Takes you from the fundamentals of fingerpicking to five authentic blues tunes. With graded exercises, illustrated tips, plus standard notation and tablature.
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One day back in March of 1988 a young man named Mark Galbo came to me to study jazz guitar. Read the first page
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81 of 81 people found the following review helpful
By IrishGit
Format:Paperback
"Ultimately your playing will only be as good as your rhythmic drive is solid" - a (profound) quote from the beginning of this fine book. The rhythmic drive is established by the stomping foot & the alternating bass in the right thumb. The book then superimposes gradually more complex melodies & counter rhythms on top of this fundamental alternating bass with the three main fingers of the right hand - each finger dedicated to a particular string of the guitar. Always geared to playing actual 12 bar blues rather than just technical exercises, this book methodically & relatively painlessly takes the student deeply into this intricate & beautiful music - introducing hammerons, pulloffs, slides, bends, heel damping, walking bass, vamps, turnarounds etc. The accompanying cd is wonderfully inspiring. On it Mark Galbo talks & plays you through each section of the book, emphasising & demonstrating the importance of the solid alternating bass as the music gains in complexity. You'll find yourself listening to the disc for pleasure as much as for enlightenment. The book ends with 5 actual blues pieces in the styles of various great players (Robert Johnson etc). I honestly can't think of, or even imagine, a better book to get you started with this style of guitar - pure communication - from & to the heart!
52 of 53 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I'm a guitar teacher and this is the best book I've seen on introducing blues or good fingerstyle guitar in the last 20 years. I use it in lessons and recommend it to all interested guitarists. Buy it and do the exercises - you can play like this!
49 of 50 people found the following review helpful
By J. C. Eames
Format:Paperback
As a relatively new guitarist who has taken a fondness to blues music, i thought i would purchase this book in order to get me on my way to playing my own blues solo's. I wanted something to learn that would sound great round a campfire for when i go off on my travels next year and to play with my harp.
Well after one minute of listening to the CD i was not dissapointed!!
You may be thinking " yes it all sounds very nice but i'm sure impossible to play ". The answer is yes, but, reading through the book it takes a step by step process which is easy to follow, being a begginner, and misses nothing out. The first songs sound simple but with the gradual addition of simple melodies and syncopations to the walking bass line and finger picking you get something sounding a bit special! ( especially when the "blue" note is added! )
As i said these words will all be easily explained in the book, and as i said it is exciting because, i can't wait to progress a little further especially to the last five solo's including 32-20 blues by the legendary R.Johnson!! Well worth buying!!
Well after one minute of listening to the CD i was not dissapointed!!
You may be thinking " yes it all sounds very nice but i'm sure impossible to play ". The answer is yes, but, reading through the book it takes a step by step process which is easy to follow, being a begginner, and misses nothing out. The first songs sound simple but with the gradual addition of simple melodies and syncopations to the walking bass line and finger picking you get something sounding a bit special! ( especially when the "blue" note is added! )
As i said these words will all be easily explained in the book, and as i said it is exciting because, i can't wait to progress a little further especially to the last five solo's including 32-20 blues by the legendary R.Johnson!! Well worth buying!!
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Fingerstyle Blues
Easy to read and follow the music a need for blues learners have come on since purchasing the book great
Published 5 days ago by Douglas
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This is the book for me
I have attempted to learn many types of musical instruments during my life, some I gave up on and with a couple achieved a little success. Read more
Published 25 days ago by R. V. Harris
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Builds on practice, sound
Exercises build quickly into recogniseable blues sound giving early encouragement to practise and achieve more. Read more
Published 1 month ago by jim_50
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Hard work
If you have been cheating on chords for twenty years, you are going to have to get off your butt and start fingering every chord correctly or you are doomed. Read more
Published 2 months ago by J. Reynolds
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Very good book for begginer and more accomplished players alike
Well laid out and good presentation of material. Easy to follow style. Good value for money. Overall very plaesed with purchase.
Published 2 months ago by Chris Fern
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Stuck
Great as far as page 21 out of 95. However subsequent exercises e.g. "melody notes on the A chord" were for my hands a stretch too far. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Stix
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Perfect starting place for fingerstyle blues
I've played guitar for years - no lessons, just muddled through bits of books and the odd DVD. Recently I decided to learn acoustic fingerstyle blues and after seeing the amazon... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Bruce Wayne
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product quality
The built quality of the book is poor. After turning the first couple of pages they partially came away from the seam of the book. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Everton
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Great book.
Very good book, lessons take you in slowly and get harder at the right kind of pace for me. The stuff at the beginning was very boring yes, but also kind of essential in preparing... Read more
Published 18 months ago by JC
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great
this is a great book if you know a little, can do some basic chords and just want to learn to play the blues. Read more
Published 23 months ago by P. Norrgren
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