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Blues Guitar For Dummies

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Don't let the "Dummies" title fool you. This is an excellent book for learning to play blues guitar. At almost 400 pages of instruction and information, this book will give you a solid foundation for exploring blues guitar. It covers everything -- from rhythm and lead guitar, basic to advanced chords, scales, and has great information about blues artists and blues history. There's also information about equipment. The author really has taken the time to create a solid method course that's never dull. Lessons build on each other, staring from basic chords and rhythm patterns, to more advanced scales and lead and rhythm playing.

To get the most out of this book, don't skip around -- take your time. This book should give you months of instruction if you're a beginner or beginning intermediate player. The CD that comes with it is invaluable for hearing how stuff should sound.

This book is great even for guitarists who play well and want to expand into the blues style. Information is presented clearly for both guitarists who read music notation and those who do not. Well worth the price--enough material to learn to keep you busy for months.

Absolutely excellent and I am no dummy! I play all types of guitar but could not find a good thorough book for blues....
THis is it and I have tried them all.!!
You won't be disappointed because it is good for all levels. Buy it, and you will not be sorry!!

Where I am: In my 40s with 4 kids so not a lot of time so still kind of a beginner, been playing guitar for just over a year. Just got this as a gift. What I really like about it is that Chappell takes more time in explaining things than you get with most basic blues books that are mostly just music. Nothing at all wrong with the other style books, just be aware that this book has extensive text and practice work on basic blues styles, but is not a book of music or songs. This certainly has the best description of triplets I've seen. I could never quite understand them before.

This book is informative and pretty much just what I expected. It is a little hard to traverse and comprehend if you don't go page by page.

It is a really basic book. The main and most disappointing problem is that the none of the tracks on the CD ever sound like any real blues lick that you've ever heard on a blues album. Many of them I played like recroded and directed, only to "hear" it pleayed correctly on a blues song.

It does not teach you the esence of the blues, just technical basic skills.