Blues Licks You Can Use Softcover with CD Guitar Educational
The purpose of this book is to give aspiring blues guitarists & experienced players alike a large chunk of the vocabulary of the blues – in other words, lots of licks! It contains music and performance notes for 75 hot lead phrases, with a CD featuring full-band examples of each. Styles covered include: up-tempo and slow blues, jazz-blues, shuffle blues, swing blues and more!
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Nice collection of authentic licks
This is a good compendium of blues licks. It covers licks in many different styles. It is a very good supplement to the author’s Blues You Can Use series. I would recomend beginning guitarists work through the first book in the collection (Blues You Can Use) before getting into this work. However, intermediate and advanced guitarists will find some examples of tasty, authentic phrasing and style between these covers. I definitely recommend this book.
4 Stars Good sounding stuff.
Just like the Blues you can use series, this book rocks. There is a huge number of licks of all types. Most of them sound really good and I’m using alot of them in my own playing. In addition, he actually explains the licks instead of just throwing them at you. Anyone who is in need of improving their blues playing or looking for licks to add to their stash should pick this one up.
3 Stars Can’t Quite Recommend
This is a pretty good tutorial on the Blues. It contains well thought-out instruction on the pentatonic scales and their relationship to the Blues. However, it has a serious drawback. There are no backing tracks for songs on CD. Also, since it does not provide the tempo (in beats per minute), one has to spend valuable practice time building one’s own backing tracks (unless you have your own band handy). These days, there are plenty of tutuorials that include backing tracks, as well. For this very reason, I cannot recommend it.