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- Contents -

Introduction
   What This Book Provides
   If You Are an Intermediate or Advanced Player
   If You Just Started Playing the Guitar
   How to Use the Audio Examples

Part I: Techniques and Patterns
Chapter 1: Essential Skills
The Minor Pentatonic Scale
Techniques of Touch
   Supportive Fingering
   The Finger Roll
Principles of Practicing
   Warming Up
   Setting Tempo
   How Long to Practice
   What to Practice and When to Move On
   Practicing in Different Keys: Transposing and the Cycle of Fourths
Chapter 1 Summary

Chapter 2: Blue Notes
The Blue 3rd
The ♭5th
The ♭7th
The Blue-Note Pentatonic
Chapter 2 Summary

Chapter 3: Shuffle Phrasing - Rhythm and the Blues
The Shuffle
Call-and-Response Phrasing
One-Bar Phrases
   Rhythm, Melody, and Resolution
Two-Bar Phrases
Vocalization
Visualization
Chapter 3 Summary.

Chapter 4: Legato, Picking, and Dynamics
Legato Phrasing
   Hammer-Ons and Pull-Offs
Picking Technique and Dynamics
   Flatpicking
   The Slap
   The Rake
   Bare-Finger Picking
   Hybrid Picking
   Thumb-Picks
Chapter 4 Summary

Chapter 5: Sliding, Bending, and Vlbrato
Sliding
Bending
   Whole-Step Bends
   Releasing a Bend
   Pre-Bending
   Half-Step Bends
   Big Bends
Vibrato
   Finger Vlbrato
   Wrist vibrato
   Bending Plus Vibrato
Chapter 5 Summary

Chapter 6: Blues Melody - Core and Color
Blues Core
   Melodies and Scales
Blues Tonality
Notes and Feelings
Expanding the Blues Tonality: Color Notes
   The 6th
   The 9th
Chapter 6 Summary

Chapter 7: Getting Around the Neck
The CAGED System
Pattem #4 Lower Octave
Pattem #5 Upper Octave: The “Albert King Spot”
   Blues Tonality in Pattern #5
   Combining Patterns #4 and #5
Pattern #1 Upper Octave: The "B.B. King Spot”
   Blues Tonality in Pattern #1
   Combining Patterns #1, #5, and #4
Pattern #2: The “A Shape”
   Blues Tonality in Pattern #2
Pattern #3: The “G Shape”
Moving Around the Neck
   Shifting and Sliding
   Soloing on One String
Chapter 7 Summary


Part 2: 12-Bar Soloing
Chapter 8: 12-Bar Blues
Blues Changes
   Diatonic Harmony
   Blues Harmony
12-Bar Form
Call-and-Response Phrasing
   12-Bar Call-and-Response Solo Structure
Making the Changes
   Harmonic Awareness: Key and Chord
   Key Center Phrasing
   Chord Tones: 3rds and 7ths
   12-Bar Chord-Tone Phrasing
   Comparing Key Centers and Chord Tones
Pickup Phrases
Combining 12-Bar Phrasing Skills
Turnarounds
   Classic Tumarounds
   Transposing Tumarounds
   Single-String Tumarounds
   ”No Turnaround”
Endings
   Breaks
   Tags
Intros
   ”From the One”
   ”From the Five”
   ”From the Turnaround”
Chapter 8 Summary

Chapter 9: Sololng Strategies
Match the Solo to the Song
Every Solo Tells a Story
   Solo #1: Freddie King Style
   Solo #2: Billy Butler Style
   Solo #3: Albert King Style
   Solo #4: Pat Hare Style
   Stretching Out: Playing Multiple Choruses
Chapter 9 Summary

Chapter 10: Flavors and Textures
Double Stops
   3rd Intervals
   6th lntervals
Soloing with Chords
Chicago-Style Soloing
Accenting Solos with Horn-Style Chords
Sololng in the Lower Register
Soloing in Open Position
   Key of A
   Key of E
   Combining Open and Moveable Patterns
   Open Position: Other Keys
Chapter 10 Summary


Part 3: Beyond the 12-Bar Shuffle
Chapter 11: Harmony and Form
Uptown Blues Harmony
   Chromatic Passing Chords
   Ragtime Changes
8-Bar Blues
   ”How Long”-Style
   ”Key to the Highway”-Style
   8-Bar Variations
16-Bar BIues
Minor Blues
   Medium Shuffle Minor Blues
One-Chord Blues
   Pedal Points
   Tremolo Picking
Chapter 11 Summary

Chapter 12: Tempo - From Ballad to Boogie
Slow Blues
   Harmony
   12/8 Meter
   Conversational Phrasing
   ”Stormy Monday” Changes
Jump Blues
One-Chord Boogie
Chapter 12 Summary

Chapter 13: Blues Fusions
Rhythm and Blues (R&B)
   Soul-Blues
   Chicken-Picking
   Smooth Blues
   Other Rhythm and Blues Variations
Latin Blues
Rock 'n' Roll
Other Blues Fusions
Chapter 13 Summary

Appendix I: Sound
Guitars
   Strings
   Picks
   Pickups
   Capo
Amps
Effects

Appendix II: Style and Influences
Pre-Electric Blues Guitar Influences
Electric Blues Guitar Influences
   Texas
   The Three Kings
   Chicago
   Other Blues Guitar Greats

Appendix III: Audio Tracks

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