Exploring 8-Bar Blues covers everything a learning guitarist will need to get into the infectious 8-bar blues form. It will inspire novices as well as more advanced fingerstyle blues players. Mary Flower brings her expertise and musicianship to seven great fingerstyle arrangements: How Long Blues • Blood Red River • Some Old Lonesome Day • Key to the Highway • Crow Jane • Trouble in Mind • Searching the Desert for the Blues. 60 MIN. • LEVEL 3 • INCLUDES MUSIC + TAB .PDF

Mickey Baker, best known for his Mickey & Slyvia hit Love is Strange, lived in France for the last thirty years of his life. During that time he played jazz as well as delving back into the roots of Black American music. As a result he began to experiment with various country blues techniques and styles. This exploration led to his album Blues and Jazz Guitar of Mickey Baker (SGGW107). At the same time he also began to perform as a solo jazz and blues artist which was quite different than his past where he usually fronted either a jazz or a rock band. His solo blues playing took him around Europe and during the last years of his touring throughout Africa on three occasions. On his last tour of Africa he was joined by the excellent bass player Alex Sanders and Mickey's show was able to expand to the full gambit of his musical experiences - from country blues to jazz. During this tour Alex and Mickey started to compose together and decided to try and record an album that would highlight their sounds and explorations. This is, in fact, the first jazz rock guitar album that Mickey Baker has ever done. It is full of surprises and intriguing sounds from a rendition of Rachmaninoff's Prelude In C# Minor to the disco sound of Alexander's Funk Time to the 7/4 of Ouagadougou. Plus for this album Mickey combined his skills of being one of the finest jazz guitarists with those of a teacher and prepared a tab/music booklet for students.

This volume of the Guitar Play-Along series features 8 Modern Blues tunes each expertly arranged for Guitar in standard and TAB notation. The Guitar Play-Along Series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily! Just follow the tab, listen to the CD to hear how the guitar should sound, and then play along using the separate backing tracks. The melody and lyrics are also included in the book in case you want to sing, or to simply help you follow along. The audio CD is playable on any CD player. For PC and Mac computer users, the CD is enhanced so you can adjust the recording to any tempo without changing pitch! Songs include: Born with a Broken Heart • Damn Right, I've Got the Blues • Lie to Me • and more!

Books have been written about Bix Beiderbecke, movies have been made. His incandescent talent, meteoric rise and tragic death at 28: this is the stuff of myth and legend. We are fortunate that we have quite a few incomparable recordings. Although it is said that they only capture a shadow of Bix’s sound, you can hear right away what the fuss was all about. As Ernie Hawkins attempted to do with some Louis Armstrong songs in an earlier DVD set, (Louis and Bix, it is said, had opportunities to play together, and greatly admired each other), here he is playing and teaching some favorite Bix songs on guitar. Once again, the extraordinary fingerpicking style developed by Rev Gary Davis shines through, making this approach to the jazz of the 1920‘s possible. These songs may be challenging, but they are fun and rewarding to learn and play. Hopefully, learning this style via these songs will open the student to new possibilities. This lesson is over 2 hours. The arrangements are for the intermediate to advance players. They are multi-section compositions with lots of fingerpicking challenges. But all your hard work will be very worthwhile as these tunes are some of the greatest in the early jazz repertoire. Ernie teaches phrase by phrase and then uses the split-screen so you can carefully study what each hand is doing. A detailed tab/music booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD.

One of the most musically inventive guitarists has devised a compelling and powerful way to use DADGAD tuning for playing a variety of fingerstyle blues instrumentals, from swampy Delta to the Piedmont, Big Bill to Doc Watson. This lesson will open up exciting new possibilities and musical explorations for guitarists at all levels. LEVEL 3 • 90 MIN.

This Volume of the Guitar Play-Along series features 8 famous songs by the pioneering virtuoso Jazz guitarist, Django Reinhardt.The Guitar Play-Along Series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily! Just follow the tab, listen to the CD to hear how the guitar should sound, and then play along using the separate backing tracks. The audio CD is playable on any CD player, and also enhanced so PC & Mac users can adjust the recording to any tempo without changing pitch! Songs include: Brazil • Daphne • Djangology • Honeysuckle Rose • and more!

Everybody’s Jazz Guitar Method is a step-by-step approach that makes playing jazz on the guitar easy and fun! The careful pacing of the material provides exactly what jazz guitar instructional materials needs, an approach that makes students eager to turn the page to see what happens next. This comprehensive book instructs students in the need-to-know concepts of jazz: rhythm, swing, syncopation, jazz chord voicings, jazz theory, improvisation and interaction. The CD is an integral part of this innovative method providing: comping patterns, accompaniments by a live, professional jazz trio, opportunities for improvisation, and “call and response” practice.Book 1 Features: Four major components of jazz: Rhythm, Harmony, Improvisation, and Interaction Icons that tell students what the authors would say if they were at the lesson and the “inside tips” on playing jazz. Just Jazz, Improve your Improv, and Light-Bulb Moment icons supply insight and help students make connections to the music Jazz Theory is presented in an easy to understand format Extensive improvisation study on the ii-V-I chord progression with CD

Stefan Grossman's Complete Country Blues Guitar Book contains over 50 fingerpicking guitar solos in notation and tablature in country blues, Delta blues, ragtime blues, Texas blues and bottleneck styles. An extremely comprehensive blues solo collection. 2 CDs included.

This superb DVD includes a selection of easy to absorb lessons that are designed to teach the beginner guitarist some of the essential basics of Blues guitar playing. Over the course of this DVD you will learn some essential lead guitar techniques such as string bending, hammer on and pull off, sliding, and vibrato that can also be other styles of guitar playing from jazz to metal. Lessons include: Essential beginner blues techniques including; The blues scale The major and minor pentatonic scales Outlining the chords Doublestops Phrasing Relative scales Turnaround licks String bending Vibrato Hammer-ons and Pull-offs Extended pentatonics 12 bar blues progression Blues phrasing Danny Gill is a former pupil of Joe Satriani, and co-author of the Musicians Institute Rock Lead Guitar series. His songs have appeared on numerous TV shows including 'The Osbournes' as well as motion picture soundtracks such as 'Insomnia' and 'Under Siege'.

Learn killer blues licks in the style of Joe Bonamassa, one of the leading lights in the modern blues guitar scene! Also includes a blues guitar jam track. Lessons by Danny Gill. Each Quick Licks DVD includes an arsenal of licks in the style of your chosen artist to add to your repertoire, plus a backing track to practice and jam with. Danny Gill is a former pupil of Joe Satriani, and co-author of the Musicians Institute Rock Lead Guitar series. His songs have appeared on numerous TV shows including 'The Osbournes' as well as motion picture soundtracks such as 'Insomnia' and 'Under Siege'.