Acoustic Blues Guitar (The Ultimate Beginner Series) [Paperback]

Keith Wyatt (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1997 | Series: The Ultimate Beginner Series

Acoustic Blues Guitar teaches blues chord forms, stylistic licks and patterns, blues scales, turnarounds, solo country blues style guitar, independent bass line and melody ideas, and more. The book includes a full-color photo section showing all types of slides. Written in standard notation and tablature.

Product Details

• Paperback: 64 pages
• Publisher: Warner Bros Pubns (November 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0769200389
• ISBN-13: 978-0769200385
• Product Dimensions: 12.2 x 8.9 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #784,103 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Frank's Review - Acoustic Blues Guitar, September 11, 2005

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Ima Bidnid Man "Blues Beginner" (Anmore, B.C. Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Acoustic Blues Guitar (The Ultimate Beginner Series) (Paperback)

Great book and CD. I am a beginner and have used Keith Wyatt's Acoustic Guitar Basics to start. I moved to his Blues Guitar Basics and found it a little too difficult. This one seems too start at a better level for me. Explanations are great and the book is easy to follow. It's great when after a lesson you can play what you have been taught and feel like you have learned something. Dallas, whoever you are, you shouldn't be so hard on ol' Keith Wyatt, I think his stuff is great!!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Resource!!, January 7, 2009

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P. Stirling "Swampy Pete" (Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Acoustic Blues Guitar (The Ultimate Beginner Series) (Paperback)

Like many others I have purchased many guitar books with high hopes only to find that only one or two licks are worthwhile and another 20 bucks has come and gone...not so with this book!! Wyatt has a great acoustic style, a great instructional style and a wealth of bluesy guitar ideas in this volume!!

Lots of variations on the 12 bar blues with beginner to intermediate licks, riffs and fills to keep the guitarist engaged and the audience listening. Wyatt incorporates and intertwines fills and ryhthmn parts in a very cool, fluid style. With just a little practice many of the examples are quickly mastered.

The book breaks down the parts into easy to learn chunks and then gradually adds fills and licks and bass runs until you have a tiny little blues masterpiece, easy to follow well worth the $$

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars buy the DVD version, May 7, 2009

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o'neal lane (louisiana, usa) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Acoustic Blues Guitar (The Ultimate Beginner Series) (Paperback)

This is a OK book although its a little difficult to follow at times. It's like a lot of instructional books, I doubt its understandability was tested by giving it to a couple dozen new struggling guitarists to try out, and then take note in gaps in logic and instructional gaps etc. That would have helped in this case. If you know a topic really well, sometimes its hard to imagine how someone would not understand your explanation. Still its got a lot of good stuff. This particular incarnation has the audio cd which at times is not that great a help. I would buy the version with the DVD.