Teach Yourself Blues Guitar

If the title, Teach Yourself Blues Guitar sparks you're interest then you obviously enjoy listening to a good Blues guitarist and know a "little something" about the style of music. Whether experienced or just a beginner, it is important to realize that acoustic, electric, slide or dobro: the guitar is unquestionably the instrumental voice of the Blues. Teach Yourself Blues Guitar with CD by Paul J. Newman teaches the essential, classic, formative: riffs, rhythms and patterns which define Blues music. Learn how they fit into each structure to develop and enhance playing technique as well as creativity. Teach Yourself Blues Guitar , exclusively distributed by SantorellaPublications, provides an assortment of authentic riffs, licks and patterns transcribed in both standard notation and tablature exactly "as performed" by the "Blues Masters". Contents include: Blues Structure and Rhythm - The 12 Bar Blues - Call & Response - Syncopation - Triplets - The Slide - Blues Melody & Phrasing - The Pentatonic Minor Scale - Melodic Shape - Melodic Transposition - Position Shifting - Triplets & Swing - The Pentatonic Major - Shuffle & Swing - Minor & Major - The Octatonic Scale - The Rockabilly Boogie - Note Bending - "The Stumble" - Playing the Box - The Index/Ring Finger Box Position - Bend & Release - Octatonics in Box position - Lateral Barres - Beyond the Shuffle - Funk, Rock & Blues - Blues/Funk Rhythm - Rock Rhythm & Blues - Breaking Down the Beat - Blues to Rock - Classic Rock & Roll - The British Are Coming.