Blues Guitar from Scratch

Fundamental riffs, chords and scales, plus slide techniques

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Electric Guitar sheet music

Publisher:

Skeptical Guitarist Publications

Detailed Description

Guitar
Fundamental riffs, chords and scales, plus slide techniques. Blues and Instructional. Instructional book. 88 pages. Published by Skeptical Guitarist Publications (SG.SGP-009).

Item Number: SG.SGP-009

ISBN 978-0-9665029-9-2.

We start off talking about how to play blues accompaniment, known as comping, by working the Blues Shuffle and Guitar Boogie patterns into the Twelve Bar Blues chord progression in the Keys of A and E.Then itÕs on to the use of the Minor Pentatonic Scale in blues lead playing, first in Open Position and then around the neck using five different Box Patterns, or pockets of notes, that follow the C-A-G-E-D System of chord and scale layout. The less commonly used Major Pentatonic scale is discussed and put into practice up the neck. Finally, we look at slide guitar technique, first in Standard Tuning, then in Open Tunings.

Song List

Comping for Twelve-Bar blues
Blues Shuffle in the Key of A
Swing Rhythm
Variations
Blues Shuffle in the Key of E
Alternatives to the B riff
Syncopation
Guitar Boogie in E - adding the 3rd
The Major-Minor ambiguity
Harmonizing the Blues Shuffle
Chordal comping for Blues in E
Harmonizing and comping in A
Blues lead playing Ð Pentatonic Scale
Em pentatonic box pattern
Letter names of the notes
Exercises
Simple licks
Extra notes
Adding the 3rd
Adding the b5th and the 7th
Noodling with nine
Adding the 2nd and the 6th
Expanded box pattern
Blues turnaround
Singing The Blues
Hybrid blues
Partial chord forms
Here we go up the neck
Movable Em box pattern
Em shape of the Am
pentatonic scale
Extra notesAdding the 3rd
Adding the b5th and 7th
Bending the 4th
Adding the 2nd and 6th
Double-stops
Exercises in blues soloing
Other box patterns
Gm box pattern
Dm box pattern
Shifting between box patterns
Cm box pattern
Am box pattern
Back to the Key of E
Em box pattern / Em pentatonic scale
Shape-shifting
Major Pentatonic Scale
KEY OF G
Examples
Keys of A and C
Keys of D and E
Slide Guitar
Standard Tuning
Am pentatonic scale
Right-hand muting
Open G Tuning
Chords and accompaniment
Playing lead
Twelve Bar example
Open D Tuning

Detailed Description
Song List (60)

Guitar
Fundamental riffs, chords and scales, plus slide techniques. Blues and Instructional. Instructional book. 88 pages. Published by Skeptical Guitarist Publications (SG.SGP-009).

Item Number: SG.SGP-009

ISBN 978-0-9665029-9-2.