Serious Blues: Expanding Grooves (book/DVD)

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

Mark Dziuba helps you become a great blues guitarist by expanding your groove palette. You’ll learn about shuffle and straight rhythms, the 12/8 feel, triplets, blues forms, the minor blues, and various blues rhythm tricks, including chord fills, using accents and mutes, sliding into chords, and open-string drones.

Additionally, Dziuba explores harmonic concepts, like chord extensions and advanced voicings, plus rhythms from music beyond the blues - the Charleston and Latin montuno.
The included DVD features live demonstrations of the examples in the book.

Index:

• Fingerstyle Shuffle  
• Chord Fills  
• The 8-Bar Blues Form  
• Upbeat Shuffle  
• Review the Feel  
• Introducing the Upbeat Rhythm  
• Additional Voicings and the Upbeat Rhythm  
• 6th-String-Root 6th Chords  
• Constructing Major and Minor 6th Chords  
• 8-Bar Blues in A, in E   
• The Charleston Blues with Chord-Defining Intervals  
• Chord-Defining Intervals  
• Charleston Rhythm  
• Four to the Floor in A  
• In the Style of "Key to the Highway"  
• 8-Bar Blues in A Minor  
• In the Style of "The Thrill Is Gone"  
• Minor Line Using D Minor  
• Using the Minor Line in a Blues Progression  
• Blues in A with the Upbeat Rhythm  
• 16-Bar Blues in A Minor  
• Crossover Method  
• 4th-String-Root 9th-Chord Blues  
• Modern "Stormy Monday" Changes  
• 4th-String-Root 9th Chords  
• Improvisation Exercise  
• Three-String 6th and 9th Chords  
• 6th- and 9th-Chord Relationships  
• 8-Bar Blues in G  
• Traditional "Stormy Monday" Changes  
• Cool Riff with 9th Chords  
• Funky 13th-Chord Lick  
• Reading Chord Diagrams  
• Playing Dominant 7 Sharp-9 Chords  
• Montuno Lines  
• The Chord Progression  
• Chord Voicings and Open-String Drones  
• In the Style of "Call It Stormy Monday"  
• Minor Blues Line  
• E7 Sharp-9 Vamp  
• Crossing Over Minor 9 Chords  
• Minor Blues  
• Minor Pentatonic Scales  
• Strumming in 12/8  
• Accenting the Downbeat  
• Using Accents and Mutes  
• Eighth-Note Patterns and Variations  
• Putting It All Together  
• Minor-Key Shuffle  
• Sliding into Chords  
• A Minor Blues (First Four Bars)  
• The Heart of the Shuffle 

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