Slow Blues Guru

One of the most challenging skills for blues players is soloing over a slow blues. Not only do you need the technical chops and a solid understanding of the underlying harmony, you also need to be able to tell a story with expressive phrasing, dynamics, and emotion.

Ready to get your own your slow blues chops up to speed? Play your way through the 10 performance studies in Corey Congilio’s Slow Blues Guru and you’ll be well on your way to guru status yourself.

”Legendary guitarists like Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Mike Bloomfield, Jimi Hendrix and Gary Moore are all gurus of slow blues. In this Slow Blues Guru course, I’ll guide you through 10 performance studies designed to help you develop the skills you’ll need to  become a guru of the slow blues as well.”

Corey organized the course into 10 Slow Blues performance studies. Each study focuses on a specific slow blues approach. Corey will first perform the solo and then break it down note-for-note explaining the underlying technical and harmonic approaches.

You’ll work on slow Texas Blues-style solos with tons bends and vibrato, slow blues solos that combine major and minor pentatonic sounds with double stops, slow down-home blues with lots of open string playing, and slow blues solos taking maximum advantage of the sixth interval.

You’ll learn how to artfully outline chord changes, play in 12/8, 6/8, as well as 4/4, tackle a signature jazz standard progression with a gritty soulful approach, and how to solo over a laid back R&B ballad. And finally you’ll pull out all the stops and play a hard rock inspired solo full of aggressive lines and phrases.

All of the performance studies are tabbed and notated for your practice, reference and study purposes. You’ll also get Guitar Pro files so that you can play, loop and/or slow down the tab and notation as you work through the lessons. Plus, Corey includes all of the backing tracks for you to work with on your own.

Grab your guitar and let’s play some slow blues with Corey Congilio!

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Corey Congilio's Preferred Gear

Below is a list of Corey Congilio's preferred gear including guitars, amps, pedals, accessories, and more. What you see in Corey's lessons may or may not be this actual gear, but if you are trying to capture Corey's sound and tone, the gear listed below is recommended by Corey and it's a great place to start!

Guitars

• PRS DGT Guitar
• Gibson Murphy Lab Les Paul Guitar
• Epiphone Casino Guitar
• Novo Mirs J Guitar

Amps

• Two Rock TS1 Amp
• Universal Audio OX

Pedals

• J. Rockett Tim Pierce Signature Overdrive Pedal
• DOD Carcosa Analog Fuzz Pedal
• Dunlop DVP4 Volume (X) Mini Pedal
• Universal Audio UAFX Golden Reverberator Pedal
• Universal Audio UAFX Starlight Echo Station Delay Pedal
• Universal Audio UAFX Astra Modulation Machine Pedal
• Korg Pitchblack Custom Pedal Tuner

Accessories & More

• Dunlop Nylon Max-Grip Standard Guitar Picks
• D'Addario 10s Guitar Strings
• D'Addario Cables
• Strymon Zuma 9-output Guitar Pedal Power Supply
• Universal Audio Apollo Twin X Audio Interface
• Sennheiser Wireless Lavalier