Rock House Master Blues Guitar (book/2 DVD)

Publisher: Rock House
Rock House Master Blues Guitar
A Complete Course
Format: Softcover with DVD
 
With this blues course designed by renowned guitarist John McCarthy, you will develop general guitar basics and a solid foundation for playing the blues.

Learn:
• essential blues chords
• scales and lead techniques like string bending
• vibrato, hammer-ons, pull-offs
• full blues scales with tri-tones
• the B.B. Box
• how to construct a 12 bar blues progression
• learn complete blues solos, riffs and syncopated rhythm progressions
• Learn the talk back effect, expansion on a main theme and how to fuse jazz into blues music
• Master techniques such as rakes, pick & finger and advanced bending
• blues endings
• turnarounds
• melodic blues
• the circle of fourths
• slide techniques
and many blues rhythms


On the  DVD John teaches and illustrates each playing example through easy-to-follow close-up views of each hand. He slowly breaks down all the lessons so you can easily follow along to get the hand positions correct. The included video also allows you to hear how the examples are supposed to sound and most important how John applies them in a musical sense.

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