Mel Bay DADGAD Blues: Easy to Intermediate - MacKillop - Guitar TAB - Book/Audio Online

Author: Rob MacKillop
Format: Book with Audio Online
Instrumentation: Guitar TAB

Rob MacKillop presents 20 wonderful fingerstyle blues arrangements and compositions in DADGAD tuning. The styles covered in this book include country blues, boogie woogie left-hand piano blues, early jazz blues, gut-bucket blues and modal blues. Great traditional songs are included such as St. James Infirmary Blues, St. Louis Blues, C. C. Rider and more, alongside 15 full-length studies. The book begins with easy arrangements, progressing to intermediate and more advanced ones - in short, these blues studies will improve your technique through playable 12-bar tunes. A wide array of chord and scale fingerings are also provided, including pentatonic minor and major scales, blues scales, diminished arpeggios and scales, 7th chords, whole-tone scales and the super Locrian mode and much more! All the tunes presented have accompanying audio recorded by Rob MacKillop and are available to download.

Contents:

• Introduction
• Technique Primer
• Exercises
• The Recording/The Tunes
• Chords and Scales
• How to Use This Book
• Easy DADGAD Blues
• Walking Bass Blues
• St. James Infirmary Blues
• You Got to Move
• C.C. Rider
• Minor Groove
• The Ending-Lick Blues
• Mean Kate's Blues
• Early Morning Blues
• Monday's Blues
• Empty Bed Blues
• Stuck in Seventh Fret Blues
• Big Bob's Blues
• Sliding 7th Blues
• Three-Bar Blues
• Beck's Blues
• Monkish Blues
• Three-Four Blues
• How About A Little Blues?
• St. Louis Blues
• D Pentatonic Minor Scale
• Mixolydian Modes
• Pentatonic Minor Scales
• Pentatonic Major Scales
• Blues Minor Scales
• Blues Major Scales
• D Minor Pentatonic 6th & G9 Arpeggio
• G Minor Pentatonic 6th & C9 Arpeggio
• A Minor Pentatonic 6th and D9 Arpeggio
• Diminished Arpeggios
• Diminished Scales
• Superlocrian Scales
• Whole Tone Scales
• D7 Chords
• E7 Chords
• F7 Chords
• G7 Chords
• A7 Chords
• C7 Chords
• About the Author