Hal Leonard Roots & Blues Fingerstyle Guitar Explorations: Acoustic Guitar Private Lessons - James - Guitar TAB - Book/Video Online

Author: Steve James
Publisher: String Letter Media
Format: Softcover with Video Online
Instrumentation: Guitar TAB

Get to know the nuts and bolts of country-blues and other rootsy styles with this series of in-depth lessons by blues guitar expert Steve James. You'll learn essential chord shapes and picking patterns in standard and open tunings, with and without the bottleneck slide, as well as a wealth of melodic vocabulary. You'll discover how these devices work in a wide range of traditional and blues settings. All examples are provided in standard notation and tablature, with video downloads so that you can see and hear exactly how they're played. Throughout, a wealth of historical information and anecdotes, some of them first-hand, will give you a clear picture of how this music came together.

Songs include:

• Bull Doze Blues
• Crow Jane
• Georgia Buck
• Green Corn
• I've Been All Around the World
• Knoxville Blues
• Little Hammer
• Memphis Rounders Blues
• See See Rider
• Texas Shorty
• Yo Yo Blues ... and more