Chris Hunt Blues By The Bar PDF. Cool Riffs That Sound Great over Each Portion of the Blues Progression. If you’re a guitarist who’s learned the pentatonic scale up and down the neck but still asks, During a solo, how do I know what to play and when to play it, then this book is for you. Its goal is to give you a variety of great blues licks that you can put together bar by bar to create a complete blues solo. Covers: the 12-bar blues progression, cool riffs, complete solos and more. The CD features Music Minus...

Fred Sokolow Bottleneck Slide Guitar. Nothing sounds as bluesy as a slide guitar, and this DVD shows how it’s done on electric and acoustic, as a soloist or with a group. Using classic blues tunes Little Red Rooster; Sittin’ on Top of the World; Reconsider Baby; The Sky Is Crying; Farther On Up The Road; and One Way Out, Fred Sokolow shows you how to play and improvise slide in the styles of some of the greatest bluesman: Muddy Waters, Elmore James, Mississippi Fred McDowell, and Duane Allman. Fred offers instruction in: 1)Solos, backup licks, turnarounds and fills in...

Rich Maloof 50 Acoustic Guitar Licks You Must Know. Top educator, player and author of dozens of instructional publications, Rich Maloof presents 50 acoustic guitar licks covering a broad range of crucial acoustic techniques you MUST know! Maloof’s handpicked range of phrases, concepts and techniques will help guide your development of the tools, techniques and vocabulary you’ll need to take your acoustic guitar playing to the next level. While a single-note line – a lick – is certainly fair game in here, the bread-and-butter of acoustic playing is covered in 50 lessons demonstrating fingerpicking patterns, open-string voicings, changes with...

Flatpicking Guitar Magazine Volume 3, Number 2 PDF. January – February 1999. 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 licks and breaks,...

Traditional and Contemporary Guitar Finger-Picking Styles PDF descriptive analysis and transcription of picking styles in standard notation and tablature. A classic guitar tablature songbook with many fine songs of many legendary players. Every song is presented in notation and tab, alongside biographical information about the artist, plus any hints and tips that will help you achieve a more authentic performance. The book begins with a detailed guide to fingerpicking technique, giving you all the information you need to tackle these priceless musical treasures. Happy Traum is clear, he always starts with the basics and builds up gradually, and his...

Chicago Blues Rhythm Guitar: The Complete Definitive Guide by Bob Margolin and Dave Rubin. Guitar Educational. As rhythm guitarist for blues legend Muddy Waters, Steady Rollin’ Bob Margolin has gained invaluable experience in the art of Chicago blues rhythm guitar. And now in this exclusive and comprehensive book/DVD package, Bob Margolin and blues author/historian Dave Rubin bring you the definitive instructional guitar method on the subject, featuring loads of rhythm guitar playing examples to learn and practice, covering a variety of styles, techniques, tips, historical anecdotes, and much more. To top it off, every playing example in the book...

Flatpicking Guitar Magazine Volume 3, Number 1 PDF. November – December 1998. 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 licks and breaks,...

Best of Blues Piano Keyboard Signature Licks PDF. A step-by-step breakdown of the piano styles and techniques of Dr. John, Pete Johnson, Professor Longhair, Pinetop Perkins, and others that uses their actual licks to teach. The Signature Licks book/audio packs are especially formatted to give instruction on how to play a particular artist style by using the actual transcribed, “right from the record” licks! Designed for use by anyone from beginner right up to the experienced player who is looking to expand their insight. The books contain full performance notes and an overview of each artist or group’s style...

Welcome to the percussive, rhythmic, textured, chicka-whacka world of Funk Fission from monster player and top educator Chris Buono. Don’t let the title of this study program fool ya – this is NOT a “funk” course (although funk guitar freaks will indeed flip over this one). Rather, Buono’s curriculum of funk guitar lessons is designed for intermediate to advanced players who dig and play any form of “groove-based” music; be it rock, blues, jazz, R&B, and of course funk. Many of the techniques, rhythmic and percussive concepts that you will learn how to play in Funk Fission are culled...

Lonnie Joe Howell 60 Hot Licks for Harmonica PDF. An exciting collection of some of the best-known and most interesting harmonica licks and effects. The first few pages of this book offer reference and review material. Harmonica notation is explained, defining the special symbols for blow notes, draw notes, bends, and other techniques. Includes a useful “Reference Guide for Harmonica Notation.” Although rarely more than 4 measures in length these licks range from the very easy to the extremely challenging. At times, the author combines 4 licks to form a complete tune. The online audio recording demonstrates each of...