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Blues by the Bar: Cool Riffs That Sound Great over Each Portion of the Blues Progression
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- Publisher: Cherry Lane Music
- Release Date: June 2002
- ISBN-10: 1575604795
- ISBN-13: 9781575604794
- List Price: $9.95
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Summaries and Customer Reviews provided by Amazon
SummaryIf 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. Covers: the 12-bar blues progression, cool riffs, complete solos and more. The CD features "Music Minus Me" tracks that let you play along as the featured soloist. |
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Amazing!!! Exactly what I needed!!!
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First, I would like to say there are many good books and DVDs out there; however, the problem that I found were in the particulars that were being taught when it comes to soloing. Chord progressions can be learned in just about any blues book you pick up but soloing is what most of us want to learn. Blues solos are tricky as they tell a story; they breath; they make you feel. All the books I have do not help you with this; they give you scales and a couple licks but somehow you are supposed to ear train yourself into learning HOW and WHEN to use these licks. What leaves the sour taste in your mouth is that so many teach you very hokey, uninteresting kind of licks; Licks and riffs you would never use when playing with friends or would want to listen to in your own liesure time. IF YOU WANT TO SOLO LIKE A BLUES HERO (B.B. KING, BUDDY GUY, CLAPTON, SRV, ETC) THAN BUY THIS BOOK. This book teaches where to fit amazing licks/riffs over the progression. This is not just a book of scales or just a book of riffs but HOW and WHEN to use them. HOW and WHEN is the key when learning how to solo the blues. With all the riffs in this book, the possibilites are endless. This book is AMAZING!!! Exactly what I needed (and if you are reading the reviews, maybe this is what you are looking for and what you need too)!!!
Fantastic Slo Blues Tutorial
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I've got to hand it to Chris Hunt. He knows how to make a buck in the music business by putting out compelling product. In this book you have a step by step or bar by bar approach to teaching slow 12 bar blues. The caveat being the licks are cherry picked and sound as tho they were gleaned from Robben Ford's blues vocabulary. I ordered this on a lark half thinking it would be mediocre to horrible but man was I wrong ! The only improvement to this tutorial I can think of would be to change up the tempo's on the music minus me tracks vs changing the keys but then nothing's perfect and transposing this vocabulary to other keys isn't a half bad idea. This is the best slow blues tutorial I've come across. You can learn alot just by studying the notation and listening to the CD. I came across one printing mistake in the tab for example 13(one of the showcase licks). The 2nd to last note in the 1st bar of this riff is a g but tabbed out as a c. It's correct in the notation but should be played on the 4th string 5th fret, not the 3rd string 5th fret as it states in my edition. Definitely buy this !
Best electric blues book out there.
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I have twenty or so books on electric blues guitar. Most of them are terrible. Riffs are mediocre or they're played without any context or even backing track. Hard to believe, but there's a lot of worthless junk out there.
This one is different. The riffs are very cool sounding, the track is well done with guitar in one channel and the band in the other. And the context is completely broken down and memorable.
In other words its easy, fun, and cool.
If you're a beginning blues guitar player, or just wanting to learn to play, let me save you a LOT of time and hassle:
First, GET THIS BOOK. Its ten bucks- that's less than the price of ONE LESSON at your local guitar store.
Next, pick between two and four riffs from each section. Play them over and over until you can do it fluently. This could take weeks to months (not years) depending on where you start and how much you practice.
Now start practicing the riffs over the song sections at the end of the CD- practice mixing them up and transposing octaves. See what sounds good.
Next, continue the above, and learn and mix in the rest of the riffs from the book.
Finally, with the riffs in this book in your arsenal, and your newly acquired sense of phrasing and dexterity, pick a blues guy that you like. NOT Hendrx. Someone like BB King, Albert King, or Freddie King- someone who sounds good, but isn't playing alot of pyrotechnics. Get yourself a little handheld microcassette recorder and record some tracks off your chosen CD- learn the riffs and the songs off the microcassette (very easy to quickly rewind a riff, many have different speeds- you can slow down a fast riff to learn it) Keep practicing and adding on.
There you go. That's all you need. Follow this, and you WILL become a guitar god, or at least a lesser demon (ie Monday Night Blues Jammer)
" I FOUND SOME GEMS IN THIS BOOK "
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I liked this book because the author gives you all the elements of creating leads on your own. If you are an intermediate level guitar player you will find some of the riffs pretty basic; however,as you move through each example you will "catch up" to your own personal skill level.The reason I sought out a book of this sort was to learn some new riffs; I found some real gems in this book that I can infuse with what I know already. One thing I really enjoyed was that each riff had an audio example with the tablature.Even though I read music and tablature, I play basically by ear.The tablature really comes in handy to make sure it is being played on the same strings or frets. Overall,I was pleased with this book and found it a very useful tool.
Entry level
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Well for all the stuff I read about it and thought it might turn out to be... this turned out to just about ok. I was looking for licks and this has licks that can be memorised and reissued and re used. But it stops at just phrases and at time is actually monotonous...
If you want to get a quick bunch of licks that are at best average, get this book and CD.
Else you're better off with some of the other tutorials which are more intelligent.
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