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For Beginner to Advanced Guitarists The Progressive COMPLETE LEARN TO PLAY BLUES GUITAR MANUAL is the ultimate Blues guitar manual. It assumes you have no prior knowledge of music and will take you from beginner to professional level. In the course of the book you will learn all the essential techniques of Blues Guitar along with how to read traditional music notation, guitar TAB, and rhythm notation. By the end of the book you will be ready to play in a Blues band, perform solo and write your own Blues songs. The book is divided into sections, the first covering the basics of left and right hand technique, basic Blues rhythms and chords, picking and music reading. The later sections deal with using the whole fretboard, more advanced rhythms, scales and chords, and also techniques and Blues Fingerpicking. The examples and solos demonstrate a variety of Blues and related styles including Chicago Blues, Delta Blues, Texas Boogie, R&B and Funk. Throughout the book suggestions are made about players and albums to listen to in all the styles covered. The accompanying CDs contain all the examples in the book so you can play along with them.At the end of the first CD, there are also several JamAlong tracks for you to practice improvising with.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
By C. R. Downing
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This looks just like a compilation of the Progressive Series of books I own - Blues Guitar Techniques, Blues Guyitar Solos, and Blues Guitar. So at this price it's good value as each would cost you something like £8. The conents are easy to follow, with CDs to help you on your way. Takes you through a logical set of lessons to get you playing the blues like you're actual pub bandsman. After this book you'll be ready for some of the more meaty courses or start studying the syles of Clapton, SRV or Hendrix.
The only advantage to have the single copies is that they open easily - whereas these compilation books are about 3/4 inch thick and whilst there's a ton of work in them - keeping them open on the music stand is more of a challenge than actually playing what's in them. Invest in some clothes pegs to keep it open - you'll need them for other badly behaved music sheets people give you anyway. (Why don't publishers work that one out for themselves - use comb binding for big books?) If you have access to a comb binder then get this copy, cut off the spine and insert a comb instead.
The only advantage to have the single copies is that they open easily - whereas these compilation books are about 3/4 inch thick and whilst there's a ton of work in them - keeping them open on the music stand is more of a challenge than actually playing what's in them. Invest in some clothes pegs to keep it open - you'll need them for other badly behaved music sheets people give you anyway. (Why don't publishers work that one out for themselves - use comb binding for big books?) If you have access to a comb binder then get this copy, cut off the spine and insert a comb instead.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
By J. Cowles
This is an excellent book. His first 2 books got me hooked on blues guitar. His examples are melodic, contextualised and always spot on. If you want to learn blues guitar and understand the blues then get this book. The man can teach! He can also play well....
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Has been great for me
27 Oct 2009
By Paul D. Baxter
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Let me tell you a little about my musical background before I talk about the specifics of this book. I'm forty years old and have been involved in music my whole life (singing and playing piano and french horn), but I am new to guitar. I bought my first guitar about five months ago and I've been trying to work on a balanced approach: basic chords, classical, and blues.
This book had been sitting on my shelf for a few weeks, but I figured I should get it out and try it. I was able to skim the first few lessons on note reading and rhythm, just playing each exercise a couple of times since I still need very basic practice. I'm sure folks who are new to music reading would need to spend a few weeks on that portion, but it is all explained fairly clearly and the author gives some good practice material. I'm now practicing the material in lessons 8-11. What I enjoy is that the exercises get you playing a variety of rhythms, solos, and riffs which are not too difficult to get started on. I really should probably slow down and practice each portion thoroughly, but it's just been so much fun to read and try out the material.
I would imagine if you are already a very experienced guitarist, particularly in rock/blues that there won't be enough to keep you interested in the first half of the book, but for those who are new to guitar, this book seems like a great intro.
This book had been sitting on my shelf for a few weeks, but I figured I should get it out and try it. I was able to skim the first few lessons on note reading and rhythm, just playing each exercise a couple of times since I still need very basic practice. I'm sure folks who are new to music reading would need to spend a few weeks on that portion, but it is all explained fairly clearly and the author gives some good practice material. I'm now practicing the material in lessons 8-11. What I enjoy is that the exercises get you playing a variety of rhythms, solos, and riffs which are not too difficult to get started on. I really should probably slow down and practice each portion thoroughly, but it's just been so much fun to read and try out the material.
I would imagine if you are already a very experienced guitarist, particularly in rock/blues that there won't be enough to keep you interested in the first half of the book, but for those who are new to guitar, this book seems like a great intro.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Blues Guide
14 Aug 2006
By D. Davidson
- Published on Amazon.com
I have several of this publishers stuff. All good. This is an excellent book / cd package for beginners to intermediate players that want to learn the blues.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Assi's dropped the ball this time
5 May 2007
By Brian Jones
- Published on Amazon.com
Amazon Verified Purchase
I have purchased ten or so guitar and bass guitar method books from this publisher since '85 and I waited several months for Amazon to finally get this book in, I guess I was one of the first to order it.
I give the book 2 stars because Peter Gelling put together a comprehensive text. However, much of it was taken from his earlier works -1 star. Gelling teaches the CAGED method for those guitarists who care. If you don't know what the CAGED system is buy the Book, "Fretboard Logic Vol. 1&2" to find out it is cheap.
There are 2 CD's with musical examples included and their are several examples under each number given as a title on the CD (some CD formats will only allow you to go up to 99), There should be 5 or 6 CDs with this book instead of all of the info put into two as it is very difficult to use so -2 more stars.
Blues You Can Use is a much better buy than Peter Gelling's "Blues Guitar Manual" IMHO.
I give the book 2 stars because Peter Gelling put together a comprehensive text. However, much of it was taken from his earlier works -1 star. Gelling teaches the CAGED method for those guitarists who care. If you don't know what the CAGED system is buy the Book, "Fretboard Logic Vol. 1&2" to find out it is cheap.
There are 2 CD's with musical examples included and their are several examples under each number given as a title on the CD (some CD formats will only allow you to go up to 99), There should be 5 or 6 CDs with this book instead of all of the info put into two as it is very difficult to use so -2 more stars.
Blues You Can Use is a much better buy than Peter Gelling's "Blues Guitar Manual" IMHO.
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