Electric Blues & Rock Guitar The 1960s & 70s BK/CD

Electric Blues and Rock Guitar - The 1960s and 70s covers all the great post-war blues and early rock musicians, with examples from B.B. King, Albert King, Freddie King, T. Bone Walker, Eric Clapton, Van Halen, Ted Nugent, Jimmy Page, Charlie Christian, Wes Montgomery, and George Benson. Taught by Fred Sokolow. This series of lessons presents the music from a wide variety of blues greats and is an excellent series to acquaint yourself with various blues styles and techniques. For intermediate to advanced students. As part of Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop Audio Series , not only does this book contain valuable lessons, but as an added bonus, the three accompanying CDs also contain three full hours of instruction featuring note-by-note, phrase-by-phrase instruction. The 56-page booklet is written in both standard notation and tablature.

LESSON ONE: KING OF MODERN BLUES: B.B.KING, ALBERT KING, FREDDIE KING and T.BONE WALKER - By analyzing sample tunes, Fred teaches how to play electric single-string blues licks. You will learn several scale positions and how to improvise with them, how to do the ""blues vibrato"", and how to use fill-in licks, chords and turnarounds. LESSON TWO: MODERN ROCK: ENGLISH BLUES and HEAVY METAL - This lesson concentrates on the licks, scales and playing styles of Eric Clapton, Van Halen, Ted Nugent and Jimmy Page - guitarists whose playing directly derives from the blues masters. This lesson includes instruction in effects (distortion, vibrato bar, etc.), blues and sliding scales. LESSON THREE: JAZZY ELECTRIC BLUES - Our last lesson in the series illustrates how to jazz up the 12-bar blues progression, how to vary the blues scales with diminished scales á la Charlie Christian, how to apply blues scales to jazz tunes, how to ""substitute scales"", and the special techniques used by Wes Montgomery and George Benson.