Serious Blues: Essential Phrasing (book/DVD)

Publisher : Alfred Music
Get Your Fingers to Play What's in Your Head

Scott A. Smith teaches you all the essential blues phrasing techniques and tricks. Learn simple concepts like solo construction, phrasing over a 12-bar blues, the blues scale, pentatonic box patterns, and playing multiple scales over a single chord. Also, learn practical, effective techniques like trills, slides, and rakes.
In-depth lessons on bending teach you how to use target notes, initial and destination notes, pre-bends, and how to combine bends with box patterns. The included DVD is hosted by Smith and features live demonstrations of the examples in the book.

 • Bending and the Minor Pentatonic Scale
 • Half-Step Bend      
 • Solo Construction     
 • Trills
 • Return Bend to Pull-Off
 • Basic Phrasing     
 • Simple Slide Exercises
 • Major Pentatonic Versus Minor Pentatonic
 • Introduction to Overllapping Boxes
 • Phrasing

Simple Pages

• The Ultimate Guitar Chord & Scale Bible
• The Serious Guitarist - Jazz Chops
• The Serious Guitarist - Blues Chops
• Serious Blues: Essential Phrasing
• The Serious Guitarist - Expanding Grooves
• Guitar Chord Resource