Acoustic Blues Guitar

The Art of Acoustic Blues Guitar - The Basics. Whether your favourite blues guitarist is Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Blind Blake, John Lee Hooker, Big Bill Broonzy, or Mississippi John Hurt, studying the basic techniques presented in this program is the first step toward being able to capture the essence of their traditional styles. In this book, Woody Mann shows you practical ways to develop fundamental technique and offers you insights into the musical logic of blues guitar. Woody walks you through each song, explaining the chord positions and picking techniques. He teaches blues in the keys of D, G, C, E, and A, presenting a wide selection of classic blues songs and instrumentals from the masters of blues guitar. Included in this program are the basics of the Delta blues of Robert Johnson, the ragtime style of Blind Blake (the man with the piano-playing guitar), and the music of Big Bill Broonzy, Memphis Minnie, Willie Walker, and Willie Moore. Each song illustrates how solo players approach the guitar like a piano, playing melodies and bass lines simultaneously. Developing this independent two-line picking technique enables you to get the feel, syncopation, and subtleties of the music. The songs in themselves are studies in acoustic blues technique and present the authentic elements of the acoustic blues sound and style including blues technique and ways to play off of the chords and improvise within a song. This program is recommended for beginning acoustic blues guitarists as well as electric guitarists and acoustic fingerstyle guitarists of all levels who would like to go beyond pattern picking and develop a more dynamic and syncopated sound. 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.

The complete acoustic blues method by Lou Manzi with full tuition in all aspects of blues playing and compete with a CD of audio examples.Here's your chance to master the sometimes funky sometimes haunting sounds of the acoustic blues guitar with a comprehensive tutorial method. Every aspect of the blues is introduced in and easy-to-understand manner and the CD of demonstrations will ensure that you capture the details and nuances of this characteristic style.Lessons include:12-bar progressionsRhythm and theoryShuffles and Boogie Woogie patternsBlues soloingLeft- and right-hand techniquesTurnaroundsMoveablepatternsFingerstyle blues

Woody Mann’s teaching method for acoustic blues Guitar is exactly what every aspiring blues player needs.Using his vast first-hand knowledge of the genre he has written a selection of pieces that distildifferent blues styles into individual performances which make their essential techniques accessible as never before.The 51 instrumentals featured include many styles of acoustic blues that span ragtime Mississippi Deltaopen-tuning numbers and the folk-blues sounds of the Carolinas. These are all included in a Dropcard with downloadable audio.

Toute personne intéressée à apprendre à jouer la guitare blues acoustique peut prendre ce livre et commencer tout de suite. Cette méthode complète bien rythmé couvre tout, de la base de techniques et de styles avancés. Début concepts comprennent la théorie de base du blues, de la technique de gauche, le phrasé d'appel et de réponse, intros, retournements, et l'improvisation. Pour le joueur intermédiaire, le livre prend un coup d'oeil à 12 bar, 16 bar, et les progressions de blues 9-bar, avant d'explorer d'échelle et de blues en solo arpège basé, jazz blues, et ouvert tunings. Le livre se termine avec des techniques avancées, y compris un regard en profondeur sur le blues fingerstyle (avec beaucoup de morceaux d'accords standards, ouvertes et suppléant), la technique de la guitare slide, pentatonique et la théorie de l'échelle de blues et de l'application, la théorie modale, jazz blues, la marche des lignes de basse , sauter, et les techniques d'inhibition de pointe. Que vous soyez de commencer à apprendre la guitare blues ou êtes un joueur avancé qui cherchent à donner votre jeu plus de nuances, Acoustic Blues Guitar Method Complete est tout ce que vous aurez jamais besoin. Un CD MP3 démontrant exemples dans le livre est inclus. / Guitare

By means of very extensive lessons this coursebook will most certainly satisfy your blues craving â?? and this without ever damping your pleasure of playing.The lessons you are taught here revolve around 25 fingerstyle acoustic blues pieces performed in the style of illustrious acoustic blues Guitar players such as Robert Johnson Big Bill Bronzy Lonnie Johnson Blind Blake Mississippi John Hurt Skip James Lightninâ?? Hopkins and many more.Each and every musical piece comprised within this coursebook covers two whole pages meaning that youâ??re not dealing with mere blues chord progressions but with regular blues compositions. Aside from the pleasure ofplaying they provide they afford you the opportunity to master the whole box of tricks that make up the peculiarity of this musical style. See? Itâ??s all about learning by playing.The approach to be followed for the interpretation of these 25 musical pieces is illustrated in detail within the two preliminary chapters of this coursebook: plucking and fretting techniques and rhythms specific to acoustic blues are accurately and meticulously explained to you. In addition to this the DVD shows you all 25 musical pieces at their full length and at two different tempi: first for demonstration purposes recorded at actual playing speed then at a slower speed in order to give you the opportunity to practice and overcome the upcoming difficulties.