| | |  | FOLK MUSIC | Home » » Dave Van Ronk: Folk, Blues & Ragtime | | | | | | | Description: | | By Dave Van Ronk. For Guitar (Fingerpicking). Solos. Grossman-Gtr Workshop. All. Intermediate. DVD. Duration 80 minutes. Published by Grossman's Guitar Workshop | | | Product Details: | | | Actors:
| Dave Van Ronk | | Director:
| Dave Van Ronk | | Format:
| Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC | | Language:
| English | | Number of Discs:
| 1 | | Studio:
| Grossman's Guitar Workshop | | Run Time:
| 80 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| January 23, 2007 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 2 reviews |
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van ronk folk blues and ragtimeMay 16, 2010
By mike gordon
"guitplayr1951"
For the Van Ronk fans out there, a must have. He has two other instructional books available, both recommended. Van Ron had a way of imitating others staying true to the intent of the original but making it his own. This video tome will give you a window into that style. Buy it by all means.
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Essential to a Guitarists DVR CollectionApr 19, 2012
By Ruvare
This DVD is filled with song lessons for guitar taught by Dave Van Ronk in 1993 -- it is not a concert. Most non-musicians will probably be bored by it. If you're unsure of this release and want to sample it, while also owning a full concert of his, you can see 2 of the video lessons ("Green, Green, Rocky Road" and "Cocaine Blues") as bonus material on Dave Van Ronk in Concert at the Bottom Line June 2, 2001; a tab booklet with both of those songs is included. Dave Van Ronk Memories in Concert 1980 is another concert currently available. I highly recommend both for guitarists and non-musicians. They are great performances all around and offer clear shots of what he's playing on the fretboard for interested guitarists.
Now, back to this DVD...
For each song lesson he talks about the tuning and sometimes tells a story related to the song, plays and sings the song at regular speed, slowly walks you through the song by each chord while pointing out key things for playing it properly (during this part the camera is zoomed in on the fretboard), then he plays the song slowed down with a split screen (the top half of the screen is the fretting hand; bottom is picking). Dave teaches with a capo on his guitar in various positions throughout all of the lessons, so I recommend having one if you're a beginner and need to play along with him in the proper key.
A booklet of tabs for each song is included with the DVD.
The songs:
1. Down South Blues (not a lesson; opens with the credits)
2. Green, Green, Rocky Road
3. Kansas City Blues
4. Sportin' Life Blues
5. Sunday Street
6. Spike Driver's Moan
7. That Will Never Happen No More
8. Midnight Hour Blues
9. Cocaine Blues
10. Down South Blues
11. St. James Infirmary (instrumental version) (not a lesson; closes the DVD)
Simply put, this is a goldmine for fans of Dave Van Ronk that play guitar.
For more guitar lessons taught by Dave, you can get tabs and audio lessons for all of these songs (except "Down South Blues") and more from both of the Mel Bay books -- Blues and Ragtime Fingerstyle Guitar and Folk and Blues Fingerstyle Guitar. Dave taught many of the same songs every time he recorded a lesson for release. I'm not sure why, but all of them are worth it.
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