Learn & Master Blues Guitar: Guitar Solo: Instrumental Tutor

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

Learning B.B. King's music has never been more fun! B.B. King: Master Bluesman not only contains accurate transcriptions of 10 blues classics and biographical information on B.B. himself it also includes a CD with the original recordings of every song!

Advanced-Become a blues Guitar god. This instruction featuring guitarist John McCarthy will propel you to the most advanced stages of blues Guitar.Learn the talk back effect expansion on a main theme and how to fuse jazz into blues music. Master lead techniques such as rakes pick and finger and advanced bending. John's lessons cover how to play blues endings turnarounds melodic blues the circle of fourths slide techniques and many blues rhythms that you will learn to play with full band backing tracks.Features: iPod-ready video follow-along tab book free lifetime membership for online lesson support authored for Zone 0 and more. 1 hour 5 minutes

The Logic Of Fretboard-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 andharmonies can be derived from simple moveable chord shapes. The Logic Of Fretboard 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 bar 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.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.

Of Brownie Mcghee-Brownie McGhee's rhythmic fingerpicking style rich accompaniments intricate lead playing and wide-ranging repertoire influenced generations of Guitarists around the world. Happy Traum learned to play directly from this master bluesman and he knows how to make Brownie's songs and techniques accessible to all aspiring acoustic blues players. Happy starts with the basics so that even novice blues players will be able to get off to a solid start. Concentrating on the keys of E and A his detailed lesson covers all the musical components that made Brownie's playing distinctive. Happy provides numerous playing tips and advice along with first-hand insights into Brownie'slife and music.

In this DVD filmed in 2001 guitarist Shun Kikuta teaches you the guitar styles and techniques you need to play Chicago blues. You'll learn: rhythm patterns for 12-bar blues basic solo techniques 53 essential blues guitar licks phrasing ideas chord voicings minor blues eight-bar blues and turnarounds. You'll also learn the techniques of the masters as Shun guides you through examples in the styles of such blues legends as B.B. King Albert King Albert Collins T-Bone Walker Elmore James and Muddy Waters. As an added bonus you will see and hear Shun demonstrate all the concepts demonstrated throughout the DVD in five live performances with J.W.Williams and other great Chicago blues musicians at the world famous club Buddy Guy's Legends.