One of the all-time best selling books on blues lead guitar playing. Playing lead blues-rock guitar depends on mainly two things: 1) what you can hear in your mind, and 2) getting your fingers to the proper sounds on your instrument. This book was written with emphasis on the second idea. There are four blues-rock finger patterns used in this book utilizing all six strings of the guitar with each pattern. These four patterns connect with each other enabling the lead player to use the entire fingerboard and range of the guitar to express his musical ideas. Charts are used to show you how to place these four patterns at the proper place on the neck for improvising in any key. Great rock solos can be played in any one of these for patterns or in any combination of the patterns. Written in box diagram and tablature form (notation also included), this fine text takes the beginning guitarist into solid, funk/rock lead solo playing. Play-along CD included.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Just plain bad,
By Blind Drunk Willie (Bridgewater, MA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Mel Bay's Blues: Lead Guitar Method (Paperback)
I bought this book many, many years ago and never used it. I found all the diagrams of guitar necks covered with dots intimidating. How would I memorize all those dots all over the neck -- and then memorize another 11 sets of dots to cover all the keys? What IS playing "horizontally" versus "vertically" (the purpose for which is never divulged by Mr. Griffin)? Well, years later, after having learned a good deal about the guitar, I can say that learning the neck is NOWHERE as difficult and arcane as the haphazard, poorly-explained method in this book made it seem to me as a beginner.
Any beginner could be seriously confused and misled by this book. To begin with, there are five main pentatonic minor shapes universally used in blues and rock playing; Steve Griffin only shows four. Vibrato and bending are only given the briefest token explanation. Indeed, with only this book to go by, a beginner would have no clue as to which particular notes in a scale SHOULD be bent and to what degree they should be bent -- even the purpose of bending would remain a mystery. This subject is covered explicitly in Arlen Roth's "Complete Electric Guitar," by far a better book than this. The bulk of the book is filled up with guitar neck diagrams showing the same patterns moved up a fret at a time for all 12 keys. Showing the patterns in tablature would have saved space and maybe allowed for some basics regarding theory. If you're dying to learn, and have any curiousity regarding scales, technique, or theory, anything by Arlen Roth or Fred Sokolow is infinitely better than what you'll find in this book.
4.0 out of 5 stars
A good book for guitar players new to the Blues,
This review is from: Mel Bay's Blues: Lead Guitar Method (Paperback)
I've been playing guitar close to 7 years now and I was given this book and I'm glad that I played through it. It's a really easy book to play through for someone that hasn't been playing guitar long or someone that has not been familiar with playing Blues guitar. It introduces the Pentatonic Scale and gives a few different short solos using it, adding different techniques with each song. It also gives you a fret board layout of each key signature and how to play the blues scale in that key. I really enjoyed playing and studying from this book. My only complaint is it doesn't explain very well how the scales fit into the key signatures, it just shows you on the fret board as opposed to telling you the root of every scale. It talks about "key tones" but doesn't tell you how that fits into your key signature. Overall, it is a very good guitar method book and I would recommend it to any fellow guitar player.
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Tablature is simply a drawing of the 6 strings of the guitar with numbers showing you to - either pick a string open or in which fret to press a string down to produce the note called for in the music. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
blues scale patterns, double notes, passing tones, reference charts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Minor Key Signatures, Bend Vib New!
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Tablature is simply a drawing of the 6 strings of the guitar with numbers showing you to - either pick a string open or in which fret to press a string down to produce the note called for in the music. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
blues scale patterns, double notes, passing tones, reference charts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Minor Key Signatures, Bend Vib New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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This book cites 4
books:
- Mel Bay Guitar Chords by Mel Bay on page 40
- Guitar Handbook by Willaim Bay on page 41
- Mel Bay's Deluxe Encyclopedia of Guitar Chords by William Bay on page 40
- Rock Guitar Handbook by Mark Lonergan on page 41
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