Improvising Blues Guitar A Programmed Manual of Instruction

Improvising Blues Guitar is the first guitar method of its kind. Not only is the instruction built around actual recorded solos by the top blues artists of our time (presented in accurate and easy to follow notation), but the material is presented with an easy-to-master system of fingering which has special relevance to the contemporary guitar player. Using the fingering system contained in this book will enable the reader to begin serious improvisations in blues guitar from the very outset, no matter how limited his previous musical experience. Illustrated with many charts and diagrams, and with a biographical note about each of the blues giants whose music has made this book possible. These are the performers whose work you will learn by, and the songs from which their solos are taken: BB King - Please Love Me, T-Bone Walker - Every Night I Have to Cry, Lowell Fulson - Ask at Any Door, Alvin Lee - I Want To Know, Jerry Garcia - Sitting at the Top of the World, Mike Bloomfield - Born in Chicago, Albert King - Crosscut Saw, Eric Clapton - Ramblin, Jimi Hendrix - The Wind Cries Mary.