Clawhammer Cookbook: Tools, Techniques & Recipes for Playing Clawhammer Banjo (Book/CD)
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.32 (769 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 148033832X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 112 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-03 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Book ships with a defective CD that has no actual content This had the potential to be a useful book/CD. I liked a lot of the philosophy and exercises in the early chapters--the author takes the very pragmatic view that clawhammer is merely a technique that can be applied to a variety of styles of music, acknowledging that most peoplke want to learn their own favorite tunes rather than dogmatically adhere to tradition. He also doesn't waste a lot of time covering the same basic ground that every other book and tutorial covers--he mostly presumes that you've watched some YouTube videos . "Helps you "construct" your own arrangments" according to Always Reading. If I could only keep one instructional book for clawhammer this would be it! This book gives you the tools to not only learn techniques but how to apply them to different songs so you are able to "construct" your own arrangement for any given song. I have many other books and some are very good but this is the only one that really helped me improvise with my playing and play a song the way I want to hear it.. "Bremer's recipes are full of good ingredients. Bon appetite" according to Rob. Quite informative, clear, lots of tunes arranged to aid in mastery of a particular concept or technique, and quite helpful in encouraging one to be creative. Mr. Bremer's recipes are full of good ingredients. Bon appetite!
One way is to give you a bunch of recipes and tell you, "Here's how to make this dish, or here's how to play this tune." Another way is to teach you how to cook. It's to teach you ways to approach, arrange, and personalize any tune to develop your own unique style. This book takes the second path. In other words, by providing you with techniques for mixing flavors, the knowledge of when, where, and how to apply heat, and ideas on how to add your own touches, you can make the dish or the tune your own. The goal of this book isn't to tell you how to play tunes or how to play like anyone else. To that end, we'll take in a healthy serving of old-time music and also expand the clawhammer palate to taste a few other musical styles. There are two ways to approach writing a cookbook and this goes for cooking food and cooking up some great music. The CD contains demos of all the songs and examples to aid in the learning process.