Joseph Alexander

The Complete Guide to Playing Blues Guitar is a three-part series that teaches you the essential skills required to become a master blues guitarist. You save 15% when you purchase all three best-selling books in this one edition

Sometime it seems like our favourite blues guitar players simply have more notes to choose from... those notes that just make you go 'ahhhh' The truth is that they are often simply targeting the right note at exactly the right time. The Complete Guide to Blues Guitar Beyond Pentatonics shows you how to add these secret notes into your own playing.

Ever wondered how the great blues guitar players find those 'secret' notes? Sometime it seems like our favourite blues guitar players simply have more notes to choose from.. those notes that just make you go 'ahhhh' The truth is that they are often simply targeting the right note at exactly the right time.The Complete Guide to Blues Guitar Beyond Pentatonics shows you how to add these secret notes into your own playing. Blues Guitar Soloing is so much more than simple pentatonic playing...In Beyond Pentatonics you will learn exactly which notes to play, and when to play them to create those special 'ahhhh' moments all of your own In fact, it's easy to free yourself from the chains of pentatonic-only blues guitar soloing by adding just one or two special secret notes to enrich your melodies and set yourself apart as an excellent blues guitar soloist. Enhance your Blues Guitar SoloingIt's true that most blues guitar solos are (quite rightly) 90% pentatonic... but that last 10%: that's where the magic happens. Once you understand how a blues tune works, it becomes easy to pick out the most emotional and evocative notes and use them to create beautiful, memorable and passionate blues guitar solos. Break down and understand how the blues worksBeyond Pentatonics forms the perfect balance between theoretical understanding and practical application. The emphasis is firmly on playing, and there are over 125 blues guitar licks and 80 minutes of notated audio examples to help you understand and feel which notes want to get heard Once you can feel them, you will always have the beautiful notes in your heart and fingers, ready to make your solos powerful and memorable. Target notes and Beautiful Scales for Blues ImprovisationWhile the first half of Beyond Pentatonics looks at how to target the most powerful notes, the second half introduces you to the other scales that are used in blues guitar soloing. There are many beautiful choices and examples of how to use them in real life blues solos. Theory is immediately put into practice to help you play the blues like B.B. King or Stevie Ray Vaughan. Blues Guitar: Beyond Pentatonics Teaches you to: Understand and learn the secret notes that the best blues guitar players playHear and apply powerful, expressive note choicesIncorporate the theory into genuine feel and music so you don't have to think: just playThousands of Copies SoldWith over 3000 5* reviews, Fundamental Changes bring you the most popular guitar guide on Amazon. Check out our reviews on this title below. Buy it now and go Beyond PentatonicsKindle is great, but we really think learning from music from paper is worth the few extra dollars. Whatever you choose, pick up a copy of Beyond Pentatonics now and make a lifelong change in your blues guitar playing.

Every aspect of playing great blues guitar is covered, building from first principles such as blues rhythm, riffs, structure and fills, to more advanced techniques such as approach chords, shell chords and 'drop two' chord voicings.

We all have the same 12 notes.... It's how and when we play them that sets the masters apart from the amateurs. We all know it's important to learn the licks and vocabulary of the musicians who we wish to emulate, but in order to develop a unique voice we must learn how to phrase our lines in a personal way. Melodic Phrasing teaches you hundreds of ways to treat even simple lines to make the music your own.

Whether you want a complete method to learn blues guitar or just a set of 100 excellent blues guitar licks, this book has you covered. Most guitarists stay locked into the same patterns and scale shapes for years, unable to break out of the habits and licks they first learnt as a beginner. This leads to creative stagnation, boring solos and a sense that something will always be missing from their playing.

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