The purpose of this book is to give aspiring blues guitarists & experienced players alike a large chunk of the vocabulary of the blues - in other words, lots of licks! It contains music and performance notes for 75 hot lead phrases, with a CD featuring full-band examples of each. Styles covered include: up-tempo and slow blues, jazz-blues, shuffle blues, swing blues and more!
Book Description
Frequently Bought Together
Editorial Reviews
About the Author
John Ganapes is a Hal Leonard author.
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good sounding stuff.,
By
This review is from: Blues Licks You Can Use: Softcover with CD (Guitar Educational) (Paperback)
Just like the Blues you can use series, this book rocks. There is a huge number of licks of all types. Most of them sound really good and I'm using alot of them in my own playing. In addition, he actually explains the licks instead of just throwing them at you. Anyone who is in need of improving their blues playing or looking for licks to add to their stash should pick this one up.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Nice collection of authentic licks,
By
Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?)
This review is from: Blues Licks You Can Use: Softcover with CD (Guitar Educational) (Paperback)
This is a good compendium of blues licks. It covers licks in many different styles. It is a very good supplement to the author's Blues You Can Use series. I would recomend beginning guitarists work through the first book in the collection (Blues You Can Use) before getting into this work. However, intermediate and advanced guitarists will find some examples of tasty, authentic phrasing and style between these covers. I definitely recommend this book.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Wonderful Finger Exercises,
Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?)
This review is from: Blues Licks You Can Use: Softcover with CD (Guitar Educational) (Paperback)
This book is really meant to be a follow-on to the Blues You Can Use or More Blues You Can Use books, rather than a stand alone course. It does not offer the level of detailed intruction that they do, but instead presents 5 chapters of about 15 licks each in various style--slow blues, jazz, blues rock, etc. Ganapes is clear how the licks are derived, and provides backing tracks over which to try them.
I expected a set of tedious exercises, but this book has become my favorite--along with Ganapes' Jazz book--of the whole series. For one thing, I couldn't make the transition very well from Blues You Can Use to More Blues You Can Use, because the finger dexterity required just seemed too difficult. Not anymore. Blues Licks You Can Use has worked the devil out of my fingers, and I have loved it the whole time. For another, these short melodic fragments really stick in your head, then get confused, such that you start to combine parts of one with another, and really start to improvise. It has been an enjoyable, unpredictable experience. I still can't solo well, but I feel it coming now.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
