Blues Grooves For Guitar

Blues Grooves for Guitar is an essential collection of tips, tricks, techniques and theory that will give your rhythm playing an authentic blues feel. Examples demonstrate everything from basics of rhythm and harmony to comping to the subtleties of Chicago, Texas, Delta and other blues styles. Rob Fletcher's enthusiastic approach makes it fun and easy to learn the vital elements of a great musical tradition. A CD demonstrating all the examples and compositions in the book is included.

Blues Guitar Level 1, within the School of the Blues Lesson Series, is about learning the art of playing rhythm guitar and its various grooves pertaining to the blues. Areas covered are: major scales, chord construction, Chicago-type shuffles, uptown swing & jump, cut time, slow blues, rhumba, funky blues, rock beat, boogie beat, eight-bar blues; openings, breaks and endings. This book is accompanied by audio download available online of all examples (played by author John Garcia) along with the background music. For all skill level players. Includes access to online audio

This audio CD and booklet presents 10 backing tracks for you to practice soloing. Each track is recorded twice, once with harmonica and once without. Improve your timing by keeping up with a professional group. Develop a bank of riffs while playing with a solid blues backing. Learn new phrasing techniques. Playing along will stimulate your powers of improvisation. Listening carefully to what each instrument is doing will help you emulate it or just blend in, picking up rhythm patterns and playing your favorite melody over some of the tracks. Become acquainted with different blues grooves. It's good fun and great practice whatever your level of proficiency. the booklet contains basic instruction on rhythm, tone, melody, harmony, tongue blocking, improvisation, positions and scales, bending notes, and more.

Blues Guitar Level 1, within the School of the Blues Lesson Series, is about learning the art of playing rhythm guitar and its various grooves pertaining to the blues. Areas covered are: major scales, chord construction, Chicago-type shuffles, uptown swing & jump, cut time, slow blues, rhumba, funky blues, rock beat, boogie beat, eight-bar blues; openings, breaks and endings. This book is accompanied by audio download available online of all examples (played by author John Garcia) along with the background music. For all skill level players

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.

Teach yourself how to play guitar with our easy blues guitar lessons. ***Comes with online access to free audio demonstrating all examples. Hear how each one is played by a teacher, then play along with the backing band.*** "Want to learn from the best? Get this book [...] If you want a neat, concise, thorough introduction to playing the Blues then you want this book. No arguments [...] So, buy this book and get Rockin'! Highly recommended!" - McRonson, Scotland [Amazon UK] Progressive Blues Guitar Solos contains all you need to know to start learning to be a great blues guitar player - in one easy-to-follow, lesson-by-lesson blues guitar tutorial. Suitable for all ages and all types of guitars including acoustic guitar and electric guitar. Basic knowledge of how to read music and playing the guitar is required to teach yourself to learn to play guitar from this book. Teach yourself: • How to play electric guitar solos and how to play acoustic guitar solos • How to play guitar scales including minor scales, pentatonic scales, blues scales and major scales in various patterns and how to harmonize across the entire fretboard • How to play blues guitar notes and blues guitar scales and licks used in blues lead guitar solos • All the fundamental techniques of blues guitar playing including hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, bends, release bends, slight bends, vibrato, muting, rakes, trills, tremolo and trail offs • Guitar theory for learning how to read guitar music and how to read guitar tabs for beginners • Blues guitar tips and guitar tricks that every player should know when learning guitar • Shortcuts for how to learn guitar fast by getting the most from guitar practice sessions Contains everything you need to know to learn to play the guitar today. Features include: • Progressive step-by-step easy beginners guitar lessons written by a professional blues guitar teacher • Full color photos and diagrams • Easy-to-read blues guitar music and easy blues guitar tabs with chords for accompaniment • Guitar scale diagrams for all important blues guitar scales • 49 blues guitar exercises in a variety of styles such as shuffles, traditional slow blues and jazz style blues, along with R&B and funk grooves, written in the styles of blues legends like B.B. King, Albert King, Freddie King, Albert Collins, Buddy Guy, Otis Rush, Peter Green and Stevie Ray Vaughan Guitar lessons have never been this easy for anyone who wants to learn how to play the guitar, fast. LearnToPlayMusic.com's blues guitar lessons are used by students and guitar teachers worldwide to learn how to play guitar. For over 30 years, our team of professional authors, composers and musicians have crafted guitar lesson books that are a cut above the rest. We offer a huge selection of music instruction books that cover many different instruments and styles in print, eBook and app formats. Awarded the 'Quality Excellence Design' (QED) seal of approval for eBook innovation, LearnToPlayMusic.com continues to set the standard for quality music education resources.

(Guitar Educational). As rhythm guitarist for blues legend Muddy Waters, Steady Rollin' Bob Margolin has gained invaluable experience in the art of Chicago blues rhythm guitar. And now in this exclusive and comprehensive book with video, Bob Margolin and blues author/historian Dave Rubin bring you the definitive instructional guitar method on the subject, featuring loads of rhythm guitar playing examples to learn and practice, covering a variety of styles, techniques, tips, historical anecdotes, and much more. To top it off, every playing example in the book is performed by Bob Margolin himself!

"Essential Blues Bass Grooves", within the School of the Bluesо Lesson Series, presents 46 bass patterns essential to the gigging Blues bass player. Material is presented in standard music notation and TAB. This method is for all skill level players.This series is designed for students of other instruments to play together. If you have friends that play harmonica, guitar, keyboard or drums, tell them about this series so that you can play together.