HOMESPUNTaught By Laurence Juber.
Level 4
New Sounds, Textures, and Repertoire
90 Minute DVD or VHS, includes music and tab
Although DADGAD guitar tuning is most closely associated with the droning, bagpipe-like sounds of Celtic music, Laurence Juber has taken it to a whole new level with his use of beautiful cascading notes and complex harmonies.
On this richly detailed lesson, Laurence gives you a complete understanding of how DADGAD works and how, by using it, you can gain a deeper knowledge of the fingerboard and its vast possibilities. You'll discover the distinctive adjacent scale tones and open strings that make it such a joy to play in this tuning, and will learn to go beyond the basic key of D with tunes in F, C and E minor.
Laurence shows you how he uses this tuning in some of his newest and most affecting compositions. His lyrical ballad Still Warm, with its lush harmonies and evocative melody line, gives you a wonderful piece to start your DADGAD explorations. You'll then move on to Silhouette in A minor, revealing the rich harmonies that are not easily found in standard tuning.
In what is perhaps the most fascinating segment of this lesson, Laurence takes the classic Irish ballad Danny Boy and improvises arrangements in D, F and C, discovering the different textures and sonorities that can be found in each key. His brilliance as an arranger for guitar becomes evident as you follow the process of his musically creative mind. Then it's on to Fountain Jumping, a ragtime-like piece in F with a bluesy twist, filled with hammers and pulls that make it a fast and exciting instrumental.
This challenging and fascinating video lesson will certainly open up new and
exciting opportunities for your guitar playing, and will allow you to look at
the guitar in a whole new way. As Laurence himself puts it, learning DADGAD "gives
us a different angle on the guitar -- a different standard
Laurence Juber, a rising star among fingerstylists, has earned
kudos as recording artist, producer and composer. As lead guitarist for Paul
McCartney's Wings, he won a Grammy for Best Rock Instrumental.He has since played
guitar on soundtracks for TV (Home Improvement, Beverly Hills 90210) and film
(The Big Chill, Dirty Dancing, Pocahantas) and recordings with Alan Parsons,
Paul Williams, Al Stewart, George Harrison, Ringo Starr and Belinda Carlisle,
among others. Laurence has four acclaimed albums of original music (a fusion
of folk, jazz, pop and classical styles) and endorses Collings Guitars.