Complete Blues Guitar Method: Complete Edition w/Online Access
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Description
* Techniques and theory for lead and rhythm guitar playing
Contents
| Title | |
| Contents | |
| Beginning Blues Guitar | |
| INTRODUCTION | |
| CHAPTER 1---GETTING STARTED | |
| Half Steps, Whole Steps, and the Importance of Gravity | |
| The Fretboard | |
| Tuning Up | |
| Music Notation | |
| Reading Tablature | |
| Reading Chord Diagrams | |
| Reading a Chord Chart---Rhythmic Notation | |
| Reading Scale Diagrams | |
| Reading Roman Numerals | |
| CHAPTER 2---BLUES THEORY | |
| The Major Scale | |
| Key Signatures | |
| Minor Scales | |
| Relative Minor | |
| Intervals | |
| Chords | |
| Diatonic Harmony | |
| Blues Harmony | |
| CHAPTER 3---BASIC RHYTHM GUITAR | |
| Basic Rhythm Vocabulary | |
| Basic Twelve-Bar Blues | |
| Palm Muting | |
| The Shuffle Pattern | |
| Moveable Shuffle Patterns | |
| Left-Hand Muting | |
| Variations on the Shuffle Pattern | |
| Stop Time | |
| Boogie-Woogie in Open E | |
| CHAPTER 4---BLUES SCALES | |
| Major Pentatonic | |
| Phrasing | |
| Call-and-Response Phrasing | |
| Riff-Style Soloing | |
| Minor Pentatonic | |
| Targeting Root Notes | |
| Combining Call-and-Response with Root Targeting | |
| Transposing | |
| CHAPTER 5---LEFT HAND TECHNIQUES | |
| Hammer-ons | |
| Pull-offs | |
| Hammer-ons and Pull-offs Together | |
| Slides | |
| Bending | |
| Reverse Bends | |
| Signature Licks | |
| Vibrato | |
| CHAPTER 6---RHYTHM GUITAR STYLES | |
| Muddy Waters---Vamps | |
| Buddy Guy---Rhythm Riffs | |
| Texas Swing | |
| Slow Blues | |
| Minor Blues | |
| CHAPTER 7---INTROS, TURNAROUNDS, AND ENDINGS | |
| Turnarounds | |
| Intros | |
| Endings | |
| CHAPTER 8---IMPROVISING | |
| Alternating Major and Minor Pentatonic | |
| Adding Major Pentatonic Notes to the Minor Pentatonic | |
| Adding Minor Pentatonic Notes to the Major Pentatonic | |
| Chord Hits | |
| Expanding the Basic Scale Patterns | |
| More Licks! | |
| CHAPTER 9---PRACTICING | |
| Set Goals | |
| Organize Your Time | |
| Metronomes, Drum Machines, and Practice Recordings | |
| Vary Your Sources | |
| Outside the Practice Room | |
| Individuality | |
| Intermediate Blues Guitar | |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR | |
| INTRODUCTION | |
| CHAPTER 1---BASIC THEORY | |
| Intervals | |
| Interval Inversion | |
| Chords | |
| Chord Extensions | |
| Dominant Chords | |
| Chord Quiz | |
| CHAPTER 2---BLUES RHYTHM GUITAR | |
| Swing Eighths | |
| Boogie! | |
| Chord Extensions and Substitutions | |
| Dominant Blues Substitutions | |
| Minor Blues Substitutions | |
| Right-Hand Development | |
| Shuffle Comping | |
| Sliding Chord Forms | |
| Funky Blues Rhythm Fills | |
| Rhythm & Blues Fills | |
| SECRETS OF THE BLUES!---BLUES PHILOSOPHY | |
| CHAPTER 3---A QUICK TECHNIQUE REVIEW | |
| Bending | |
| Vibrato | |
| Bent-Note Vibrato | |
| CHAPTER 4---SOLOING | |
| The Minor Pentatonic Scale | |
| Phrasing | |
| Non-Scale Tones | |
| Breaking Out of Pentatonic Patterns | |
| The Major Pentatonic Scale | |
| Mixing Major and Minor Pentatonics | |
| CHAPTER 5---MORE ABOUT SOLOING | |
| Resolving to 3 and Flat-7 | |
| Double-Stop 3rds | |
| Dominant Double Stops | |
| Double-Stop 6ths | |
| Double-Stop 4ths | |
| Minor Blues Double Stops | |
| CHAPTER 6---LICKS OF THE MASTERS | |
| B. B. King | |
| Albert King | |
| Freddie King | |
| Jimi Hendrix | |
| Eric Clapton | |
| Stevie Ray Vaughan | |
| Gary Clark, Jr | |
| Joe Bonamassa | |
| Mastering Blues Guitar | |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR | |
| HOW TO USE THIS BOOK | |
| DIATONIC HARMONY REVIEW | |
| MUSICAL DEFINITIONS | |
| CHORDS FOR CHAPTER 1 | |
| CHAPTER 1---THE 12-BAR BLUES | |
| Shuffle Blues | |
| Blues-Rock Rhythms | |
| The Closed-Position Rhythm Pattern | |
| Funk Blues | |
| CHAPTER 2---INTROS, TURNAROUNDS, VAMPS, AND ENDINGS | |
| Intros | |
| Turnarounds | |
| Vamps | |
| Endings | |
| CHAPTER 3---THE BLUES SCALE | |
| Closed-Position Blues Scales | |
| Open-Position Blues Scales | |
| Analyzing Scale Tones | |
| CHAPTER 4---BLUES TECHNIQUES | |
| Left-Hand Techniques | |
| Picking Techniques | |
| CHAPTER 5---IMPROVISATIONAL CONCEPTS | |
| Composite Blues Scales | |
| The Mixolydian Mode | |
| The Dominant 7th Arpeggio | |
| Arpeggio Superimposition | |
| The Major Triad | |
| The Minor Triad | |
| Targeting Chord Tones | |
| CHAPTER 6---LICKS OVER THE I7--IV7--V7 BLUES | |
| Licks Over | |