Hal Leonard Guitar Method - Blues Guitar » (BOOK & CD)

The Hal Leonard Blues Guitar Method is your complete guide to learning blues guitar. This book uses real blues songs - no corny arrangments of nursery rhymes here! (well, except "Mary Had a Little Lamb," but this is NOT the version you learned in kindergarten!) - to teach you the basics of rhythm and lead blues guitar in the style of B.B. King, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Buddy Guy, Eric Clapton, Muddy Waters, and many others. Lessons include: 12-bar blues; chords, scales and licks; vibrato and string bending; riffs, turnarounds, and boogie patterns; hammer-ons, pull-offs, and slides; standard notation and tablature; and much more! Songs include: Boom Boom
• Born Under a Bad Sign
• Double Trouble
• Killing Floor
• Sweet Home Chicago
• You Shook Me
• and more. The CD includes over 70 tracks for demo and play-along.

Genevieve Williams - Library Journal

These stylistic supplements to Hal Leonard's successful, longrunning "Guitar Method" series follow the same basic outline: choosing an instrument, playing techniques (with songs to practice), and more comprehensive instruction on style. Acoustic Guitar is necessarily more general, providing an overview of blues and country styles, while Blues Guitar goes into some detail on genrespecific techniques, such as string bending and slide as well as phrasing. Both titles assume a little prior experience with the guitar; beginning adult and adolescent players will be able to jump right in. The "Guitar Method" volume Fingerstyle(ISBN 9780634099953)