As one of the most emulated blues players of our time Robben Ford's impeccable soloing techniques phrasing and tone have been the subject of several books and videos but for the first time Robben brings his smooth and tasty rhythm playing to the forefront in this DVD. He explains and demonstrates dozens of blues rhythm concepts and techniques from 12-bar shuffle blues rhythms to mixing in jazz chords to blues comping. Robben also takes you through several of his tunes showing his chord voicings rhythms and right-hand picking/finger techniques. Robben also answers questions about double-stops his guitars recording and road gear. Also includesa 39-page printable PDF with examples and transcriptions. Robben has been offering masterclass clinics for several years to a very select and limited number of students. We're happy to present this DVD to allow guitarists everywhere to be a part of this unique experience.

The state of Texas has had a major presence in the Blues from the earliest days of the recording era right on up to the present day. So many tremendous Blues musicians have hailed from Texas i.e. Blind Lemon Jefferson Lightnin???Hopkins T-Bone Walker Freddy King. This DVD focuses on the Country Blues guitarists who first defined the Texas Blues sound and who put Texas on the map as a prime location in Blues Country.In this DVD lesson you'll havean opportunity to learn from the music of the greatest of the early Country Blues singer/guitarists Blind Lemon Jefferson Texas sharecropper and songster Mance Lipscomb the almost forgotten Otis Harris ace lyricist Funny PapaSmith the spectacular and under recorded Willie Reed and the Post-War master Lil' Son Jackson. This is powerful and challenging guitar music and the technique building that will result from learning to play these songs willtake your blues playing to a new level.A detailed tab/music booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD. This includes all the lyrics to the songs as well as transcriptions of the guitar playing. The original old recordingsof all the tunes is also included.Titles include: Willie Reed/Dreaming Blues; Mance Lipscomb/Tell Me Where You Stay Last Night and Rocks and Gravel Makes a Solid Road; Otis Harris/You'll Like MyLoving; Funny Papa Smith/Fool's Blues; Blind Lemon Jefferson/That Crawlin' Baby Blues; Lil' Son Jackson/Groundhog Blues

Transform Your Leaden Licks into Improvisational Gold 2-DVD Set-As anyone who squeaked through 10th grade history knows the alchemists were a semi-scientific posse of medieval individuals utterly hung up on the notion of transforming lead into gold. Of course their efforts did not lead to economic good times but Blues Alchemy addresses a much more useful and likely kind of transformation: turning those leaden everyday blues licks and chord progressions into tasty and intriguing improvisational gold.Blues Alchemy are about learning to play the changes but not in the sense that jazz musicians do - it isn't about learning every arpeggio and mode under the sun. Instead on ten diverse chord progressions master blues alchemistDavid Hamburger will teach you how to transform your blues bag into gold by learning how to target tones and 'play the changes.'This hands-on playing course guides the student through 10 distinct blues rhythm patterns and variations 10 distinct solos and variations plus dozens of extra blues licks and tricks of the trade.

A step-by-step method for learning this rich and powerful style. Takes you from the fundamentals of fingerpicking to five authentic blues tunes.

These tunes were inspired by the great 'first generation' acoustic blues guitarists: Huddie Ledbetter Mance Lipscomb Gary Davis Jesse Fuller Blind Blake and others.Author Fred Sokolow's tunes convey some ofthe same feelings as these early blues artists and are fun to play. Several of the tunes are in alternate tunings. Sokolow describes his inspiration for each piece in the book and also performs it on the audio. Innotation and tablature with suggested back-up chords. Includes access to online audio.

Rev. Gary Davis is the real thing. The authentic blind-seer. He is a genius with a brightly burning spirit enormous musical intelligence technical brilliance an encyclopedic memory driving passion deep faith araunchy and gracious sense of humor. A mystic. He is an icon of the style of Guitar he was born into known today as the Piedmont blues. Through players of the first half of the twentieth century like Alfred Shultz Mose Ranger Merle Travis and Chet Atkins this is the signature American fingerpicking style that would so deeply inform the country folk blues and even rock and roll of our day.Rev. Davis (1896-1972) was born black indeep poverty in South Carolina blind from an early age. He overcame these longest of odds to become world famous a giant of American music. He brought together black and white styles country gospel folk themes blues jazz ragtime minstrel songs dance tunes and popular song. He developed his own brilliant fingerpicking style that was deep economical and adaptable enough to easily cover all these genres. Supporting all his creativity was anunshakable faith that pulled him through the obscurity the bitter hard times and crushing poverty he would endure until the folk music awakening of the fifties and sixties caught up to him.Ernie Hawkins has transcribed 13of Rev. Davis' best known blues and ragtime arrangements. Tunes such as Candyman Cocaine Blues Hesitation Blues Baby Let Me Lay It on You Spoonful and Delia are included alongside the ragtimeinstrumental tour de forces of Slow Drag (Cincinnati Flow Rag) and Make Believe Stunt (Maple Leaf Rag).The playing of Rev. Davis has influenced generations of Guitar players from Blind Boy Fullerto Dave Van Ronk Bob Dylan David Bromberg Ry Cooder Jorma Kaukonen Bob Weir Stefan Grossman and Woody Mann. His tunes have been recorded by a host of today's finest rock musicians: The Grateful Dead Hot Tuna Bob Dylan

The basics of playing electric blues rhythm guitar are taught on this DVD. The accompanying chart displays the basics of the material taught. Power chords common chord shapes fragmented chords the blues progression itself andother essential aspects of blues rhythm guitar are presented with clear explanations and easy to read materials.

This unique MMO album brings you blues master Dick Weissman explaining and demonstrating guitar techniques (strums chords picking alternate tunings etc.) with some of the greatest blues classics such as Frankie and Johnny and Kansas City Blues. Mr. Weissman demonstrates provides accompaniments and carefully guides you through to becoming a master. At the end of this great master class you'll be calling yourself a blues pro! Includes a high-quality printed music book with explanatory text photographs and diagrams and a narrated CD featuring every exercise and composition in the method book. Performed by Dick Weissman guitar

Discover highly melodic minor blues chord progressions and become fluent with them in three months. Gives you the freedom to play minor blues differently every time. Contains 21 melodic minor blues chord progressions. CD included.

The only book to exclusively focus on the blues scales as it applies to jazz guitar. This book features a wealth of information including many scale patterns six complete solos and diverse accompanying grooves that use a widearray of chords tempos and rhythmic feels.

The Genesis and Evolution of Blues in the Delta from the Late 1800s Through 1938-KOMARA EDWARD THE ROAD TO ROBERT JOHNSON GUITAR BOOK

With Online Audio-This user-friendly book with access to online audio shows how to transform standard three-chord blues changes into harmonically sophisticated jazz-blues progressions. The book covers chord substitution twelve-bar blues minor blues eight-bar blues and sixteen-bar blues. Chord frames are supplied for guitarists. Blank treble and bass staves are included for writing songs licks and solos. An absolute goldmine for all musicians students bluessongwriters recording studios ad agencies and anyone who plays blues music.This truly amazing learning/reference work designed for beginners and pros alike also contains an appendix featuring a wealth of informationabout modern blues progressions and how to create them. Online audio download available.

Description Includes three hours of instruction on CD plus note-by-note, phrase-by-phrase instruction in the book.