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Blues and Slide Guitar Learn Blues Guitar or Slide Guitar with one of our great blues and slide guitar books, videos or DVD's. Every title is discount priced and most ship the same day. In the 1920's and 1930's, blues guitar players like Blind Lemon Jefferson, Son House, Robert Johnson, and Lonnie Johnson were the influential performers of the day. Since the early 1980's, the blues has enjoyed quite a resurgence in America. You can learn blues and slide guitar today.

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Acoustic Blues Guitar

This book for intermediate-level guitarists is a follow-up to Kenny's Introduction to Acoustic Blues. It covers blues in five different keys and positions, and incorporates slide or bottleneck playing in both open and standard tunings. All songs are primarily fingerstyle with a monotone bass used for most.

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Electric Blues Guitar

An introduction to the most commonly used scales and techniques for the modern blues player, complete with demonstration CD for several of the examples.

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Getting Into Slide Guitar

Getting into Slide Guitar covers slide for acoustic or electric guitar and focuses on open-G tuning. The book explains the concepts of technique, basic theory, improvising, harmonic and melodic concepts and provides many essential examples. Most of the context for the book is blues-based, but the ideas and examples are applicable to all styles. Companion CD included.

Product# 20200BCD

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Slide Guitar and Open Tunings

This book/CD pack for the intermediate player explores the basics of open tunings and slide guitar, covering licks, chords, songs and patterns. This is not just a repertoire book, but rather an approach for guitarists to jam with others, invent their own songs and more. The accompanying CD features 37 tracks.

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Blues by the Bar

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.

Product# 2500413

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Blues Guitar - Introduction to Acoustic Blues

Using instructional text and actual songs, author Kenny Sultan covers blues in five different keys and positions and shows how they can be adapted to any key. Along with the basic blues rhythms and leads, fingerstyle blues is covered, using both an alternating and monotone bass.

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How to Play Blues Guitar: The Basics & Beyond

Packed with musical examples, charts and photos, this is a complete, step-by-step course for learning acoustic or electric blues guitar. In-depth lessons teach you to build your own style while exploring the music of traditional bluesmen and modern stars.

Product# 330950

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Blues Guitar Rules

An in-depth look at the practical and theoretical concepts of traditional and modern blues guitar, covering all the important technical, rhythm and improvisational ideas. The book is divided into three stages: easy blues, blues & blues rock styles, and jazz blues. In notation and tablature.

Product# 610120E

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Dunlop Presents the Slide Guitar Book

Slide guitar is more popular than ever in blues, rock, and country music. This book tells the slide story with bios and photos of the past and present bottleneck masters, technique lessons, and transcriptions of old and new benchmark tunes. Includes standard and open tunings. 64 pages.

Product# 650008

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Blues You Can Use

A comprehensive source designed to help guitarists develop both lead and rhythm playing. Covers: Texas, Delta, R&B, early rock and roll, gospel, blues/rock and more. Includes 21 complete solos; chord progressions and riffs; turnarounds; moveable scales and more. CD features leads and full band backing.

Product# 695007

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Basic Blues for Guitar

The most thorough blues guitar book yet. Over 35 blues tunes covering electric and rock blues, folk, fingerpicking and bottleneck blues, B.B. King and Chuck Berry styles, jazzy blues and more. Plus positions, scales chords, discographies and an overview of styles from Robert Johnson to George Benson.

Product# 695011

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Electric Slide Guitar

This book/audio method explores the basic fundamentals of slide guitar: from selecting a slide and proper setup of the guitar, to open and standard tuning. Plenty of music examples are presented showing sample licks as well as backup/rhythm slide work.

Product# 695022

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Total Blues Jam Session for Guitar

Total Accuracy Play-Along Tracks Crank up your amp and go for it! Play lead guitar with our pro session band on 10 tracks in a variety of blues styles. Includes 90 licks, tips on solo construction, phrasing, scales, string bending and vibrato. CD includes over 60 minues with full-band backing tracks.

Product# 695151

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Ultimate Blues Jam Session for Guitar

Crank up your amp and go for it! Play lead guitar with our pro session band on 10 tracks in a variety of blues styles. Includes 90 licks, tips on solo construction, phrasing, scales, string bending and vibrato. CD includes over 60 minues with full-band backing tracks.

Product# 695152

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Blues Guitar Classics

Learn to play 11 classics, including: Everyday (I Have the Blues) - Hideaway - I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man - Killing Floor - T-Bone Shuffle - Texas Flood - The Things That I Used to Do - and more.

Product# 695177

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Basic Blues Guitar

Play rhythm guitar in the style of Stevie Ray Vaughan, B.B. King, Chuck Berry, T-Bone Walker, Albert King, Freddie Green, and many other blues greats! The CD includes 40 full-demo tracks and the instruction covers all styles of blues and the essential chords, patterns and riffs.

Product# 695180

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12-Bar Blues

The term "12-bar blues" has become synonymous with blues music and is the basis for an incredible body of jazz, rock 'n' roll, and other forms of popular music. This book/CD pack is solely devoted to providing guitarists with all the technical tools necessary for playing 12-bar blues with authority.

Product# 695187

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Fretboard Roadmaps - Blues Guitar

These essential fretboard patterns are roadmaps that all great blues guitarists know and use. This book teaches how to: play lead and rhythm anywhere on the fretboard, in any key; play a variety of lead guitar styles using moveable blues boxes, chord-based licks, blues scales and double-note licks; and more!

Product# 695350

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Fretboard Roadmaps - Slide Guitar

A must for every slide guitarist, this book/CD pack teaches how to: play lead and rhythm anywhere on the fretboard, in any key; play a variety of slide guitar styles using moveable scale patterns, common licks and slide techniques; play in open G tuning, open D tuning, open A tuning, open E tuning, and standard tuning.

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Blues Solos for Guitar

Learn lead guitar in the styles of Albert Collins, Eric Clapton, Albert King, B.B. King, Freddie King, Stevie Ray Vaughan and T-Bone Walker! This unique book/CD pack examines the solo concepts of each of these masters.

Product# 695451

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The Roots of Acoustic Blues Guitar

This info-filled volume samples the many sounds of early acoustic blues, with transcriptions of six classic tunes, notes on the history and development of the genre, extensive instruction in the different playing styles, and biographies of the pioneering artists. The CD features examples of all songs, exercises, and licks.

Product# 699068

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Lead Blues Licks

This book examines a number of blues licks in the styles of such greats as B.B. King, Albert King, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eric Clapton, Chuck Berry, and more. Varying these licks and combining them with others can improve lead playing and can be used in rock styles as well as blues.

Product# 699325

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Electric Blues Guitar Method

This is an innovative and comprehensive book which teaches the essentials of playing contemporary blues guitar. Includes basic techniques such as note-bending, the hammer-ons, the pull-offs, in addition to the blues shuffle rhythm. The first part of the book presents lead guitar solos demonstrating and teaching basic techniques.

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Electric Blues Guitar Method

In this extended-length video, William Bay teaches the essential elements of contemporary blues guitar. Both blues rhythm and blues solo techniques are shown. Solos, power chords, barre chords, licks, improvising scales, and blues rhythm progressions are shown in the keys of E, G, D, A, C, F, and B flat.

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Complete Blues Guitar Book

This book will take you from basic concepts in blues guitar through performance level blues solos and techniques. Chapters include: Notation and Tablature, Time Values, Strumming, Blues Techniques, The Blues Progression, Open String Power Chords, Barre Chords, Blues Turnarounds, Blues Fill-Ins and more!

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Complete Blues Guitar Book

This DVD accompanies the book of the same title. It will take you from basic concepts in blues guitar through performance level blues solos and techniques.

Product# 94682DVD

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Complete Blues Guitar Book

This book and video will take you from basic concepts in blues guitar through performance level blues solos and techniques. Chapters include: Notation and Tablature, Time Values, Strumming, Blues Techniques, The Blues Progression, Open String Power Chords, Barre Chords, Blues Turnarounds and more!

Product# 94682SET

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Complete Blues Guitar Book

This book will take you from basic concepts in blues guitar through performance level blues solos and techniques.

Product# 94682VX

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Easiest Blues Guitar Book

An easy-to-understand book which teaches basic acoustic guitar blues. With its roots in America, the blues have become one of the most popular forms of music all over the world. Many of the techniques and licks used by the earliest blues players are still used today.

Product# 94686

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You Can Teach Yourself Blues Guitar

A truly enjoyable in-depth look at the basics of acoustic blues guitar! Learn the blues progression, blues chords, strum patterns, how to accompany a blues song, 6/8 blues, minor blues, power chords, moveable chords, barre chords, the blues scale, turnarounds, fill-ins, the capo, double stops, blues licks and much more!

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You Can Teach Yourself Blues Guitar

This companion video to the book of the same title provides a truly enjoyable in-depth look at the basics of acoustic blues guitar! Learn the blues progression, blues chords, strum patterns, how to accompany a blues song, 6/8 blues, minor blues, power chords, moveable chords, barre chords and much more!

Product# 94699DVD

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You Can Teach Yourself Blues Guitar

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Anyone Can Play Blues Guitar

This course is a fun, easy way for a beginning to intermediate guitarist to learn how to play the blues. You'll learn blues chord progressions as well as a variety of blues strumming and picking patterns. This course also presents basic blues scales, lead guitar techniques, and combination rhythm and lead playing.

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Anyone Can Play Blues Guitar

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Complete Electric Blues Guitar

From blues rhythm guitar to soloing, this book will help you learn in a step by step manner to play blues guitar styles similar to greats such as Stevie Ray Vaughn, BB King, Eric Clapton and others. You will learn the different techniques used in playing blues guitar. This set includes a stereo play-along CD and 110-minute DVD.

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Beginner's Blues Guitar

By the end of this video lesson, you will be playing the blues in several keys and styles. You'll know how to play blues turnarounds, boogie-woogie bass lines, several strumming and fingerpicking accom- paniment patterns, as well as blues solos, licks, and fills. 70 minute video.

Product# 95208VX

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Anyone Can Play Bottleneck Blues Guitar

This course is designed for the beginning slide guitar player but will also help an intermediate player develop bottleneck technique. You will learn standard and alternate tunings, reading slide tablature, basic left- and right-hand technique, and classic bottleneck blues riffs. A free tablature booklet of examples from the video is included.

Product# 95441DVD

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101 Bad to the Bone Blues Guitar Rhythm Patterns

Seasoned Mel Bay author Larry McCabe teaches you to play authentic four and eight-beat blues guitar backup rhythms recorded like the pros. The companion CD contains all blues rhythms recorded exactly as they appear in the book - each based on the C7 chord or on the Cm chord.

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Master Anthology of Blues Guitar Solos Volume One

This comprehensive book/CD set presents some of the first contemporary blues guitarists! These selections include both new pieces and some of the best previously published pieces from the latter half of the 20th century. A set of 2 CDs is included,making this an ideal sourcebook for serious students and professionals alike.

Product# 98424BCD

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Beginner's Blues Guitar

Starting from ground zero, Fred Sokolow teaches you how to accompany yourself while singing the blues. You'll learn to play melodies and solo in several keys, throughout the neck. This book will help build the foundation for your understanding of blues guitar techniques and styles for both acoustic and electric guitar.

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Blues and Slide Guitar (1)
Blues and Slide Guitar (2)

Learn Blues Guitar - Slide Guitar