Features:

A step-by-step method for learning this rich and powerful style. Graded exercises take you from the fundamentals of fingerpicking to five authentic blues tunes. Each technique is carefully explained and illustrated in the book as well as on the accompanying compact disk.
All music is presented in both standard notation and tablature.

Table of Contents:

• The origins of the blues
• The 12-bar blues form
• The importance of the beat in the blues
• The roles of the thumb and of the fingers
• Playing the alternating bass
• Playing the melody
• Putting the Thumb and fingers together
• Whole notes, half notes and quarter notes
• Fingerpicking patterns for various chords in various keys
• Playing our first blues
• The Turnaround
• Melody notes for each chord
• Eighth notes and dotted quarter notes
• Syncopation
• Blues Notes
• Hammerons
• Pulloffs
• Slides
• Double stops
• Bends
• Walking basslines
• Brushstroking
• Heel damping
• Chord inversions
• Vamps
• Singing the Blues
• M & O Blues
• Beekman Blues
• Big Road Blues
• 32-20 Blues
• Black Rat Swing

Catalog:	14003799
Publisher:	Music Sales
Composer:	Arnie Berle, Mark Galbo
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Voicing:	Guitar
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Pages:	98