| Description |
1 online resource (387 pages) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About This Book -- Conventions Used in This Book -- What You're Not to Read -- Foolish Assumptions -- How This Book Is Organized -- Part 1: You Got a Right to Play the Blues -- Part 2: Setting Up to Play the Blues -- Part 3: Beyond the Basics: Playing Like a Pro -- Part 4: Sounding Like the Masters: Blues Styles through the Ages -- Part 5: Gearing Up: Outfitting Your Arsenal -- Part 6: The Part of Tens -- Part 7: Appendixes -- Icons Used in This Book -- Where to Go from Here |
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Part 1 You Got a Right to Play the Blues -- Chapter 1 Every Day I Have the Blues ... Hallelujah! -- Capturing the Blues Train from Its Departure Then to Its Arrival Now -- The pieces of blues that made the genre -- The place of the blues' conception -- Rejoicing over 100 years of blues: The shifting shape of the genre -- The qualities that made blues cats hit the big-time -- It's Not All Pain and Suffering -- The Lighter Side of Blues -- Surveying the Means to Make the Music: The Guitar in All Its Glory -- The low-fi acoustic guitar -- The semi-hollowbody electric guitar |
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Solidbody electric guitars -- The Collision of Two Worlds: Acoustic versus Electric -- Getting a Grip on How Guitars Work -- You've gotta use your hands -- both of them -- Producing the tones: String vibration and pitch -- Electric guitars only: Pickups and amplification -- Performing and Looking Like a Blues Player -- Expanding and filling your brain with know-how -- Looking the part -- Blues Trivia For Dummies -- The questions -- The answers -- Chapter 2 Blues Meets Guitar: A Match Made in Musical Heaven -- Beyond the Delta: Defining the Blues Guitar Sound |
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The method to the music: Chord progressions -- The guitarist's language of melody -- The expression that invokes your senses -- The groove that sets the pace -- Dissecting an Acoustic and an Electric -- Getting Down with the Blues: A Quick How-To -- The foundation for all guitar playing: Acoustic guitars -- Shifting acoustic to overdrive: Electric guitars -- What You Need to Get Your Groove On -- Chapter 3 Grab Hold, Tune Up, Play On! -- Holding Your Axe (That Is, Your Guitar) -- Grabbing your guitar's neck -- Pushing down on the strings -- Getting sound to come out |
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Holding the Pick, Attacking the Problem -- Getting Situated -- Sitting down ... -- ... or standing up -- Tuning Up -- Helping your guitar get in tune with itself -- Holding your guitar to an electronic standard -- Playing a Chord -- Music Notation: Not Just for Geeks -- Guidance for your aimless fingers: A chord diagram -- Mapping out your short-term path: Rhythm notation -- Guiding you all the way through a song: Tablature -- Part 2 Setting Up to Play the Blues -- Chapter 4 Getting a Grip on Left-Hand Chords -- Starting Out Simple: Blues Chords Even Your Mom Could Play |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Guitar -- Methods -- Self-instruction.
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Guitar music (Blues)
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Guitar -- Methods
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Guitar music (Blues)
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| Genre/Form |
Self-instruction
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781119695707 |
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1119695708 |
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9781119748953 |
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111974895X |
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