The Liberty Tuning Chord Book: Exploring An Extraordinary New Guitar Tuning - Softcover

Reid, Harvey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1630290122 ISBN 13: 9781630290122

Publisher: Woodpecker Multimedia, 2013

Synopsis

Learn your way around in the mysterious new Liberty Tuning. (It requires a partial capo that can clamp both 3 and 4 inner strings on your guitar. You won't be able to play the chords in this book without one. Many common capos can do 3 inner strings, and the new Liberty "Flip" capo does them both perfectly.) Harvey Reid’s remarkable new discovery opens the way for millions of people to play great-sounding guitar with much easier chord fingerings. The guitar doesn’t really sound different, but it’s easier to play, and the chords have a startling symmetry and simplicity.You can pick up any guitar, and if you know the secrets to Liberty Tuning, in 10 seconds you can play things no one ever dreamed could be done. If you already play some guitar, this book is a perfect starting point for understanding Liberty Tuning. It presents over 1100 chords, and carefully charts out the fingerboard possibilities in this ingenious new musical environment, showing where to find the music at all levels of difficulty. This includes the revolutionary easy-to-play 2-finger chords as well as the more complex fingerings. Along with a detailed look at the musical possibilities in Liberty Tuning, Reid provides a wealth of tips, insights and strategies for using this new tuning.Whether you are a beginner, a veteran player, guitar teacher, a songwriter, picker or just a weekend player, you’ll love all the fresh new sounds you can make, and this is the only complete source of information about this new tuning.You wouldn’t go to a new country without a map, so don’t play in Liberty Tuning without this book.

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About the Author:

Songwriter, guitar educator & multi-instrumentalist Harvey Reid has been called a "giant of the steel strings" and "one of the true treasures of American acoustic music." He has absorbed a vast repertoire of American contemporary and roots music and woven it into his own colorful, personal and distinctive style. His 28 recordings on Woodpecker Records showcase his mastery of many instruments and styles of acoustic music, from hip folk to slashing slide guitar blues to bluegrass, old-time, Celtic, ragtime, and even classical. Reid's skills and versatility on the guitar alone mark him as an important new voice in acoustic music. He won the 1981 National Fingerpicking Guitar Competition and the 1982 International Autoharp competition. Yet he's also a veteran musician with a long list of studio and band credits, a strong flatpicker, a versatile and engaging singer, a powerful lyricist, prolific composer, arranger and songwriter, a solid mandolin and bouzouki player, and a seasoned performer and captivating entertainer. And he plays the 6-string banjo and the autoharp like you've never heard. His Steel Drivin' Man CD was voted in 1996 by Acoustic Guitar Magazine as one of the 10 Essential Folk CD's of all time, in company with Woody Guthrie, Joan Baez and other hallowed names. He has become a featured act at many of America's premier concert clubs and festivals, including Merlefest, the Telluride Bluegrass Festival and the Walnut Valley Festival. Reid has also made his mark on the acoustic music world in other ways. He is responsible for most of what is known about the partial capo, developed all of the popular partial-capo configurations in use today, (including the Esus) was the first to record and publish music for partial capo. In 1980 he wrote the first college textbook for folk guitar.

About this edition

• Publisher: Woodpecker Multimedia
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1630290122
• ISBN 13: 9781630290122
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 140