An entirely revised edition of the classic instruction guide for guitar players. Explore traditional playing styles through transcriptions and analysis of 26 tunes by master players. Includes LP discography and new easy-to-read guitar tablature.
Songs: Big Road Blues • Bird Nest Bound • Bukka's Jitterbug Swing • Bye Bye Blues • Devil Got My Woman • Dry Spell Blues • Fixin' to Die • Future Blues • Gravel Road Blues • Green River Blue • Hard Time Killin' Floor • High Water Everywhere • Kindhearted Woman Blues • Lord, I'm Going Down South • M & O Blues • Mississippi Blues • Motherless Chile Blues • My Black Mama • Ragged and Dirty • Saturday Blues • Sic 'Em Dogs on Blues • Special Rider • Stoney Pony Blues • Terraplane Blues • '34 Blue • Whiskey Head Man.
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This cool book/online audio pack presents a wide selection of riffs in a variety of styles, just waiting to be used in your solos! The riffs are organized by blues style and by placement within the standard 12-bar format (first, second and final four measures) so you can assemble your solos easily, section by section. This is the ultimate resource for beginning and intermediate blues guitarists seeking a straightforward route to solo-building, as well as for seasoned pros who want to further stock their arsenals. Includes recorded demos of every lick!
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.
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Teach yourself to play authentic blues guitar with this book and video teaching pack! Each music example in the book is taught and performed on video by author and blues historian Dave Rubin. You'll also learn many tips, techniques and tools of the trade along the way as you hone your burgeoning blues bravado. No music reading required! Each example is notated in easy-to-understand rhythm tab format and demonstrated on video. Topics covered include: 12 bar, 8-bar and minor blues • common chords and scales • boogie patterns and bass-string riffs • slide guitar • solo fingerstyle blues • and much more.
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A comprehensive instruction guide to blues slide guitar styles. Contains over 25 accurate transcriptions of authentic bottleneck blues tunes by such masters as Son House, Robert Johnson, Charlie Patton and many more.
Songs include: A Spoonful Blues • Black Ace • C.C. Rider • Come on in My Kitchen • Country Farm Blues • Crossroad Blues • Denver Blues • Don't Sell It • Dry Spell Blues • High Sheriff Blues • I Got to Cross That River of Jordan • It's Just Too Bad • Mean Old Twister • Milk Cow Blues • No Woman No Nickel • Poor Boy Long Way from Home • Roll and Tumble • So Lonesome • Walking Blues • Whoopee Blues • Yo Yo Blues • You Can't Keep No Brown • You Got to Reap What You Sow • Your Enemy Cannot Harm You.
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This Legendary Licks volume presents the music of guitar hero Warren Haynes. It includes detailed performance notes on how to play his licks, fills, riffs and solos; an enhanced CD that includes recorded demonstrations as well as software for both Mac and PCs that lets users adjust the tempo without changing the pitch; gear setup instructions so you can match his sound as closely as possible; and more! Songs include: Banks of the Deep End • Beautifully Broken • Man in Motion • Rocking Horse • Statesboro Blues • Thorazine Shuffle • and more.
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Learn to play chords in any style with a minimum of practice and a maximum of fun! This book shows chords in clear, easy-to-read diagrams and photos, and also includes the most often used chord progressions. Features right- and left-hand techniques, plus musical examples and songs.
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The term “12-bar blues” has become synonymous with blues music and is the basis for an incredible body of jazz, rock 'n' roll, and other forms of popular music. This book/2-CD/DVD package is solely devoted to providing you with all the technical tools necessary for playing 12-bar blues with authority. You'll learn blues styles like Chicago, minor, slow, bebop, and more, while focusing on boogie, shuffle, swing, riff, and jazzy blues progressions. 49 full-band tracks are included on the accompanying CDs, and the DVD includes a complete one-hour course!
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A first of its kind, the At a Glance series pairs an instructional DVD lesson taught by a professional guitarist with a supplemental book for a comprehensive learning experience. Each book/DVD features several lessons pertaining to one topic, and the DVD lessons feature on-screen music. The lessons are loaded with valuable tips and information, and song examples help to demonstrate the concepts in action. Blues Guitar – At a Glance features four lessons: Blues Rhythm Guitar, The Blues Scale, Blues Licks, Blues Turnarounds. Also includes 19 songs: Born Under a Bad Sign • Five Long Years • I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man • Pride and Joy • Steppin' Out • Sweet Home Chicago • Texas Flood • The Thrill Is Gone • and more.
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If you're looking to break out of rhythm guitar mode and into the solo limelight, this book is for you! With advice on licks, technique, feel, and what to do (plus what not to do) during your moment out front, David Grissom takes you through what every blues/rock guitarist needs to have under their fingers. Topics covered include: scales • picking techniques • string bending • double stops • rockin' country licks • jazz lines • equipment and gear • and more. Book includes access to audio online for download or streaming, with loads of demonstration tracks, plus play-along tracks for practicing!
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Covers the whole spectrum of this exciting area of guitar playing. Careful grading enables beginners to progress through this course playing well-known songs, as well as learning the technical aspects. Songs: A Basic Blues • 'a' Simple Blues • 'a' Twelve Bar • Alice's Restaurant • Bounce Blues • Candyman • Candyman Blues • Cocaine Blues • Come Back Baby • Deep River Blues • The Entertainer • Extension Blues • First Time Blues • Gee Rag • Good Morning Blues • Half-way Rag • Harmony Blues • Hesitation Blues • Horizon Rag • How Long How Long • I Believe I'll Dust My Broom • In the Evening (When the Sun Goes Down) • Kansas City • Keep on Truckin' Mama • Kick-off Rag • Last Train and Ride • Mark Two Blues • San Francisco Bay Blues • See See Rider • She's Funky That Way • Sister Kate's Syncopated Dance • Slide Blues • St. James Infirmary • Steam Roller • Sugarbabe • That's All Right • Trouble in Mind • Vestapol • Walk Right In.
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Delve deep into the blues with celebrated guitarist Kirk Fletcher in this instructional video and book pack. The video lessons cover a variety of rhythm and lead blues guitar styles and concepts, with loads of licks, riffs, solos and more. The accompanying book features note-for-note transcriptions of every video example in easy-to-read rhythm tab notation. It's time to take your blues guitar skills to the next level! Topics covered include: Texas blues • Chicago blues • West Coast Jump • funky blues • slow blues • rock and roll • soloing concepts • licks, phrases, techniques • blues chords, doublestops, turnarounds • scale applications • much more.
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Learn to play guitar like Robben Ford, Joe Bonamassa, Larry Carlton, John Scofield, Eric Johnson, and other blues/fusion masters! Blues/fusion merges the soulfulness of the blues with the sophistication of jazz. In How to Play Blues/Fusion Guitar, you'll study the key elements of style – what scales, chords, and arpeggios are most commonly used, and how to use them. You'll also take a look at examples in the style of artists like Matt Schofield, Mike Stern, Scott Henderson, and John Scofield, to see how these masters put their own unique spin on the blues/fusion format. Book includes access to audio online for download or streaming, with loads of demonstration tracks, plus play-along tracks for practicing!
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Three books in one! First, a music theory manual that describes the different types of twelve-bar blues forms (slow change, quick change, five chord blues, jazz blues, etc.) and presents them as both chord progressions and structural formulas. Second, an introduction and thorough study of “rhythm” chords – the essential three-note voicings that every guitarist must know for accompanying small blues groups to jazzy big bands. Third, a comprehensive series of twelve-bar chord progressions that range from a basic three chord blues to the most advanced, multi-chord jazz arrangements. For all levels, beginners to professionals with large, easy-to-read chord diagrams; most popular major and minor keys; and more!
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16 easy blues solos in standard notation and tablature are presented in this superb book with accompanying CD. Includes tips on how to prepare for and perform each solo! Songs include: Overdrivin' • Soho Blues • Eight Bars on the Highway • and many more.
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The best in blues and blues-based licks, riffs and techniques with a dose of historical perspective to put it all into place are presented in this book. It includes standard notation and tab, plus online access to 86 demonstration audio tracks. Lessons include: scales and target notes, chord substitution, open-string turnarounds, blues vamps, boogie-woogie alternatives, bottleneck blues, cool blues, 8-bar blues, Memphis soul, British blues-rock, Delta blues, and more; plus artist-specific lessons on B.B. King, John Lee Hooker, T-Bone Walker, and Freddie King.
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The legendary Hot Licks guitar instruction video series is being made available in book format with online access to all the classic video footage. This book/video provides a unique chance to learn from the greatest Chicago blues guitarist of them all. In these video lessons, Buddy Guy reveals what he learned from such legends as Jimmy Reed, T-Bone Walker, and Lightnin' Hopkins, among others. Includes 40 transcribed examples. You'll learn: 9th chord riffs and licks; playing lead style with fingers; how to emulate slide guitar; boogie riffs; piano-style rhythms; and much more.
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The Guitar Play-Along DVD series lets you hear and see how to play songs like never before. Just watch, listen and learn! Each song starts with a lesson from a professional guitar teacher. Then, the teacher performs the complete song along with professionally recorded backing tracks. You can choose to turn the guitar off if you want to play along, or leave the guitar in the mix to hear how it should sound. You can also choose from three viewing options: fret hand with tab, wide view with tab, pick & fret hands close-up. Each DVD includes great songs that all guitarists will want to know!
Teaches 8 blues classics: Boom Boom • Cold Shot • Dust My Broom • Frosty • Further on up the Road • Paying the Cost to Be the Boss • The Sky Is Crying • Steppin' Out.
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The 2,000 licks in this book are organized into 36 chapters. These chapters explore the different pitches, rhythms, techniques, and methods of phrasing found in blues and blues-influenced guitar solos and fills. Use these licks to deliver heavy, yet ear-catching riffs. These can be played along with the 43 backing tracks included on the 3 CDs that come with this book. They are all written in the key of a C blues, while the backing tracks are played in the keys of E, A, D, G, C, F, and Bb. A handy table is included that shows how to transpose up or down from C to other blues keys. The backing tracks (performed by a live band in a studio) are all in the 12-bar blues form, but the licks do not necessarily have to be played over specific chords in the progression.
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Learning B.B. King's music has never been more fun! B.B. King – Master Bluesman not only contains accurate transcriptions and in-depth analysis of 10 blues classics and biographical information on B.B. himself, it also includes a CD with the ORIGINAL RECORDINGS OF EVERY SONG! This unique pack analyzes the following songs: Ask Me No Questions • Chains and Things • Confessin' the Blues • Get off My Back Woman • I Want You So Bad • I'm Gonna Do What They Do to Me • No Good • Paying the Cost to Be the Boss • So Excited • The Thrill Is Gone.
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The ability to improvise and create variations within a song is the essence of the guitar work of the great traditional acoustic blues guitarists such as Blind Blake, Robert Johnson, Big Bill Broonzy, Rev. Gary Davis, and Blind Lemon Jefferson. By exploring the ways that chords, melodies, and rhythms work, Woody Mann presents practical and simple ways to create variations in your playing. Woody teaches a new approach to seeing the fretboard and techniques for “breaking down” chord blocks into smaller “pieces” and connecting them throughout the fretboard. As he teaches the repertoire of the masters of acoustic blues, he demonstrates how melodies and harmonies can be derived from simple, movable chord shapes. This book is a method for relating the entire fretboard to the basic first position chord shapes that we all learn as beginners and using them to create new chords, melodies, and variations in your music. Studying the songs and concepts that Woody presents in this program will help students to break out of ruts and begin playing “up-the-neck” without relying on barre chords or scale patterns. Woody's approach to varying melody and bass lines against each other will also help students to develop a more syncopated and stronger picking technique. This simple and effective method allows students to increase their chord vocabulary by relying on logic instead of memorization.
Video is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded.
Woody Mann had his first schooling as a teenager in the living room of Rev. Gary Davis, the now legendary gospel and ragtime guitarist. Mann soon went on to perform and record with blues masters Son House and Bukka White as well as contemporary innovators including John Fahey. He has recorded extensively, performed throughout the world, and is widely recognized as one of the world's leading teachers and transcribers of acoustic blues music, having taught countless guitarists through his popular books and videos.
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A comprehensive guide to electric blues guitar playing, this fast-paced method covers all aspects of modern and traditional electric blues guitar. It contains over 90 musical examples in standard music notation and tablature, along with playing and performance tips. The full-length CD includes demonstrations, exercises, and play-along backing tracks.
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From the Musicians Institute Private Lessons series comes this new book featuring modern techniques to allow electric guitar players to unleash their creativity with new guitar licks and lines while keeping the basic blues foundation intact. Featuring lessons from award-winning blues guitarist, educator and columnist Nick Kellie, this is a must-have for developing blues guitarists. It covers: scales, chords and chord progressions, advanced harmony, proper voice leading, developing rhythmic feel, enhancing melodic vocabulary, and more. Many of the musical examples in the book are also demonstrated on the accompanying video which is accessed online for download or streaming.
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Teach yourself to play your favorite songs on guitar with this multi-media learning experience! Each song in the book includes a comprehensive online video lesson with an interactive song transcription, slow-down features, looping capabilities, track choices, play-along functions, and more. The price of this book includes access to all of these online features! This edition will teach you 10 blues classics: Born Under a Bad Sign (Albert King) • Cross Road Blues (Crossroads) (Cream) • Hide Away (Freddie King) • I'm Tore Down (Eric Clapton) • I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man (Muddy Waters) • Killing Floor (Howlin' Wolf) • Mary Had a Little Lamb (Buddy Guy) • Still Got the Blues (Gary Moore) • Texas Flood (Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble) • The Thrill Is Gone (B.B. King).
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Trading Licks: Charlie Christian and T-Bone Walker explores the musical commonality of the founders of electric jazz guitar and electric blues guitar respectively. While both were heavily influenced musically by the Kansas Territory blues bands, T-Bone Walker ended up working professionally in the late 1930s in the looser rhythm-and-blues genre that was developing at that time in Los Angeles, while Charlie Christian began working in the number one dance band in the nation, the Benny Goodman Orchestra. This book also explores how commonly used jazz licks were “reinterpreted” in an R&B context that are still just as exciting to listen to and to play today as they were in the 1940s, when they were first heard on Central Avenue in L.A. This book includes an audio CD with 83 tracks of examples from the tablature!
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Whether your favourite blues guitarist is Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Blind Blake, John Lee Hooker, Big Bill Broonzy, or Mississippi John Hurt, studying the basic techniques presented in this program is the first step toward being able to capture the essence of their traditional styles. In this book, Woody Mann shows you practical ways to develop fundamental technique and offers you insights into the musical logic of blues guitar. Woody walks you through each song, explaining the chord positions and picking techniques. He teaches blues in the keys of D, G, C, E, and A, presenting a wide selection of classic blues songs and instrumentals from the masters of blues guitar. Included in this program are the basics of the Delta blues of Robert Johnson, the ragtime style of Blind Blake (the man with the piano-playing guitar), and the music of Big Bill Broonzy, Memphis Minnie, Willie Walker, and Willie Moore. Each song illustrates how solo players approach the guitar like a piano, playing melodies and bass lines simultaneously. Developing this independent two-line picking technique enables you to get the feel, syncopation, and subtleties of the music. The songs in themselves are studies in acoustic blues technique and present the authentic elements of the acoustic blues sound and style including blues technique and ways to “play off” of the chords and improvise within a song. This program is recommended for beginning acoustic blues guitarists as well as electric guitarists and acoustic fingerstyle guitarists of all levels who would like to go beyond “pattern” picking and develop a more dynamic and syncopated sound.
Woody Mann had his first schooling as a teenager in the living room of Rev. Gary Davis, the now legendary gospel and ragtime guitarist. Mann soon went on to perform and record with blues masters Son House and Bukka White as well as contemporary innovators including John Fahey. He has recorded extensively, performed throughout the world, and is widely recognized as one of the world's leading teachers and transcribers of acoustic blues music, having taught countless guitarists through his popular books and videos.
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Master the basics of blues guitar as you play classic blues songs and solos. Explore riffs, solo ideas and special techniques while learning 12 great blues tunes.
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These pocket-sized swatch-packs are great for quick reference at home or on the go. All the essential chords are presented on easy to read cards.
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This book/CD pack is designed to help you quickly become a better blues player. Award-winning guitarist, songwriter, author and Taylor Guitars clinician Artie Traum explores essential blues techniques in fret-by-fret detail for both finger and flatpick styles. You'll learn to play classic blues songs such as “Country Boy Blues,” “Come Back Baby,” and “Trouble in Mind,” along with turnarounds, bass lines, funky licks, and much, more more! The CD includes demonstrations of all of the lessons. Level 3.
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Full band back-up to 12 extended jams in authentic blues, R&B and rock styles. Includes tips on scales and riffs to use with each track. Songs include, in standard notation and tab: Been Caught Sleeping • Blues Boy • Funky Blue Street • Knockin' on the Midnight Mustang • Manic Inspiration • Pleasantly Lucid • The Hindenburg Medley • Twelve-Bar Blues in A • Twelve-Bar Jazz Swing Fell in B Flat • Twelve-Bar Rock & Roll Blues in C • Twelve-Bar Very Slow Swing in G • Why a Woman Loves a Man.
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Practice jamming with full-band backup to ten extended jams in authentic blues styles on CD. This package also includes an instructional book with tips on scales and techniques to use with each track. Also includes: standard notation and tablature, chord names, and guitar chord diagrams.
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