Guitar Spaceship is pleased to present Bluegrass Guitar videos this month!
I found so much incredible Bluegrass music that I posted 8 clips this time. I also decided to add banjo and mandolin players to the mix for this month only. They're such close relatives of the guitar, and they're both featured so heavily in bluegrass, so it made sense to me. The new posting includes videos of Doc Watson, Bill Monroe, Earl Scruggs, Lester Flatt, Clarence White, David Grisman, Reno and Smiley, Jim Eanes and Dr. Ralph Stanley.
Please go to http://guitarspaceship.com/archive/2009Mar_Bluegrass.html to watch the new videos.
Here's how Wikipedia explained Bluegrass Music:
Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music, and is a sub-genre of country music. It has its own roots in Irish, Scottish and English traditional music. Bluegrass was inspired by the music of immigrants from the United Kingdom and Ireland (particularly the Scots-Irish immigrants in Appalachia), as well as jazz and blues. In bluegrass, as in jazz, each instrument takes its turn playing the melody and improvising around it, while the others perform accompaniment. This is in contrast to old-time music, in which all instruments play the melody together or one instrument carries the lead throughout while the others provide accompaniment. Traditional bluegrass is typically based around acoustic stringed instruments, such as mandolin, acoustic guitar, banjo, fiddle, and upright bass, with or without vocals.
As always, please let me know if you have any comments or ideas about Guitar Spaceship. I would love to hear from you.
So relax, take a deep breath, and spend fifteen minutes watching this month's clips. And if you have headphones, I recommend that you use them. You are about to hear beautiful music.
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- Guitar Spaceship
- GuitarSpaceship.com features video clips of master guitarists playing their music.
Ever since YouTube came around, I've become a huge fan of finding clips of master guitarists playing their music. Watching the musicians perform helps me to understand them more deeply, and I'm oftentimes blown away by the raw emotional power and virtuosity of the guitar playing.
I enjoy watching these clips so much that I decided to compile them on a website so that I could go there when I needed some inspiration. And I also thought that it would be great if other people could stumble upon the clips and find inspiration, too.
So to start things off, I am pledging to myself to post 4 excellent clips each month at GuitarSpaceship.com centered around a specific theme, such as Blues, Jazz, Bluegrass, Rock and Roll, Country, or Classical Guitar. Also, as I have time, I will add "Musician" pages that feature videos of specific musicians.
So relax, take a deep breath, and spend fifteen minutes watching this month's clips. And if you have headphones, I recommend that you use them. You are about to hear beautiful music.
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