If you've always wanted to learn how to play electric blues guitar - or even
started once or twice in the past only to put it down in frustration - this
Freshman Series course is likely the perfect approach for you. Blues Guitar for
Beginners is a jump-start method designed to get you up and strumming quickly
without having to work through tedious theory, scales and exercises. In fact,
you'll be playing your first batch of cool blues moves in your very first week
of working with the course.
Blues Guitar for Beginners is tailored specifically for adults who don't have the time or desire for formal training. To get you on the fast track, we've deliberately steered clear of music theory, reading notation, exercises and scales (there’s plenty of time for all that good stuff later). Instead, you'll dig in immediately learning blues chords, strumming, keeping time and building a solid vocabulary of bluesy licks.
Longtime TrueFire instructor and blues maven David Hamburger is your extremely capable guide to blues guitar. Hamburger has appeared at Merle Fest and countless other festivals and has performed with Joan Baez, Duke Robillard, and many others. David is a contributing editor to Acoustic Guitar, author of a dozen books, including the award-winning “Beginning Blues Guitar” and has authored many TrueFire courses.
Hamburger starts from scratch, teaching you how to tune, how to hold the pick
and how to play your first bluesy notes. David explains every step and breaks
each example down so you know exactly what to play and how to play it. He shows
you how to strum with downstrokes and upstrokes, how to pick in time and how to
get your chords to sound clean, while teaching you a variety of chord
progressions and blues-based single-note riffs. On-screen chord diagrams and
beat counters help you to stay on track, and jam tracks for each lesson make
practicing fun – just play along with David and the practice rhythm tracks. By
the end of the course you’ll be able to play rhythm and lead guitar parts for
the Chicago shuffle, Texas shuffle, eight-bar blues, shuffle boogie and even a
little 50s R&B.
Blues Guitar for Beginners is optimized for beginners - no previous guitar playing experience necessary. The course is presented across 4 interactive video software CD-ROMs (Windows and Mac compatible), features 80 full-length video lessons, text overviews, chord charts,
practice rhythm tracks and interactive Power Tab so you can "see" and "hear" the tab and notation
played out at any tempo. TrueFire's video lesson player features zoom, frame advance, looping and other instructional features designed to accelerate the learning process.
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This course is presented in
cross-platform Flash with PDF (tab notation) and Power Tab elements.
Power Tab (included) is only available for Windows but we also
include midi tab files for Mac users. All other components work
great on Mac.
Interactive Video
Blues Guitar for Beginners is tailored specifically for adults who don't have the time or desire for formal training. To get you on the fast track, we've deliberately steered clear of music theory, reading notation, exercises and scales (there’s plenty of time for all that good stuff later). Instead, you'll dig in immediately learning blues chords, strumming, keeping time and building a solid vocabulary of bluesy licks.
Hamburger starts from scratch, teaching you how to tune, how to hold the pick
and how to play your first bluesy notes. David explains every step and breaks
each example down so you know exactly what to play and how to play it. He shows
you how to strum with downstrokes and upstrokes, how to pick in time and how to
get your chords to sound clean, while teaching you a variety of chord
progressions and blues-based single-note riffs. On-screen chord diagrams and
beat counters help you to stay on track, and jam tracks for each lesson make
practicing fun – just play along with David and the practice rhythm tracks. By
the end of the course you’ll be able to play rhythm and lead guitar parts for
the Chicago shuffle, Texas shuffle, eight-bar blues, shuffle boogie and even a
little 50s R&B.
