Play Blues Guitar: Beginning Chords

Learning the Blues Has Never Been So Easy! Have you always wanted to play the blues? Authentic blues? Realize your dream of becoming a great blues guitarist with Alfred's Learn to Play Blues Guitar---the simple, straightforward, and effective way to learn the blues. Whether you are a beginning guitarist or an advanced player just getting into the style, start playing real blues music right away through easy-to-understand instructions and great-sounding examples. The first part of this book and video covers blues rhythm playing. Learn over 50 blues rhythm patterns, including medium shuffle, uptown blues, slow blues, blues-rock, mambo, and more. The second part covers blues lead guitar. Start with learning basic soloing techniques---such as slides, hammer-ons, pull-offs, bending, vibrato, and rakes---then dive right in by playing 18 great blues solos in the styles of legends like Eric Clapton, Albert Collins, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Albert King, and B. B. King. Features: * All examples include standard music notation and TAB * Every lesson and music example is clearly demonstrated on the video by noted educator Steve Trovato * MP3 accompaniment tracks to hone your skills as a blues lead guitarist / Guitare

Par CHRISTIANSEN COREY. This book contains a number of easy blues solos written for the beginning blues guitarist. Many of the solos are to be played in the first position with a few in the third and higher positions. All of the solos in this collection are presented in standard notation and tab. Students should read the standard notation as much as their reading skills will allow as that is where the rhythmic notation is contained, but the tab will allow any student to play the solos in higher positions where many beginners find reading challenging. Many of the solos have techniques written such as slides, 1/4 step bends (a very slight bend), and grace notes. These are simple techniques to execute and can be mimicked by listening to the play-along recording if the student does not read these techniques in standard notation. A professional band has recorded each tune on the accompanying play-along CD. This will help students hear the groove of the tune and how each piece should be phrased. Historically, the blues is an aural tradition and many of the most prolific blues artists learned by ear. The CD will provide invaluable help for playing these tunes authentically. Check out the Free PDF Download that contains a third of the book! / Niveau : Débutant / Blues - Solos / Tablatures / Guitare Tablatures Flatpick et Plectre

Country Blues Guitar styles span a wide horizon. In these three lessons the ideas and techniques of Rev. Gary Davis, Charley Jordan, Tommy Johnson and Mississippi John Hurt are presented. The arrangements vary from alternating bass to a Delta strum to a monotonic bass. In notation and tablature with three compact discs featuring 3 full hours of note-by-note, phrase-by-phrase instruction. LESSON ONE: Rev. Davis's Cocaine Blues and You Got The Pocket Book, I Got The Key both played in the key of C and in what Rev. Davis called 'old fashion' pickin'. The popular blues Crow Jane played in the key of E. LESSON TWO: Charley Jordan's Keep It Clean and Hunkie Tunkie Blues both played in the key of E and presenting Jordan's unusual blues approach. Tommy Johnson's Canned Heat played in dropped D tuning. LESSON THREE: We begin with Come Back Baby, a slow blues in A using a monotonic bass. We follow this with Mississippi John Hurt's Monday Morning Blues also played in the key of A but using an alternating bass. / Guitare (Fingerpick) / 24 pages / niveau : Intermédiaire / Partition/3-Cd Set - Format: 11 X 8,5

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.

These essential fretboard patterns are road maps that all great blues guitarists know and use. This book teaches how to play lead and rhythm anywhere on the fretboard in any key; play a variety of lead guitar styles using movable blues boxes chord-based licks blues scales and double-note licks; play boogie woogie licks and turnarounds; and much more! Each chapter presents a pattern and shows how to use it and provides helpful playing tips. Great for beginning intermediate and advanced players.

Media Type : Book/CD Set Level : Beginning Musical Genre : Blues Series : School of Blues Number of pages : 24 Blues Guitar Play-Along Trax, within the School of the Blues Lesson Series, is an exciting play-along that contains the most common grooves used in blues bands today. Notated examples are also provided to give you an idea of how you can approach accompanying a vocalist or instrumentalist. Along with the 12 jam tracks, the book is accompanied by a CD recording of all examples (played by author John Garcia) along with the background music.

Media Type : Book CD DVD Level : Beginning Musical Genre : Blues Series : You Can Teach Yourself Number of pages : 80 An in-depth look at the basics of acoustic blues guitar. Learn the blues progression, blues chords, strum patterns, how to accompany a blues song, moveable chords, barre chords, the blues scale, turnarounds, fill-ins, the capo, double stops, blues licks, bass line accompaniments, blues techniques, how to build and play an improvised solo, and fingerpicking blues. Also included are dozens of blues solos and 9 great new blues songs! In notation

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

My First Blues Guitar Picking Songs is the perfect primer for anyone interested in learning blues guitar played with a pick. An addition to Steve Kaufman's 'My First' series the book starts the student from the very beginning. Basic chords and notation are presented progressing to blues strummingpatterns and lines. Lessons also cover blues scales tablature I-IV-V chords and more. The book is perfect for anyone interested in learning blues guitar and experienced tab readers who wish to learn standard notation.

Beginning Fingerstyle Guitar. With Beginning Fingerstyle Guitar, author John Miller has written a book designed to provide newcomers to this style, whether first-time guitarists or guitarists who have previously only played with a pick, the techniques needed to develop a solid foundation for playing fingerstyle. The book uses songs for teaching, presenting multiple ways of playing a song, starting simply, and building gradually in terms of technical difficulty. And the exercises are designed to build skills in a wide range of fingerstyle skills: strumming, thumb-lead playing, pattern picking, and melody arrangements with the thumb playing alternating bass. What specific features does the book offer for the beginning fingerstyle guitarist? ? Over fifty exercises, for playing through the songs, all notated in both standard notation and tablature. ? Links to sound samples for all of the exercises, with each exercise played at a slow tempo, for starting out, and a target tempo, with all of the exercises counted in, so that you can play along with them. ? Chord diagrams are provided for each song with the fingerings indicated that you would need to play the exercises. ? Playing tips precede each exercise, offering guidance on how to play the exercises with the greatest ease and efficiency in both the picking and the fretting hands. ? A special section on playing Blues at the end of the book.Additional guidance is offered on understanding tablature, practicing, developing your tone, scale structure and transposition and use of a capo. So, in Beginning Fingerstyle Guitar, you will find a full service instruction manual?one that has been designed to enable you to progress comfortably at your own rate of learning, while steadily building skills and moving forward in terms of your own confidence and willingness to accept new challenges.

The Beginner Basics: Guitar Bible is an indispensable self-teaching learning and reference manual for the beginning guitarist.This set includes a hardcover glossy full-colour 332-page manual as wellas 5 DVDs and 1 DVD-ROM with over 570 audio and 350 video files to download to PC Mac iPod or MP3 player.The Beginner Basics: Guitar Bible features 90 lessons covering lead rhythm and fingerpickingstyles of playing the Guitar.No prior knowledge of music or the Guitar is required to learn using this method and you will be shown how to play in any style including pop rock folk country and blues.This book canbe used for any type of Guitar: Electric Acoustic or Classical and contains all guitarists need to know to be able to play in a band. A free color chart including chords note summary fingerpicking patterns and more is alsoincluded.