"A comprehensive source for learning blues guitar, designed to develop both your lead and rhythm playing. Blues styles included: Texas, Delta, R & B, early rock & roll, gospel, and blues/rock"--Back cover
(Guitar Educational). Focuses on developing rhythm playing chops via 21 progressive lessons covering a variety of blues styles and techniques, including: basic theory and blues rhythms; major and minor blues; 8th, 16th and triplet rhythms; extensions; passing chords and chord fragments; lead-rhythm style; funky blues; jump blues; blues rock; and more. The book features standard notation and tab, and the CD includes 42 full-band tracks.
(Guitar Educational). Take your playing to the next level with this comprehensive jazz-blues guitar instructional book with online audio. With 15 hands-on lessons you will be immersed in the realm of jazz blues, learning to both improvise and comp with full-band play-along tracks and step-by-step instruction. The well-planned lesson style and organized design of this thorough source will have you jazzin' the blues in no time! The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
(Guitar Educational). The purpose of this book is to give aspiring blues guitarists & experienced players alike a large chunk of the vocabulary of the blues in other words, lots of licks ! It contains music and performance notes for 75 hot lead phrases, with access to online audio featuring full-band examples of each. Styles covered up-tempo and slow blues, jazz-blues, shuffle blues, swing blues and more! Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
A companion to John Ganapes original "Blues you can use" published in 1995.
"The Blues You Can Use Guitar Chords provides the beginner to advanced player with an extensive list of chord forms, chord construction theory, and examples of chord progressions to practice applying each concept. Triads, sevenths, sixth, ninth, eleventh, thirteenth, altered, and other chord; 12-bar blues, ii-V7-I, and other common progressions; music basics, including intervals and harmony"--Page 4 of cover