REH, BLUES SOLOS FOR GUITAR, Keith Wyatt. CD TABLATURE
Series: REH Publications
Softcover with CD - TAB
Author: Keith Wyatt
Learn lead guitar in the styles of Albert Collins, Eric Clapton, Albert King, B.B. King, Freddie King, Stevie Ray Vaughan and T-Bone Walker! This unique book/CD pack examines the solo concepts of each of these masters. The CD features full demos and rhythm-only tracks, and the book includes phrase-by-phrase performance notes and tips on bending strings, vibrato, tone, note selection and much more. Includes notes and tablature. A must for any blues guitarist! 96 pages.
welcome to Blues Solo for Guitar. I'm going to walk you through the 12-bar blues-a 12-bar slow blues in G, to be exact-that you'll find as track 1 on the accompanying CD. It's titled "Blues Number One," and it's a great place to begin your exploration of the blues. Later in the book, we'll explore varying styles of blues playing that will give you a solid foundation in lead and rhythm blues guitar. I'll explain the key rhythms and solo phrases in styles based on Memphis funk blues, the boogie shuffle patterns made famous by Stevie Ray Vaughan, the vaunted styling of Freddie King, Texas swing blues, and even rockabilly. You'll be able to listen to me solo in all those styles on the accompanying CD, then I'll dissect each and every note so that you can master these styles as well. How 10 Use This Book Inlaying out solos in each of these six blues styles, it turns out that there are a lot of short phrases that you can learn, lift out, and use in your own style of playing. In other words, you don't have to learn each solo exactly the way it was played on the CD. You can listen through the entire CD, hear everything that I'm going to play for you, then go back and pick out the phrases that you like best. Then you can learn those phrases and incorporate them into your own style of playing. It's good practice to take all of these ideas and then mix them in with what you already know how to play. Of course there are things to be learned by playing an entire solo: how the solo builds, how to make a transition from one chorus to the next, how to begin and end the whole thing. Those are elements of style that make the phrases fit together so that they actually sound good. But the individual phrases themselves can be picked out and used in practically any blues solo. These phrases can also be used in blues songs with different tempos and in different keys. In addition to performing the six complete solos on the CD, I'm going to explain each phrase one at a time using "Practice Points" and detailed directions that will help you duplicate my solo phrases. Through these Practice Points, I'll tell you all about the left hand, the right hand, different little tricks, techniques, and where to place your hand on the neck. As you listen to the CD, read the musical notation and tablature for each phrase, t hen refer to the Practice Points that explain the details of each phrase. Then practice along with my examples on the CD. When we get through, you'll know all the phrases and you can play them along with the rhythm-only tracks-the full band, minus-guitar tracks we've included on the ProLicks CD. Playing along with the rhythm-only tracks will give you an opportunity to get a feel for how your phrasing sounds against a rhythm section and whether or not you're playing correctly. Some of the phrases are easier than others. Some are slower; some are faster. Take your time. Practice each phrase as many times as you need to get it right. And most of all, have fun! Remember, take these phrases one at a time. Some of these licks work only over one of the chords in the progression, or in a certain situation. Some of them can be laid over any of the chords. You have to experiment a little bit to see what you can do with them once you get them down. But these are all real solid, traditional, classic licks, and I think once you integrate them into your style you'll have a lot of fun developing them.
Table of Contents
Introduction
How To Use This Book
Before You Begin
Get In Tune
"Blues Number One"
(In the style of Albert King, Albert Collins, B.B.King, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, and Stevie Ray Vaughan)
"Memphis Funk"
(In the style of Albert Collins, Steve Cropper, Freddie King, Lonnie Mack, and Stevie Ray Vaughan)
"Boogie Shuffle"
(In the style of Stevie Ray Vaughan and Albert Collins)
"King Thing"
(In the style of Freddie King)
"Texas Swing Blues"
(In the style of T-Bone Walker, Gotemouth Brown, Albert Collins, Wayne Bennett, and Pee Wee Crayton)
"Rockabilly"
(In the style of Chuck Berry, Scotty Moore, Carl Perkins, and Brion Setzer) .
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