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    Broonzy Blues
    Broonzy Blues
    Broonzy Blues
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    Broonzy Blues

    By Rick Payne

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    In Bronzy Blues by Rick Payne you'll be exploring Big Bill broonzy's solo acoustic technique, using six classic Broonzy style instrumentals: 'The Guitar Shuffle', 'Hey Hey', 'House Rent Stomp', 'St Louis Blues', 'Slow Blues' and 'The Glory Of Love'. Also included is Rick Payne's tribute: 'Broonzy Blues'. If you're new to fingerstyle blues there are lots of warm up exercises to prepare you for his stomping style. Rick will play through all the pieces and give you bar by bar breakdowns so you can see how it's done. All the tunes and exercises in this course are supported by Video.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRick Payne
    Release dateFeb 26, 2016
    ISBN9781310767838
    Broonzy Blues
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    Rick Payne

    Rick Payne is an established acoustic blues guitarist with many national and international tours to his credit. He has become especially well known for his authentic acoustic blues finger picking, in the many traditional styles of the blues including delta blues, piedmont, ragtime and slide and has recorded several albums of this kind.Often compared with Ry Cooder, slide guitar maestro Rick Payne’s performances have taken him to prime time TV, to festivals and theatres throughout the UK and on tour to Europe, USA, Scandinavia and Greek Islands. He has provided music to a number of major TV productions, for programmes on Radio 4 and the BBC World Service. He has also featured on The Paul Jones and Mike Harding's show on BBC Radio 2.Rick has recorded a number of CDs, including the noted ‘Blue River Blues’ for Bennett House Records California.New CD - Radio City Blues now available CD or downloadReviewers have described his sound as: heart wrenching and passionate, delicate and scorching, seriously brilliant, totally absorbing and spellbindingly evocative with raw and fiery vocals to match.As a teacher he has written and facilitated many courses and guitar workshop style sessions, teaching the art of Big Bill Broonzy, Robert Johnson, Blind Blake, Rev Garry Davis, Django, Ry Cooder and many more.

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      Fantastic book, big bill is one of my favourite guitarists , very unique and the more I find out about him the more I love the man.. he died way too early nobody writes songs or music like this generation of musicool genius

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    Broonzy Blues - Rick Payne

    Table of Contents

    COPYRIGHT

    INTRODUCTION

    NOTES ON BROONZY

    BROONZY WARM UPS

    STUDY TUNES

    BROONZY BLUES

    GUITAR SHUFFLE

    HEY HEY

    HOUSE RENT STOMP

    THE GLORY OF LOVE

    ST LOUIS BLUES

    SLOW BLUES

    RICK PAYNE

    MORE FROM RICK PAYNE

    COPYRIGHT

    Published by Rick Payne at Smashwords

    2016

    Smashwords Edition, License Notes

    This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com or your favorite retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

    INTRODUCTION

    Big Bill Broonzy was one of the undisputed kings of Ragtime Blues. Alongside players like Blind Blake and The Rev Gary Davies he can be rated among the greatest exponents of this style. He was an accomplished player of all the guitar styles of the day and served a long and established career as a Chicago sideman tosome of the most famous musicians in the boom time of blues and jazz in the 30'sand 40's. After a down

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