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101 Razor-Sharp Slide Guitar Licks in Open E Tuning: Electric Urban / Chicago Style

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I am a guitarist who has played in blues and rock bands and I have been working on slide guitar technique. I am very pleased with this book. Everything is here for anyone who wants to learn how to play blues slide guitar licks in the context of a blues band.

The licks are played in actual blues songs that follow standard chord progressions. I have already found ways to work the licks into songs by Muddy Waters, Elmore James, etc. Great book and I recommend it to others.

I have been wanting to learn slide guitar for a long time. My teacher suggested this book and it is as helpful as he said it would be. The material is well-organized and includes everything a beginning slide player needs, including diagrams that serve as valuable roadmaps for open E tuning.

The slide licks sound just like the ones played by Elmore James, Hound Dog Taylor, Robert Nighthawk, and others on the classic blues records of the 1950s to mid 1960s. Some of the licks sound like Taj Mahal. The great thing is that a good blues band with a singer is playing model blues songs on the CD, so you are learning licks that you will actually be able to use in the blues songs you play. The singer on this CD is amazing-he sounds like Ray Charles.

I love that the entire book is arranged in the key of E. And the licks are smooth, tasteful, and accessible. The book gave me immediate confidence and familiarity with open E tuning. It is a lot of fun to play along with the CD - I feel like I'm sitting in with a blues band in a smoky bar on the Southside of Chicago. Very highly recommended.

This author had a similar book out with another publisher, but it is out of print, and quite expensive used. I understand that the author owns this publishing company, so I doubt if it will disappear. Good thing too. I have gone through three copies of the old book. They keep "disappearing".
I teach people how to play slide, although I'm not at all scary doing it. This book is my secret weapon. It's simple and all in one tuning, but not too simple. They (the licks) are what musicians call "solid". By the time you work your way through the book, you hopefully have an ear, and trust me, that's what slide requires. Then you play with the licks and make them your own. Most people have figured out where to go by the time they finish. I always recommend stealing solos from harmonica players when they get through this book. I'm glad it's back.

The book and DVD are quite basic to say the least but work OK. E tuning gives (to my ear at least), a country sound. Easy to play along with the stuff on the CD.

I received this book a while back, and haven't had time to get on here and leave a review until now. The book is full of awesome licks and is very straight forward. The cd that comes with it is very cool as well and easy to play along with (plus it's a full band so you feel like you're really jamming). My favorite thing about all of the books I've ordered from Larry so far have had a handwritten note saying thank you for the purchase by Larry himself. I think that speaks alot for this company. All in all I recommend this book for people looking to learn a new style of guitar.

There are countless techniques to playing the guitar that can create their own unique sound. "101 Razor-Sharp Slide Guitar Licks: Electric Urban/Chicago Style" is a guide to the basic blues slide guitar style. Emphasizing the use of a slider, author Larry McCabe seeks to teach his readers to embrace the electric blues guitar style, made famous by the likes of Stevie Ray Vaughn. Enhanced with a CD to accompany the lessons, "101 Razor-Sharp Slide Guitar Licks" is a fine and recommended acquisition for the learning guitarist.

This is actually one of the most disappointing guitar theory books I have ever seen. I was very excited to see an Open E book for slide. What I got was a basement quality guide that so mearly skims the surface that if you ever tuned to open E on a whim you probably already know whats in the book. I am sending mine back.