Add to your blues toolbox! This book/CD pack teaches 75 turnarounds over common chord progressions and in a variety of styles including those of blues guitar greats like Albert King Johnny Winter Mike Bloomfield Duane Allman Jeff Beck T-Bone Walker and others. Excellent material for performance and practice with detailed info for every example. The accompanying CD includes recorded demos of all 75 turnarounds to make learning easy!

If you're a blues guitarist who wants to know how the legends build their solos then this book is for you! Rockin' Blues Licks gives you more than 50 cool licks that sound great over each portion of the blues progression.They are presented in two-measure chunks ? organized by where they fall in a standard 12-bar blues progression ? so you can enrich your blues vocabulary and assemble your own solos with actual licks as played by 15greats including: Jeff Beck Eric Clapton Jerry Garcia Buddy Guy Warren Haynes Jonny Lang Keith Richards Muddy Waters and more! All licks are authentic note-for-note quotes. The CD features recorded demos of all examples plus fast medium and slow jam tracks so you can play your solos over a full rhythm section.

Thirteen fantastic Piano boogies that will give you a real taste of the sounds and styles of Jazz and Blues. Each solo captures a different element of this rich and varied musical genre from a slow and forlorn Blues ballad to a jumpin' Ragtime piece. All pieces are suitable for the intermediate Piano student offering a valuable chance to discover the syncopations and sidewinding melodies of the Jazz world.

Stefan Grossmann-This book from fingerstyle master Stefan Grossman features the music of the legendary master Blind Boy Fuller. It comes complete with a recording of Blind Boy Fuller performing all of the selections contained in the folio. With standard notation and tablature. Includes a biography and explanation of the tab/music system.

Mid-Intermediate Level-A soft bluesy atmosphere is the inspiration for Foggy Blues which reflects the composer's love of the American art form. Mellow inviting and incredibly satisfying to play!

Whether you're a beginner an amateur a professional or a teacher you can develop the skills essential for a blues stylistic performance with this excellent step-by-step guide. The hands-on instruction presented includes information on basic chords and patterns improvisation blues styles and genres licks and playing techniques and much more. Historical information on the roots of blues piano music is presented along with a list of notable blues pianists. It's all here in a single indispensable volume along with demonstration audio tracks available online.

For Clarinet-100 Ultimate Blues Riffs for Clarinet the Beginner Series by musician educator and world renowned author Andrew D. Gordon is an exhaustive guide to introduce beginner students to the various phrases or riffs that make up Blues clarinet playing both from a rhythmic and soloing standpoint. Due to the continued success of his more advanced book 100 Ultimate Blues Riffs for Andrew decided to author a similar type of book for beginner students. This book is ideal for the beginner to intermediate music student with most of the examples notated in the easier keys. Besides learning how to play Blues riffs the book is a useful tool forsight reading exercises with many different rhythms. The 12 bar Blues progression and the Blues scale in Andrew's opinion the two most important aspects of playing the Blues is explained in detail as well as straight and swing rhythms. There are five sections to the riffs in the book section 1 contains basic Blues riffs section 2 contains Rhythm and Blues influenced riffs section 3 contains Blues/Boogie Woogie riffs section 4 contains Rock influenced Blues riffs and section 5 contains Gospel influenced Blues riffs. Included with this book are audio files that contains all the riffs recorded twice: first clarinet melody piano guitar bass and drums and second just the rhythm track of piano guitar bass and drums so you can play-a-long. 

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.

This is a hands-on course to get you started playing traditional blues piano! Progressing from the elementary theory needed to understand chord progressions to setting up a solid left-hand rhythm in the bass to create a bedrock for the right hand improvisations to come this is a comprehensive and systematic course with a CD include that builds a solid bed-rock on which to build more complex techniques.

100 Ultimate Blues Riffs for Eb Alto Saxophone, the Beginner Series by musician, educator and world renowned author Andrew D. Gordon is an exhaustive guide to introduce beginner students to the various phrases or ?riffs? that make up Blues sax playing, both from a rhythmic and soloing standpoint. Due to the continued success of his more advanced book 100 Ultimate Blues Riffs for Eb Alto Andrew decided to author a similar type of book for beginner students. This book is ideal for the beginner to intermediate music student with most of the examples notated in the easier keys. Besides learning how to play Blues riffs the book is a useful tool for sight reading exercises with many different rhythms. The 12 bar Blues progression and the Blues scale, in Andrew?s opinion, the two most important aspects of playing the Blues is explained in detail as well as ?straight? and ?swing? rhythms. There are five sections to the riffs in the book, section 1 contains basic Blues riffs, section 2 contains Rhythm and Blues influenced riffs, section 3 contains Blues/Boogie Woogie riffs, section 4 contains Rock influenced Blues riffs and section 5 contains Gospel influenced Blues riffs. Included with this book is an audio CD that contains all the riffs, recorded twice: first, sax melody, piano, guitar, bass and drums and second just the rhythm track of piano, guitar bass and drums so you can play-a-long. 'Whether reading the 100 riffs or picking them up by ear, the book can have many uses. It is good for sightreading in the style, short improvisational work or developing the ear. The clean, well-laid out books should offer a springboard into further study of the blues and improvisation.' - saxshed.com

Delta is a collection of compositions written over about a 20 year period. It includes 13 solos in notation and tablature reflecting Mediterranean Latin Jazz Celtic and Blues genres. The title Delta is drawn specifically from the last movement of the Blues Suite that wrote for Stanley Yates back in '99. Stanley toured England playing the entire Suite at his concerts. He returned to the States with reports asto the success of the Blues Suite and in particular the Delta movement.

This book from fingerstyle master Stefan Grossman features the music of the legendary master Mississippi John Hurt. It comes complete with two recordings CDs of Mississippi John Hurt performing all of the selections contained in the folio. With standard notation and tablature. Includes a biography and explanation of the tab/music system.

Clarinet and Orchestra-28 minute concerto pays tribute to the Mississippi Delta Blues Tradition.

Western Swing Fiddle. Learn the three basic styles of western swing fiddling. The melody section includes classic techniques to help you achieve an authentic sound. Harmony Fiddling covers the basics of two- and three-part fiddling. The Improvising section unlocks the secrets of the hot, jazzy fiddling heard on recordings by Bob Wills, Asleep at the Wheel, and many others. Includes access to online audio with play-along section where you can try out new techniques.