The early masters of american blues series provides the unique opportunity to study the true roots of modern blues. How to play blues rhythm guitar like the blues masters. Table of major scales this is a fullpage pdf of the document that appears in. Alfred stefan grossmans early masters of american blues. Chordbuddy guitar method volume 1 teacher book chord buddy songbook dvd.
Complete country blues guitar book stefan grossmans guitar workshop audio. Country blues guitar book3cd set grossmans guitar workshop. John hurt, charlie patton, skip james, son house, rev. Use these instructional materials to help open up guitar avenues and to examine different chords and rhythms, lead guitar techniques, learning the fretboard, music theory,scales, and the world of playing over chord changes. These arrangements include the standard notation as well as the tabs for easier reference and playability. I have yet find any book that is really could teaching the blues.
Youll learn how to alternate back and forth between rhythm and lead. She plays in the piedmont style of fingerpicking guitar, continuing in the traditions of mississippi john hurt, elizabeth cotten, memphis minnie, and etta baker. Stefan grossman has 101 books on goodreads with 229 ratings. Valerie turner is an american blues guitaristvocalist, educator, and author. Dave rubin 25 great blues guitar solos book and cd this book features notefornote blues guitar solos, lessons on how to play them, guitarist biographies, equipment and photos while the accompanying cd contains fullband demonstrations of every guitar solo in the book. These chords, riffs and scales can be expanded in a. This region has a style and tradition all its own, characterized by hypnotic guitar riffs, driving rhythms, and howling vocals. The perfect tab paper includes 8 lines of tab, plus 8 boxes for chord diagrams on top. Shop and buy complete country blues guitar book sheet music. She is a native new yorker with southern roots in virginia and georgia. Youll learn both the strum pattern and the fill licks. Most guitar players already know shapes for their major pentatonic, minor pentatonic, and blues scales but many dont really know how to use them beyond a simple rock context. Shake that thing, nobodys dirty business, it wont be long, fare thee well titanic, you got the pocket book i got the key, ragtime mama blues, salty dog, blues aint dry, old country rock, take a whiff on me, a tribute to lonnle johnson, crow jane, one kind favor, easy rider blues, ragged and dirty.
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Here are a few pdf documents that you might find useful. In these three lessons the ideas and techniques of rev. The one book i bought to get me started was by blues guitar by richard daniels. Complete country blues guitar book stefan grossman.
The area referred to as the north mississippi hill country, which lies south of memphis and east of the delta, has produced some of the deepest blues ever heard. This comprehensive book has 260 pages and over 50 fingerpicking guitar solos in notation and tablature in country blues, delta blues, ragtime blues, texas blues and bottleneck styles. Some easy to intermediate jazz, classical, christmas and popular music and more will be found here as this site continues to grow. Country blues guitar by stefan grossman book3cd set. Blues guitar comping playing on the porch how to play blues. This comprehensive book has 260 pages and over 50 fingerpicking guitar solos in notation and tablature in country blues, delta blues, ragtime. Blues guitar tabs solos, tab books, instruction dvds. Total ratings 2, hal leonard chordbuddy songbook volume 2. Dive into the deep blues of the north mississippi hill country. In addition to stefans expert transcriptions, the book includes online audio containing the original artist recordings so you can hear the music, and feel the music, as it was. Although i found this book called the art of shuffle that is really cheap to strengthen your rhythms chops.
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Mel bay country blues guitar styles span a wide horizon. Mel bay this comprehensive book has 260 pages and over 50 fingerpicking guitar solos in notation and tablature in country blues, delta blues, ragtime blues, texas blues and bottleneck styles. John millers country blues guitar collection bookcd set by. Stefan grossman, noted roots blues guitarist and musicologist, has compiled this incredible collection of 22 songs by 8 legendary early country blues guitarists. Real love for early blues musicians who through their timeless music, paint a vivid and lucid, audible image of the human soul. Rory block, one of the most knowledgeable and talented exponents of this style, performs and breaks down these fingerstyle pieces by willie moore, blind willie mctell, tommy. It was a good book for a total novice because it really explained the basic struture of what blues is on guitar. It explained the use of the pentatonic scales and chords and how to mix them up. Then we will add melody notes on the beat and between the beat. In this lead guitar lesson, im going to share three essential country lead guitar tips with you. In addition to stefans expert transcriptions, the book includes online audio containing the original artist. A mammoth collection presenting a broad panorama of country blues guitar. She performs blues, ballads, country, popular songs, ragtime, and gospels.
No one could have anticipated how much of the recorded legacy of country blues would become available to be heard. The arrangements vary from alternating bass to a delta strum to a monotonic bass. In 2017, turner authored and edited a book entitled piedmont style country blues guitar basics, designed by benedict turner, and published by their company, mudbone watson productions inc. Learn to play the guitar with these fingerstyle blues songs. Complete country blues guitar book by stefan grossman book. Great selection, thorough transcriptions, and most important a cd with the real masters playing the tunes. Country blues guitar by stefan grossman book3cd set sheet. Blues guitar comping playing on the porch how to play.
Complete country blues guitar book by stefan grossman. The arrangements vary from alternating bass to a delta strum to a m. Go here for books and videos on blues guitar go here for links to other. Stefan grossman, noted rootsblues guitarist and musicologist, has compiled this fascinating collection of 14 songs, transcribed exactly as performed by legendary blues masters rev.
The examples well look at are there to spark your creativity in your rhythm guitar playing. Stefan grossman, noted rootsblues guitarist and musicologist, has compiled this incredible collection of 22 songs by 8. Stefan grossmans early masters of american blues guitar. The tips im going to give you here will help you to start using these scales to really make your leads sound more. Books by stefan grossman author of complete country blues. This book of written lessons is an excellent tool and reference manual to develop and enhance your guitar skills. Acoustic blues guitar teaches blues chord forms, stylistic licks and patterns, blues scales, turnarounds, solo country blues style guitar, independent bass line and melody ideas, and more. Complete country blues guitar book stefan grossmans guitar. Complete country blues guitar book stefan grossman isbn. This book is a must if you want to learn country blues guitar. The book includes a fullcolor photo section showing all types of slides. Learn and play the roots of country blues with this compilation of masterful songs. For this weeks microlesson, ill show you how to play a country blues composition thats played solo guitar no accompaniment is required. John millers country blues guitar collection bookcd set.
This book has an amazing huge selection of country blues tab with helpful notes on the playing of each piece, various degrees of difficulty, the accompanying cds are great and clearly demonstrate every song in the book, it is a shame that no lyrics for any of the songs. Homespun rory block teaches classics of country blues guitar. The easytofollow instruction guide contains piedmont style blues arrangements for country blues guitar with audio files and lyrics for 23 tunes. In this introduction to finger style blues we will cover an alternating bass pattern over a 12 bar blues progression in e. Lesson by andi saitenhieb today well look at comping by adding the sound of a horn section played by ourselves on the guitar. Here are some free acoustic guitar tabs in a variety of styles and levels of difficulty. The 4th edition of guitar for dummies released fresh for 2016 is an almost 400 page monster that will surely have you lighting your guitar aflame before finishing the book with this new edition, they scrapped the dvd from the previous version, and introduced online video and audio clips, as a supplement to the books teachings. The country blues volume of the alfred early masters of american blues series provides the unique opportunity to study the true roots of modern blues.
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Blues fingerpicking lesson this lesson is included in the book a guide to acoustic blues guitar. Mel bay complete country blues guitar book cd set stefan grossman on. Freight train elizabeth cotten, spike drivers blues mississippi john hurt, candyman rev. Country blues guitar lesson solo guitar ep1 youtube. Homespun rory block teaches classics of country blues. As youll learn in this ebook, there are countless ways to form blues riffs and be creative with them. Total ratings 2, chordbuddy guitar method pop hits songbook chord buddy book 000274974. Strings by mail john millers country blues guitar collection book cd set virtually every country blues recording made prior to world war ii that has been recovered by the collectors is commercially available.
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