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FEBRUARY 2012 NEWSLETTER
February greetings!
Scales, scales, and more scales! This is what we’re focusing on this month with the new items from Ted. We continue with the series on single-note playing which we started last month, plus we’re adding some of Ted’s early “music fundamentals” sheets on various scales-their construction, fingering,  building blocks for chords, relation to arpeggios, etc. It’s a good review for all of you veterans as well as beginners. You might also consider sharing these pages with your students. Special thanks goes out to David Bishop for his transcribing several of these pages into a more legible and digestible format.
Last month was rather quiet in the Forums. Barbara once remarked, “I’d like to think that the reason for so few postings in the Forums is because everyone is so busy with the new lessons from Ted that they don’t had time to chat.” A new thread was recently added, “What Are You Working On Now?” http://forums.tedgreene.com/post/What-Are-You-Working-On-Now-5660385 as a kind of informal survey. We’d love to hear what you’re currently woodshedding, so please drop in and share… it helps us to choose which materials from Ted’s teaching archives we post each month.
We think you’ll enjoy Ted’s arrangement of Handel’s The Harmonious Blacksmith as well as Bluesette and Walking Chord Style Blues-all of which are written up by Paul Vachon with his usual “compilations.” Also going up this month is Paul’s updated compilation of Autumn Leaves, which now includes a more complete notation of Ted’s arrangement.
Lastly, you’ll find the collection of quotes on “Solo Guitar Strategies and Concepts” from Ted an interesting read. It’s not meant to be a definitive selection of solo playing possibilities, but just some that Ted noted and kept in his personal music studies files. Barbara Franklin posted her transcription of two of these in the Forums: http://forums.tedgreene.com/post/Teds-quotSOLO-GUITAR-STRATEGIESquot-1192057?trail=15#9 but we wanted to share the original pages and to combine them with other related notes.
We’d also like to ask once again for your continued support of this website by monetary donations. Please use the PayPal link on this website homepage http://www.tedgreene.com Every dollar counts toward keeping Ted’s teaching freely accessible to all via this website.
Anyone who is interested in helping out with doing some transcribing of Ted’s teaching pages should contact Leon White or Paul Vachon via the PM feature in the Forums. It’s helpful if you have some experience with music writing software, Photoshop (or similar) and the ability to create PDF files… plus a healthy amount of time and patience!
~The TedGreene.com Team
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New Lesson Material:
BLUES:
*Walking Chord Style Blues, 1986-12-30
[Another blues chord study from Ted with a compilation page by Paul Vachon and with proof-reading help from Tim Lerch]
FUNDAMENTALS:
*The Chromatic Scale and Major Scales, 1974-02-19 - [An early lesson page from Ted on scales. Transcribed by David Bishop. A helpful companion to the previously posted lessons. There’s Some overlap of material, but different presentation. This is excellent fundamental information for newer players.]
*The Major Scale and the Foundations of Harmony, 1973-06-05 [transcribed by David Bishop]
*Minor Scales, 1974-02-26 [transcribed by David Bishop]
*The Harmonic Minor Scale, 1978-09-12 [transcribed by David Bishop]
BAROQUE:
The Harmonious Blacksmith, G.F. Handel
Arranged for guitar by Ted on July 12, 1970 [Ted’s original page of handwritten notation]
TUNES:
* Bluesette - Ted’s 1979 arrangement in the key of G (Basic version)
* Autumn Leaves
FROM STUDENTS:
*Bluesette - Ted’s 1979 arrangement in the key of G with compilation pages (notation and grid diagrams) by Paul Vachon
*The Harmonious Blacksmith, G.F. Handel. [Compilation pages by Paul Vachon, including Ted’s notation plus Ted-style chord diagrams drawn by Paul with help from David Bishop for proof-reading.]
*Autumn Leaves - Ted’s 1992 arrangement in the key of Dm with compilation pages (notation and grid diagrams) by Paul Vachon. [Paul had made a compilation of this arrangement a couple of years ago (with lead-sheet notation), but he’s now updated it to include standard notation of Ted’s full arrangement.]
*Autumn Leaves - Ted’s Comping Study and Harmonization Sketches. [These two were previously combined in the same webpage as Paul’s compilation of Ted’s arrangement. We’re now moving it into its own page so as to avoid confusion]
SINGLE-NOTE:
*Single-Note Playing in Minor Keys, 1976-03-25 thru 28 - [This series contains some basic fundamentals about minor scales soloing, chord formulas and progressions. A total of 11 pages: (4 original pages from Ted, plus 7 transcribed pages by Paul Vachon). Continuing with our studies on single-note soloing, these pages offer some excellent material for understanding minor scales.]
CHORD STUDIES:
* Progressions for Learning #11 Dominants, 1979-04-13
OTHER:
* Solo Guitar Strategies and Concepts - [This is a collection of pages from Ted’s personal music studies. It’s not meant to be a comprehensive list, but some miscellaneous thoughts that Ted jotted down over the years. Transcribed text for easy reading.]
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From Barbara’s collection of “Notes and Quotes from Ted”:
“Make your playing have a good feel, always-as much as possible. This is the most crucial area because it is the most delicious area in many styles of music. Don’t be blown away by all the failure that usually happens at first. Don’t give up; results will come. Accept the work and aches and pains-they’re part of it. I still have aches after over 40 years of playing. So what?-it’s just part of the deal. Nobody wants to hear us complain about something that is as beautiful as the guitar and the magic music that can come out of it. Stay with this amazing instrument and near-miracles happen. And for some people, it is simply so important that they look for more and more ways to make their practicing enjoyable, even a real pleasure. One big thing for me has always been to put rhythmic life into everything I’m working on as soon as possible. It’s got to groove.”
~Ted Greene
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Ted on Youtube:
*Many exciting videos are also available on The OFFICIAL Ted Greene Video Archive page on YouTube
Of course all the videos are posted under the Video Section of the .com
As always there is plenty more information in the Forums.
Please join up if you have not done so as of yet.
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A Memoir of Ted Greene, Apotheosis of Solo Guitar
By Barbara Franklin
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ABOUT THE BOOK
A retrospective of Ted Greene, virtuoso solo guitarist, beloved music teacher, world-renowned author and innovator of unique music concepts for guitar. This book also includes an overview of Ted Greene's early life and musical development, plus an insightful narrative of the 13 years prior to his death
Six agonizing months after losing my beloved Ted, I slowly emerged from a state of profound disbelief, almost coma-like. At that time I didn’t know what to do with the remnants of my life; then a path began to unfold before me. This website was started and became a saving grace.
During the ensuing years, I organized and categorized Ted’s material and personal studies. Upon completion of that massive undertaking, once again, I didn’t know what to do, so I began writing.
I wrote pages, and then threw them away, until once again a path began to unfold. What I wrote is mostly a personal memoir. I suppose it was what I had to write first.
From the preface:
“The decision to reveal parts of our personal life was something I deliberated over for a long time. Because our lives became so inextricably bound, I included what I felt necessary, but not without a considerable amount of apprehension. This book illustrates the many parallels between Ted the musician and Ted the person. I felt it was important to convey how Ted was driven compulsively not just to pursue music, but so many other things he loved.”
With this in mind, here is our story. It IS very personal and I still have apprehensions about publishing it. My hope is that it brings you closer to Ted, as you begin to get to know and understand this unique and extraordinary man and musician.
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