The Ultimate Beginner Series: Blues Guitar Basics, Steps One & Two Combined [Paperback]

Wyat (Keith Wyatt; Kenn Chipkin) (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 27, 1997 | Series: Ultimate Beginner

Take the first step towards mastering blues guitar. This book & CD will guide you through everything you need to know to begin playing blues guitar, including shuffle rhythms, turnarounds, blues soloing, call-and-response patterns, play-along "jam" tracks, slow blues, blues scale positions, and the "B.B. King secret scale pattern." Includes complete play-along tracks on CD.

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Take the first step towards mastering blues guitar. This book/CD will guide you through everything you need to know to begin playing blues guitar: shuffle rhythms, turnarounds, blues soloing, call and response patterns, play-along 'jam' tracks, slow blues, blues scale positions, and the 'B.B. King secret scale pattern.' Includes complete play-along tracks on CD.

Product Details

• Paperback: 48 pages
• Publisher: Warner Bros Pubns (January 27, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1576236382
• ISBN-13: 978-1576236383
• Product Dimensions: 12 x 8.9 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,223,546 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Blues Guitar Instruction, March 27, 2003

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Alfredo Baca (Riverside,, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Ultimate Beginner Series: Blues Guitar Basics, Steps One & Two Combined (Paperback)

This book, along with the CD (and/or Videos) is excellent. Keith Wyatt starts at the very beginning, and takes you up to intermediate material in progressive steps. If you work hard at it, by the time you finish this book, you will be quite accomplished. I played guitar years ago, and practicing 30 min to one hour a day, it will take me 6 to 9 months to master this material. It's not easy, but then neither is playing blues guitar well. You have to work at it, and use the right tools.
This is one of the best tools for an aspiring blues guitarist.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Good Effort but.............., January 29, 2006

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J. Nolan (Seattle, Wa USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Ultimate Beginner Series: Blues Guitar Basics, Steps One & Two Combined (Paperback)

The "book" part of this is good, IF you are already comfortable with a guitar.

I bought it because of the CD, I need the visual cues to help me along.

The CD is obviously taken from a video, and it seems to go off on it's own little path right about Track 13. The information is intersting but it has little or nothing to do with what is printed on the pages of the book.

I have been using another computer based program that puts this to shame.

Don't buy this if you want help from the CD, it won't provide it.

2.0 out of 5 stars Not for a Beginner...... Trust Me, June 14, 2011

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Dude "MM" (Easy St. CA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Ultimate Beginner Series: Blues Guitar Basics, Steps One & Two Combined (Paperback)

I have had lots of how-to guitar books/CDs/Videos over the years. This book is not for a beginner. It quickly skims over the teaching points as though you should know it already. You can do lots better by going to Youtube and checking out the beginning blues lessons there.... Just my $.02 of course.