Jackson Mississippi attracted a host of blues musicians in the period 1910-1940. Many players from small towns made their way to Jackson which as the capital of Mississippi and a much larger city held forth the promise of moreand better work opportunities and the possibility of making a living playing music rather than driving a mule or chopping cotton. The Jackson Blues scene was an unusually rich one stylistically spanning the gap from thesophisticated Pop blues of Bo Carter to the low-down blues of Rube Lacy and a host of players working between those two extremes.Included on this DVD are transcriptions and teaching of recorded performances from TommyJohnson one of the fountainheads of the Mississippi blues Itta Bena natives Rube Lacy and Ishmon Bracey with their distinctive vocal head tones and intense playing the great Geeshie Wiley a woman who played and sang asstrongly as any man Walter Vinson guitarist and lead singer for the Mississippi Sheiks and Bo Carter a player with a rich chordal vocabulary and Jazzy sound. The songs presented offer a wide range of left and right handapproaches and ways of keeping time and will expand your your ability to play blues moving far afield from the simple alternating bass.A detailed tab/music booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD and contains all ofthe songs' lyrics as well as transcriptions of the Guitar parts. Also included are the original source recordings from which the transcriptions taught in the lesson were taken.Titles include: Tommy Johnson: LonesomeHome Blues Walter Vinson: Overtime Blues Geeshie Wiley: Eagles On A Half Rube Lacy: Ham Hound Crave Ishmon Bracey: Four Day Blues Bo Carter: Honey

Stevie Ray Vaughan was a one-man Blues revolution - a true Texan original that totally reinvigorated the blues guitar and made it relevant and exciting for the Van Halen generation. Combining the power and virtuosity of Hendrix with a life-long love of Albert King Kenny Burrell and the Texas blues greats SRV possessed a style that was all his own charging the blues with all the energy and invention of rock.In this double-DVD tutorial Jamie Humphries provides a detailed guide to five Stevie Ray Vaughan favourites with note-by-note explanations across a wide range of styles. Learn for yourself the stunning impassioned blues of The Sky Is Crying the stompingshuffle of Pride And Joy the sleazy funk of Cold Shot and the fret-melting fireworks of Scuttlebuttin'.

Learning blues haphazardly can be very frustrating a lick here a lick there so having a complete system that takes you by the hand from the basic progressions and tools to advanced blues soloing can save you months of dead-end trial and error. With this course you'll learn the notes chords and form that make up the blues. You'll also build a strong repertoire of ready-to-use riffs (shown in both music and TAB) that can immediately be incorporated into your playing. You'll hear exactly what to play with each session's ???Hearing the Blues??? ear training exercises. Explore and demonstrate your new skills with a real band in a variety of musical settings using theJam-Along CD and DVD. This pack includes: six DVDs of instruction 1 jam-along DVD with a live blues band 1 jam-along CD artist interviews 100 page free downloadable lesson book access to an online support community and much more! Total running time: 7.15 hours.

An Inside Look at the Guitar Style of Mike Bloomfield-He was one of the first white Americam blues guitarists to have a major impact in the rock world. This book presents his music in a comprehensive play-along package. Contains note for note transcriptions and detailed perfomance notes.

Six and Twelve String Blues-Paul Geremia is possibly the greatest living performer of the East Coast and Texas fingerpicking and slide styles. He has been called a national treasure. John Hammond says that he'd drive a thousand miles to see Paul play. 'When Paul plays Leadbelly you can close your eyes and swear that it is Leadbelly himself.' Paul has created a style which is very much his own combining his interpretations of the music of Blind Lemon Jefferson Robert Johnson Blind Willie McTell Scrapper Blackwell and Blind Blake. Paul’s superb recordings have made him a critical favorite and place him firmly among the legends who inspired and influenced him over the past four decades. Titlesinclude: Tootie Blues Rising River Blues Cat Man Blues Kill It Kid Rag Statesboro Blues Stocking Feet Blues Leaving Blues Silver City Bound Death Don’t Have No Mercy Meet Me In The Bottom Pony Blues Scrapper’s Scraps Wonderful Affliction My Kind of Place Kicking In The Country Still Thinking About You and Little Silver Airplane.

Rob MacKillop presents DADGAD Blues an impressive collection of 20 fantastic fingerstyle blues compositions and arrangements exclusively for DADGAG tuning.The styles covered in this collectionrange from country blues boogie woogie left-hand piano blues early jazz-blues gut-bucket blues and modal blues. Accompanying audio is available as an online download which includes backing tracks and performances by RobMacKillop to accompany you whilst playing classic songs such as St. James Infirmary Blues St. Louis Blues C. C. Rider and much more alongside 15 full-length studies.The book begins with easier arrangementsprogressing through intermediate and onto advanced ones. A multitude of chord and scale fingerings are provided including pentatonic minor and major scales blues scales diminished scales and arpeggios 7th chords whole-tonescales and the super locrian mode amongst many more. All the songs included with this book have an online audio accompaniment recorded by Rob MacKillop and are readily available to download.

A comprehensive guide to electric blues guitar playing. Contains over 90 musical examples in standard music notation and tablature. Includes playing and performance tips and a full-length demonstration CD with play-along backingtracks.

A Quick and Easy Introduction for Beginners-Teach yourself to play authentic blues Guitar with this book and video set. Each music example in Teach Yourself To Play Blues Guitar is taught and performed on video by author and blues historian Dave Rubin. You'll learn many tips techniques and tools of the trade along the way as you hone your burgeoning blues bravado. No music reading is required. Each example is notated in an easy-to-understand rhythm tab format and demonstrated on video. The price of this book includes access to video lessons online for download or streaming using the unique code supplied inside the book.

SongXpress is the fastest and easiest way to learn your favorite songs on guitar. It's like having a good friend teach you in the comfort of your living room! With this exciting and fun format you'll learn all the chords riffs and guitar patterns for each song. Plus our exclusive on-screen diagrams and tablature practically guarantee you will be playing in no time. SongXpress has quickly become the instructional video of choice for beginning and intermediate guitarists worldwide. Now you can enjoy the same quick and easy style of learning on your home DVD player! DVD features include a special tuning segment chord diagrams additional video tips and much more! DanWarner exposes you once again to the awesome world of blues guitar and its greatest players including Jonny Lang Stevie Ray Vaughan Buddy Guy and the great Eric Clapton. Before You Accuse Me (Take a Look at Yourself) * Lie to Me * Mary Had a Little Lamb * Spoonful.

Folk Blues Fingerstyle Guitar. In Nashville, the studio guitarists joke that all the money is in the first five frets. It is those simple first position chords that make the hits. In this collection we will stay within these boundaries and explore fingerstyle folk, blues, gospel, and ragtime arrangements in the keys of A, C, D, E and G. All you need to know are basic chord fingerings for A, C, D, E, F and G. Tunes include: KEY of C Railroad Bill, Careless Love, I Am A Pilgrim, What A Friend We Have In Jesus, I'll Fly Away, Troubles, Delia, C. C. Rider, Trouble In Mind KEY of G I'm Troubled, Easy Rider Blues, Try Me One More Time, I'm Wild About My Loving, I Couldn't Help It, Ragged and Dirty KEY of D Take a Whiff On Me, C. C. Rider, Will The Circle Be Unbroken, Careless Love KEY of E, Oh, Mary Don't You Weep, Crow Jane, I Shall Not Be Moved, Trouble In Mind, Careless Love, Betty and Dupree, MandO Blues KEY of A Monday Morning Blues, Spoonful, Weeping Willow, Careless Love, Trouble In Mind, Prison Cell Blues/Lemon's Jump

Get the sounds of B.B. King Albert King Stevie Ray Vaughan Robben Ford T. Bone Walker Muddy Waters and many many more! Keith Wyatt master blues guitarist and educator demonstrates how to create the soulful sounds of all the great legends as well as detailing the colourful history of blues sounds and techniques.