Piedmont Style Country Blues Guitar Basics

Piedmont Style Country Blues Guitar Basics presents accessible guitar arrangements inspired by the repertoires of Country Blues artists like Mississippi John Hurt, John Cephas, Elizabeth Cotten, Mance Lipscomb, John Jackson, Blind Willie McTell, Lead Belly, Papa Charlie Jackson, Rev. Gary Davis, Furry Lewis, and Son House. With over 20 music arrangements aimed at the beginner and intermediate levels, the songs in this book span a variety of keys, tunings, and timings, and are represented using a combination of chord charts, tablature, standard music notation, and accompanying audio. Interesting photographs, lyrics, and anecdotes round out the book and add to its charm.

Mel Bay Publications, Inc. is proud to present this new series of lessons part of Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop Audio Series. This book offers a comprehensive collection of fingerpicking guitar lessons. In support of the book's contents, the three companion CDs contain three full hours of note-by-note, phrase-by-phrase instruction. Focused lessons include: finger- strengthening exercises, the hammer-on and pull-off, single-string runs, and counterpoint lines, blues vibrato, syncopated bass, walking bass, chromatic runs and hot licks, and end tags. Written in standard notation and tablature with a complete explanation of the tab system.

This comprehensive book has 260 pages and over 50 fingerpicking guitar solos in notation and tablature in country blues, Delta blues, ragtime blues, Texas blues and bottleneck styles. An extremely comprehensive blues solo collection.Includes access to online audio

The first instruction guide exclusively about this major innovator and stylist. It reveals Gary Davis' style of playing and hints about playing in Davis' own words. More than 20 tunes, including Cocaine Blues, Candyman, and Lost Boy In The Wilderness.

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Tommy Flint has the unique ability to write easy fingerstyle guitar solos that sound great! This collection features simple fingerpicking blues. A highly recommended text for the beginning fingerstyle guitarist. In notation and tablature.

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This is a revised version of Tommy Flint's highly acclaimed Fingerstyle Blues Guitar solos text. In this edition, Tommy includes 13 new blues guitar solos! Written in notation and tablature, this fine book contains 31 original Flint fingerstyle blues solos plus original intros, endings, fills, and licks! Includes access to online audio featuring Tommy Flint's performance of all but 2 of the guitar solos.

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Take the first step towards mastering blues guitar. This book & CD will guide you through everything you need to know to begin playing blues guitar, including shuffle rhythms, turnarounds, blues soloing, call-and-response patterns, play-along "jam" tracks, slow blues, blues scale positions, and the "B.B. King secret scale pattern." Includes complete play-along tracks on CD.