MECC First Lessons Blues Guitar Book/CD/DVD Set

Have you ever wanted to learn to play the blues? Written for the beginning guitarist who loves the blues, this text will guide you through the basis of playing guitar by using blues melodies and blues chord progressions. You will learn open chords, common strumming patterns, power chords, blues scales, and how to read standard notation, and tabs. An effective method for writing original blues lyrics is also provided. This text has lessons on correct posture, caring for the guitar, proper right and left-hand technique, and Tuning the guitar to its self, a Pitch pipe or a piano. Accompanying CD provides students a Professional Recording of tunes and exercises that should be used as a practice tool Companion DVD included: 98:29 minutes Contents include: Parts of the Guitar Holding Position Tuning Reading the Music Diagrams Music Fundamentals Strum Bars First Chords Blues in the Key of D, E; Ain't No Cure Strum Patterns; Baby Don't Love Me; Ain't Got a Nickel; Building the Blues; Set Me Free; Minor Blues; Sun Won't Shine How to Read Standard Notation Standard Notation in First Position Notes on the First String Notes on the Second String; Mama's Cookin'; No Time to Practice Blues; I Got No Money Notes on the Third String Notes on the Fourth String; Seven Minus Three; Dark Side of a Dream; Freezing Point Notes on the Fifth String; Double Trouble Notes on the Sixth String; Long Road Home; Cry, Baby; Things Ain't the Same Power Chords Add the Sixth Tablature Minor Pentatonic and Blues Scales Blues E, A Moveable Minor Pentatonic Scale; Summer Blues, Summer Not; I Know What You Mean