Description

This in-depth blues rhythm guitar text is core curriculum of the University of Southern California’s Studio Guitar Department, which is part of the prestigious Flora L. Thornton School of Music, located in Los Angeles, California. It features eighteen twelve-bar blues rhythm guitar accompaniments in the style of guitarists such as Chuck Berry, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page and Stevie Ray Vaughan. Nine of the songs use a shuffle feel and nine use a straight eighth note feel. The play along CD contains two versions of each of the eighteen songs in the book. The first version has the guitar part and the second version is without the guitar. This gives you the ability to play along withthe guitar part as a guide and also to play along with the track as the only guitarist. The examples are written using traditional musical notation and tablature. Included for each song is a short description of the important points to consider when learning each example. The book presents songs that will expand the guitarist’s vocabulary by presenting a variety of different ways a guitarist can play through the twelve bar blues. A number of different chord variations, keys and tempos are used in demonstrating these eighteen idiomatic rhythm guitar parts that have been used by the masters.

Contents

1. Introduction
2. Book Objective
3. What is the I, IV, V Blues Progression?
4. What is the 12-Bar Blues Form?
5. Minor Blues
6. Rhythmic Feels (Shuffle and Straight)
7. Shuffle Feel Examples
8. Austin Limits
9. Smokin’
10. Mississippi Mud
11. Clarksdale
12. Deep Fried
13. Memphis Fat
14. Everyday
15. Jump and Jive
16. Cold Shoulder
17. Straight Eighth Feel Examples
18. Johnny Rock
19. Detroit City
20. Gumbo
21. Highway 10
22. The General
23. Picket Fence
24. Lucy
25. New Shoes Blues
26. It’s Gone