John Ganapes Jazzin’ the Blues PDF. A Complete Guide to Learning Jazz-Blues Guitar. Take your playing to the next level with this comprehensive jazz-blues guitar instructional book/CD pack. With 15 hands-on lessons you will be immersed in the realm of jazz blues, learning to both improvise and comp with full-band play-along CD tracks and step-by-step instruction. The well-planned lesson style and organized design of this thorough source will have you jazzin’ the blues in no time! Jazzin’ the Blues an excellent resource for taking the blues to the next level. Stuffed into 100 pages is an incredible amount of...

Rick Fines Fingerstyle Blues. In this 75 minute lesson, Rick starts with his his ‘thumb driven’ style of fingerstyle blues and slowly builds, adding new licks and techniques throughout the lesson. Rick’s teaching is clear and concise and allows the student to begin playing from the start of the lesson and to grow as a player in a methodical, fun process! Rick Fines is a veteran of the folk and blues circuits in North America. Let veteran Canadian guitarist & teacher Rick Fines take you on an accessible, fun journey into the finger style blues for the acoustic guitar...

Flatpicking Guitar Magazine Volume 3, Number 3 PDF. March – April 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,...

Jorma Kaukonen is one of the legends of rock guitar. He started out as an acoustic fingerpicker but became a mainstay of the San Francisco rock scene in the mid-’60s when he joined The Jefferson Airplane. Later, he and bassist Jack Casady formed Hot Tuna, which tours and records in both acoustic and electric configurations. Jorma has released more than two dozen albums, both solo and as a member of various ensembles. His live performances throughout the world continue to draw enthusiastic crowds of both electric and acoustic music fans. Jorma Kaukonen teaches favorites from his personal repertoire and...

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...