This book for intermediate-level guitarists is a follow-up to Kenny's Introduction to Acoustic Blues. It covers blues in five different keys and positions, and incorporates slide or bottleneck playing in both open and standard tunings. All songs are primarily fingerstyle with a monotone bass used for most.

An introduction to the most commonly used scales and techniques for the modern blues player, complete with demonstration CD for several of the examples.

Getting into Slide Guitar covers slide for acoustic or electric guitar and focuses on open-G tuning. The book explains the concepts of technique, basic theory, improvising, harmonic and melodic concepts and provides many essential examples. Most of the context for the book is blues-based, but the ideas and examples are applicable to all styles. Companion CD included.

This book/CD pack for the intermediate player explores the basics of open tunings and slide guitar, covering licks, chords, songs and patterns. This is not just a repertoire book, but rather an approach for guitarists to jam with others, invent their own songs and more. The accompanying CD features 37 tracks.

If you're a guitarist who's learned the pentatonic scale up and down the neck but still asks, “During a solo, how do I know what to play and when to play it?”, then this book is for you. Its goal is to give you a variety of great blues licks that you can put together bar by bar to create a complete blues solo.

Using instructional text and actual songs, author Kenny Sultan covers blues in five different keys and positions and shows how they can be adapted to any key. Along with the basic blues rhythms and leads, fingerstyle blues is covered, using both an alternating and monotone bass.

Packed with musical examples, charts and photos, this is a complete, step-by-step course for learning acoustic or electric blues guitar. In-depth lessons teach you to build your own style while exploring the music of traditional bluesmen and modern stars.

An in-depth look at the practical and theoretical concepts of traditional and modern blues guitar, covering all the important technical, rhythm and improvisational ideas. The book is divided into three stages: easy blues, blues & blues rock styles, and jazz blues. In notation and tablature.

Slide guitar is more popular than ever in blues, rock, and country music. This book tells the slide story with bios and photos of the past and present bottleneck masters, technique lessons, and transcriptions of old and new benchmark tunes. Includes standard and open tunings. 64 pages.

A comprehensive source designed to help guitarists develop both lead and rhythm playing. Covers: Texas, Delta, R&B, early rock and roll, gospel, blues/rock and more. Includes 21 complete solos; chord progressions and riffs; turnarounds; moveable scales and more. CD features leads and full band backing.

The most thorough blues guitar book yet. Over 35 blues tunes covering electric and rock blues, folk, fingerpicking and bottleneck blues, B.B. King and Chuck Berry styles, jazzy blues and more. Plus positions, scales chords, discographies and an overview of styles from Robert Johnson to George Benson.

This book/audio method explores the basic fundamentals of slide guitar: from selecting a slide and proper setup of the guitar, to open and standard tuning. Plenty of music examples are presented showing sample licks as well as backup/rhythm slide work.

Total Accuracy Play-Along Tracks Crank up your amp and go for it! Play lead guitar with our pro session band on 10 tracks in a variety of blues styles. Includes 90 licks, tips on solo construction, phrasing, scales, string bending and vibrato. CD includes over 60 minues with full-band backing tracks.

Crank up your amp and go for it! Play lead guitar with our pro session band on 10 tracks in a variety of blues styles. Includes 90 licks, tips on solo construction, phrasing, scales, string bending and vibrato. CD includes over 60 minues with full-band backing tracks.

Learn to play 11 classics, including: Everyday (I Have the Blues) • Hideaway • I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man • Killing Floor • T-Bone Shuffle • Texas Flood • The Things That I Used to Do • and more.

Play rhythm guitar in the style of Stevie Ray Vaughan, B.B. King, Chuck Berry, T-Bone Walker, Albert King, Freddie Green, and many other blues greats! The CD includes 40 full-demo tracks and the instruction covers all styles of blues and the essential chords, patterns and riffs.

The term “12-bar blues” has become synonymous with blues music and is the basis for an incredible body of jazz, rock 'n' roll, and other forms of popular music. This book/CD pack is solely devoted to providing guitarists with all the technical tools necessary for playing 12-bar blues with authority.

These essential fretboard patterns are roadmaps that all great blues guitarists know and use. This book teaches how to: play lead and rhythm anywhere on the fretboard, in any key; play a variety of lead guitar styles using moveable blues boxes, chord-based licks, blues scales and double-note licks; and more!

A must for every slide guitarist, this book/CD pack teaches how to: play lead and rhythm anywhere on the fretboard, in any key; play a variety of slide guitar styles using moveable scale patterns, common licks and slide techniques; play in open G tuning, open D tuning, open A tuning, open E tuning, and standard tuning.

Learn lead guitar in the styles of Albert Collins, Eric Clapton, Albert King, B.B. King, Freddie King, Stevie Ray Vaughan and T-Bone Walker! This unique book/CD pack examines the solo concepts of each of these masters.

This info-filled volume samples the many sounds of early acoustic blues, with transcriptions of six classic tunes, notes on the history and development of the genre, extensive instruction in the different playing styles, and biographies of the pioneering artists. The CD features examples of all songs, exercises, and licks.

This book examines a number of blues licks in the styles of such greats as B.B. King, Albert King, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eric Clapton, Chuck Berry, and more. Varying these licks and combining them with others can improve lead playing and can be used in rock styles as well as blues.

This is an innovative and comprehensive book which teaches the essentials of playing contemporary blues guitar. Includes basic techniques such as note-bending, the hammer-ons, the pull-offs, in addition to the blues shuffle rhythm. The first part of the book presents lead guitar solos demonstrating and teaching basic techniques.

In this extended-length video, William Bay teaches the essential elements of contemporary blues guitar. Both blues rhythm and blues solo techniques are shown. Solos, power chords, barre chords, licks, improvising scales, and blues rhythm progressions are shown in the keys of E, G, D, A, C, F, and B flat.

This book will take you from basic concepts in blues guitar through performance level blues solos and techniques. Chapters include: Notation and Tablature, Time Values, Strumming, Blues Techniques, The Blues Progression, Open String Power Chords, Barre Chords, Blues Turnarounds, Blues Fill-Ins and more!

This DVD accompanies the book of the same title. It will take you from basic concepts in blues guitar through performance level blues solos and techniques.

This book and video will take you from basic concepts in blues guitar through performance level blues solos and techniques. Chapters include: Notation and Tablature, Time Values, Strumming, Blues Techniques, The Blues Progression, Open String Power Chords, Barre Chords, Blues Turnarounds and more!