Blues Guitar For Dummies
Do you want to play your favorite blues guitar music?
Even if you are not able to read music, playing blues guitar is not difficult with Blues Guitar for Dummies. This hands-on guide, you’ll pick up the fundamentals instantly and start jamming like your favorite blues artists!
Blues Guitar for Dummies covers all aspects of blues guitar, showing you how to play scales, chords, progressions, riffs, solos, and more! It’s packed with musical examples, chords charts, and photos that let you explore the genre and play the songs of the great blues musicians. This accessible guide will give you the skills you need to:
- Choose the right guitar, equipment, and strings
- Hold, tune, and get situated with your guitar
- Play barre chords and strum to the rhythm
- Recognize the structure of a blues song
- Tackle musical riffs
- Master melodies and solos
- Make your guitar sing, cry, and wail
- Jam to any type of blues
In addition to this must-have book, a bonus CD is included so that you can listen to famous songs, practice your riffs and chords, and develop your style as a blues musician. It also features a quick guide to musical notation and suggestions on albums, artists, and guitars for further enjoyment. With Blues Guitar for Dummies, you can re-create the masterpieces of the blues legend without the expensive lessons!
User Ratings and Reviews
4 Stars Blues Book
This book is informative and pretty much just what I expected. It is a little hard to traverse and comprehend if you don’t go page by page.
5 Stars All around great resource
This book is great even for guitarists who play well and want to expand into the blues style. Information is presented clearly for both guitarists who read music notation and those who do not. Well worth the price–enough material to learn to keep you busy for months.
5 Stars Great method book
Don’t let the “Dummies” title fool you. This is an excellent book for learning to play blues guitar.
At almost 400 pages of instruction and information, this book will give you a solid foundation for exploring blues guitar. It covers everything — from rhythm and lead guitar, basic to advanced chords, scales, and has great information about blues artists and blues history.
There’s also information about equipment. The author really has taken the time to create a solid method course that’s never dull. Lessons build on each other, staring from basic chords and rhythm patterns, to more advanced scales and lead and rhythm playing.
To get the most out of this book, don’t skip around — take your time. This book should give you months of instruction if you’re a beginner or beginning intermediate player. The CD that comes with it is invaluable for hearing how stuff should sound.
2 Stars For Dummies for sure
It is a really basic book. The main and most disappointing problem is that the none of the tracks on the CD ever sound like any real blues lick that you’ve ever heard on a blues album. Many of them I played like recorded and directed, only to “hear” it played correctly on a blues song.
It does not teach you the essence of the blues, just technical basic skills.
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