Product Number:
21996M
Format:
Book + Online Audio
Skill Level:
Beginning-Intermediate
Notation Type:
Standard Notation and Tab
Pages:
28
Binding:
Saddle Stitched
Size:
8.75 x 11.75
ISBN:
0-7866-9557-9
ISBN13:
978-07866-9557-7
Series:
USC School of Music
Publisher:
Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
Date Published:
5/26/2016
This in-depth blues rhythm guitar text is core curriculum of the University of Southern California's Studio Guitar Department, which is part of the prestigious Flora L. Thornton School of Music, located in Los Angeles, California. It features eighteen twelve-bar blues rhythm guitar accompaniments in the style of guitarists such as Chuck Berry, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page and Stevie Ray Vaughan. Nine of the songs use a shuffle feel and nine use a straight eighth note feel. The play along audio contains two versions of each of the eighteen songs in the book. The first version has the guitar part and the second version is without the guitar. This gives you the ability to play along with the guitar part as a guide and also to play along with the track as the only guitarist.
The examples are written using traditional musical notation and tablature. Included for each song is a short description of the important points to consider when learning each example. The book presents songs that will expand the guitarist's vocabulary by presenting a variety of different ways a guitarist can play through the twelve bar blues. A number of different chord variations, keys and tempos are used in demonstrating these eighteen idiomatic rhythm guitar parts that have been used by the masters. Includes access to online audio.
Introduction
Book Objective
What is the I, IV, V Blues Progression?
What is the 12-Bar Blues Form?
Minor Blues
Rhythmic Feels (Shuffle and Straight)
Shuffle Feel Examples
Austin Limits
Smokin'
Mississippi Mud
Clarksdale
Deep Fried
Memphis Fat
Everyday
Jump and Jive
Cold Shoulder
Straight Eighth Feel Examples
Johnny Rock
Detroit City
Gumbo
Highway 10
The General
Picket Fence
Lucy
New Shoes Blues
It's Gone
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