Playing The Blues: Blues Rhythm Guitar (book/CD)

Mel Bay Publications
Level: Beginning-Intermediate
Standard Notation and TAB

This in-depth blues rhythm guitar text is features 18 twelve-bar blues rhythm guitar accompaniments in the style of guitarists such as Chuck Berry, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page and Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Nine of the songs use a shuffle feel and nine use a straight eighth note feel.
The play along CD contains 2 versions of each of the eighteen songs in the book. The first version has the guitar part and the second version is without the guitar. This gives you the ability to play along with the guitar part as a guide and also to play along with the track as the only guitarist.


Content:

• What is the I, IV, V Blues Progression?
• What is the 12-Bar Blues Form?
• Minor Blues
• Rhythmic Feels (Shuffle and Straight)
• Shuffle Feel Examples
• Austin Limits
• Smokin'
• Mississippi Mud
• Clarksdale
• Deep Fried
• Memphis Fat
• Everyday
• Jump and Jive
• Cold Shoulder
• Straight Eighth Feel Examples
• Johnny Rock

and more