Jon Shain

Name: Arranging W.C. Handy, the “Father of the Blues,” for Fingerstyle Guitar
Uploaded: 2023-02-26T06:00:00-08:00
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Description: Guitarist and W.C. Handy scholar Jon Shain shares strategies for adapting ragtime pieces for fingerstyle guitar using the 1917 Handy song "Beale Street Blues" as an example.

W.C. Handy holding a horn in a 1941 portrait by Carl Van Vechten

Arranging W.C. Handy, the “Father of the Blues,” for Fingerstyle Guitar

Guitarist and W.C. Handy scholar Jon Shain shares strategies for adapting ragtime pieces for fingerstyle guitar using the 1917 Handy song "Beale Street Blues" as an example.

Jon Shain

Arranging W.C. Handy, the “Father of the Blues,” for Fingerstyle Guitar

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