BLUES CHOPS FOR GUITAR. CD TABLATURE
Blues Chops for Guitar
Technique Exercises for the Aspiring Guitarist
By Buck Brown
Item: 07-1042
UPC: 630746710422
ISBN 10: 1929395418
ISBN 13: 9781929395415
Category: Guitar Method or Supplement
Format: Book & CD
Instrument: Guitar
Great musical ideas need great chops to back them up. Build your finger strength, flexibility and independence with these exercise books from one of America's leading guitar schools. Blues Chops has exercises for developing bending, the different shuffle rhythm patterns, turnarounds, blues trills and more. Develop your chops practicing exercises in the style of music you enjoy!
Introduction
About the Author
Chapter I-Blues Rhythm Guitar
Moveable Chords
The I-IV-V Progression-The Twelve Bar Blues
Open-Position Two-Note Shuffle Patterns
Closed-Position Two-Note Shuffle Patterns
Two-Note Shuffle Patterns with a b7
Closed-Position Two-Note Shuffle Patterns with a b7
Chord Shuffle Patterns .
New Blues 7
Chords The 9
Chord The 9-Chord Slide Blues
The 13 Chord
More Dominant 7 Chords
Turnarounds
More Shuffle Patterns
Chapter 2- Blues Lead Guitar
Alternate Picking
Finger Independence
Vibrato
The Minor Pentatonic Scale
Strengthening the 3rd and 4th Fingers
String Bending
The Major Pentatonic Scale
String Bending in the Major Pentatonic Scale
Pre- Bends
Pedal Steel-Style Bends
Step-and-a-Half Bends
Hammer-Ons
Pull-OFFs
Combinations with Hammer-ons, Pull-Offs and Bends
Double Stops
Chapter 3- Advanced Blues Techniques
Advanced Twelve-Bar Blues Harmony
Pick and Fingers Blues with a
Walking Bass Line
The Minor Blues
Sliding- The Ring-Finger Slide
More Sliding Exercises
Muted Sweeps
The Blues Trill
Harmonics
Downstroke Sweeps
Upstroke Sweeps
Cross Picking, String Skipping, Finger Rolls
Chapter 4-Slide Guitar
String Damping
Slide in Standard Tuning
Slide in G Tuning
Slide in D Tuning
Postscript
A compact disc is available with each book of this series. Using these discs will help make learning more enjoyable and the information more meaningful. The CD will help you to play the correct notes, rhythms and feel of each example. The track numbers below the symbols correspond directly to the example you want to hear. Track 1 will help you tune to this CD.
To become a better blues guitar player, you need to spend some serious time "learning the moves" -the techniques that blues guitarists employ and the little tricks of the trade that make them sound so good. This book is fJled with exercises that can help you with specific technical problems.
The exercises presented in this book cover all the important blues guitar techniques, such as string bending, pentatonic scales, hammer-ons and pull-offs, double stops, barre chords, advanced chords, pedal-steel tricks, blues changes, and there is even a chapter on slide guitar playing. There are also lots of exercises designed solely to train your fretting-hand fingers to act independently, which is not something they do naturally.
We also cover the picking hand in this book. Alternate picking exercises and pick-and-fingers techniques are examined in detail. Also, there is an extensive look at chords-the best ones to use, how to easily move from one to another, the most common sets of strings on which chords are played, how to recognize when to use anchor fingers and how to employ devices such as harmonics. Technical training is challenging, and may even seem somewhat daunting. But with application on your part, and a willingness to work at each exercise until it is mastered and understood, you will become a much better player. All the exercises follow the philosophical principle of "Occam's Razor," which says that the easiest, simplest way to do things is generally the best way. If you don't like the fingerings I've used, don't use them. But I think they are the easiest and if you give them a chance, you'll probably come to see why rchose them.
There may be some symbols you have not seen before:
I) = Extension 1. Extend (reach) your first finger out of position one fret, but do not move your hand out
of position.
4) = Extension 4. Same as extension 1, except with your 4th finger
I hope this book helps you play cleaner, faster and with better articulation. The goal, as always, is no mistakes. See you at the gig.
Buck Brown knows that guitar playing is the "real job" his mom always told him to get. In the past 35 years, he has been fortunate to play with such great artists as Nils Lofgren, Tony Trischka, Stacy Phillips, Dave Hamburger, Robert Lee Castleman, Mark Egan and all ot the incredible teachers at the National Guitar Workshop (where he taught from 1984 to 1991). Buck has written ten National Guitar Workshop publications (under the name Robert Brown) including Chord ConnectwrlJ, his masterwork on guitar harmony.
As a composer, he has written music for innumerable episodes ofAmerua J MOJt Wanted, has won an Emmy Award in Cleveland, a Bronze Medal at the New York Film Festival and has been nominated twice tor Helen Hayes Awards in Musical Theatre. When he is not on the road, Buck plays and teaches in Washington, D.C., is married to the fabulous chanteuse Rebecca Davis, uves with three dogs, bats right, throws right and plays loud.
Great musical ideas need great chops to back them up. Build your finger strength, flexibility and independence with these exercise books from one of America's leading guitar schools.
Each book addresses skills needed for a specific style. For example, Jazz Chops covers the finger independence needed for smooth, rapid changes between complex jazz chords in the context of important progressions, such as ii-V-I. Blues Chops has exercises for developing bending, the different shuffle rhythm patterns, turnarounds, blues trills and more.
Rock Chops deals with all the important soloing techniques, such as speed picking, sweeping, tapping, harmonics, scale sequencing and so on.
Develop your chops practicing exercises in the style of music you enjoy~or if you are a multi-style guitarist, go through all three!
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