Feb 22, 2016 if you want to liven up the sound of your blues scale, you can use what i call tweedlies which are a quick combination of a hammeron and pulloff to liven things up. Im assuming a little bit of basic knowledge and ability on the guitar. Microsoft word majorminor blues scalesboxes guitar. With standard guitar notation, guitar tablature, chord names, guitar chord diagrams, introductory text, instructional text and illustrations.
This book presents three of the greatest ragtime blues guitar players from the 1920s1940s. Theres also a blues jam track in the key of e you can use to play along with as well. Fretboard roadmaps for the beginning guitarist the essential. The essential patterns that all great steel players know and use. Were going to look at the shape and learn where the root notes are on the fretboard. Fretboard roadmaps slide guitar author fred sokolow sep 2001. Gordon is he feels, one of his most important books because of the nature of the blues scale and how it is used. Blues guitar can be a fun genre to dig into for any player looking to get into the bluesy side of the instrument.
The chords are shown with fingerings and chord tones. Learn the essential patterns that all great guitarists know and use. Guitar the essential guitar patterns that all the pros know and use. Fretboard logic vs fretboard roadmaps vs fretboard workbook. Flatpicking guitar magazine enews lesson december 2009 east tennessee blues by dan miller and tim may in this months newsletter we are giving our regular newsletter contributor, mickey abraham, a break and providing you with some material from volumes 5 and 6. Free pdf download the m8 is the best phone i have ever used and i find android apps generally very good. Aug 12, 2019 on this page youll find blues scale guitar tab, patterns and notation that will allow you to play blues scales all over the guitar neck. General guitar info instructional material fred sokolow music. Make sure the root 1 of these scales is the same note as the 1 chords root. This pdf contains the scale charts for the blues scale in all keys for guitar in standard tuning. In under 5 minutes, fred shows how to make the blues box twice as valuable. Since its in the roadmaps format, you also learn music theory that will help you farther on up the road. In this blues guitar lesson, youll learn how to play a solo compositions with a pick in the key of a. Blues scales blues is an irresistible tonality for a guitar player.
Keep your guitar as close to perfect tuning as you can. The classic tbone walker tune is a mustknow, and the progression in fig. The early part of the book explains things very simply but the circle of fifths page for instance is totally different to all the other books ive seen and this adds confusion, its as if the image has been printed the wrong way round. Extending the blues and pentatonic scales dvd 3 guitar. This book of written lessons is an excellent tool and reference manual to develop and enhance your guitar skills. Fretboard roadmaps blues guitar by instructional book. Apr 01, 2020 12 beautiful blues chords you need to learn chord chart included by cody updated. This lesson will show you how to integrate other scale options that will add more color to your solos and give you more creative room to express yourself. Playing and improvising acoustic blues doug young acoustic blues workshop notes q 96 our goal is to be able to play a simple, but effective solo blues guitar piece, hopefully with some improvisation. In this onetwo video guitar lesson from youtube user deltabluestips, youll learn the basics of deltastyle strumming and picking. Below is a pdf with the tablature and chords for this guitar lesson. These essential fretboard patterns are roadmaps that all great blues. Their licks remain as the common language of the blues guitar solo style.
The section on dfa roadmap is quite good but contradicts some other. Otis rush go here for books and videos on blues guitar go here for links to other blues sites blues guitar minor blues lesson 1, part 1 cmajor diddie has something there minor blues lesson 1. In this video, we take a look at 10 essential guitar techniques in a blues context. Youll be able to use these clusters as a basis on which to build blues licks, modebased licks, and more. I have also included the 5 box patterns you need to learn in order to memorize the blues scales in all. Fred sokolow fretboard roadmaps country guitar pdf. For example, if the progression was e, a, b 1 4 5, e would be the root of our scale. The justinguitar beginners songbook is our most popular product and it. All the scales featured on this page work over the standard 1 4 5 blues progressions, but ive made it clear when a scale can be used in a minor key, major key, or both. With standard guitar notation, guitar tablature, chord names, guitar chord diagrams, introductory text. Fausto decided to mow lawns to earn money, and was pushing the mow down the street before he realized it was. Try using the minor and minor pentatonic scales, and also using some open string lonnie mack style riffs. Click the symbol clip in the adobe reader to view attached mp3 files.
The guitar riff makes use of slides, pulloffs, and a slight bends called smears. How to play blues rhythm guitar like the blues masters. Major and minor blues scales guitar tab and essential licks. Sep 14, 20 a survey of common 12bar blues progressions would not be complete without the inclusion of the stormy monday changes. The essential guitar patterns that all the pros know and use kindle edition by fred sokolow. Lesson 9 how to play blues guitar with blues guitar. Blues guitar minor blues lesson 1, part 1 olav torvunds guitar pages guitar lessons book of the month january 2005 happy traum.
In this lesson, were going to shift our focus from rhythm blues guitar over to lead blues guitar by learning a shape for the blues scale. When moving from one chord to another, if its a dominant 7 moving up a 4th or down a 5th, we can alter that chordor pretend its altered. This book is really quite good in places but adds confusion in others. Youll play basic country progressions, boogie licks, steel licks and other melodies and licks. These chords, riffs and scales can be expanded in a. Product cover for fretboard roadmaps for the beginning guitarist.
In this lesson from the dvd electric blues guitar, fred sokolow teaches the first position key of e blues box. A must for every slide guitarist, this book with online audio files teaches how to. This bookcd pack will teach you how to play hot country lead and rhythm anywhere on the fretboard, in any key. Flatpicking guitar magazine enews lesson december 2009 east tennessee blues by dan miller and tim may in this months newsletter we are giving our regular newsletter contributor, mickey abraham, a break and providing you with some material from volumes 5 and 6 of the flatpicking essentials course.
You can get more charts in with custom tunings using my interactive scale generator here. Lesson support for house of blues beginner blues guitar. Home scales major blues scales major blues scale changes the ultimate roadmap in my preliminary lesson on soloing over blues progressions, we looked at simple ways to give good ol minor pentatonic more mileage in your blues guitar solos. Pentatonic boxes ultimate pentatonic roadmap part 1 duration. If you would like, you can download power tab and pdf files of all 25 of the exercises well be working with in our lessons. Electric guitar sheet music guitar tablature sheet music format. King got his start in the early 1950s as the beale street blues boy, but rapidly became a national figure with an approach too broad to be pigeonholed by a particular geographic location.
While this lesson is geared more toward intermediate and advanced. General guitar info instructional material fred sokolow. Often new players are drawn to the instrument because of a desire to play the blues. Bluegrass and folk guitar free and other lessons from our site. A beginners book that doesnt try to force you to read music.
These original settings are restored when the view is used. Well learn how to extend the blues and pentatonic scales out past the open position to cover some of the other licks in down to the station. Fred sokolow fretboard roadmaps blues guitar gtr bookonline audio includes online access code fred sokolow. These essential fretboard patterns are roadmaps that all great blues guitarists know and use. Jc rated it really liked it feb 18, the success of the fretboard roadmaps series is due to its practical, visual patterns, which help the rroadmaps learn to play quickly. Basic blues guitar scales embellishing minor pentatonic these scales work well over both major and minor key blues progressions.
Each could sing the blues or play a dance instrumental. Here we gather common guitar chords in a guitar chord chart table. Fretboard roadmaps bass by fred sokolow softcover audio. While this blues guitar arrangement is mostly a riff and some bass notes, below are a few of the chord shapes that are used as well. Popularized by artists like son house and skip james, delta blues is not only one of the oldest forms of blues music, it is among the most stylistically distinct and technically rewarding to play. East tennessee blues learn to flatpick the guitar and play. Otis rush go here for books and videos on blues guitar go here for. The section on moveable blues scales only shows part of the scale and only three patterns. There is a lot of soloing and filling involved, great grooves, funky chords and a steady, though challenging, chord progressions associated with the genre. The essential guitar patterns that all the pros know and use fred sokolow. Even when miss manners is treated badly, she responds courteously. Lesson 9 extending the blues and pentatonic scales dvd 3 in this lesson. A great example of this in a blues would be measure four moving to measure five.
April 1, 2020 no comments if you love the blues or simply want to learn more about how to play great sounding blues chords on the guitar, this post is for you. Practice tuning by ear once you know how, but its important to condition your ears to hearing yourself play properly in tune. This bookcd pack will have you playing lead and rhythm anywhere on the fretboard, in any key. You can use many different styles of blues to jam over this track. The essential guitar patterns that all the pros know and use. Fred sokolows bestselling guitar method and series has helped hundreds of thousands of guitar players. Fretboard roadmaps country guitar sheet music by fred sokolow sheet music plus. Welcome to the sixth video of the blues guitar quickstart series. Outside of the 5 box patterns there are one octave, twooctave shifting, and 3noteperstring shapes that guitarists also learn when studying the blues.
If you like this track, ive created 50 high quality blues. Fretboard roadmaps blues guitar the essential guitar patterns. This is probably the mostused riff in blues and rock music. I expected a cd with it but this issue does not come with one.
How to use delta bluesstyle strumming and picking on guitar. To play the blues is a fascinating undertaking because it can be both simplistic and yet intangibly tricky to master. This isnt your traditional 1, 4, 5 chord progression. Click on a guitar chord to proceed to respective chord page this is work in progress. On the guitar there are 5 box patterns for the major and minor blues scales that allow guitarists to perform this scale over the entire guitar fretboard. The essential patterns that all the pros know and use with cd fretboard roadmaps fred sokolow. Some of the guitar chords are typically used when playing blues. Use these instructional materials to help open up guitar avenues and to examine different chords and rhythms, lead guitar techniques, learning the fretboard, music theory,scales, and the world of playing over chord changes. They favored firstposition chords but produced incredible textures and rhythms from these easy lefthand fingerings. East tennessee blues learn to flatpick the guitar and.
If you are wishing to order the pdf mp3 files please go to the correct page as this product is for the pdf file only. Read on for a complete blues scale guitar lesson what youll learn. These essential fretboard patterns are roadmaps that all great blues guitarists know and. Fred sokolow fretboard roadmaps bluegrass and folk guitar pdf. Why learning more than one scale pattern is beneficial. Welcome to the support section for house of blues beginner blues guitar level 1 sign in or register now to take advantage of the rock house lesson support section. Ive added several major and minor 7th chords to give it more of a jazzy feel. The updated edition of this bestselling guitar instruction book now includes new music examples.
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