"Rev. Davis taught me, by example, to completely throw out my preconceptions of what can or can't be done on the guitar." – Bob Weir (The Grateful Dead)
"He was the most fantastic guitarist I'd ever seen." – Dave Van Ronk
"Gary Davis took you out of playing baby guitar and made you play it like a grown man." – Taj Mahal
Rev. Gary Davis was a musical genius. His music and guitar playing spanned a century of different techniques, styles and ideas and touched on so many musical formats, i.e. blues, ragtime, folk, gospel, marching songs and tin pan alley hits. In this series of four lessons, Ernie Hawkins teaches fourteen of Rev. Davis's most requested and famous gospel guitar arrangements. Rare footage of Rev. Davis playing many of the tunes taught in this collection is featured.
Ernie gives you a detailed rundown of each arrangement, analyzing the structure and timing of each phrase, verse and chorus and then replaying everything slower on a split screen with close-ups of both hands. A comprehensive 80 page tab/music booklet is included. All in all, almost six hours of instruction is presented.
Disc One: Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning, Samson and Delilah (If I Had My Way)
Disc Two: Children of Zion, Oh Glory How Happy I Am, I Belong To The Band, Goin' To Sit Down On The Banks Of The River
Disc Three: Death Don't Have No Mercy, Twelve Gates To The City, Let Us Get Together, Right Now
Disc Four: I Heard The Angels Singing, Crucifixion, I Am The Light Of This World, You Got To Move
354 minutes • Level 3/4 • Printed tab/music booklet included with the DVD
