Master guitarist Duke Robillard gives you 30 ways to improve and expand your blues soloing and comping in this easy-to-use book/CD set. Designed for aspiring and experienced blues players alike, these lessons present unique concepts, merging elements of jazz with blues to take your playing to new heights.
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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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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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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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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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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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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!
Volume 4 includes: All Your Love (I Miss Loving) (Otis Rush) • Easy Baby (Magic Sam) • I Ain't Got You (Jimmy Reed) • I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man (Muddy Waters) • Killing Floor (Howlin' Wolf) • Mary Had a Little Lamb (Buddy Guy) • Messin' with the Kid (Junior Wells) • Sweet Home Chicago (various artists). 81 minutes.
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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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This superb DVD includes a selection of easy-to-absorb lessons that are designed to teach the beginner guitarist some of the essential basics of blues guitar playing. You'll learn some essential lead guitar techniques such as string bending, hammer-on and pull-off, sliding, and vibrato that can be used in styles of guitar playing from jazz to metal. Topics covered include: 12-bar blues in E (dominant 7th chords) • fingerstyle blues • chord embellishments • 8-bar blues • quick change blues and shuffle rhythms • 12-bar blues in A (6th and 9th chords) • blues bends • soloing over a blues progression (licks, double stops, turnaround licks) • scales, arpeggios and much more!
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A Hands-On Beginner's Course In Acoustic Country Blues Homespun Listen & Learn Series Take a lesson in fingerstyle blues guitar from one of the world's most respected teacher/performers. All you need to know is how to play a few basic chords to get started playing along with this user-friendly book/audio package. Beginning with the most basic strumming of a 12-bar blues pattern. Happy gradually starts adding fills, runs, turnarounds, bass rhythms and 'boogie woogie' walking bass patterns that make the basic blues progression come alive. All of these elements are notated in both notes and tab.
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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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House of Blues and producers of The Rock House Method join together to bring you this unique and comprehensive guitar course! With this course designed by world-renowned guitarist John McCarthy, you will develop a solid foundation for playing acoustic and electric blues guitar by learning beginner through advanced techniques. You start with basic chords, scales and proper technique training! You'll then graduate to strumming as you learn rhythm guitar, learn lead guitar with bending, hammer-ons and pull-offs and learn complete songs and leads. Finally, you'll move onto full form chords and scales, triplet lead patterns, the shuffle feel and swing effect, challenging blues riffs, turnarounds and much more! John will encourage you to cultivate your own style by emphasizing the techniques and components needed to develop creativity. Everything is included to guide you through the process of mastering the guitar.
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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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Take a journey inside the blues with Dave Rubin's latest book, Rockin' the Blues: 1963-1973. This seminal 10 years produced some of the most influential blues-rock guitarists of all time. Learn about the lives of these trail-blazing guitarists, their individual styles, accomplishments, and techniques, then play along with the accompanying CD and taste the magic yourself. Each chapter delves into the world of a key blues-rock guitarist from this period, with rare photos, historic insights, interviews, and guitar solos written in standard notation and tablature and performed by a full band on the included audio CD. Explore this exciting time in music history with a book that covers it like no other. Artists covered include: Duane Allman, Jeff Beck, Roy Buchanan, Eric Clapton, Alvin Lee, Keith Richards, Robbie Robertson, and others.
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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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