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Another must-have Red Dog Music Book by Larry McCabe. This book contains a goldmine of 101 authentic electric blues rhythm patterns that can be applied to thousands of real songs. Each pattern is recorded note-for-note on the companion CD, and written in standard notation and tablature. Supplemental articles cover blues progressions and rhythm pattern types. The book will help any early-intermediate or intermediate guitarist acquire well-rounded blues rhythm guitar skills. Ideal also for pro reference and teaching studios. It is a book for guitarists who are familiar with, and enthusiasts of, urban blues and other forms of non-commercial music.
The patterns are in the urban blues style heard on recordings by artists such as Muddy Waters, Howling Wolf, Jimmy Reed, Elmore James, Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, James Cotton, Little Walter, BB King, Albert King, John Hammond, Anson Funderburgh, Hubert Sumlin, Little Ed and the Blues Imperials, Pinetop Perkins, Willie Dixon, R.L. Burnside, Butterfield Blues Band, Otis Spann Charlie Musselwhite, Lonnie Mack, Boozoo Chavis, Ry Cooder, Gatemouth Brown, Freddie King, Sonny Boy Williamson, Robert Lockwood, Lonnie Johnson, and similar musicians who recorded for Chess Records, Delmark Records, Sun Records, Alligator Records, Arhoolie Records and other labels that focus on roots music performers and Afro-American music. Prospective buyers are encouraged to use the Search Inside Book feature to examine the contents and music pages prior to purchase.

101 Razor-Sharp Blues Guitar Rhythm Patterns in the Electric Urban / Chicago Style

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Comb-bound electric slide guitar instruction book and CD.

TAB – STANDARD NOTATION – CD

This superb electric slide book teaches how to play open tuning slide guitar with a blues band and singer. It is the only slide (or bottleneck) guitar instruction book devoted to learning how to play slide behind a blues vocalist.

The term slide guitar refers to a style of playing in which the guitar strings are fretted with a piece of metal, glass or ceramic. Usually, the fretting device is a finger sized cylinder (the slide) that is worn on either the third or fourth finger of the fretting hand. Bottleneck blues guitar players have been known to play bottleneck blues guitar with makeshift items such as knife blades, bones, and spoon handles.

Slide guitar is also known as bottleneck guitar or knife guitar. Slide guitar setup: A guitar used for slide playing is usually tuned to an open chord; the strings are raised at the nut to accommodate the pressure of the slide.

A fill-in is a lead guitar lick played behind a singer. This slide guitar guide teaches 101 authentic slide guitar fill-ins in open E tuning. Songs are presented in a way that makes learning efficient, enjoyable, and pertinent to real music.

For your convenience, all of the songs are performed in open E tuning, allowing you to jam with the entire CD without having to retune. After absorbing the licks, apply them to songs of your own choice.

Songs include standards such as Joe Turner Blues, St. Louis Blues, Sporting Life Blues, House of the Rising Sun, Midnight Special, and several new songs based on standard blues changes.

Supplementary Materials

• Open E Tuning (Diagram)
• The E Minor Pentatonic Scale in Open E (Diagram)
• Tones in the Basic Blues Chords (Diagram)
• Tips for Slide Guitar Players

All this for a low price that is less than the cost of a single private music lesson.

Prerequisite Ability

• Early intermediate and intermediate musicians.

User Profiles

• Serious hobbyist musicians looking for an electric slide guitar book.
• Any guitarist who wants to learn how to play slide guitar.
• Any gigging musician who wants to learn blues slide guitar in more detail.
• Dobro, National Steel, or steel guitar player who desires slide guitar instruction.
• Guitar teachers who teach slide lessons and blues guitar lessons.

Goals and Purposes

• Learn bottleneck guitar licks that can be played in a band.
• Learn basic slide guitar techniques by playing along with a recorded band and singer.
• Improve slide guitar technique.
• Develop more rounded skills as a blues guitarist.
• Study open E tuning.
• Beginning slide guitar book, slide guitar basics for ambitious students.
• Helps an early intermediate understand blues progressions.
• Learn to play tasteful guitar licks behind a singer.

Author-Recommended Supplemental Listening for Slide Guitar Players

The author recommends that guitarists who use this book supplement with listening to as many of the following slide guitar players as possible. Listening to these classic blues slide guitar players will provide unlimited enjoyment and inspiration.

Duane Allman, Dickey Betts, Bob Brozman, Ry Cooder, John Fahey, John Hammond, Earl Hooker, Elmore James, Homesick James, Blind Willie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Son House, J.B. Hutto, Leo Kottke, Taj Mahal, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Robert Nighthawk, Bonnie Raitt, Tampa Red,Tom Rush, Hound Dog Taylor, George Thorogood, Derek Trucks, Muddy Waters, Merle Watson, Bukka White, Johnny Winter.

101 Razor-Sharp Slide Guitar Blues Licks in Open E Tuning

Popularity: 1%

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Blues guitar teachers, serious students, and blues band guitarists will all enjoy his large collection of 100% pure blues and boogie solos for guitar. Twenty-five exciting solos are presented here, each played over its own rhythm progression.

Every solo is transcribed in both standard notation and tablature, and played note for-note with a full band on the professionally recorded companion CD. Each recorded track contains one chorus of rhythm section only, followed by one chorus with the solo played over the rhythm.

This book is for the guitarist of early intermediate ability level whose interests include authentic, non-commercial blues music, the good stuff that is seldom heard via mass-market channels such as radio and television.

Guitar teachers might use the book to introduce new hand positions, fingerings, chords, and theoretical concepts.

Each solo is made up of many interesting phrases (licks) that can be adapted and incorporated into your own style.

The solos are relatively challenging, and can be used in blues jams and on stage. Prospective buyers are encouraged to use the Search Inside Book feature to examine the contents and music pages prior to purchase.

Another SUPER COOL and USEFUL music book by Larry McCabe and Red Dog Music Books.

25 Razor-Sharp Blues and Boogie Guitar Solos

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This valuable book is for band musicians who love the exciting sound of riff-driven uptown blues and swing music.

Book and CD – Standard Notation – Tablature

Technical ability: Early intermediate

Application: Hobbyist to professional

This unique collection of forty-eight 12-bar riffs provides some great ideas for spicing up the blues songs your band plays.

In music, a riff is a repeating pattern, often played against a chord or chord progression. Horn riffs played over twelve-bar blues progressions add drive, variety, identity, and excitement to a song.

Examples of riff songs include Now’s the Time by Charlie Parker; In the Mood by Glenn Miller; and Rock Around the Clock by Bill Haley and the Comets.

A twelve-bar riff is a versatile arranging tool, and can be used as a tune head, solo, backing for a solo, or backing behind a singer. Riffs can be worked into most any medium-to uptempo blues song.

Although most riffs are fairly easy to play, and easy to apply to blues progressions, many bands neglect this important aspect of arranging and performance.

For the student, riffs provide excellent practice for sight-reading rhythms. And an emerging blues musician can actually play a 12-bar riff as a solo.

Improvising musicians might use riffs as motifs upon which to base solos. Arrangers are encouraged to develop the riffs into two-or three-part section harmony parts.

It is a superb reference for the jazz and blues song writer, composer, or arranger. Invaluable also for the school stage band or jazz band musician.

Great stuff here with lots of potential for all swing band and blues band musicians.

Companion CD includes all 48 riffs, played on tenor sax with full rhythm backing.

Coil bound for your convenience.

48 Razor-Sharp 12-Bar Blues Riffs for Swing Bands and Blues Bands: Guitar Edition

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