The Complete Guide to Playing Blues Guitar Compilation: Includes Three Blues Guitar Books - Blues Rhythm Guitar, Blues Guitar Melodic Phrasing and Blues ... (Learn How to Play Blues Guitar)

Upon receiving this book I read it cover to cover, which is what I like to do with any music literature book. Having played other styles of guitar professionally, I have been interested in Blues Guitar. For the last three years I have studied numerous books and DVD courses on electric and acoustic blues guitar. What I like about this series of three books is how they get inside the music and the explanation of how to allow each note to express your feelings. There is a good deal of materiel presented here that I have not seen elsewhere. It has great value to anyone interested in playing Blues Guitar. It is especially useful for the electric guitar. I also play acoustic blues and especially like finger style for that. There is not much for the finger style player, but you will not find a better series for the electric guitar. Book 1 starts out by introducing you to various blues rhythms, embellishments and how to play them. Playing Blues Rhythm Guitar is important for many reasons. You should understand this essential part of the Blues even if you never play solos. And if you do play solos, the rhythm guitar will be so important to understand as to what you can play and where. Your ear is so important! Book 2 takes you inside out of playing blues solos. You will learn more about how to improvise, and modify what you may know to have a very different sound and feeling. Book 3 teaches you how to use different scales and other essential information for the soloist. The examples are given in the key of A. You should know enough about guitar to transpose to other keys. If examples were given in all keys you would end up with a 3000 page book! There is a great deal of “meat and potatoes”, as well as “desert”. By the time the student finishes this book he or she should have a greater understanding of Blues Guitar. I would estimate it should take the average student at least one year to complete all three books. It will be time well spent.

I had a guitar in high school, pre youtube but never really got into it because I already played saxophone and got terribly bored with the method books that taught me one note at a time and spent way too much time on how to read music (which I can do) and not enough time teaching me how to play music on the instrument at hand. This book is not like that. It will not waste your time teaching you to read music or how to hold your instrument you can find that on youtube and be strumming basic chord in about and hour. It starts out by giving you some chord shapes and then introduces the twelve bar blues. Then gives you some different chord shapes and more blues. Then some embellishments and more blues. As a competent musician with a new instrument this has enabled me to enjoy my guitar in the first week that I have owned it and is helping me toward my goal of be a competent blues artist on my guitar. It is nice for a musician new to guitar in that so far it has not thrown any curve balls every time it introduces a new chord it gives you the diagram for it ahead of time and there is an audio track for everything I have used so far. It may be the deep end of the pool for a beginner but I am getting results.

I have been playing guitar for over 55 years and am still learning how to play it. I have taken lessons and will be taking lessons again shortly. I decided that The Complete Guide to Playing Blues Guitar Compilation would be a good guitar lesson book for me. I like it. It is helpful and is one of my better purchases. Someday, I'll learn how to play guitar. Cheers!

This book is easy to follow. Contains great step by step examples to help guide you through the learning process. Nice having the backing tracks included to play along with and the recorded lessons to refer to. I am pleased with this book.

I am having a good time with this book. Its been really annoying picking up random blues guitar books only to find a bunch of licks and maybe a passing introduction to a 12 bar or something. I really wanted to get into the blues; down the rabbit hole; something that I could spend months with. This is that book for me. The Rhythm section has been fantastic, I am on the last chapter now, been working through in a linear fashion and I haven't been bored; On the contrary, I find that each example has a habit of leading me down a long jam session that I can't break. My playing is also noticeably better. The book is laid out in an easy to understand way; It doesn't bog you down with theory and it doesn't linger too long, its concise and effective. The audio examples are perfect which is good because you play the notation and think you've got it down and then you hear the clarity in the example and realize you need a little more work with it. Since this book, I've bought 3 other Fundamental Changes books and will probably end up owning all of them. Great Stuff

Im just starting out and have picked up a few books on the Blues by different authors. Joseph Alexander’s books, for me, are my favorite. They start off for the beginner but quickly bring in more complicated material which is a great motivator as you can see - and more importantly hear - your progress quickly. They are not easy though and do require a lot of practice but the work is worth it. This book is a combination of three of his other books and provides a lot of great material to advance your skill with! I am very glad I got this and his book Fingerstyle Blues Guitar!

3 books in one. Can’t beat it. Great stuff from chords to scales. Highly recommend for beginner or advanced guitar players.

Good book. Well written and well structured.

The book has excellent qualities. It is a compilation of three books and therefore very convenient to have a high quality educational materials to understand the language of the Blues step by step. Even if you are an experienced guitar player I recommend to boot using Book One: The Complete Guide to Playing Blues Guitar: Rhythm Book. The author has good rhythmic nuances that much help to understand the rhythmic root of Blues. The Book Two - Melodic Phrasing is excellent to help in phrasing and consolidate the mastering of rhythmic sessions. The Book Three - Beyond pentatonics is the highlight of the compilation. It shows a clear and objective way to escape the monotonous pattern to make stops just based on forms. I noticed a expansion of the idea of how to run and create and eevuluir in the construction of sentences based on pentatonic. In conclusion, it is a very important book for those who really want to evolve in the language of Blues, in a very practical compilation.

The three book set is a comprehensive study material for the intermediate guitarist. The portion to look out for is the 'Beyond Pentatonic' bit which tires to get you out of the rut of limited soloing options!!

Cette compilation donne toutes les facettes du blues pour bien posséder cette musique à la guitare électrique. Le découpage en trois parties rythme, phrasés et au-delà des gammes pentatoniques est parfait ; chaque partie démarre sur des bases et exemples simples puis de plus en plus complexes pour atteindre un très bon niveau ; il suffit de ne pas sauter les étapes comme le dit l’auteur de façon à obtenir votre objectif. La partie 2 permet de s’imprégner des phrases blues et de créer ses propres solos à partir de bonnes bases et techniques ; chaque exercice a un mp3 de qualité à télécharger et servant de modèle. Avec la partie 3 on sort de la routine des gammes pentatoniques et cette partie est très intéressante pour monter en compétence, et à ne pas négliger car riche d’enseignements. J’ai apprécié le format kindle ; si vous avez un ordinateur proche de vous pour travailler les exercices écrits et les mp3, c’est très pratique à mon sens pour la mise en œuvre et d’avoir l’exercice en grand format sur l’écran. Cet ensemble de trois livres est une méthode très didactique, originale pour sa qualité à progresser en douceur, agréable avec ses différents backing tracks pour se plonger dans l’ambiance blues ; mais ne brûlez surtout pas les étapes pour aller plus vite en pensant savoir maîtriser certains passages , car cette méthode a une très bonne ligne directrice qui vous conduira à son objectif final : maîtriser les phrasés blues et développer votre sensibilité dans des solos émanant de votre propre musicalité. En ce sens, bravo ! car l’auteur, comme dans d'autres de ses méthodes, a fait passer ce message essentiel.

Me gustó mucho, es muy fácil de entender Y exelente para aprender a tocar blues . Y me gustó que puedes tocar junto con lo audios

Fantastic resource by Joseph Alexander. This book is about teaching you the language of the blues, and to have the command to improvise and find your own voice on the guitar, and to start having conversations through the vocabulary taught. It's not about learning licks by rote, but about drawing on concepts to be spontaneous and original. Great resource to get you closer to your guitar goals.