Danny Gatton 2: Strictly Rhythm Guitar

This follow-up to Danny Gatton’s Telemaster! covers a huge range of rhythm guitar styles played by one of the world’s great guitarists. Danny shows you how to play everything including organ-style comping, rockabilly and country power chords, ‘dead-thumb’ constant bass…and much more. Danny demonstrates the rhythm part in isolation then in context with Arlen Roth on lead guitar. A true rhythm guitar master class from a guitar genius!

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY WOODY MANN Jazz and blues guitarist Woody Mann learned from the legendary Rev. Gary Davis and then played and recorded with Son House, Bukka White and John Fahey. He has performed throughout the world, recorded over a dozen CDs, and is an internationally renowned guitar teacher. ALSO FEATURING CHORD CORNER! Chord Corner is like an audio-visual chord dictionary of the essential chords you’ll encounter on the DVD. It lets you hear the sound of each chord and see a photograph of the position and a chord diagram. YOU’LL NEVER MISS A NOTE! _ You see the music and the tablature on screen as it’s being played! _ All right- and left-hand techniques are shown in close up and with helpful split-screen effects to make learning easy _ Slow motion segments with standard pitch sound _ Artist biography _ Selected discography _ Suggested listening _ Booklet with music examples included

Strictly Rhythm Guitar" features: Organ-style comping, rockabilly & country "power" chords, Bill Black Combo-style shuffle, Billy Butler "honky tonk" style, "dead thumb" constant bass, New Orleans & Fats Domino piano-like parts, Danny's unique treatment of "Memphis," Big Band Freddie Green-style comping, minor for major chord substitution and some acoustic country/bluesgrass guitar. (60 min.) LEVEL 3-4

Danny was our dear friend, and his loss was an immense one both personally and to the whole music world. Thankfully, a large part of Danny's musical legacy has been left on these two fabulous tapes featuring Danny at his best! Strictly Rbythm is simply one of the best ever!