Play rhythm guitar in the style of Stevie Ray Vaughan, B.B. King, Chuck Berry, T-Bone Walker, Albert King, Freddie Green, and many other blues greats! The CD includes 40 full-demo tracks and the instruction covers all styles of blues and the essential chords, patterns and riffs.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Very Basic; Good For Beginners,
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This review is from: Basic Blues Guitar: Essential Progressions, Patterns and Styles (Private Lessons / Musicians Institute) (Paperback)
This is a very basic book. The lessons are simple, and even a pure beginner can start playing basic blues rhythms within a short time. I feel it necessary to emphasize that a beginning guitar student should NOT start with this book. A beginner should learn fundamentals prior to cracking this book open: fundamentals like open position chords, basic strumming patterns, and bar chords.Although I wouldn't call it comprehensive, the book covers various blues styles: 12-bar blues shuffle, Chuck Berry style, minor blues, BB King big band blues, Kansas City style, 8-bar, slow blues, etc... There are a lot of examples. The book covers 7th chords, 9th chords and introduces 13th chords. There are a lot of practice tracts for 7th and 9th chords. There are also some single note rhythms. The book is accompanied by a CD with 40 play along tracks that go along with each lesson. All in all, it is a good introduction to basic blues guitar playing. I highly recommend it for beginning guitarists. An intermediate guitarist probably won't find anything in this book to be very challenging, but nevertheless it would still be a good introduction to blues.
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Great Practice lessons,
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So I am a learning "advanced" novice with a good attitude after so many years. I keep finding keys to unlock doors for me and this book is a good key. It hits some lessons I needed. I have always maintained I am as smart as most of these people who play a guitar so why not keep at it? This helped me understand what I need to do to keep on keepin' on.
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Good... if you fit in a tiny little category,
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This book is pretty decent at giving you a VERY basic education on blues rhythms but it's aimed at a rather small audience. This book is perfect if you've been playing guitar pretty informally for awhile and are looking to begin understanding the basics of a new style. If you are a new guitarist this book is probably a bit above you, if you've been playing for awhile and have gone through several other books... well, sadly this book is below you. I love the Musician's Institute books but this one falls way short. This is an introductory look into the style at best.
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This is by far the most common blues feel. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Stevie Ray Vaughan New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Jazz Guitar Improvisation by Sid Jacobs in Back Matter
- Music Reading for Guitar (The Complete Method) by David Oakes in Back Matter
- Guitar Fretboard Workbook by Barrett Tagliarino in Back Matter
- Jazz Guitar Chord System (Acoustic Guitar Magazine's Private Lessons) by Scott Henderson in Back Matter
- Contemporary Acoustic Guitar (Musicians Institute Press) by Steve Trovato in Back Matter
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