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Complete Blues Guitar Method: Complete Edition w/Online Access

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* Techniques and theory for lead and rhythm guitar playing


 
 

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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