29, 2010 the accompanying cd uses classic western swing song progressions and presents the licks at a medium, learnable pace. Right or wrong roy nichols teaser video lesson youtube. Western swing style rhythm guitar lesson jazzy chords. The joe carr western swing lead guitar styles book is very good, as are all of mr. If you have ever heard the sound of rhythm guitar in a good western swing band, you may have wondered how the guitarist achieved that unique chordal sound. Hearing the tiffany transcriptions, i had an epiphany.

In this guitar lesson, youll learn how to spice up your rhythm playing with some jazzy sounding chord substitutes. Unlock the secrets of hot takeoff lead guitar as played by the greatest players from the greatest bands. Western swing guitar western swing guitar stefan grossmans. Western swing style rhythm guitar lesson jazzy chords ep185. This music comes from a soontobereleased cdbook combo from mel bay by joe carr about western swing lead guitar styles. Western swing lead western swing lead borrows many ideas from jazz. Learn hot takeoff style lead guitar includes transcribed solos by shamblin, wyble, rhodes, bernard and more. Western swing master joe carr has transcribed the great guitar solos from the bob wills band and other greats and breaks them down no. This will work when the progression contains chord derived from the major scale, i. Develop a solo over the changes to a western swing standard.

Guitar lessons jack tuttle a professional california bay. The guitar solo in their song wildwood flower is an early example of characteristics that are still to be found in country lead breaks. In this western swing style guitar lesson, youll learn chord comping, playing chords in different positions on the neck. Driving an essentially swing mode of performing is a combination of fiddles and steel guitars with piano and brass or reed instruments. Western swing style rhythm progression based on home in san antone this example is based on the progression to home in san antone, a classic western swing song. It is in the style of eldon shamblin, one of joey mckenzies major influences. The old guys can do this, im an old guy, but a youngster on the bass im still trying to pull off echo melody. Includes a special introduction to western swing guitar styles. This style was born in the late 1940s with the rise of western swing a hybrid of western themed songs with jazz rhythm and harmony. In this western swing guitar lesson, ill show you how to create a melodic lead by targeting notes from the chords and how to change the scale to match the chord throughout the song. It is dance music, often with an uptempo beat, which attracted huge crowds to dance halls and clubs in texas, oklahoma and california during the 1930s and 1940s until a federal wartime nightclub tax in 1944 contributed to the genres. Well use the rhythm technique weve just learned along with some of the major chord alternatives we learned earlier in the course. Blues big band hot jazz new orleans pop songs from the 20s and 30s cowboy songs boogiewoogie even hawaiian songs and the guitar is in the hot seat.

B ringing together elements of early popular and country music, swing jazz, blues, and rural dance hall traditions, western swing is pure vintage american music. While the song might be a simple oneplayable with only two or three chordsthe western swing guitarist changes chords every two beats, providing a driving and harmonically interesting background for the singers and instrumentalists. Be certain to mute any string that is not fingered, but strum all the strings. Western swing has always been widely considered a subgenre of country music, but ive never understood why it doesnt get included in the jazz lineage. The guitar in western swing holds a particularly important place. Although sometimes subject to the term texas swing it is widely associated with tulsa, others contend that western swing music finds deep roots in the dust bowl of oklahoma, and its influences include jazz from the major urban centers of the usa. In this weekly workout, youll explore some essential facets of western swing rhythm and lead guitar. Nov 22, 2011 western swing has always been widely considered a subgenre of country music, but ive never understood why it doesnt get included in the jazz lineage. Includes solos by western swing legends eldon shamblin, jimmy. Western swing guitar lesson time jumpers guitar licks wes. To solidify your rhythm playing, ray dissects eldon shamblins traveling basschord lines and freddie greens comping and damping methods. The development of western swing style guitar flatpick. Western swing guitar lesson time jumpers guitar licks.