Acoustic Blues Guitar/157 (Paperback)

by Kenny Sultan (Author)
Key Phrases: Kenny Sultan

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Product Description
This book for intermediate-level guitarists is a follow-up to Kenny's Introduction to Acoustic Blues. It covers blues in five different keys and positions, and incorporates slide or bottleneck playing in both open and standard tunings. All songs are primarily fingerstyle with a monotone bass used for most. The accompanying 70-minute cassette features performances of every example and song, played slowly then up to speed to facilitate learning.

Product Details

• Paperback: 48 pages
• Publisher: Centerstream Publications (October 1, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0931759730
• ISBN-13: 978-0931759734
• Product Dimensions: 11.7 x 8.7 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #273,766 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This MoJo is Workin' !!!!!!, April 18, 1999

By	[e-mail] (Baltimore, MD, USA) - See all my reviews

I happened upon Kenny Sultan quite by chance when I was taking a fingerstyle class at the National Guitar Workshop. The teacher threw me a copy of this book to work on because I was too advanced for the beginners class I was in, but not at the level to check out any of the fingerstyle seminars with Martin Simpson, Paul Rishell etc.. In any case, my first love is the blues and ragtime, and those couple of days with this book had me hooked. When I got home I went right out and bought this book and, at the risk of sounding sappy, it changed my life. My work schedule prevented regular jam sessions and strumming chords was boring as hell with no one to jam with. This book took me to a whole new level of playing and has brought great joy to those hours between work and bed. The cassette is invaluable, the tunes soulful and you even get to dip a little toe into some ragtime and slide licks. You will quickly want to find other books by Kenny and probably start scouring the guitar shops for a National or Dobro. This is easily the finest fingerstyle blues guitar book I have ever seen. And the author is not only a helluva player, but a fine gentleman, too. A letter I sent him asking for some tips on double time bass runs was answered in a week.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Fun book, but won't teach a lot, July 4, 2004

By	"giaka" (Belgium) - See all my reviews

Very fun book if you just want to impress your friends with a couple of nice songs (above all the not-Kenny songs are worthwile). Good for a starter to learn some blues basics (though picking technique is not explained at all!!!). But, if you are an intermediate that looks for a jump forward, beware: this book won't teach you a lot, no scale, no harmony, no improvisation, just some nice tunes.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent blues technique, December 7, 1998

By A Customer

The Introduction and Acoustic Blues books are excellent selections of tunes that progress from easy to quite challenging, but the real power is in the cassettes and CDs. My classical music training left me a somewhat skilled, mechanical and metronomically precises blues guitarist. The commentary and examples give excellent explanations of techniques for playing more loosely in a bluesy style without loosing musical control. I highly recommend these books