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The Essential Albert King

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The Essential Albert King

A Step-by-Step Breakdown of the Styles and Techniques of a Blues and Soul Legend

By Albert King

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  • Don't Throw Your Love On Me So Strong
  • I'll Play The Blues For You
  • Born Under A Bad Sign
  • Crosscut Saw
  • Oh Pretty Woman
  • Blues Power
  • The Hunter
  • Angel Of Mercy
  • I Wanna Get Funky
  • Laundromat Blues
  • Answer To The Laundromat Blues
  • Personal Manager

The Essential Albert King. (A Step-by-Step Breakdown of the Styles and Techniques of a Blues and Soul Legend). By Albert King. For Guitar. Hal Leonard Guitar Signature Licks. Blues and Instructional. Instructional book and examples CD. Introductory text, instructional text, musical examples, standard guitar notation, guitar tablature, guitar notation legend, vocal melody and lyrics. 88 pages. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.695713).

ISBN 0634049062. With introductory text, instructional text, musical examples, standard guitar notation, guitar tablature, guitar notation legend, vocal melody and lyrics. Blues and Instructional. 9x12 inches.

Learn the trademark riffs and solos of this blues King! Provides in-depth analysis of 12 songs, including Angel of Mercy, Born Under a Bad Sign, Laundromat Blues and more. CD features full demonstrations.

About Hal Leonard Signature Licks

The Signature Licks book/audio packs are especially formatted to give instruction on how to play a particular artist style by using the actual transcribed, "right from the record" licks! Designed for use by anyone from beginner right up to the experienced player who is looking to expand their insight. The books contain full performance notes and an overview of each artist or group's style with transcriptions in notes and tab. The audio accompaniment features playing tips and techniques, as well as playing examples at a slower tempo.

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2 star rating

Location: from Seattle, Washington

Difficulty Level:
Intermediate/advanced

December 31, 2008

Good, but not so good

The Essential Albert King is a good book about the background and signature techniques of Albert's songs. Although the description of the book suggests that tablature for many songs is included, prospective buyers should beware that the accompanying tablature for each song is abbreviated to mostly those phrases discussed in...

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5 star rating

Location: from Sydney Australia

Difficulty Level:
Early intermediate

September 1, 2004

Great Title ---Triple AAA+

Every book by Wolf Marshall is superb, the tracks are so close to his style you cannot tell its Wolf playing but rather that Albert King is teaching us his licks, the notes are perfect and the backing tracks are great to jam with and improvise, highly recommended book to...

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20 of 41 people found this review helpful.

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