Essential Blues Guitar

Absolute Beginners: Acoustic Guitar is the complete guide to playing the Acoustic Guitar from the first time you pick it up all the way to playing your first songs along with backing tracks. With clear images easy-to-understand text and demonstrations of every exercise on an Audio Download this book is the easiest way to learn the techniques that are essential to learning to play the AcousticGuitar. Absolute Beginners: Acoustic Guitar opens with a clear introduction to the parts of the Guitar how to choose one and the different types. After this you'll learn the differencesbetween playing with a plectrum or your fingers you'll tune up then you'll be ready to play! A guide to your first chords and strumming will get you making music before you learn more chords different strumming patterns andsome scales. Throughout this the included Audio Download allows you to hear each exercise as it should sound ensuring you play everything correctly and train your ear at the same time. As you learnfingerpicking the twelve-bar blues some tunes and other techniques you'll find you've gone from knowing nothing about the Guitar to being able to play songs chords and even with others. The Audio Download also featuresprofessionally-recorded backing tracks for the songs so that you can play along and sound great. The book also features a handy guide to the notes of the neck and a chord reference sheet.  If you'rean Absolute Beginner with no knowledge of how to play the Acoustic Guitar this book will guide you on this journey with pictures an audio download and practical advice from expert authorDavid Harrison. The Absolute Beginners series has taught millions to play from novice to confident player over the years. Now it's your turn!

An Essential Study Of Blues Accompaniment Guitar For All Skill-Lev. Par BARRETT DAVID. Blues Guitar Level 1, within the School of the Blues Lesson Series, is about learning the art of playing rhythm guitar and its various grooves pertaining to the blues. Areas covered are: major scales, chord construction, Chicago-type shuffles, uptown swing and jump, cut time, slow blues, rhumba, funky blues, rock beat, boogie beat, eight-bar blues - openings, breaks and endings. This book is accompanied by a CD recording of all examples (played by author John Garcia) along with the background music. For all skill level players. / Niveau : Débutant / Blues - Methods / Méthode / Guitare

The Art Of Blues Guitar Improvising. Par BARRETT DAVID. Blues Guitar Method Level 2, within the School of the Blues Lesson Series®, is about learning the art of improvising. Areas covered are: Tools for Improvising (Scales and Arpeggios) - Soloing Concepts (Question and Answer Phrasing and Chord Tone Approach Construction) - Pickups, Intros, Turnarounds and Endings - and Bar Solo and Analysis. This is an essential study for all players of the blues. This series is designed for students of other instruments to play together. If you have friends that play harmonica, keyboard, bass or drums, tell them about this series so that you can play together. This book is accompanied by a CD recording of all examples (played by author John Garcia) along with the background music. For all skill level players. Book is in standard notation and TAB. / Niveau : Tous Niveaux / Blues - Methods / Méthode / Guitare

The most complete guide to jazz/blues soloing ever written! This comprehensive book details the sounds elements and approaches that make the blues such an integral part of the jazz vocabulary. Moving from blues progressions tofingerboard organization to phrasing essential blues scales riffs lick development and an array of advanced concepts and devices including substitute scales & extended super arpeggios are covered. Throughout this process 38solos over 100 music examples and hundreds of licks are featured. Written in notation and tablature.

An Introduction to Scales and How to Use Them to Improvise Solos-This innovative book and audio teaching system presents a clear path to learning the essential scale fingerings needed for playing lead guitar in the most popular guitar keys. As you travel along this path you will learn to create musical phrases while simultaneously developing a large vocabulary of rhythms to improvise with. Over 400 demonstration and play-along audio tracks are included to assist you along the journey! Includes: pentatonic scale fingerings major and minor scale fingerings Dorian scale fingerings phrasing development Rhythmic vocabulary development marrying melody to rhythm clear systematic practice routines soloing in rock blues and pop styles many backing tracks for play-along practice hundreds of demonstration tracks. Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch set loop points change keys and pan left or right.

Learning to play the Guitar without having a deep exposure to the Blues seems almost as strange as wanting to sing without first being able to speak. This method allows you to therefore discover all of the essential Blues techniques such as structure specific chords and rhythms accompaniment riffs scales improvisation and solos.  In order for guitarists to make the most of this method practice is essential and complete chord sequences are included in the style of many of the most famous blues players like Otis Rush BB King Eric Clapton Buddy Guy Albert King Stevie Ray Vaughan etc.  On the accompanyingCD five hours of music allows you to hear all the demonstration tracks at both normal speed and slowed down letting you learn at your own pace. The same is shown on the DVD so not only can you listen you can also see exactly how it should be done.  Learning to play the Guitar without having a deep exposure to the Blues seems almost as strange as wanting to sing without first being able to speak. This method allows you to therefore discover all of the essential Blues techniques such as structure specific chords and rhythms accompaniment riffs scales improvisation and solos.  In order for guitarists to make the most of this method practice is essential and complete chord sequences are included in the style of many of the most famous blues players like Otis Rush BB King Eric Clapton Buddy Guy Albert King Stevie Ray Vaughan etc.  On the accompanyingCD five hours of music allows you to hear all the demonstration tracks at both normal speed and slowed down letting you learn at your own pace. The same is shown on the DVD so not only can you listen you can also see exactly how it should be done. 

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.

Ideal for acoustic guitarists who have the basics in blues and are wanting to take a step forward. The book opens with a revision of basic concepts techniques musical notes music theory and Tab. To follow the Blues Guitare Acoustique Pour Debutant method quickly approaches topics such as blues in 12 16 and 9 measures and moves on to explore scales and arpeggios which are the basics of soloing blues. Also included is how to use use thirds sixth seconds and triads in pieces of composition enrichment chords jazz blues and open-tuning. The book finishes with some pieces of music employing finger picking in the style of major blues artists. If youlike acoustic blues and want to gain an advantage this book is essential.

These essential fretboard patterns are road maps that all great blues guitarists know and use. This book teaches how to play lead and rhythm anywhere on the fretboard in any key; play a variety of lead guitar styles using movable blues boxes chord-based licks blues scales and double-note licks; play boogie woogie licks and turnarounds; and much more! Each chapter presents a pattern and shows how to use it and provides helpful playing tips. Great for beginning intermediate and advanced players.

Fourteen songs from the album arranged for Guitar tab (including standard notation) complete with full lyrics. 'As if fated to live the blues he studied so deeply, Rory Gallagher was beautiful, talented and doomed. He was just 47 years old when died after a liver transplant surgery in 1995. But in a career that spanned from 1969 until his death, Gallagher compiled one hell of a legacy. The Irish guitarist was a prolific music maker, recording 17 albums under his own name, and two studio albums with his early blues-rock trio, Taste. He also appeared on two seminal blues recordings: Muddy Waters' The London Sessions in 1972, and Albert King Live in 1977.' - Michael Molenda (Editor, Guitar Player Magazine), 2004. / Guitare

Method and Solos for Jump Blues Guitar 2-DVD Set-Cult figure rock & roll legend and music writer Cub Koda defined jump blues as 'an up-tempo jazz-tinged style of blues that first came to prominence in the mid- to late '40s. Usually featuring a vocalist in front of a large horn-driven orchestra or medium sized combo with multiple horns the style is earmarked by a driving rhythm intensely shouted vocals and honking tenor saxophone solos - all of those very elements a precursor to rock & roll. The lyrics are almost always celebratory in nature full of braggadocio and swagger.'Dutch recording artist and top European Guitar educator Matthieu Brandt spent a decade interviewing and studying with many of the originatorsof Jump Blues to document the style and create this essential Jump Blues course for Guitar.This 2-DVD set is presented as a methodology covering theory comping accompanist riffs horn lines arranged for Guitar and several approaches for soloing drilling down on many approaches for opening up the neck for the scales arps and riffs that are employed in swing and Jump Blues Guitar.It also ices the cake with 12 tasty solos followed by in-depth analysis of several jump blues giants such as Brian Setzer T-Bone Walker Charlie Christian Gatemouth Brown and Freddie King all of whom have their own signature sound. Accompanying vocalists and soloists is a big part of the style and is as challenging and rewarding as soloing. A sizable chunk of these DVDs is dedicated to voicings pulling off various rhythms and locking up with the rhythm section.