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Bob Brozman shows beginners how to play the bottleneck blues guitar. Songs include 'Walking Blues', 'Can't Be Satisfied' and 'Crossroads Blues'.
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One of the most compelling sounds in American music is made by glass or metal sliding on the strings of an acoustic guitar. Bob Brozman's remarkably detailed DVD lesson gives you all the tools you'll need to get started playing the powerful songs and thrilling instrumental solos of the legendary bottleneck blues players. Beginning players will learn all the fundamentals involved in playing bottleneck style: correct use of the slide, open tunings, rhythm backup, vibrato, harmonics, picking techniques and much more. Before long, you'll move ahead to blues licks, runs, turnarounds and solos that will enable you to recreate the dynamic sounds of Charlie Patton, Robert Johnson, Skip James, Muddy Waters, Elmore James and other Mississippi Delta blues greats. By the end of this first lesson you'll have learned to play the driving rhythms and wild slide sounds of Walking Blues, Can't be satisfied, Cross Road Blues and other powerful blues standards.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
By r love
I found these 3 DVD's very interesting and useful. Instruction is clear and background information seemed relevant and plausible e.g. old masters tried to play clean, no point in copying mistakes. Mostly in 'G' tuning, only Vol 3 has alternate tunings. Arrangements seem overcomplicated but you can take what you want and leave what you don't. Playing is very accomplished but has an academic feel (comes from teaching more than performing I guess). His lap style slide playing (breifly featured in vol 2) sounds more fluent to me (as heard on world of slide guitar, also available from amazon but performances only). Anyhow this is the most in depth instruction dvd for bottleneck delta blues I know of. Vol 1 covers 70% of useful content for playing in 'G', Vol 2 covers a few more tunes but I'd recommend getting Vol 3 before Vol 2 unless you've mastered vol 1 first. If you're cherry picking, vol 3 has most variety of styles.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By A. Leigh
There's lots of great stuff to learn on this dvd, but it's not all clearly explained and the accompanying tab leaves a lot to be desired. Too often I've ended up repeating segments of the dvd over and over trying to figure out what he's doing, and he's certainly not one for always slowing down so you can see.
If you are an experienced guitarist already, then you may be fine with this, if not be prepared for some tedious work that there really should be no need for.
It's such a shame - this could have been absolutely brilliant.
If you are an experienced guitarist already, then you may be fine with this, if not be prepared for some tedious work that there really should be no need for.
It's such a shame - this could have been absolutely brilliant.
16 of 18 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
I have played slide guitar for some years myself and was recommended this series, by Mr Brozman, by a friend. Whilst Mr Brozman plays well enough, he has very strong ideas about how slide Blues guitar should be played.
Rather then give a player some new ideas to take away and work with to create their own Blues; one is given the "It's my way or the Highway" school of Blues. This includes playing with the slide on the little finger and NOT the ring finger, despite the fact that Blues greats like Son House and Fred McDowell used the slide on their ring finger and that it really is a personal thing.
Brozman is also keen that you use finger picks that to me are like playing with boxing gloves on!
At one point he explains that in some songs Robert Johnson did not play strictly to a 12 bar Blues and that if you do that it will sound wrong to "modern audiences", well excuse me Mr Brozman if I put the Blues of Robert Johnson before you.
To be honest if you want to play just like Bob Brozman then you will love this series; if you want to play the Blues start else where.
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A great start to bottleneck slide
I've found this dvd very useful in going through the basics of bottleneck slide. The first half looks at how to get a good clean tone through various techniques (dampening behind... Read more
Published on 14 Dec 2009 by A. Bannister
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