Keb’ Mo’s lesson is aimed at players who want to get comfortable with the basics of traditional country blues and then go on to more contemporary blues-based tunes. Working in the key of E, Keb’ shows how turnarounds and harmonized scale passages can be the basis for developing fluid phrases in a Robert Johnson style blues tune. He teaches his original tunes Perpetual Blues Machine and Angelina, both in A and employing a rhythmic alternating bass style. Keb’ Mo includes some jazz-oriented chords (F7b5, G13 and E11) that add spice and interest to the songs. For Henry, Keb’ switches...

Guitar Play-Along Volume 73 Bluesy Rock PDF. The Guitar Play-Along series will help you play your favourite Bluesy Rock songs quickly and easily! Just follow the tab, listen to the CD to hear how the guitar should sound and then play-along with accompaniment from the separate backing tracks.With eight blistering examples of the bluesy rock genre this is ideal for beginners or any guitarist who wants to expand their repertoire. The melody and lyrics are included in the book so you can sing along too or simply use them to help you follow. For both Mac and PC users,...

JP Allen Complete Harmonica Bundle download free. Finally, Playing the Harmonica Made Fun, Quick, and Easy…Beginners and Non-Musicians… So you want to play the harmonica – and be able to play all the songs you love – but without the need for endless hours of practice and frustration, right? Well, if you’re having a tough time learning the harmonica, it may not be your fault… It may be the way you are being taught. The mistake the majority of the other harmonica methods make is that they try to teach students the wrong techniques at the wrong time. This...

50 Modal Licks You Must Know – A hand-picked collection of modal licks that you must know. Modes. Erudite jazzers swear by them and can bend your ear for hours about why the Mixolydian b6 fifth mode of the C ascending melodic minor scale will cure all that ails your improvisations. Bluesmen and rockers would likely pronounce that they “don’t need no stinkin’ modes.” Granted, there’s a vast range of opinions related to the use of modes but everyone seems to agree two things; 1) If you play any form of Western music, you’re playing modes whether you know...

John Ganapes Blues Rhythms You Can Use PDF. This is the sixth book in the Blues You Can Use series by John Ganapes, and it lives up to the standard set by the previous five. Focusing entirely on rhythm guitar in the blues, this volume teaches you the styles and techniques necessary to become a proficient member of a rhythm section. This book presents just about every blues rhythm imaginable and provides solid technical education about playings those rhythms. The book features standard notation and tab, and the CD includes 42 full-band tracks. In almost all settings and ensembles,...

Flatpicking Guitar Magazine Volume 6, Number 4 PDF + Mp3 CD. May – June 2002. Flatpicking Guitar Magazine is a bi-monthly publication dedicated to helping guitar players, from beginner to expert, increase their proficiency flatpicking the acoustic guitar. Each issue contains comprehensive instruction on flatpicking techniques as pioneered by great guitarists such as Doc Watson, Clarence White, Norman Blake, Tony Rice, and Dan Crary. Instruction, sheet music and articles cover all musical genres including bluegrass, old-time, folk, Western swing, gypsy jazz, new acoustic music, and acoustic rock. You’ll also find interviews with top performers, including tablature of their favorite...

Play Clapton… part of a series of programs illustrating techniques made recognizable by the world’s greatest guitarists. This program will concentrate on the only three-time inductee to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and 4th greatest guitarist of all time (as ranked by Rolling Stone magazine), Eric Clapton. In this clearly filmed ‘Play Clapton’ DVD, Max starts by very slowly and carefully demonstrating classic acoustic blues 12-bar chord rhythms and licks as used by Clapton and many other influential players. This highly-focused lesson then switches to electric guitar blues, introducing 9th chords and explaining how to mix chord...

The Little By Little Songbook breaks down sixteen songs from Tommy’s latest double album. Control your learning experience with interactive features and tools like looping, synching and zooming.  Viewing angles include wide, right-hand, front of left-hand and back of left hand.  A “tri-view” feature enables three angles to show simultaneosly. For each of the sixteen tracks: Tommy shares the background on his inspiration for the composition and performs the tune in its entirety. He then walks you through a detailed note-by-note breakdown covering every section of the arrangement and every technique he employs for the track. From intros to...

Steve Bailey & Victor Wooten Bass Extremes Live download free. This program features two of the world’s most outstanding bass players, Victor Bailey and Victor Wooten. The veteran musicians share their years of experience with students of the bass, on subjects ranging from techniques to arrangements to styles. They demonstrate styles including blues, rock, jazz, country, new age, and heavy metal. Tunes from different genres are performed, so that the at-home student can play along. Bailey and Wooten also discuss how to best showcase the unique sounds of the bass when it is used as a solo instrument, or...

Paul Pigat Rockabilly Electric Guitar free download. Paul Pigat is Canada’s leading authority on Rockabilly Guitar. In this lesson, Paul will take you through the techniques that will help you get going with this great style. Rockabilly guitar is not an easy style to master, and any beginner to the guitar will struggle. Paul breaks it all down nice and easy giving you everything you need to get that authentic feel in your playing. Paul Pigat is a really great teacher, if you like lessons by this great instructor you can find helpful Travis Picking Hillbilly Fingerstyle Guitar. Includes:...