Blues Guitar Chords & Accompaniment
Yoichi Arakawa (Reviewed by The Editor - Rebecca Brown)
2003 Six Strings Music Publishing
ISBN: 189137012X Hardcover Amazon's price: $15.95
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The Ultimate Step-by-Step Guide to Playing Blues Rhythm Guitar.
For those wanting to learn how to become good in one of the oldest & most popular forms of American music.
Starting with such basics as tuning, music notation & theory, the book guides you step by step through a variety of basic open chords, strumming patterns, & accompaniment styles, along with numerous techniques for the blues rythmn guitar.
Various blues riffs: shuffle, boogie-woogie, single-note riffs, double-stop riffs, small-chord riffs & so much more!
Yoichi Arakawa offers a thorough teaching (misspelling of the word rhythm notwithstanding!) in the study of music:-- the notes, the chords, the rhythm & the language. As an erstwhile piano player & alto chorale singer, I found all the instructions simple, accessible & valid.
I lent Blues Guitar Chords & Accompaniment to Greg, a great amateur guitarist who lives along the road, for his input. I was not surprised when he returned it, nodding “I learned by listening. This gave me names for what I do & lessons to follow. I've learned a whole bunch more chords & riffs. Good book!” As he was eyeing the book with such yearning, naturally I gave it to him.
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