Electric Blues & Rock Guitar - The 1960's and 70's
by Fred Sokolow
Electric Guitar - Sheet Music

Guitar (all) - Beginning-Intermediate

SKU: MB.21144BCD

Composed by Fred Sokolow. Saddle-stitched, Style, Improvising/Licks, Blues, Technique, Theory and Reference. Grossman Audio. Rock. Book/3-CD set. 56 pages. Grossman's Guitar Workshop #21144BCD. Published by Grossman's Guitar Workshop (MB.21144BCD).

ISBN 9780786674879. UPC: 796279100946. 8.75 x 11.75 inches.

LESSON ONE: KING OF MODERN BLUES: B.B.KING, ALBERT KING, FREDDIE KING and T.BONE WALKER - By analyzing sample tunes, Fred teaches how to play electric single-string blues licks. You will learn several scale positions and how to improvise with them, how to do the blues vibrato, and how to use fill-in licks, chords and turnarounds. LESSON TWO: MODERN ROCK: ENGLISH BLUES and HEAVY METAL - This lesson concentrates on the licks, scales and playing styles of Eric Clapton, Van Halen, Ted Nugent and Jimmy Page - guitarists whose playing directly derives from the blues masters. This lesson includes instruction in effects distortion, vibrato bar, etc. , blues and sliding scales. LESSON THREE: JAZZY ELECTRIC BLUES - Our last lesson in the series illustrates how to jazz up the 12-bar blues progression, how to vary the blues scales with diminished scales a la Charlie Christian, how to apply blues scales to jazz tunes, how to substitute scales, and the special techniques used by Wes Montgomery and George Benson.