Chet atkins tabs, chords, guitar, bass, ukulele chords, power tabs and guitar pro tabs including freight train, entertainer, cheek to cheek, caravan, a little mark music. Me and my guitar is the fortyeighth studio album by american guitarist chet atkins. Chet atkins has a deserved reputation as a great guitar player and allaround nice guy. Whispering tab by chet atkins track 1 acoustic guitar. Chet atkins its a guitar world 1967, vinyl discogs. Despite gretsch holding the keys to chet s legacy of electric guitars, two of the rarest and most valuable chet atkins models are actually gibson electrics.
It offers pdf sheet music files plus interactive sheet music for realtime transposition. A special thanks to you, russ, and your brother mike on a superb piece of work. Chet worked as a session player and backed up several great acts in his early career before graduating on to a solo artist and then on to a prominent nashville producer, producing acts such as waylon jennings and elvis presley. Me and my guitars the most comprehensive and enlightening book on chet atkins ever published. The narrative, recorded before his death, is told by atkins in the first person. I met chet atkins for this interview at his cgp office in nashvilles music row in 1995. Choose from chet atkins sheet music for such popular songs as mister sandman, ave maria, and windy and warm. Russ cochran me and my guitars is, without a doubt, the most comprehensive and enlightening book on chet atkins ever published. Stringin along with chet atkins 10inch version a session with chet atkins. Chet atkins songbook few guitarists have been as influential as chet atkins. This message board is designed for the discussion of guitar related issues,with particular emphasis on fingerstyle guitar and specifically, the life and music of historys greatest guitar player, mister guitar, chet atkins. Chet atkins discusses his relationship with gretsch in.
Stringin along with chet atkins lp version chet atkins at home. Rock guitarists will remember him as the producer of elvis early records and the name on many gretsch and gibson signature models, but his impeccable picking technique has inspired everyone from mark knopfler to tommy emmanuel. Learn jerrys breakdown by jerry reed and chet atkins in this online guitar lesson from six string country. My chinatown for guitar solo by chet atkins skill level.
This dvd lesson is for intermediate and advanced fingerstyle guitarists. Chet atkins sheet music to download top quality pdfs. After 2006, the chet atkins name was no longer connected to any gibson model as the rights were returned to gretsch owned by fender. Enjoy the well known work by jack yellen for voice, piano or guitar which includes music by chet atkins. When i was young, my guitar teacher played all chet s stuff, while talking to a customer and making a sale you could name any tune, and hed chet atkins it right there on the spot. The chetboard is a newly enhanced version of the previous bulletin board known as the fretboard. A friend of atkins for 40 years, russ cochran was privy to stories from chet that. Me and my guitarthe first nashville guitar quartet by. One would guess after reading the book that atkins had about 50 guitars. Jerrys breakdown online guitar lesson six string country. Listen free to chet atkins guitar man mister sandman, boo boo stick beat and more. Me and my guitars is without a doubt, the most comprehensive and enlightening piece on chet atkins ever written. He became manager of rca victors nashville studios, eventually inspiring and seeing the completion of the legendary rca studio b, the first studio built specifically for the purpose of recording on the nowfamous music row. Discover more music, concerts, videos, and pictures with the largest catalogue online at.
I first heard this song as recorded by chet for his hometown guitar album, on which wayne played the rhythm guitar part and chet added the melody, or lead, part on top, along the lines of figures 1 and 2. Maybelle guitar tab by chet atkins with free online tab player. Not only did he release principal studio albums as a solo artist, he was a prolific and much soughtafter collaborator. Born june 20, 1924 in luttrell, tennessee, chet atkins was a pioneer that helped reinvent the guitar. Neither of them could have predicted what was about to happen, or that this long and fruitful relationship would endure 60 years later. Chet tells it all in his own words about his childhood, his playing influences and early struggles to find. So its a pleasure to see a book that is part biography and part history of his personal guitars. If you will look very closely at the guitar just south of the zero fret there appears to be some kinda little doohickey on. To execute the rhythm part properly, use the standard merle travis fingerpicking technique, wherein the notes on the bottom three strings are. I would be doing chet atkins fans a disservice if i were to simply describe it as a photo album of chet s guitars.
A friend of atkins for 40 years, russ cochran was privy to stories from chet that even the most knowledgeable chet fan would never know about. Someone once asked me to estimate how many guitar lessons ive had in my lifetime, chet has said. Gran vals for guitar by tarrega lesson, pdf pachelbels canon in d for guitar free pdf first time here. With his prestige in the executive suites at rca and in the hearts and minds of nashville musicians never higher, chet atkins seems to be interested in just making music here, without any thoughts of getting a hit. He freely alternates among nylon and steelstringed electric, classical acoustic, and resonator guitars here perhaps the title should have been me and my guitars.
Im going through a mickey baker jazz book right now havent gone far and the first exercise is two strikes per chord and i know that it isnt necessarily that they want me to specifically play two strikes per chords, they just want me to learn the chord with my fingers and my brain saying stuff like g, gmaj7th, gmaj6th, gmaj7th so i gave up on the stwo strikes. I was writing my first book about gretsch, and id spent some time in nashville interviewing duane eddy, whod explored the twang of his 6120 from the start of his career, and ray butts, who designed gretschs great filtertron humbuckers in the 50s. Cover of chet atkins cascade from the album me and my guitar 1977, still not perfect i just did not want to do recording. With guitar tablature, standard notation, vocal melody, lyrics, chord names, guitar chord diagrams, guitar tab glossary and color photos. Fingerstyle players lets build up a database of chet. In addition to recording, atkins was a design consultant for gretsch, which manufactured a popular chet atkins line of electric guitars from 19551980. Many of the guitars were used for album covers and these are included where appropriate. Chet performs and describes in detail, phrase by phrase, the playing of nine of his classic arrangements. Me and my guitars is, without a doubt, the most comprehensive and enlightening book on chet atkins ever published. He owns, and has owned, a number of nice instruments over the years, but they are his tools of the trade. Sixty years ago this summer, my uncle, fred gretsch jr. Print instantly, or sync to our free pc, web and mobile apps. I refer you to page 89 of mamg book where there is a beautiful picture of chet s legendary 59 country gentleman and standel amp. Whispering guitar tab by chet atkins with free online tab player.