Acoustic blues guitar styles

Description

Following the author's successful Acoustic Guitar Styles (Routledge, April 2002), this book introduces the readers to the basics of finger-style acoustic guitar blues. Most would-be blues guitarists today learn primarily from books, using notation or guitar tablature, reinforced by CDs, videos, or live teachers. Often this involves rote repetition rather than encouraging creative exploration. Students become copycats, able to play by rote but lack the conceptual equipment to create music on their own. Worst of all, because they learn to play notes rather than working outwards from rhythmic gestures in the picking hands, their music lacks rhythmic vitality. This book concentrates on keeping your playing rhythmic and alive.

Description

Acoustic Blues Guitar Styles is an introduction to fingerstyle acoustic blues guitar, the style made popular by Robert Johnson, Bill Broonzy, and Mance Lipscomb . . . . [This] is an instructional book geared towards the intermediate guitar player, not only to teach fingerstyle blues technique, but also how to approach the music creatively and with feeling and rhythm. Part One teaches you the preliminaries, such as reading a chord chart and working out a 12-bar blues in different keys. Part Two teaches you touch, timing, and basic fingerpicking technique. Part Three teaches you how to play stylistically, with lessons on how to incorporate bends, vibrato, alternating bassnotes, and rhythmic variations into your playing. All musical exercises are presented in both standard notation and tablature, and are supported by audio tracks in the accompanying compact disc.

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Other Editions

• Acoustic blues guitar stylesRoutledge2007-01-01
• Acoustic Blues Guitar StylesElectronic resourceTaylor and Francis2006-01-01
• Acoustic Blues Guitar StylesRoutledge2006-11-28
• Acoustic Blues Guitar StylesCRC Press LLC2007-01-01
• Acoustic Blues Guitar StylesRoutledge2012-01-01
• Acoustic Blues Guitar StylesTaylor & Francis Group2012-01-01