Acoustic Steps is a book for intermediate-advanced acoustic guitar players. This book will help to improve improve your fingerstyle, chords, rhythm, creativity and composing skills. This book is organized in 14 stages. Each has a warm up and a basic exercise based on three different levels: Beginner, intermediate and advanced. When you practice the beginner level, you will learn the chords position and the basic rhythm of the exercise. Then, you will move on to the intermediate level where rhythm and a more articulated fingerstyle pattern occur. Once you master the intermediate level, you will be able to start the advanced level. Here, techniques like chord melody and percussive approach will help you improve your fingerstyle skills as well as creative skills. Acoustic Steps is not a book for complete beginners. Get this book only if you have been playing for at least six months. This book is complemented by the online videos at www.blitzguitar.com. Take your playing further with Acoustic Steps. Improve your skills and creativity. Learn new techniques like Tapping and Cascading scales on guitar. Acoustic Steps is one of the most practical book for acoustic guitar! Check out the video support at http: //www.blitzguitar.com/buy-stuff/ click the video button and check the content

Graded exercises take you from the fundamentals of fingerpicking to five authentic blues tunes. All exercises and pieces printed in the book are played in addition to some extra explanation of the concepts and techniques presented.

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. An extremely comprehensive blues solo collection.Includes access to online audio

The blues have been a major focus of music in Texas, from the earliest days of commercial recordings right up to the present. And there has been an impressive lineage of great Texas fingerstyle blues guitarists, from Blind Lemon Jefferson, the first country blues recording star, to the impassioned singing and unearthly slide guitar of Blind Willie Johnson, on up to the genre-defining sound of Lightnin' Hopkins and the late-in-life instrumental mastery of Mance Lipscomb. With such a dazzling array of Texas Blues players to choose from, a book devoted to Texas fingerstyle blues guitarists was a natural project to undertake. The artist featured in this book are: Blind Lemon Jefferson, Willie Reed, Blind Willie Johnson, Little Hat Jones, J. T. "Funny Papa" Smith, Smith Casey, Wallace Chains, Willie Lane, Lightnin' Hopkins, Lil' Son Jackson, Frankie Lee Sims and Mance Lipscomb.

"Descriptive analysis and musical transcriptions, in standard notation and tablature" of the works of various blues guitarists.

Have you ever dreamed of playing lead guitar like John Lee Hooker, Carlos Santana, Jimmy Page, Slash, and Eric Clapton? Perhaps you took a few lessons, but became frustrated and gave up. If so, The Everything Rock & Blues Guitar Book is for you. With easy-to-understand instruction, The Everything Rock & Blues Guitar Book provides you with everything you need to play all your favorite songs. You will learn the scales and chords found in all rock and blues songs, and master the unique techniques that define them. The Everything Rock & Blues Guitar Book also includes professional tips on: Inflection and phrasing Chord progression Alternate tuning, harmonics, and slide playing Transcription and ear training Equipment, such as electric guitars, straps, amplifiers, strings, and pedals Written in plain English by longtime professional guitarist and instructor Marc Schonbrun, The Everything Rock & Blues Guitar Book shows you how to play with your head as well as your hands.

Virtually every country blues recording made prior to World War II that has been recovered by the collectors is commercially available. No one could have anticipated how much of the recorded legacy of country blues would become available to be heard. It really is a treasure trove of musical history, and in listening to the incredible breadth and variety in the country blues that this re-issuing movement has made possible, I stand in awe of the magnitude and scope of what the people who played in this style expressed in their music. There really is something for everyone in this music, whether you like your blues smooth and sophisticated or down and dirty. - John Miller. Includes access to online audio.

Learn the authentic sound of delta blues guitar with Levi Clay

(Guitar). This hefty book/CD pack gives an in-depth insight into blues guitar, from early Chicago blues through Memphis and Detroit blues, the British blues boom, jazz blues, and many other blues genres, right up to the blues styles of today's hottest guitarists.

In these lessons for the intermediate fingerstyle guitarist Dave Van Ronk presents his arrangements of blues and a classic rag. The book includes a conversation with Dave, a discography, 6 tunes in notation and tablature, and 3 CDs teaching each tune phrase by phrase. LESSON ONE: A blues in 12/8 with Leroy Carr's Midnight Hour Blues. Blood Red Moon follows played in a dropped D tuning. The lesson ends with Blind Lemon Jefferson's One Kind Favor. LESSON TWO: Sunday Street is an original Dave Van Ronk song and is an excellent example of Dave's arranging skills. Four choruses are taught demonstrating how this tune can develop. Bessie Smith's classic blues You've Been A Good Old Wagon is taught in the key of E. LESSON THREE: Dave's arrangement of St. Louis Tickle was the first great challenge for fingerpickers interested in classic ragtime. This four sectioned rag is played in the keys of C and F. It is an excellent example of contemporary ragtime guitar.