Beginning guitarists will benefit from these easy-to-absorb lessons designed to teach the essential basics of blues guitar playing. Essential lead guitar techniques are also covered including string bending hammer-ons and pull-offs sliding and vibrato which can be useful in many styles of guitar playing from jazz to metal. Other topics covered include: the blues scale · the major and minor pentatonic scales · outlining the chords · double stops · phrasing · relative scales · turnaround licks · extended pentatonics · 12-bar blues progressions · blues phrasing · and more.
SKU: MB.98339M
ISBN 9780786690022. 8.75 x 11.75 inches.
This user-friendly book, with access to online audio, shows how to transform standard three-chord blues changes into harmonically sophisticated jazz-blues progressions.The book covers chord substitution, twelve-bar blues, minor blues, eight-bar blues, and sixteen-bar blues. Chord frames are supplied for guitarists. Blank treble and bass staves are included for writing songs, licks, and solos. An absolute goldmine for all musicians, students, blues songwriters, recording studios, ad agencies, and anyone who plays blues music. This truly amazing learning/reference work, designed for beginners and pros alike, also contains an appendix featuring a wealth of information about modern blues progressions and how to create them. Online audio download available.