Blues by The Book 1: Fingerpicking Blues (DVD)

Homespun Video
Music and TAB enclosed
Running Time : 75 minutes

Roy Book Binder has assembled a complete vocabulary of licks and techniques to help you to develop your own personal blues style.

Roy’s firsthand knowledge of the great players makes this video a must for anyone who loves traditional blues. Roy demonstrates a wide variety of chords, right- and left-hand patterns and several of his favorite licks. He also teaches endings, runs, slides, open-string techniques, pull-offs, hammer-ons, damping, turnarounds and much more!

By the end of this video, you will have mastered Pink Anderson’s snapping string technique, Rev. Gary Davis’ two-finger style and Roy’s arrangements to “Black Dog Blues,” “Hesitation Blues” and his own medley of ragtime/blues.

Content:

• Intro
• C Rag on the “Black Dog Blues” Easy Version
• C Rag on the “Black Dog Blues” More Complex Version
• Book's Famous G Lick
• “Black Dog Blues” Performance
• Snapping the Strings
• “Black Dog Blues” Endings
• “Hesitation Blues” Performance
• “Hesitation Blues” Easy Version
• “Hesitation Blues” More Complex Version
• “Hesitation Blues” Variations
• “Hesitation Blues” Variations Together
• Blind Black/Reverend Gary Davis Lick
• Reverend Gary Davis Verse Ending Lick
• Ragtime Instrumental Medley
• Reverend Gary Davis Lick
• “Buck Dance”
• “Buck Dance” Broken Down
• Famous C Lick
• “Devil's Dream” in F
• Two New Bits
• “Devil's Dream” Played
• Whole Medley Played
• Outro

• Roy Book Binde Book's Blues
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