Serious Blues: Expanding Lead & Rhythm (book/DVD)

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

Eric Slone teaches you all the essential lead and rhythm techniques to become a great blues guitarist. Learn about transposition, call-and-response, targeting chord tones, arpeggios, scales, fills between vocals, pinch harmonics, rakes, Texas power rhythm in the style of Stevie Ray Vaughan, chord progressions, and extended chords. Additionally, Slone runs through grooves in the jazz blues, funk blues, and jump blues styles.
The included DVD features live demonstrations of the examples in the book

Contents:
Speed Riffs and Repeating Licks  
F Lydian Rake Lick  
Texas Power Rhythm  
The I, IV and V Chord Patterns  
Dominant 7 Sharp-9  
Sizzling Speed Riffs  
The Dominant 11th Chord, 13th Chord  
Jump Blues Using Dominant 9th and 13th Chords   
Funk Grooves Using the Dominant 9th Chord  
Adding 11ths and 13ths  
Understanding 11ths and 13ths  
Diminished 7th Chord Turnaround Licks  
Dominant 9th Chords  
The Dominant 9th Chord Explained  
Forward Rakes  
Jazz-Blues Speed Riff  
Transpose Your Licks!  
Exploring These Licks Further  
Targeting Chord Tones  
Executing Pinch Harmonics  
Pick Location and Sound Production  
Combining Pinch Harmonics with Solo Techniques  
The Texas Power Rhythm Introduced  
Dominant 7 Sharp-9 Chords Explained  
Fills Between Vocals  
Boogie in A  
Minor Against Major  
More Calls and Responses  
Calls with the E Blues Scale  
Practicing Call and Response  
Dominant 7 Sharp-9 Rooted on Other Strings  
Using the Dominant 7 Sharp-9 Chord  
Adding Tension to the V Chord  
Altered Dominant Chords: 7 Flat-9 and 7 Sharp-5  
Dominant 7 Flat-9 Chord Rooted on the 5th String  
Dominant 7 Flat-9 Chord Rooted on the 6th String  
Dominant 7 Sharp-5 Chord  
Chuck Berry-Style Fills

Sample Pages