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Progressive Blues Lead Guitar Method

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...but you want to play Blues, this is the right book for you. I wanted to play blues, but I never studied any music theory, so I thought it would be impossible. But this book is great: it just teaches you the most important concepts of music theory, introduces you to the most famous blues rhytms, teaches you the blues scale... To those who start like me without knowing anything about theory I suggest to first start with the section about Rhytm and then to go on to the Scales ( in the book the two sections are in the opposite order ).
"From beginners to advanced guitarist..." also is true: there are really simple licks up to some solos I can't yet manage to play sound even after a year.
I hope you'll enjoy this book!

I bought this book to learn the technique used in rock. Peter Gelling takes you through the 5 patterns, shows the relationship of each pattern to a chord rather than pattern 1 through 5, and teaches you a song in each pattern. He also presents some mixing of the patterns. The techniques hammers, pull-offs, slides, bends, etc. are all covered. He likes to incorporate blues licks in his songs from the old blues masters. I ran into a few of these licks while learning some of my favorite guitar solos.

I'm a player that hacked around for 10 years before really making an effort to improve. This book and CD really helped. No lesson system is pure magic, much of what is taught in terms of technique obviously takes a lot of practice to master, so be prepared to put in the work. My only knock on this product is that the CD is not subdivided enough. I bought the Rhythm Blues book in this series and each example was a track on the CD. For the Lead CD, each track is a whole lesson that may have up to 5 examples on it. It's not the end of the world, but I found it to be a pain that I couldn't loop a single example very easily.

With every page of this book you'll either have fun or learn something. Highly recommended as usually all progressive books are rated higher than a 3 in my book. This one in particular is well worth it and my friends who play and also went out and purchased it agree. Level - Beg Intermediate, good follow up to blues you can use.

I bought this book a few weeks ago (along with a few others) to learn how to progress from a rhythm player (just open chords) to actually being able to use all the frets in lead style. It is a very easy to understand book, it teaches you scales that every guitarist should know, shows you how you should sound like, and makes music theory relevant to a casual guitarist. Excellent Book!

wow, pow it's a good book. This book will help you with the blues lead guitar method.

It goes pop.. it goes pow... it goes wow wow wow.