Covers the whole spectrum of this exciting area of guitar playing. Careful grading enables beginners to progress through this course playing well-known songs, as well as learning the technical aspects. Songs: A Basic Blues * 'a' Simple Blues * 'a' Twelve Bar * Alice's Restaurant * Bounce Blues * Candyman * Candyman Blues * Cocaine Blues * Come Back Baby * Deep River Blues * The Entertainer * Extension Blues * First Time Blues * Gee Rag * Good Morning Blues * Half-way Rag * Harmony Blues * Hesitation Blues * Horizon Rag * How Long How Long * I Believe I'll Dust My Broom * In the Evening (When the Sun Goes Down) * Kansas City * Keep on Truckin' Mama * Kick-off Rag * Last Train and Ride * Mark Two Blues * San Francisco Bay Blues * See See Rider * She's Funky That Way * Sister Kate's Syncopated Dance * Slide Blues * St. James Infirmary * Steam Roller * Sugarbabe * That's All Right * Trouble in Mind * Vestapol * Walk Right In.
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Almost All Blues (despite the title),
By hamsterdance (TX) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Complete Blues and Ragtime Guitar Player (Guitar Books) (Paperback)
I have no doubt this is a good book. But as a beginning guitarist if it were not for the fact that I've spent almost a year teaching myself how to play classical guitar this book would be even more frustrating than it currently is. It has many examples of songs by old blues masters - but that's not really the reason I bought it. I bought if for the word "Ragtime" in the title as I am a big ragtime fan. Have been since my childhood days of 7 years of piano lessons - many of which included ragtime tunes. Since picking up the guitar I've been very interested in learning how to translate some of the fun, snappy feel of piano rags to the guitar. In this, I was disappointed. While technically the title is correct there are actually only 2 ragtime pieces in the whole book - every other song is blues - something I just don't have as much interest in playing. For someone interested in blues then this could possibly be an interesting book. For learning ragtime it is lacking.The instruction itself is solid, the strum patterns, notes, tablature and standard notation are clear. But it would help had there been an accompanying cd. A lot of the songs are from old blues guitarists - most of whom I've never heard their songs although their names are familiar. Intermediate guitarists wanting to learn blues will enjoy this book. But if you want to learn ragtime guitar keep looking.
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Country Blues,
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This review is from: The Complete Blues and Ragtime Guitar Player (Guitar Books) (Paperback)
Piano ragtime on the guitar evolved into country blues. These are all fun to play and great tunes.
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Lacking,
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This review is from: The Complete Blues and Ragtime Guitar Player (Guitar Books) (Paperback)
I found this book lacking as far as an instructional aide. This is fine book, but it just lacked the presentation and flow that I expected.
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