House Of Blues Guitar Course: Guitar: Instrumental Tutor

The House of Blues and producers of The Rock House Method join together to bring you this unique and comprehensive blues guitar course!With this course designed by world renowned instructor/guitarist John McCarthy you will develop a solid foundation for playing blues guitar by learning essential blues chords and scales the BB Box lead techniques used by greats such as Stevie Ray Vaughan Buddy Guy and B.B. King string bending vibrato hammer-ons pull-offs and complete blues rhythms including the 12 bar blues. The second part of the course encourages you to cultivate your own style by emphasizing the techniques and components needed to developcreativity. You'll learn full form blues chords and scales triplet lead patterns the shuffle feel and swing effect challenging blues riffs and turnarounds and much more.This expanded edition features: redesigned packagingupdated and revised lessons8 new pages of lessons addedall audio tracks now available as downloadand a PDF digital edition for portable devices when the product gets registered

The House of Blues and producers of The Rock House Method join together to bring you this accelerated acoustic guitar course designed to take you from the very first stages of beginner to intermediate player in no time. It's jam-packed with instruction that covers a complete spectrum of techniques and components for acoustic guitar. You will learn the parts of the guitar proper hand position tuning open and full form chords strum patterns major & minor scales song rhythms and the basics of finger picking. You will be playing complete song rhythms with the full band backing tracks.This expanded edition features: redesignedpackagingupdated and revised lessons8 new pages of lessons addedall audio tracks now available as downloadand a PDF digital edition for portable devices when the product gets registered

A Complete Course for Playing Guitar-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.

Une méthode de 80 pages en tablatures, 2 DVD soit 2 heures d'enregistrement, 2 CD audios contenant les exemples de chaque leçon et des 'play-along' vous permettant de jouer accompagné par des musiciens professionnels. En anglais. / Guitare / niveau : Débutant/Intermédiaire / Partition Cd Dvd

A Complete Course in Techniques and Styles-This latest entry in Backbeat's bestselling handbook series starts by exploring the humble beginnings of blues guitar through the early decades of the 20th century including profiles of such players as Robert Johnson Charley Patton and Son House. As the story moves into the '40s and '50s and blues players migrate to major urban centers author Adam St. James follows the evolution of the music at the hands of such electric blues kingpins as Muddy Waters Howlin' Wolf and B. B. King. Then it's the blues-rockers of the '60s '70s and '80s (including Eric Clapton Jimmy Page Jeff Beck and Stevie Ray Vaughan) before the story comes up to date with blues flame-keepers suchas Keb Mo' or Duke Robillard and some not-quite-traditionalists such as Robben Ford or Derek Trucks.A comprehensive section for mastering electric and acoustic blues follows this historic overview. Starting from the very basics it leads you into more advanced rhythm and lead techniques before examining four key styles: acoustic blues classic electric blues blues rock and jazz blues. The many exercises in the book are supported by specially recorded audio tracks on the accompanying CD.

Beginner - Advanced-Designed by John McCarthy this Master Edition combines all levels of this award-winning series in a complete course! Learn the essential techniques needed to play all genres of music. Start with how to hold the Bass for comfortable playing and fast effective learning. Next learn rhythm timing basic Bass lines and how to play along with a drummer. Learn 3rds 5ths and octaves and how to apply them in a song. Plucking techniques including slap and pop and using a pick are covered in depth. Next learn scales from minor pentatonic to full major scales as you play them in patterns across the neck and apply them to form Bass lines and write songs. All genresof music are covered from blues to rock and from jazz to metal. Learn walking Bass lines drop D tuning and syncopated bass lines and apply them over full band backing tracks to get the sensation of playing in your own band. From theory to complete songs everything you need to master Bass Guitar. Download audio backing tracks and demonstrations that correspond with each lesson in the book. Hear each lesson played slowly and at regular speed. Play songs and Bass lines over full band backing tracks to get the sensation of playing in a band! Register using the member number inside the past page of the book. Book also includes Bonus video lessons.

A Complete Course-With this blues course designed by renowned guitarist John McCarthy you will develop general Guitar basics and a solid foundation for playing the blues. Learn essential blues chords scales and lead techniques like string bending vibrato and hammer-ons pull-offs. McCarthy teaches full blues scales with tri-tones the B.B. Box and how to construct a 12 bar blues progression. He challenges you to learn complete blues solos riffs and syncopated rhythm progressions. Learn the talk back effect expansion on a main theme and how to fuse jazz into blues music. Master techniques such as rakes pick and finger and advanced bending. McCarthy showsyou blues endings turnarounds melodic blues the circle of fourths slide techniques and many blues rhythms.See Hear and Apply Each Lesson:On the high density DVD find two full programs on one one disc! McCarthy teaches and illustrates each playing example through easy-to-follow close-up views of each hand. He slowly breaks down all the lessons so you can easily follow along to get the hand positions correct. The included video also allows you to hear how the examples are supposed to sound and most importantly how McCarthy applies them in a musical sense.Lifetime Web Membership for Lesson Support and Download Backing Tracks:You get free membership to The Rock House Method® support system on the web. Use the member number found inside this book to register for lifetime support at RockHouseMethod.com. Use this fully interactive Lesson Support site to download backing tracks to play the examples over enhance your learning experience link with instructors and connect with a community of people around the world who are also learning.