Serious Blues: Expanding Lead & Rhythm (book/DVD)

Publisher : Alfred Music
Get Your Fingers to Play What's in Your Head

Eric Slone teaches you all the essential lead and rhythm techniques to become a great blues guitarist. Learn about transposition, call-and-response, targeting chord tones, arpeggios, scales, fills between vocals, pinch harmonics, rakes, Texas power rhythm in the style of Stevie Ray Vaughan, chord progressions, and extended chords. Additionally, Slone runs through grooves in the jazz blues, funk blues, and jump blues styles.
The included DVD features live demonstrations of the examples in the book

Contents:

• Speed Riffs and Repeating Licks  
• F Lydian Rake Lick  
• Texas Power Rhythm  
• The I, IV and V Chord Patterns  
• Dominant 7 Sharp-9  
• Sizzling Speed Riffs  
• The Dominant 11th Chord, 13th Chord  
• Jump Blues Using Dominant 9th and 13th Chords   
• Funk Grooves Using the Dominant 9th Chord  
• Adding 11ths and 13ths  
• Understanding 11ths and 13ths  
• Diminished 7th Chord Turnaround Licks  
• Dominant 9th Chords  
• The Dominant 9th Chord Explained  
• Forward Rakes  
• Jazz-Blues Speed Riff  
• Transpose Your Licks!  
• Exploring These Licks Further  
• Targeting Chord Tones  
• Executing Pinch Harmonics  
• Pick Location and Sound Production  
• Combining Pinch Harmonics with Solo Techniques  
• The Texas Power Rhythm Introduced  
• Dominant 7 Sharp-9 Chords Explained  
• Fills Between Vocals  
• Boogie in A  
• Minor Against Major  
• More Calls and Responses  
• Calls with the E Blues Scale  
• Practicing Call and Response  
• Dominant 7 Sharp-9 Rooted on Other Strings  
• Using the Dominant 7 Sharp-9 Chord  
• Adding Tension to the V Chord  
• Altered Dominant Chords: 7 Flat-9 and 7 Sharp-5  
• Dominant 7 Flat-9 Chord Rooted on the 5th String  
• Dominant 7 Flat-9 Chord Rooted on the 6th String  
• Dominant 7 Sharp-5 Chord  
• Chuck Berry-Style Fills

Sample Pages

• The Ultimate Guitar Chord & Scale Bible
• The Serious Guitarist - Jazz Chops
• The Serious Guitarist - Blues Chops
• Serious Blues: Essential Phrasing
• The Serious Guitarist - Expanding Grooves
• Guitar Chord Resource