David Laibman – Guitar Artistry of David Laibman

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David Laibman is considered to be one of the founding fathers of the modern guitar. The New Ragtime Guitar and Classical Ragtime Guitar are both available on CD. David performs many compositions and arrangements of rags by Scott, James, and Joseph Lamb. He talks about his musical influences, arranging and working out fingerings for these complex pieces and how he has begun writing ragtime compositions for guitar.

The titles include:

Nola

There is a red carpet.

Ragtime Oriole is a song.

Alaskan Rag.

There is a maple leaf rag.

There is a silver Swan.

Gladiolus Rag

Dallas Rag

Fingerpicking Honky Tonk.

There is a song called Pandora’s Rag.

Shelter in a storm

Love in the afternoon.

A Ragtone poem.

The Squirrels have a courtship.

There is a song called Din Pickles Rag.

As a bonus, those tunes marked with an (*) have been transcribed in tab/music that can be found as PDF files on the DVD.