Blues Guitar

Rev. Gary Davis: Blues Guitar (Country Blues Series)
The first instruction guide exclusively about this major innovator and stylist. It reveals Gary Davis’s style of playing and hints about playing in Davis’s own words. More than 20 tunes including Cocaine Blues, Candyman, and Lost Boy in the Wilderness.

Acoustic Blues Guitar/157
This book for intermediate-level guitarists is a follow-up to Kenny's Introduction to Acoustic Blues. It covers blues in five different keys and positions, and incorporates slide or bottleneck playing in both open and standard tunings. All songs are primarily fingerstyle with a monotone bass used for most. The accompanying 70-minute cassette features performances of every example and song, played slowly then up to speed to facilitate learning.

The Art of Acoustic Blues Guitar: The Basics: Building a Foundation of Repertoire and Technique for Acoustic Fingerstyle Blues with DVD
 

Basic Blues for Guitar
The most thorough blues guitar book yet. Over 35 blues tunes covering electric and rock blues, folk, fingerpicking and bottleneck blues, B.B. King and Chuck Berry styles, jazzy blues and more. Plus positions, scales chords, discographies and an overview of styles from Robert Johnson to George Benson. Written in music tablature with chord grids. All tunes are played on the stereo cassette that comes with the book. 42-minute audio accompaniment.

Fast Forward Classic Blues Guitar Licks: Essential Riffs & Tricks You Can Learn Today! (Fast Forward (Music Sales))
Everything you need to know about blues guitar licks plus slides, pull-offs, hammer-ons, solos, turnarounds, phrases and scales. CD contains 99 professional audio tracks to match the book.

Blues You Can Use Book of Guitar Chords (Blues Guitar Instruction)
A reference guide to blues, R&B, jazz, and rock rhythm guitar, with hundreds of voicings, chord theory construction, chord progressions and exercises and much more. The Blues You Can Use Book Of Guitar Chords is useful for the beginner to advanced player.

Blues Guitar Bible (Guitar Recorded Versions)
 

12-Bar Blues
The term "12-bar blues" has become synonymous with blues music and is the basis for an incredible body of jazz, rock 'n' roll, and other forms of popular music. This book/CD pack is solely devoted to providing guitarists with all the technical tools necessary for playing 12-bar blues with authority. The CD includes 24 full-band tracks. Covers: boogie, shuffle, swing, riff, and jazzy blues progressions; Chicago, minor, slow, bebop, and other blues styles; soloing, intros, turnarounds, accompanying keyboards and more. In standard notation and tablature.

The Logic of the Fretboard: The Art of Acoustic Blues Guitar with DVD
 

Blues Guitar Chords and Accomplaniment (Guitar Chords and Accompaniment)
The ultimate handbook for learning how to play the basic blues rhythm guitar step by step. The book covers tuning, basic music notation and music theory, and a variety of basic open chords and accompaniment patterns applicable to playing blues. Includes various 12-bar blues progressions, turnarounds, fingerstyle, shuffle, boogie-woogie, single-note riffs, double-stop riffs, small-chord riffs, along with plenty of music examples and sample songs.
 

Duck Baker's Fingerstyle Blues Guitar 101
 

Acoustic Blues Guitar (The Ultimate Beginner Series)
 

You can Teach Yourself Blues Guitar Book/CD Set
 

Acoustic Blues Guitar Essentials
Straight from the experts at Acoustic Guitar magazine! The 12 "private lessons" in this book/CD pack are full of helpful examples, licks, great songs, and excellent advice on blues flatpicking rhythm and lead, fingerpicking, and slide techniques from some of the finest teachers around, including Mike Christiansen, Acoustic Guitar music editor Dylan Schorer, Stefan Grossman and many others. The book shows all examples in both standard notation and TAB, and the CD allows you to play and replay the lessons and songs until you’ve perfected them.
 

Texas Blues Guitar
Musicians Institute instructor Robert Calva covers rhythm and lead guitar in the styles of Stevie Ray Vaughan, Johnny Winter, T-Bone Walker, Freddie King and Albert Collins. He teaches: 24 common blues licks; common blues "box" positions; shuffle blues, slow blues, Latin blues and straight blues; and more. The book includes standard notation and TAB, and the CD features 34 full-band tracks.
 

Roots and Blues Fingerstyle Guitar
Steve James presents a treasure trove of traditional American guitar styles in this unique book/CD pack. Guitarists will learn fingerpicking and slide techniques not through dry exercises but by playing 25 songs from James' own repertoire and from such masters as Furry Lewis, Blind Willie McTell, Sam McGee, and Mance Lipscomb. Drawing on his extensive research and first-hand experience with these guitar pioneers, James tells the stories behind the songs, too.

Open Tunings for Blues Guitar
Open tunings have played an important role in the genesis of blues guitar since the early 1900s. This book/CD pack is solely devoted to providing you with a complete overview of the techniques and styles popularized by the greatest bluesmen of all time. Includes note-for-note transcriptions, performance notes, and full-band CD demonstration for 9 classic songs: Boogie Chillen No. 2 * Cherry Ball Blues * Doing My Thing * Drunken Hearted Man * I Can't Be Satisfied * It Hurts Me Too * Life Saver Blues * Phonograph Blues * Statesboro Blues. Also includes historical analysis and rare photos.

Artie Traum Teaches Essential Blues for Acoustic Guitar
 

Rhythm and Blues Guitar
Renowned RandB, blues and funk ace Cornell Dupree is a guitarist of legendary proportion, with more than 2,500 albums as a sideman to his credit! In this authoritative book/CD pack, he reveals his playing secrets, covering: RandB, blues and funk styles; double-stops, vamps, scales and playing tips; common progressions and riffs; his equipment set-up; and much more. The CD features 10 songs written and performed by Cornell with full-band backing. The book also includes a foreword by blues expert Dave Rubin, a biography, Cornell's reminiscences, great photos, and standard notation and tablature.
 

The Blues Bag: An Anthology of Traditional Blues Songs and Instrumentals As Played by the Great Country Blues Guitarists
An anthology of traditional blues songs and instrumentals as played by the great country blues guitarist. Written in both guitar tablature and standard notation.

Book's Blues Book : The Songs and Fingerstyle Guitar Arrangements of Roy Book Binder
 

Teach Yourself Classic Blues Guitar (Book & CD)
This book is about learning how to play songs. When you finish the book you will be able to sit down, by yourself or with a friend, and play through half a dozen classic acoustic rock songs, and sound just like the recording. The play along tracks are recorded by real musicians with complete vocals to make the play along even more relasitic and fun. Titles are: Mannish Boy, Rock Me Baby, I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man, Born Under A Bad Sign, The Thrill Is Gone, Steppin' Out.

Getting into Blues Guitar
A progressive instructional blues guitar tutorial for beginner and intermediate level players, covering chords, comping, scales, phrasing and solo improvising. Presented in lesson format, and including practice and further reading/listening suggestions, the book features a number of musical examples and tunes using both notation and guitar tablature as well as chord grids, all of which have been recorded for demonstration on electric guitar only, and are included on the accompanying CD.

Introducing Blues Guitar
 

Blues Guitar Classics
Learn to play 11 classics, including: Everyday (I Have the Blues) * Hideaway * I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man * Killing Floor * T-Bone Shuffle * Texas Flood * The Things That I Used to Do * and more.

Blues Guitar for Adults
This is an adult-friendly blues guitar instruction book. It assumes the reader has attained at least a basic level of proficiency at some point, but is now either returning to guitar or ready for some helpful hints and instruction. Includes many licks in the styles of the great masters. Comes with an audio CD that demonstrates all the examples.

First Lessons Blues Guitar Book/CD Set
Written for the beginning guitarist who loves the blues, this text will guide any student through the basis of playing guitar by using blues melodies and blues chord progressions. Students will learn open chords, common strumming patterns, power chords, blues scales, and how to read standard notation, and tab. An effective method for writing original blues lyrics is also provided. This text has lessons on correct posture, caring for the guitar, proper right and left-hand technique, and tuning the guitar to its self, a pitch pipe or a piano. The accompanying CD provides students a professional recording of tunes and exercises that should be used as a practice tool.
 

The New Essential Blues Guitar: Authentic Guitar-Tab Edition
Titles are: Bad to the Bone (George Thorogood) * Blues for the Lost Days (John Mayall/Buddy Whitington) * Born Under a Bad Sign (Jimi Hendrix) * Born Under a Bad Sign (Eric Clapton) * (Call It) Stormy Monday (Allman Brothers Band) * Damn Right, I Got the Blues (Buddy Guy) * Dead City (John Mayall/Buddy Whitington) * Hideaway (Eric Clapton) * La Grange (ZZ Top) * Look at Little Sister (Stevie Ray Vaughn) * Oh, Pretty Woman (Gary Moore) * Rock Me Baby (B.B. King) * Sweet Little Angel (B.B. King) * The Thrill Is Gone (B.B. King) * Tin Pan Alley (Stevie Ray Vaughn) * You Upset Me Baby (B.B. King).
 

Blues Solos for Acoustic Guitar: In Tablature & Standard Notation
16 easy blues solos in SN and TAB, compiled and played on accompanying cassette. Plus tips on how to prepare for and perform each solo.