Blues Guitar - Level 2: Guitar: Instrumental Tutor

House of Blues Learn to Play Series-A continuation of Level One House of Blues and The Rock House Method® created this blues guitar program to take you from beginner to intermediate level of play in no time. The more than 90 minutes of one-on-one lessons withinstructor and guitarist John McCarthy encourages you to cultivate your own style by emphasizing the techniques and components needed to develop creativity. Learn advanced playing techniques such as full form blues chords bluesscales triplet lead patterns the shuffle feel and swing effect challenging blues riffs turnarounds and more techniques make famous by greats like Gary Moore Lighting Hopkins and Freddy King. The complete song rhythms withfull bass and drum backing tracks will prepare you for the stage.Each Rock House product includes free lifetime membership to Rock House's online lesson support system. Enhance your learning experience links withinstructors download backing tracks access message boards and much more. You'll connect with a community of musicians around the world learning to play music using The Rock House Method.

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

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

Don't Ever Let Nobody Drag Your Spirit Down-Eric Bibb was raised in the folk tradition the son of the folk singer Leon Bibb. Bibb?s uncle was the world-famous jazz pianist and composer John Lewis part of the Modern Jazz Quartet. Bibb was raised in a music-filled household as family friends in the 1950s and 1960s included Pete Seeger Odetta Bob Dylan and the late Paul Robeson who was named Eric?s godfather. Bibb got his first steel guitar at age seven and he got some advice from Dylan that he never forgot to ?keep it simple forget all that fancy stuff.? When he was 16 his father asked him to play guitar in the house band for his TV talent show Someone New.In 1970 Eric left New York City forParis where he met with guitarist Mickey Baker. There he began to focus on blues guitar and after moving to Stockholm he became enamored with prewar blues. A breakout performance at the 1996 London Blues Festival catapulted Eric to a higher level of visibility. Since then he has toured the world performing at concert halls and major festivals. He has toured with Robert Cray Keb Mo Corey Harris and even opened shows for Ray Charles.Eric earned a Grammy nomination for his collaboration (with Taj Mahal and others) on the children?s record SHAKIN? A TAILFEATHER. His album PAINTING SIGNS was recognized by New Age Voice as a Finalist for Best Folk Album of 2001. He joined Maria Muldaur and Rory Block to record the gospelflavored SISTERS & BROTHERS and then released FRIENDS a collection of duets with Taj Mahal Odetta and others. He has been nominated for many W.C. Handy Awards in a variety of categories. Eric?s rich and sensitive vocals and lyrics provide a perfect balance to his fine fingerpicking technique. Purveying a beautifully realized and deftly accomplished soulful folk-blues Eric has no problem blending various genres effortlessly melding a traditional rootsy American style with a subtle contemporary sensibility.

Sixteen swinging blues compositions for guitar ensembles penned by renowned jazz guitarists and educators Chris Buzzelli, Dave Frackenpohl, Barry Greene, Adrian Ingram and Steve Schenkel. The arrangements are presented in graded form, from easy to intermediate in difficulty. All charts are for 4 guitars and a 5th guitar part is added to some of the arrangements. Score and 1st guitar part are included in the hard copy book. Other guitar parts are offered as free internet downloads. This is the companion volume to Mel Bay's 'Jazz Guitar Ensembles' levels 1, 2 and 3 (MB99875, MB99876, MB99877). / Guitare / 104 pages / niveau : Débutant/Intermédiaire / Partition+Online Pdf - Format: 11 X 8,5

Instructeur John McCarthy fournit une base solide en jouant avec cet ensemble de leçons individuelles de blues. Ce programme accéléré, emballé avec un éventail de techniques, aurez vous jouer immédiatement. McCarthy vous guide à travers les accords blues essentiel, patrons de plomb, échelles et techniques de la rythmique, ainsi qu'une multitude de compétences solos comme chaîne de flexion, vibrato, hammer-ons et le pull-offs. En outre, les leçons individuelles sont complimente par un ensemble de pistes playalong donc vous pouvez découvrir l'énergie et l'excitation d'une bande de sauvegarde réelle blues. Vous profiterez d'une histoire convaincante de la guitare blues, avec des détails d'avant-garde des artistes interprètes ou exécutants et maître bluesmen du passé. Inclut une leçon de 32 pages web et livre inscription pour le soutien de leçon en ligne. / Guitare

This book and video will take you from basic concepts in blues guitar through performance level blues solos and techniques. Chapters include: Notation and Tablature Time Values Strumming Blues Techniques The Blues Progression Open String Power Chords Barre Chords Blues Turnarounds Blues Fill-Ins The Blues Scale/Improvising Double Stops and Fingerpicking Blues Solos. This text is supplemented by a stereo compact disc.

Par DAVIS BRAD. This double CD course is designed for any level, from beginner to advanced. The first CD covers acoustic style blues and the second CD covers electric style blues. It walks you through simple tried and true steps that will make training your ear a breeze! You will learn to correctly hum acoustic and electric blues licks, memorize a variety of blues licks in several different key signatures, and transpose what you memorize into alternate key signatures. / Niveau : Débutant / Blues - Methods / Accessoire / Guitare