Alfred Publishing The Serious Guitarist: Blues Chops - Brown - Guitar TAB - Book/CD

A Technique-Building Approach for the Dedicated Guitarist

Author: Buck Brown
Format: Book with MP3 CD
Instrumentation: Guitar TAB

Great musical ideas need a solid foundation of strong chops to back them up. Fill the gaps in your technique with this unique approach to blues guitar. Build your finger strength, flexibility, and independence with exercises and examples written especially for blues players. This book includes exercises to help you master bending, shuffle rhythm patterns, turnarounds, blues trills, and more. Develop your chops while practicing exercises in the style of the music you enjoy. The Serious Guitarist: Blues Chops provides the tools you need to become a better guitar player, but more importantly, it will help you become a better musician. The included companion MP3 CD features demonstrations of the examples in the book.

Contents:

• Introduction
• About The Author
• Chapter 1: Blues Rhythm Guitar
• Moveable Chords
• The I-IV-V Progression and the Twelve Bar Blues
• Open-Position Two-Note Shuffle Patterns
• Closed-Position Two-Note Shuffle Patterns
• Two-Note Shuffle Patterns with a b7
• Closed-Position Two-Note Shuffle Patterns with a b7
• Chord Shuffle Patterns
• New Blues 7 Chords
• The 9 Chord
• The 9 Chord Slide Blues
• The 13 Chord
• More Dominant 7 Chords
• Turnarounds
• More Shuffle Patterns
• Chapter 2: Blues Lead Guitar
• Alternate Picking
• Finger Independence
• Vibrato
• The Minor Pentatonic Scale
• Strengthening the 3rd and 4th Fingers
• String Bending
• The Major Pentatonic Scale
• String Bending in the Major Pentatonic Scale
• Pre-Bends
• Pedal Steel-Style Bends
• Step-and-a-Half Bends
• Hammer-Ons
• Pull-Offs
• Combinations with Hammer-Ons, Pull-Offs and Bends
• Double Stops
• Chapter 3: Advanced Blues Techniques
• Advanced Twelve-Bar Blues Harmony
• Pick and Fingers Blues with a Walking Bass Line
• The Minor Blues
• Sliding -- The Ring-Finger Slide
• More Sliding Exercises
• Muted Sweeps
• The Blues Trill
• Harmonics
• Downstroke Sweeps
• Upstroke Sweeps
• Cross Picking, String Skipping, and Finger Rolls
• Chapter 4: Slide Guitar
• String Damping
• Slide in Standard Tuning
• Slide in G Tuning
• Slide in D Tuning
• Conclusion