Blues Bootcamp: Fretboard Connections

Did you miss Josh Smith’s highly acclaimed Blues Bootcamp on Fretboard Connections? No worries. This Bootcamp course is the next best thing to being there!

Drawing on the principles Josh covers in the provided prep materials section, he presents variations and more advanced applications across a series of illuminating performance studies: B King Shuffle in Ab #1, B King Shuffle in Ab #2, and B King Shuffle in Ab #3.

This Bootcamp course includes ALL of the video teaching sessions, prep materials, discussions, Q&A, playalong practice sessions, backing tracks, tablature, and all of the other materials presented during the Bootcamp — over 5 hours of lessons, insight and inspiration!

Throughout the series of sessions and discussions Josh also addresses a wide variety of key topics: Creative Perspectives, Applying Diminished Chords, Using Diminished as Bridges, Using Two or Three Note Riffs, Hybrid Picking, Diminished Shapes and Arpeggios, A flat 7 to D flat 7 playing a F# Bridge, Diminished vs Half Diminished, 2-5-1 Turnarounds, Arpeggios from Chords, Playing the 5-1 , Incorporating the 4 Minor in Soloing, Roadmaps to Make Connection On the Fly, Essential Influences, B.B. King, B.B. Short Stack with 6th, B.B. Vibrato and Bends, Albert King, Albert King and The Flying V, and Albert King Playing Open Tuning.

Josh also covers: Not Getting Stuck in a Box, Playing Style with Horns, How Often to Change Strings & Picks, What Kind of Strings to Use, Albert and B.B. Boxes,, Surprising Influences, Favorite Rhythm Guitarists, Magic Sam, Learning By Ear, Robben Ford Influential Songs, Essential Jazz for 2-5-1, Working with a Groove, Playing Through 12 Bar Blues with Bridges, Having the Tools, Practicing Using 2-5-1 Ideas, Practicing On Rhythm, Diminished Concept, 12 Bar Blues - Using the 6th, Answering Singers with Solos, Soloing Over Gospel Progressions, Creating Arpeggios from Chords, Josh’s Youtube Channel, Practicing Scales and Chords Musically, Practicing Efficiently, Right Hand, Performance Insights, Pre-gig Rituals, Sound-check Tips, If You Could Only Play One Guitar, Transition from Roles in the Band, Lessons Learned by Being Sideman, In-ear Monitors, What Makes That Guitar Your Favorite, Playing with Another Guitarist, Hearing Protection, Splitting Outputs, Replacing Frets, Improvisation, and Tech Talk.

You’ll get standard notation and tabs for all of the performance studies and key examples. Plus, you’ll be able to use TrueFire’s learning tools to sync the tab and notation to the video lesson. You can also loop or slow down the videos so that you can work with the lessons at your own pace. All of the backing tracks are included as well.

It’s all here -- grab your guitar and dig in to the Bootcamp with Josh Smith!