Product Description

This info-filled book/CD will take you out of your rhythm-playing rut and teach you to play confidently in any blues style! You'll learn: intros, endings and turnarounds; modern theory for reharmonizing chord progressions; jazz and eight-bar progressions; and much more. The book includes 100 musical examples, 16 theory workshops, a discography and bibliography, and the CD has 51 tracks.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #69673 in Books
• Published on: 2004-09-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781574241389
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Customer Reviews

At last
A book that was exactly what I was looking for. Lotsa chords, lotsa theory, lotsa rhythms. Not just 30 pages of copy this and copy that for 20 somithing bucks, but 159 pages of a compendium of blues styles that is really helping me expand my knowledge of playing blues rhythm guitar. It is just about the right "level" for me to learn. Alot of the early stuff is easy but like most books it gets more challenging the father I get into the book, so I would rate this book for someone a little more than beginner to intermidiate or so. The CD that came with it did not correspond with numbers given in the book and it took me all of five minutes to listen to it and correct the track numbers. A small price to pay for finally getting a book I can sink my teeth into so to speak. If you don't want to learn theory you can skip over that part but I believe theory is helpful so I like it! If I was a teacher and a student said I want to learn blues rhythm guitar, this would be the book.

Finally, a good rhythm guitar book
I have been teaching and arranging for guitar players for a very long time, and one of the problems I repeatedly encounter is the red hot lead guitarist who can't play rhythm worth a bean. I have to explain that even if it's your group, you will spend two thirds of your time playing rhythm. Then I have to convince them that what they are doing is awful, and believe me, it is. The most popular method is what I call "the thrash". The way I make the problem clear to them is to play backup myself while they take a solo. Then I point out that if that kind of rhythm is what they want, THEY have to be able to do it too. Then we start in on Mccabe's book. The Cd's numbers are screwed up, but you can figure it out. (I doubt if the author is responsible) I love this book. Before it came out, I had to do demo tapes to show what to do. Now I just write down the page number. Six weeks of serious work will make you better. Six months of work will make you a lot better, and very popular with your fellow musicians. Make no mistake; this book is aimed at blues and rock. If you are working in that field and play guitar, get this book. If you are working in this field and play some other instrument, you might want to suggest to someone in the group that he buy it. Self defense.

Cerebral Blues
This is blues on paper. This is blues that a mathemetician would appreciate. The authors have taken the expression of emotion from impoverished descendents of slaves in the rural South and put it on paper. The groanings of Blind Willie Johnson have been converted to what seems like a mathematical formula.

Needless to say, this book is filled with music theory. It doesn't just tell you where to put your fingers on the fretboard. It doesn't just give you a chord and a track to practice it on. This provides the formulas for constructing the chords as well as the methodology for the construction. After studying this book the student will be able to construct his or her own chords almost anywhere on the fretboard and with almost any root.

This isn't just guitar playing to impress girls. This is a beginners book for the serious guitar student interested in acquiring the tools to ignite his own creativity and explore the world of music and music theory. It provides the basic foundation for music theory. All of the example tracks on the CD are very basic. The intent is to instruct the reader the basic formulas for constructing the chords thereby enabling the reader to construct his own chords.

For example: one section is devoted to turnarounds and endings. The half dozen or more example tracks show variations of the same riff. The intent is for the student to understand the construction of the riff thereby being able to creatively modify or embellish other turnarounds and endings.

This is almost like a texbook. It's not for beginners but serious music students.