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Books in Play Blues Guitar series

  • The CAGED System and 100 Licks for Blues Guitar: Learn To Play The Blues Your Way

    Mr Joseph Alexander, Mr Tim Pettingale

    Paperback (www.fundamental-changes.com, May 14, 2019)
    Discover the perfection of The CAGED System on GuitarWould you like to have complete freedom to visualize and play in any key, in any position on guitar?Are you struggling to make music all over the neck? Are some parts of the guitar neck a dusty mystery to you? The CAGED system is the Rosetta stone of understanding the way every scale, arpeggio and lick is laid out on the guitar. But often it's taught in a cold, confusing way that doesn't relate to actual music. The CAGED System and 100 Licks for Blues Guitar is different. You'll learn The CAGED system in conjunction with 100 useful blues licks based around the most useful scales on guitar.Here's what you get:100 top quality blues licksA complete method to learn the guitar neckHundreds of live audio examples to download for freeA hands on, direct method to understand and make music on the whole guitar neckThe definitive guide to mastering The CAGED System on GuitarBonus Over an hour of free audio to download for freeWhether you want a complete method to learn the guitar, or just a set of 100 excellent blues licks, this book is for you.This book helps you spread your playing all over the guitar neck and spurs creativity by teaching you an incredibly strong, visual method to ‘hang’ scales and licks off 5 simple chord shapes.Learn the most important scales with the CAGED system - and make music now. The CAGED System for Blues Guitar covers both Major, Minor and Blues Pentatonic Scales and The Mixolydian Mode. With 25 licks for each scale covering all 5 positions, you’ll never be short of excellent blues lines to spur your creativity.Contained within are the tricks and secrets that professional guitarists use to unlock the neck.Master the guitar fretboard nowThe CAGED system helps you to see the fretboard like the back of your hand and to easily play in any key in any position.This is one of the best-selling guitar books on Amazon and will improve the way you play the guitar forever.Buy it now
  • The Complete Guide to Playing Blues Guitar: Compilation

    Mr Joseph Alexander

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, April 25, 2014)
    • Play solos like B.B. King and John Lee Hooker• Learn to Instinctively Play any Blues Song• Understand Scales and Techniques so you Find the Right Notes: Every TimeThe Complete Guide to Playing Blues Guitar CompilationDo you hear great blues guitar songs and wish you knew how to play them? Do you want to play great solos but don't even know where to start? Wouldn't it be great to emulate your favourite blues musicians or even pick up your guitar and work out your favourite songs by ear!?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!Here's what you get...• Over 245 Pages of Blues Guitar Mastery focusing on Rhythm Guitar, Melodic Phrasing and Beyond Pentatonics that help you play any blues song• Over 400 Notated Audio Download Examples of Exercises, Techniques and Licks so you can hear and feel each stepping stone in the process of learning• Over 20 Backing Tracks so you can play and hear what you are learning in an Actual Musical Situation• The Complete Blues Guitar Soloing Course that will have you writing and improvising your own solos in no timeWith over 245 jam-packed pages and 400 notated audio examples from all 3 books in the Playing Blues Guitar series, this is the most comprehensive guide to playing blues guitar ever released.Book One – Rhythm Guitar focuses on the topic of rhythm guitar giving you a solid understanding and practice of not only the common blues chord structures... but also multiple approaches you can take to embellish the standard harmony. Beginning with the basic structure of the 12 bar blues and continuing with open string riffs, dominant 7 chords, Turnarounds, and more... this book gives you the tools needed to play any blues song.Book Two – Melodic Phrasing examines the most important aspects of blues guitar soloing, allowing you to develop your improvisational skills in the blues world. By teaching Rhythm, Phrasing and Placement you learn to use fundamental rhythmic fragments to create and drive your solo forward. Because when you know the building blocks... melodies will take care of themselves. Never worry about forgetting licks again.Book Three – Beyond Pentatonics teaches you the secrets of blues guitar soloing by showing you how to break away from the minor pentatonic soloing trap that plagues so many. It shows you how to target the most powerful notes from each chord in the blues progression to create the greatest emotional effect, wooing your audience. All of that plus discovering the many possible scale choices for each of the chords in the blues and you will be building solos like a master blues guitarist in no time.All 3 Amazon best-selling books are combined seamlessly in this complete guide of everything you need to know about playing the blues.
  • The Complete Guide to Playing Blues Guitar Book Two - Melodic Phrasing: Lead Guitar Melodic Phrasing

    Mr Joseph Alexander, Mr Tim Pettingale

    Paperback (www.fundamental-changes.com, Feb. 13, 2014)
    Develop perfect phrasing in you blues guitar solos“He's just feeling it” is no longer an acceptable explanation of musical ability. This book breaks down melodic feel and phrasing into learnable skills.Have you ever wondered how great blues guitar players develop such brilliant phrasing in their guitar solos? Have been told “He’s just feeling it” when you’ve tried to improve your blues phrasing skills? Are you frustrated by having the same 12 notes as your guitar heroes, but never managing to master their note placement?Are you held captive by licks, and find yourself limited by your blues guitar vocabulary? Complete Blues Melodic Phrasing is a unique guide to perfecting your phrasing on guitar. You'll move away from rigid blues licks and discover a universe of emotion.Learn to control your blues guitar phrasing, and discover infinite new blues soloing possibilities. Melodic Phrasing challenges our perception of how to learn blues guitar soloing. No longer will you be ‘chasing licks’ around the fretboard; struggling because you couldn’t quite grasp the line you were reaching for.In this book you will learn how to develop and control fundamental rhythmic fragments to create original lines and drive your blues guitar solo forward. By focusing on rhythm and phrasing, and developing these rhythmic building blocks, you’ll find true expression in your solos. This blues guitar book is about creating a natural, organic approach to developing your guitar soloing and learning to truly improvise, while breaking away from the prison of lick playing and scales.The blues guitar soloing toolkitDiscover the true art of note placement in your blues guitar solosLearn to manipulate any rhythm to pull and push against the rhythm of a 12 bar bluesMaster call and response blues phrasing as you’ve never seen it beforeUnderstand when to bend, slide or hammer a note for the the most powerful effectLearn to manipulate the full range of the guitar neck to find new vocabulary and add intensity to your blues guitar solos. Discover how limiting certain aspects of your playing forces you to become an infinitely more creative blues playerBonus A complete guide to bending in tune on the guitarBonus Hundreds of audio tracks and backing tracks to download for freeBlues guitarists 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 blues guitar style we must learn how to phrase our lines in a personal way.Melodic Phrasing teaches you hundreds of ways to treat even the simplest blues guitar lines to make them your own. Fundamental Changes publish the most popular guitar books on Amazon. With over 100 titles, 500,000 customers and over 5000 5* reviews, you can be sure that your musical guitar education is in the best possible hands. "Among the things I like most about these books is that they're laid out not like lessons, but more like practice routines. The emphasis is on getting the ideas into your fingers and ears, not just your head. A very refreshing approach".The complete guide to phrasing on guitarAfter working through this book you will never run out of blues licks again; you will be able to create interesting, emotive, musical phrases whenever you want, and keep the audience coming back for more.Buy it now and master your blues guitar phrasing today