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Blues Guitar Blueprint Review

If you're interested in learning to play the blues but I have not had time to learning exactly how and why the blues is what it is, you can consider the review of this course. It is taught by a guy named Nate Savage has over 16 years experience playing guitar, and is produced by Rail Road Media Inc.

(They are a publisher of education rather well-known music for titles such as System Drumming, Drummer magazine, and the system Beginning Guitar)

The course is suitable for the beginner the intermediate player who may feel they are stuck in a bit of a rut, but need a new way of learning things outside the memory of the same boring pentatonic scales forms. Being able to create your own licks as well as being able to navigate at your leisure with confidence around the neck are two very important Blueprint Blues Guitar will help you achieve.

As noted in my System Review Guitar beginning after purchasing the course, you can get access to the private forum, but it is still a fairly work in progress because it is rather small, at least at the time of writing, but it will most likely improve over time.

Course Blueprint Blues comes with a comprehensive manual, two DVD lesson, and 4 Jam along CD.

The driving force of this course are the DVD and the lesson Jam along the tracks. By nature, the music is blues-based feel almost as much as technique, it seems, so maintaining a routine of practice is something that will be committed to the beginning.

The Lesson 2 DVD dive into the realm of blues licks. Here you will learn 41 special blues licks. The cool part about this but, is that shoppers are designed to help you understand exactly how blues licks are made, and you learn to bring your own Blues Licks on-site.

After you down securely, you can put your new found knowledge to the test by playing with four blue play along the tracks that come with the Blueprint Blues Guitar. They play along the tracks in my opinion one of the best parts of the package. The four Minor tracks include Blues, Chicago Blues, 6 / 8 Quick Change Blues, Blues and Jazzy, all of which are as big as you develop your own style.

The 4 CDs each contain one of the games along the tracks. Each song play along with three versions, a full band version, another version without the guitars, and finally the latest version which is similar to the second, but has added a metronome for further advice.

Another feature that is included are the tracks in a loop for each song in seven different keys. It's a pretty cool feature that helps you to play more than a few keys.

The Blueprint Blues Guitar book contains detailed explanations of all the examples found throughout the course. Each lick and ladders are fully noted.

A couple of reasons for this course are really not that Nate just throw a ton of ropes and ladders your way and then tell you to "play like a blues guitarist," as some other courses have a bad habit of doing.

It shows you scales, but keeps things simple by using only two positions, then moves to break everything apart and dissect everything completely so you can really understand what the blues is really all.

Basically, you will learn how blues scales really work, and you get to know every note in the balance, and why certain notes sound good and why others have not. These are important lessons to become a guitarist who really knows what they do, as opposed to someone who may be able to replicate, but not its origin. At the end of the course, you should be on track to create licks smart on the field, and really improvise on your instrument.

Another bonus is that you will learn some music theory as well. An example would be how scales and chords are constructed, four popular blues progressions, as well as some other scales that can be used when playing blues.

I highly recommend the Blueprint Blues Guitar, especially if you have learned a few scales and are frustrated or tired with that sound like you play only "scales" and not real blues. To truly play the blues, you must understand how the work of blues, and this course teaches you all this.

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1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die $21.37 The musical adventure of a lifetime. The most exciting book on music in years. A book of treasure, a book of discovery, a book to open your ears to new worlds of pleasure. Doing for music what Patricia Schultz author of the phenomenal 1,000 Places to See Before You Die does for travel, Tom Moon recommends 1,000 recordings guaranteed to give listeners the joy, the mystery, the revelation, the sheer fun of great music. This is a book both broad and deep, drawing from the diverse worlds of classical, jazz, rock, pop, blues, country, folk, musicals, hip-hop, world, opera, soundtracks, and more. It’s arranged alphabetically by artist to create the kind of unexpected juxtapositions that break down genre bias and broaden listeners horizons it makes every listener a seeker, actively pursuing new artists and new sounds, and reconfirming the greatness of the classics. Flanking J. S. Bach and his six entries, for example, are the little-known R&B singer Baby Huey and the ’80s Rastafarian hard-core punk band Bad Brains. Farther down the list: The Band, Samuel Barber, Cecelia Bartoli, Count Basie, and Afropop star Waldemer Bastos. Each entry is passionately written, with expert listening notes, fascinating anecdotes, and the occasional perfect quote Your collection could be filled with nothing but music from Ray Charles, said Tom Waits, and you’d have a completely balanced diet. Every entry identifies key tracks, additional works by the artist, and where to go next. And in the back, indexes and playlists for different moods and occasions.

101 Ukulele Licks $15.99 From blues to bluegrass, uke can play it all! In this one-of-a-kind book and CD pack, you get over a hundred authentic licks notated for the ukulele in standard notation and tablature. Plus there are tons of extras – common chord progressions, scales, uke history, recommended listening, information on uke builders, blogs, websites, and more! The accompanying CD features a demo of every lick, as well as play-along tracks with chord progressions for practicing and jamming.

101 Ukulele Licks-Essential Blues, Jazz, Country, Bluegrass, and Rock ‘n’ Roll $14.99 From blues to bluegrass, uke can play it all! In this one-of-a-kind book and CD pack, you get over a hundred authentic licks notated for the ukulele in standard notation and tablature. Plus there are tons of extras – common chord progressions, scales, uke history, recommended listening, information on uke builders, blogs, websites, and more! The accompanying CD features a demo of every lick, as well as play-along tracks with chord progressions for practicing and jamming.

12-Bar Blues – Guitar Educational – BK+CD $17.95 The term 12-bar blues has become synonymous with blues music and is the basis for an incredible body of jazz, rock ‘n’ roll, and other forms of popular music. This book/CD pack is solely devoted to providing guitarists with all the technical tools necessary for playing 12-bar blues with authority. The CD includes 24 full-band tracks. Covers: boogie, shuffle, swing, riff, and jazzy blues progressions; Chicago, minor, slow, bebop, and other blues styles; soloing, intros, turnarounds, accompanying keyboards and more. In standard notation and tablature.

12-Bar Blues Piano $15.95 This exciting series of instrumental instruction books includes complete music plus easy-to-follow instructions, tips and advice. The accompanying CDs allow you to listen and play along to the matching audio tracks. These user-friendly book/CD packs provide riffs, licks, chords and tricks you can learn now, and easily incorporate into your own playing style! This 60-track CD and book pack is designed to help you play the real, down-home blues. Includes basic blues structures and techniques, original blues to jazz and rock piano, boogie, stride and walking bass styles.

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13. Steely Dan – Drum Play-Along Volume 13 – Book and CD Package $16.99 Play your favorite songs quickly and easily with the Drum Play-Along series! Just follow the drum notation, listen to the CD to hear how the drums should sound, then play along using the separate backing tracks. The lyrics are also included for quick reference. The audio CD is playable on any CD player, and also enhanced so PC and Mac users can adjust the recording to any tempo without changing the pitch! Includes 7 songs: Deacon Blues * Do It Again * FM * Hey Nineteen * Josie * My Old School * Reeling in the Years.

20 Swing Tunes That Every Parking Lot Picker Should Know $54.42 This series of CDs teaches essential swing guitar repertoire to bluegrass flatpickers. Steve’s unique method features three levels: a beginner’s version in which he teaches the basic melody; an intermediate arrangement that will give players a solid musical grounding; and finally, a full-blown solo that will challenge any aspiring swing guitarist. Backup tracks make for productive and exciting practice sessions. Tunes: After You’ve Gone ? Back Home Again in Indiana ? Blue Moon ? Danny Boy ? Georgia on My Mind ? Honeysuckle Rose ? I Got Rhythm ? Kansas City Kitty ? Lady Be Good ? Limehouse Blues ? Little Rock Getaway ? Minor Swing ? Miss Molly ? Panhandle Rag ? It’s Only a Paper Moon ? Remington’s Ride ? Over the Rainbow ? Sugar Foot Rag ? Summertime ? The Sunny Side of the Street. 160-PAGE BOOK WITH 6 CDs ? INCLUDES MUSIC + TAB ? LEVEL ALL

25 OLDIES BEST VOL. 10 Various Artists (1995) (SELECTED SOUND CARRIER AG) (25 TRACKS) MP3 $13.95 Various Artists (1995) (SELECTED SOUND CARRIER AG) (25 TRACKS)25 Oldies Best Vol. 10Album Description:25 OLDIES BEST VOL. 10 is Selected Sound Carrier AG’s 1995 compilation of world’s renowned artists performing their biggest hits. Album includes tracks by Donovan, Bee GeeS, Ike & Tina Turner, Marc Bolan (T.REX), Mamas & Papas and much, much more!Track Listing:1. Hurdy Gurdy Man (Live) (DONOVAN) 5:56 2. Skokiaan (Live) (BILL HALEY AND HIS COMETS) 2:16 3. La Bamba (Live) (TRINI LOPEZ) 4:18 4. Hard To Love You (DAVE DEE, DOZY, BEAKY, MICK & TICH) 2:38 5. Ferry Across The Mersey (GERRY AND THE PACEMAKERS) 2:24 6. Devil Doll (ROY ORBISON) 2:12 7. Come Together (IKE & TINA TURNER) 3:37 8. Number One Protection (TOM ROBINSON) 3:59 9. Let’s Go Rock’n Roll (K.C. & THE SUNSHINE BAND) 3:34 10. You Got Me Hummin’ (SAM & DAVE) 2:47 11. Oh Well Part 1 (Fleetwood Mac) (LONDON ROCK ORCHESTRA) 2:23 12. Black Is Black (EDDY GRANT & EQUALS) 2:50 13. When Your Heart Speaks (FORTUNES) 4:10 14. If Loving You Is Wrong (PERCY SLEDGE) 3:52 15. Fell In Love With A Poet (KIM CARNES) 4:22 16. I Am The World (BEE GEES) 2:36 17. Go Where You Wanna Go (Live) (MAMAS & PAPAS) 2:29 18. Get On The Line (ARCHIES) 2:32 19. Candy Man (TREMELOES) 3:22 20. Block Buster/F.B.I. (Live) (SWEET) 4:54 21. Justine (Live) (BILL HALEY AND HIS COMETS) 1:56 22. Only Sixteen (MUD) 2:23 23. Crazy Little Teddy Girl (CRAZY CAVAN & THE RHYTHM ROCKERS) 2:1124. Jigsaw Puzzle Blues (Fleetwood Mac) (LONDON ROCK ORCHESTRA) 1:34 25. Cat Black (MARC BOLAN) 1:20

30 $4.53 With the simultaneous release of 30 and Songs I Heard, Harry Connick Jr. has again found new ways to express himself artistically while demonstrating the craftsmanship and work ethic of a virtuoso musician at the top of his game. 30 is the fourth in a succession of recordings that capture Connick’s music at its most personal and improvisatory, joining the albums 11, 20 and 25, each named for his age at the time of recording. As Connick explains, There’s a conceptual theme that runs through these recordings. It captures a moment in time, it’s like a snapshot of where I’m coming from musically. Beginning with the carefree jump blues of Walkin’, the stripped down recording is an exercise in dynamics, as Connick shows off expert piano and vocal skills with subtle flair. Connick is joined by the late gospel singer Rev. James Moore on There’s Always One More Time, and trumpet master Wynton Marsalis on I’ll Only Miss Her (When I Think of Her). From New Orleans to the narrative and playful Don’t Fence Me In, each of the fourteen tracks is a window into Connick’s artistry.

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8-Bar Blues $14.99 Although the term 12-bar is usually the first form one thinks of when hearing the word blues, a surprising number of songs make use of another popular form: the 8-bar. This book/CD pack is solely devoted to providing you with all the technical tools necessary for playing 8-bar blues with authority. Includes: a CD with 44 full-band tracks; a history of the 8-bar blues form; instruction on boogie, shuffle, and jazz-blues progressions, including minor keys; rhythm patterns and solos; and much more.

8-Bar Blues – Inside the Blues Series – Guitar Songbook and CD Package – TAB $14.99 Although the term 12-bar is usually the first form one thinks of when hearing the word blues, a surprising number of songs make use of another popular form: the 8-bar. This book/CD pack is solely devoted to providing you with all the technical tools necessary for playing 8-bar blues with authority. Includes: a CD with 44 full-band tracks; a history of the 8-bar blues form; instruction on boogie, shuffle, and jazz-blues progressions, including minor keys; rhythm patterns and solos; and much more.

A Modern Method for Guitar – Jazz Songbook, Vol. 1 $14.99 Play great jazz while you learn from this revered guitar method! These solos and duets map directly to the lessons in William Leavitt’s Modern Method for Guitar, Volume 1, the basic guitar text at Berklee College of Music. Carefully overseen by Larry Baione, chair of Berklee’s Guitar Department (and a former student of William Leavitt), these arrangements are crafted to Leavitt’s time-proven approach, giving you the chance to apply what you learn to music by Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Sonny Rollins, Django Reinhardt, and other jazz greats. The accompanying CD demonstrates all the tunes and offers play-along tracks for practicing the duets. Songs include: Afternoon in Paris * Basin Street Blues * A Child Is Born * Here’s That Rainy Day * I’ll Be Around * In a Sentimental Mood * My Little Suede Shoes * Pennies from Heaven * St. Thomas * Samba De Orfeu * So What * Valse Hot * The Very Thought of You * When I Fall in Love * Willow Weep for Me.

A Player’s Guide to Chords & Harmony $19.95 If you”d like to know about music theory but don”t want to get bogged down in a stuffy college-level textbook, this guide was written just for you! It”s a practical, no-nonsense book ideal for: young musicians learning guitar so they can play rock, folk or blues; DJs who”ve started recording their own tracks and need to know how chord progressions work; anyone who wants to play from the chord symbols in sheet music; classical musicians who want to do more than just read the dots, and countless others. Covers: intervals, scales, modes, triads and advanced voicings; interpreting chord symbols and reading sheet music; voice leading, chord progressions and basic song forms; classical, jazz & pop; and more, with helpful quizzes and answers.

A Rhythmic Twist – Triplet Concepts for Drumset – Book and CD Package $14.99 Can you learn how to swing? Yes, and this book will show you how, giving you a huge vocabulary of creative triplet grooves and fills to play in every style. The book does this by taking common, comfortable 16th-note patterns and adapting them into a triplet feel. The results are amazingly musical and refreshingly creative, and will give any drummer tons of new ideas to play within any swing-based groove. Jeff Salem covers many concepts, including solidifying your basic triplet grooves in various styles, moving around the drumset with triplets, incorporating the bass drum into your fills, creating interesting triplet grooves using 16th note-based rhythms, applying paradiddle concepts to triplet grooves and fills, incorporating rests into your swung phrases, and more. In the later chapters, the triplet rhythms presented are applied to fills that can be used in blues, R&B, rock and hip-hop settings, and are also applied specifically to jazz concepts to broaden your independence and vocabulary in a traditional swing setting. An introductory section with basic triplet feels and a listening guide is designed to start beginning-level drummers on the right path to understanding swing-based styles. The book comes complete with an MP3 CD presenting play-along tracks in many styles, which are designed for you to apply the concepts learned in the book. The disc also includes demonstrations of nearly every example in the book.

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Acoustic Blues Guitar Styles [With CD] $26.52 Acoustic Blues Guitar Styles is an introduction to fingerstyle acoustic blues guitar, the style made popular by Robert Johnson, Bill Broonzy, and Mance Lipscomb. Following the success of the popular Acoustic Guitar Styles, Larry Sandberga (TM)s Acoustic Blues Guitar Styles is an instructional book geared towards the intermediate guitar player, not only to teach fingerstyle blues technique, but also to approach the music creatively and with feeling and rhythm. Part One teaches you the preliminaries, such as reading a chord chart and working out a 12-bar blues in different keys. Part Two teaches you touch, timing, and basic fingerpicking technique. Part Three teaches you how to play stylistically, with lessons on how to incorporate bends, vibrato, alternating bassnotes, and rhythmic variations into your playing. All musical exercises are presented in both standard notation and tablature, and are supported by audio tracks in the accompanying compact disc.

Acoustic Guitar Complete $52.99 The Ultimate Beginners Series gets aspiring musicians started immediately with classic acoustic rock and blues riffs, chord patterns and more. Now, for the first time ever, the UBS Basics, Acoustic Rock and Fingerpicking books are combined in one complete book and DVD set. Follow along with 4 hours of DVD instruction and 3 hours of audio tracks, with the help of on-screen graphics and printed diagrams. The Ultimate Beginners Series: Acoustic Guitar Complete will lead you from open position chords to licks. If you”re serious about mastering the blues and rock styles, this book and DVD set is a must-have.