Tim Sparks is an award-winning
guitarist whose blending of musical styles
has won him extensive praise from all
corners of the music world. Guitar Player
Magazine has called his music "Fresh,
exotic, and totally cool.", Acoustic
Guitar Magazine calls it "rich and
sensuous", and guitarist Leo Kottke simply
says "He's really one of the best
musicians I know." From the early
traditional country blues and gospel music
he learned in the Blue Ridge Mountains to
the Jazz, Be Bop, classical and world
music from his varied career across the U.
S. and Europe, Tim has thrilled and
inspired audiences and musicians
world-wide.
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Tim Sparks also brought along a priceless
gift for we students of guitar -- a
veritable Sistine Chapel of fingerstyle
instruction; Post-Modern Fingerstyle
Blues, which features enough insight and
fretboard wisdom to sustain a lifetime of
study.
Sparks cleverly utilizes eight fingerstyle
masterpieces as a framework for presenting
his curriculum. In the end you will add
your own version of these eight tunes to
your playlist. The real educational
firepower of Post-Modern Fingerstyle Blues
are the key learnings found within the
series of breakdowns for each of the eight
tunes. It's there that Sparks demonstrates
a wide variety of mesmerizing techniques,
mind-blowing voicings, innovative
fingerings, creative harmony, elegant
performance nuances and so much more.
ANNOUNCEMENT:
There's no shortage of Top Guitarist lists
that purport to represent the "best" or
"greatest" guitarists in the land. You'd
likely agree that there's really no such
thing as a "best" guitarist, nor is there
any way to quantify such a list. At best,
the lists only represent the most popular
and/or commercially successful guitarists
and are not necessarily based on talent or
musical achievement. More disappointing,
they're always packed with the usual
suspects.
A year ago, TrueFire set out to compile
a list of players that clearly deserve
wider recognition because of their
extraordinary talent and musical prowess.
Thanks to the input, nominations and
consensus of the TrueFire community, which
is comprised of thousands of players from
hundreds of countries, Tim was nominated
and confirmed.
"Little Princess is not only a
unique look at Brandwein's legacy
but a major addition to the world
music canon." - Elliott Simon,
All About Jazz - New York
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.
