Roots Rags and Blues
Roots, Rags and Blues is an interactive instructional and performance CD-ROM that includes 7 different Roots guitar tunes taught in video and tab lessons plus 6 bonus performances of Blues, Ragtime, Gospel, Early Jazz and Klezmer, all played on a Vintage 1917 Gibson L-4. Featured selections are, Mississippi Blues, Amazing Grace (two different versions) Jelly Roll Blues, Oriental Blues, Maple Leaf Rag, Victory Rag, Carolina Shout and a fingertsyle lesson on the 1918 Klezmer classic, Tanst, Tanst Yiddlekh.

This package captures American Roots Music from the early part of the 20th Century, as reflected through fingerstyle guitar. The lessons and performances come with matching tablature, notation and extensive liner notes with internet hyperlinks.

Roots, Rags, and Blues is a terrific value with 7 hours of instruction plus 6 bonus performance videos and a bonus audio CD, all for the price of one lesson.

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New individual transcriptions of "Mississippi Blues", "Maple Leaf Rag", "Jelly Roll Blues" and "Victory Rag".

Tim's MySpace page

New free transcriptions of "Blind Mary", "Nuages", "Monk's Mood" and more.

All About Jazz - Italy and Katbim - two new reviews of Tanz.

Chabad Lubavitch article - Chasidic Tunes Inspire Rockers

Mississippi Blues sample on YouTube

Interview with Tim at 10,000 Lakes Festival in mp3 format. Tim plays "Mississippi Blues" and "This Old Caravan Keeps Rolling Along."

Catch Tim's performance on A Prairie Home Companion on the Saturday, April 29th show. Tim and Pat Donohue explored "the history of guitar, playing their way through a collection that would make Andres Segovia light-headed." You can hear Tim's February 11 appearance on A Prairie Home Companion at the Prairie Home Site.

Tim appears on a new CD by the Freylech Trio which was recorded in Paris last year.

Hard to find Tim Sparks CDs are now available including One String Leads to Another, Guitar Bazaar, The Nutcracker and Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite book of transcriptions. Click here to order now!

Workshop, video & Lessons: Download class files for free. A free transcription of Eu So Quero Em Xodo is also available as a PDF download.




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Hear Tim with the Legendary Jazz Vocal group Rio Nido on Digitally re-mastered CD re-issues of two classic, long out of print vinyl albums from back in the day: "
I Like To Riff" and "Hi Fly" - Visit Rio Nido's mySpace page. Rio Nido was inducted into Minnesota's Rock Country Hall of Fame on April 27, 2007.

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