My understanding is that he wrote in in the years 1938-41. I'm in the middle of recording sections from it (all repetitive but useful exercises) for my website, [1]www.RobMacKillop.net I'm keeping away from his monumental Harmonic Mechanisms! Rob
On 9 December 2013 08:05, David van Ooijen <[2][email protected]> wrote: It's the "George van Eps Method for Guitar". No year. 40 pages. 6Mb pdf. I can send to those who want. David ******************************* David van Ooijen [1][3][email protected] [2][4]www.davidvanooijen.nl ******************************* On 9 December 2013 08:37, gary <[3][5][email protected]> wrote: Are you referring to his "Harmonic Mechanisms For Guitar"? It's available online? It's in three huge volumes. I've been working on the first ten pages of the first volume for 20 years, although I do follow his advice to "sweet tooth" it by skipping through other parts of the book. Gary On 2013-12-08 01:16, David van Ooijen wrote: Playing melody, harmony and bass for a jazz guitarist was not new when Joe Pass did it so superbly. Check out George Van Eps (7 string jazz guitar), Charlie Byrd (jazz on a classical guitar), Jim Hall, Buddy Fite, Chet Atkins (solo guitar version of Souza's "Stars and Stripes Forever" complete with piccolo obligato), Jimmy Wyble ("The Art of Two Line Improvisation") etc., etc. << I know, hence my quotation marks around the word new, but it was Joe's selling line. Btw, I think before George van Eps did his thing (his method is availbale as pdf online, if you can't find it I'll mail it to people who are interested. Out-of print as far as I know) there were some jazzcats in the 16th century writing cool stuff for 7-courses too. History does have a tendency ... David -- To get on or off this list see list information at [4][6]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. mailto:[7][email protected] 2. [8]http://www.davidvanooijen.nl/ 3. mailto:[9][email protected] 4. [10]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. http://www.RobMacKillop.net/ 2. mailto:[email protected] 3. mailto:[email protected] 4. http://www.davidvanooijen.nl/ 5. mailto:[email protected] 6. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html 7. mailto:[email protected] 8. http://www.davidvanooijen.nl/ 9. mailto:[email protected] 10. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
