NEW RELEASE!
Primal Twang: The Legacy of the Guitar |
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The first definitive theatrical journey through the guitar’s colorful and surprisingly controversial 3500-year history, told through a combination of onstage narration, video projections of rare historical footage and electrifying live performances by world music legend, Dan Crary and an all-star ensemble of international guitar greats including Grammy Award winners Eric Johnson, Albert Lee, Doc Watson, Mason Williams ("Classical Gas"), Andrew York (Los Angeles Guitar Quartet),) as well as Richard Watson, harp-guitarists John Doan and Beppe Gambetta, Brazilian jazz master Peter Sprague, and Grand Old Opry star Doyle Dykes. The program debuted to enthusiastic sold-out audiences at the lavishly renovated, palatial Birch North Park Theatre.
Primal Twang begins with the guitar’s ancient ancestors and covers not only the wildly eclectic forms of music played throughout the centuries on variants of the steel-string, nylon-string, and electric guitar, but also the sociological impact the guitar has had in every era. Dan and the seven-piece band perform everything from ancient modal music to classical, flamenco, and the Chet Atkins school, and from the guitar-based vocal pop of the early 20th Century through the jazz, folk, and rock eras, right up to today. At key points in the show, featured guest artists join the band, and the viewer gets to see and hear some of the best guitarists in the world as the "instrument of the gods" emerges from antiquity, gathers steam over centuries, and explodes in our own time to become the "universal" musical instrument.
Crary, a world-traveler, raconteur, and former communications professor, starred as the singer/narrator, accompanied by a stellar stage ensemble including music director and multi-instrumental, Dennis Caplinger (HBO’s Deadwood), drummer Duncan Moore, classical/flamenco guitarists Fred Benedetti and George Svoboda (who performed with rising flamenco dance star Lakshmi Basile), gypsy-jazz guitarist Raul Reynoso, bassist Jeff Pekarek, and pop-rock guitarist/vocalist Jon Walmsley ("Jason" on the TV series, The Waltons, and now an in-demand session player in Los Angeles).
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AVAILABLE NOW!
Back in stock, with new packaging and inserts, same great content!
ThunderShots® Flatpicking Guitar Series |
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In these ThunderShots Flatpicking Guitar Series lessons, Dan Crary will show you how to move ahead with your playing faster and more effectively by, among other things, listening more effectively to the music you want to play.
In addition, Dan will guide you through both beginner and advanced arrangements, suggest beautiful and powerful accompaniment ideas, and show you how to create your own original variations.
We think we have found a way you can learn guitar techniques, songs, and tunes that is faster and more effective, and keeps on teaching you because it emphasizes how you can continue to teach yourself to play and stay excited about your progress.
A ThunderShots ®Flatpicking Guitar Series DVD includes:
- Complete Beginner & Advanced Versions of one tune
- How to create your own variations
- Ideas for beautiful, powerful accompaniment
- Approach: Dan Crary's Learn to Listen/Learn to Play method
- No TAB necessary
- Complete TAB and music notation included (just in case)
- Time: approximately 30 minutes of focused instruction
Watch for new ThunderShots DVD titles to appear often.
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I bought BILLY IN THE LOW GROUND Thunderation DVD at a Taylor Guitars Workshop with Dan Crary . . . . I have loved learning to play it. As one who is comfortable reading tablature, I then purchased the Flatpickers Guide. I really appreciate the CD that is with that. The Thunderation DVD is good in that while I was learning the song I played it a lot of times. And I really KNOW that song now! Deep thanks for all the work that has gone into these DVDs.
— P. Dunn, Maine
You're a teacher, Dan, so I'm going to tell you something youprobably already know: the simple approach, the one that yields results best and fastest with the least amount of effort, is usually the approach that gets overlooked. You didn't overlook it. You cultivated it on the Soldier's Joy DVD, and I've finally got a tune down well.
I've struggled with learning tab arrangements for years. I believe your simple approach--getting the melody bit by bit in your head (and heart)--is the one that works. You know, it worked for centuries, for people who couldn't read. Thanks, Dan!
— R. Boyle
The DVD has finally arrived and it was worth the wait! The lesson is excellent and will keep me busy for a while. I see that the DVD has been completely repackaged, nice job. Once I get through 'Soldier's Joy' I plan to order more of Dan's DVD series. Thanks again.
— J. Finn, New Jersey
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