Blues Guitar Complete Edition (Bk/Cd)

Anyone interested in learning to play blues guitar can pick up this book and get started right away. This well-paced, comprehensive method covers everything, from basic to advanced techniques and styles. Beginning concepts include basic blues theory, left-hand technique, call-and-response phrasing, intros, turnarounds, improvisation, and rhythm styles of Texas swing, slow blues, and minor blues. For the intermediate player, this book can help with phrasing, fills, non-scale tones, chord extensions and substitutions, and licks of the masters. The book concludes with advanced techniques including composite scales, the Mixolydian mode, arpeggio superimpositions, the eight-bar blues, gospel blues, minor blues, and techniques of great players like Muddy Waters, Big Bill Broonzy, Freddie King,