With no fewer than 50 blues licks and riffs inspired by the greatest blues musicians ever to have lived such as Eric Clapton Buddy Guy Albert King Muddy Waters Stevie Ray Vaughan and BB King the 50 Rhythmiques Blues A La Guitare is ideal for any budding blues guitarist. Not only this playing these riffs and licks is so enjoyable that you will be learning techniques and theory simultaneously. Blues techniques like triads double stops bends hammer-ons pull-offs grace notes binary rhythmic shuffles and in the first chapter structure rhythm and chords. The accompanying DVD allows you to hear and see all50 riffs in detail at normal speed and slowed down giving you the ability to master the perfect techniques choosing the perfect fingerings and to play in the groove. The accompanying MP3 CD is composed of 50 tracks that can be played at two different speeds. The Guitar can be heard at normal speed that then fades away so that you can take its place instead. The duration of these tracks is long enough to allow you to play for enough time to master all the necessary techniques.

Whether Guy Davis is appearing on Late Night TV programs or nationally syndicated radio shows in front of 25 000 people at Madison Square Garden or an intimate gathering of students at a Music Camp Guy feels the instinctive desire to give each listener his 'all'. His 'all' is the Blues.Guy can tell you stories of his great-grandparents and his grandparents their days as track linemen and of their interactions with the KKK. He can also tell you that as a child raised in middle-class New York suburbs the only cotton he's personally picked is his 'BVDs' up off the floor. He's a musician composer actor director and writer. But most importantly Guy Davis is abluesman. The blues permeates every corner of Davis' creativity.Throughout his career he has dedicated himself to reviving the traditions of acoustic blues and bringing them to as many ears as possible through the material of the great blues masters African American stories and his own original songs stories and performance pieces. In 1993 he performed Off-Broadway as legendary blues player Robert Johnson in Robert Johnson: Trick the Devil. He received rave reviews and became the 1993 winner of the Blues Foundation's ?Keeping the Blues Alive Award?. Looking for more ways to combine his love of blues music and acting Davis created material for himself. He wrote In Bed with the Blues: The Adventures of Fishy Waters -- an engaging and moving one-man show. The Off-Broadway debut in 1994 received critical praise from the New York Times and the Village Voice. Of Davis' live performance one reviewer observed that his style and writing ?sound so deeply drenched in lost black traditions that you feel that they must predate him. But no they don't. He created them.?These days Davis concentrates much of his efforts on writing and performing his Blues music. He has released nine albums for Red House Records all of which have garnered rave reviews and