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Most of us tend to just solo on the fly, but what if you had a blueprint, something to help you organize your improvising? David Hamburger shows you how to construct ear-bending blues solos by working with the underlying structure of any blues progression or vamp.

Using major and minor pentatonic scales, mixolydian scales, chromatic passing notes and altered tones, you’ll learn how to develop tasty, soulful solos packed with tension and release that gradually build over two or three choruses to a compelling climax.

Instead of playing the same old licks, you’ll discover how to use root targeting, call-and-response phrasing, hybrid grip picking, double stops, triads and chord hits to create dynamic, exciting solos over everything from a Texas shuffle or a blues-rock groove to a New Orleans-style funk feel.

Here’s how Blues Architect is presented …
You will play your way through 10 contemporary blues instrumentals, learning and performing rhythm and solo parts in context against a rhythm track.

All of the rhythm lessons demonstrate the specific pattern and then suggest alternate voicings and fills to expand the rhythm part out over an entire tune.

The solo lessons demonstrate a single chorus solo, breaking them down note-by-note, and then suggest variations and ideas for an extended solo.

Hamburger then performs an extended solo illustrating the variations and solo development ideas discussed in the previous lesson segment.

The lesson concludes with a commentary running over the solo to further illustrate the "blueprint" for the solo and focus on key variations.

Every single solo is fully notated and tabbed in Power Tab! Rhythm tracks, chord charts, text descriptions and other supporting material are included.

Elmore James, Lowell George, Bonnie Raitt, Duane Allman, Ry Cooder, Joe Walsh, Derek Trucks, Ben Harper, Rory Gallagher, Johnny Winter and Sonny Landreth are just a few of the monster players responsible for putting electric slide guitar squarely on the blues and rock map. In fact, the expressive and "singing" qualities of electric slide guitar make it almost mandatory to have at least a few tasty and versatile slide chops and techniques in your bag. TrueFire’s Guitar Lab: Electric Slide will get you up and running quicker than you can say "Diddley Bow."

TrueFire’s Guitar Lab: Electric Slide from Geoff Hartwell will step you through all of the mechanics and equip you with an impressive working vocabulary of electric slide licks and moves. "Aside from being an outstanding musician and guitar player, Geoff Hartwell’s skills as a clinician put him at the top of the heap. Geoff’s knowledge and understanding of the mechanics of slide playing is bullet-proof. The master-class he conducted was attended by absolute beginners, professional guitarists and every level in between- No one left empty-handed. Not only do Geoff’s skills as a slide player put him in an elite group of musicians, but his ability to break down those skills and demonstrate them in simple, crystal clear terms make him one of a kind."

Geoff kicks off this intensive with a thorough run down of right and left hand techniques, plucking, muting and best practices for navigating the fretboard and working with scales. Next, you’ll learn how to phrase and articulate one-note-one-string and one-note-two-string licks. Along the way, Hartwell gives you a grip on classic moves including "pull licks" and Allman’s now classic "see-saw" move.

As you progress through the course, you’ll learn a variety of essential licks and how to play rhythm with slide, how to work with major and minor chords, how to "shwonk," how to slap and use harmonics, and how to fret behind the slide and pull off the "harmonic helicopter" in the style of slide master Sonny Landreth.

All in all, enough solid material in Guitar Lab: Electric Slide to move your slide meter to dangerously proficient.

Only a handful of people on the planet can deliver the instructional goods on slow blues as well as Andy Aledort. Andy has served as senior editor for several top guitar magazines, has authored over 200 guitar instruction books, and has studied the styles and techniques of virtually every major electric blues and rock guitar artist in history. You’d be hard pressed to find anyone better qualified to present a more thorough slow blues curriculum than Andy Aledort.

Andy covers a diverse range of soloing styles and techniques within the context of eight different key centers (E, F, G, A, Bb, C and D). Each key center series of lessons features different forms, feels and progressions and includes performances and detailed breakdowns covering requisite techniques, solo development, improvisation and application of theory. The soloing examples demonstrate a wide spectrum of both right- and left-hand articulation techniques, phrasing concepts and the stylistic signatures that are found in the playing of all blues guitar masters, ranging from Albert King, B.B. King, T-Bone Walker, Buddy Guy, and Freddie King, to the blues/rock virtuosos such as Jimi Hendrix, Duane Allman, Johnny Winter, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton and Stevie Ray Vaughan.

Aledort also takes you to grad school on doublestop sixths, sliding sixths, triads, opens strings, vibrato, hammers, ghost bends, pull-offs, fingerpicks, rolls, diminished 7th lines, cascading lines, expressions, forearm vibrato, B.B.’s box, thematic soloing, improvisation, two-to-three equivalency, repeating triplets, anticipating changes, stretching time, repetition, solo development, dynamics, oblique bends, slides, intervallic jumps, tremolo picking, ascending the fretboard, trills, glissandos and applications of composite blues, Mixolydian, Dorian, and major, minor, and dominant pentatonic scales.

Slow Blues Power is an extraordinary learning experience and bottomless resource of insight for any student of electric blues guitar.

Take a 1-4-5, crank up the drive, blow long improvised solos and you’ve got a few of the necessary ingredients to start working on your blues-rock bag. But that’s just the beginning – everything else you need can be found in Deloro’s original Blues Rock Road Trip and now in Blues Rock Road Trip 2, Deloro’s newly updated, eye-opening, ear-bending intensive study program focused solely on lead guitar phrase construction and applications.

At the core of virtually every killer blues rock tune is solid and memorable phrasing. Not to be confused with solos or melodies, short phrases or "riffs" can serve as the driving rhythmic figures of a tune, or be combined as the thematic building blocks of its featured solo. In either case, phrasing is as critical to the composition or solo as the "hook" itself. Could you imagine Suzie Q, Bad Sign, La Grange, One Way Out, Superstitious, Elizabeth Reed, Whole Lotta Love or Abracadabra without their signature riffs?!

Blues Rock Road Trip 2 continues the journey and examines the many facets and geographical influences that make up this extraordinarily popular style of guitar. From London to Chicago to Texas and points beyond, Blues Rock: Road Trip 2 will re-fill your tank with essential blues-rock patterns, licks, techniques and a set’s worth of new grooves to play with.

Blues Rock Road Trip 2 is all about the construction and application of blues rock phrasing for soloing, improvisation and composition. Having transcribed and studied literally thousands of riffs, licks and solos, Joe Deloro is a bona fide expert in the signature stylings of every important blues rock player. In short, Deloro is a walking encyclopedia of riffs, their origins and their applications.

You’ll work through 40 original phrases styled after Joe Walsh, Steve Miller, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Dickie Betts, Duane Allman, ZZ Top, Jimmy Page, John Lee Hooker, Clarence White, Jimi Hendrix, Carlos Santana, Albert King, B.B. King, Jeff Beck, James Burton and Stevie Ray Vaughan to name just a few.

Demonstrating each phrase over an accompanying practice rhythm track, Deloro will step you through it’s construction, application and variations. As you play your way through the course, you’ll develop a diverse vocabulary of tasty licks and cultivate your ability to form original ideas for 8, 12 and 16 bar solos.

Blues Rock Road Trip 2 features 105 video lessons, text overviews, practice rhythm tracks, standard notation and interactive Power Tab so that you can "see" and "hear" the tab and notation played out at any tempo. TrueFire’s video lesson player features PIP, full-screen, slo-mo, looping and other handy controls.

Beginning to advanced instruction in classical guitar techniques and teaching how to play over 50 songs, including Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring, Malaguena, Danny Boy, Amazing Grace, House of the Rising Sun, Lagrima, and many other Esteban favorites.

Video Format: AVI
Resolution: 720 x 540
Genre: Instructional DVD

Learn to Play: Basic Lessons.

Now the application that helped millions make music can help you learn to play an instrument. Basic Lessons in GarageBand teach you piano and guitar right on your Mac. Follow along with nine interactive video lessons that teach you the fundamentals and get you ready to play a whole song. See finger placement and basic chords on animated onscreen instruments. Basic Lessons give you complete control over how you learn. And when you’re more comfortable, you can practice your new skills with a complete backing band.
Plug and play.

Turn your Mac into a musical instrument.

With GarageBand, the proof is in the playing. Plug a USB music keyboard into your Mac and you get instant access to over 100 realistic software instruments — pianos, strings, drums, guitars, horns — everything from bass to woodwinds. Just create a new track, choose your instrument, and play.

On this release in the Guitar Method In The Style Of series, teacher Curt Mitchell caters to these fans, and provides step-by-step instruction. Mitchell slowly and surely goes through songwriting analysis, alternate tuning, and amp and effect settings toward the end result of playing songs including Walk This Way, Dream On, and Sweet Emotion.

In this release in the Guitar Method In The Style Of series, teacher Curt Mitchell caters to these fans, and provides step-by-step instruction. Mitchell slowly and surely goes through songwriting analysis, alternate tuning, and amp and effect settings toward the end result of playing songs.

Expanding on the groundbreaking concepts he introduced in his book, The Music Lesson— A Spiritual Search For Growth Through Music (Penguin), master bassist Victor Wooten lays out his unique philosophy of teaching and learning music in Groove Workshop, a new DVD from Hudson Music.

The 2-disc set features nearly five hours of material, including a complete master class where Victor — along with bassist/educator Anthony Wellington and six bass students — uses his personal experience and expertise to delve deeper into rarely discussed, yet vitally important, aspects of music making.

While traditional music education focuses primarily on developing technique and note-perfect performance, professional musicians like Victor know that there’s much more to making music than just playing the right notes. On Groove Workshop, Victor redefines the essential elements of music and demonstrates how to apply them in fresh, creative, musically relevant ways.

In the jam-packed How to Play Blues & Blues Rock DVD, Guitar World’s own esteemed associate editor Andy Aledort shows you how to play licks from blues rock greats like Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and many others. You’ll also learn how to perform rhythm and lead in the style of blues masters and get a complete course in slide guitar, including how to play in the style of the great Elmore James. With more than 90 minutes’ worth of lessons, How to Play Blues & Blues Rock DVD is ideal for beginning, intermediate and advanced players.

Included:
Blues and Rock Guitar DVD
release:7/2006 Guitar Magazine
Instructor:Andy Aledort instructor

Part 1 -Rhythm Guitar:
-I,IV, V progressions
-12 bar blues
-Shuffle rhythm
-Root/5th & Root/6th chords
-Adding root/flat 7th
-Walking bass
-Turnarounds key of A and E

Part 2-Soloing:
-T Bone Walker
-BB King
-Albert King
-Freddy King
-Eric Clapton
-Jimi Hendrix
-Jeff Beck
-Duane Allman
-Johnny Winter
-Billy Gibbons
-Stevie ray Vaughan

Part 3-Slide:
-Slide Guitar in OpenE
-Basic Slide Technique
-Slide Scales
-Elmore James