Product Description

This comprehensive follow-up to Blues You Can Use is designed to help players develop their lead and rhythm techniques. Covers: pentatonic scales, single-note tremolo, double-string bends, reverse bends, shuffle rhythms, 6th and 9th chords, boogie patterns, chord substitutions, vibrato techniques, chord accents, voice leading, arpeggios, rakes, blues runs and more! Examples are in standard notation and TAB, and the CD includes 23 full-band tracks.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #170244 in Books
• Published on: 1998-10-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 112 pages

Customer Reviews

Blues you can use. New melodic ways through the blues scales
I found the lead breaks simplistic, easy and well composed. Good to start out on. For the intermediate to advanced player new ideals / knowledge is offered. The lessons increase in difficulty as you learn more about the use of technique and the scale relationships up the neck. Don't be fooled by the simple. This book will reveal new ways around and through the blues. I'm an intermediate to advanced player and I have learn't from these lessons. Plus I enjoyed it.

More Blues than you can use.
Every picture tells a story, don't it? And you can learn something from every book..This book will show you and tell you how..

Can't Quite Recommend
This is a pretty good extension to John Ganapes first tutorial on the Blues, "Blues You Can Use". The songs are interesting and, as does the first book in the series, it contains well thought-out instruction on playing the Blues. However, it has a serious drawback. There are no backing tracks for songs on CD. Also, since it does not provide the tempo (in beats per minute), one has to spend valuable practice time building one's own backing tracks (unless you have your own band handy). The book claims one can adjust the channel selection in order to hear only the rythm guitar. I did not find this to work very well. These days, there are plenty of tutuorials that include backing tracks, as part of the package. For this reason, I cannot quite recommend it.