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Eric Roche (December 4, 1967 in New York City – September 6, 2005)〔 〕 was an Irish fingerstyle guitarist. ==Biography== Roche was born in New York City, but his family soon moved to Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland. He was a learnt accountant, but practised only for a short time before enlisting for classical guitar in 1992 at the London Musician's Institute. After his degree he became head of its guitar department in 1996 and released his first CD ''The Perc U Lator'' three years later. In 2000 he accepted a position as head of guitar at Academy of Contemporary Music in Guildford, where his pupils included Newton Faulkner. In 2001 his second CD ''Spin'' was released. In 2004 Roche issued his third album ''With These Hands'' and released his book ''The Acoustic Guitar Bible'', a guide to acoustic guitar playing with a foreword by Tommy Emmanuel. Roche was a regular columnist for the magazines ''Guitar Techniques'' and ''Acoustic Guitar'' and did international master classes and workshops.〔 Eric played many musical genres on solo guitar such as classical, Celtic, Folk, jazz, blues, rock and pop. As well as being a gifted guitarist-composer, he was also well known for his solo guitar arrangements of other artists' tunes. Some of these solo arrangements include: *"Jump" by Van Halen *"Higher Ground" by Stevie Wonder *"Killer" by Seal *"Blue in Green" by Miles Davis *"She Drives Me Crazy" by the Fine Young Cannibals *"Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" by The Beatles *"Take Five" by Dave Brubeck *"Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana A characteristic feature of his playing was his percussive style of playing involving drumming on the body of the guitar to create the sound of various different drums and sounds similar to DJ scratching. He was well versed in not only standard tuning, but also in various other altered tunings on guitar, especially DADGAD. Just like Pierre Bensusan and Laurence Juber, Roche was able to play in multiple keys on this tuning without the need for a capo. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Eric Roche」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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