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Blues Guitar Greatest Hits Vol. 3
TrueFire

TrueFire

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blues

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About this course

This Greatest Hits Vol. 3 compilation presents top-ranked blues video guitar lessons from 15 of TrueFire’s top blues guitar educators.

All of the lessons are tabbed and notated, include Guitar Pro files, and come with the backing tracks used in the lesson.

All in all, this Greatest Hits collection delivers essential and very versatile vocabulary, techniques and insight for any blues guitar player.

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What you'll learn

  • Create complex blues chord voicings
  • Use hammer-ons and slides for expression
  • Create melodic solos using double stops
  • Learn blues scale fingering techniques
  • Develop scale navigation skills
Release date: 10/02/2017 • 6h 55m runtime
intermediatelate intermediateadvancedacoustic guitarguitarelectric guitarrhythmsoloing
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Sample lessons
The Turnaround
The Turnaround
Soloing Concept 3
Implying The Chords
Implying The Chords
Concepts & Approaches
Implying The Chords
Implying The Chords
Performance
Sharp Stop
Sharp Stop
Lick 15

What's included

104 lessons • 67 charts • 51 Jam Tracks

Tones & Gear
Tones & Gear is a video guitar lesson presented by Focus On: British Blues

The blueprint of the British blues guitar sound (and the rock n' roll guitar sound) was created single-handedly by Eric Clapton, documented on the first John Mayall's Bluesbreakers record featuring him. This record is also known as the "Beano" record in reference to the comic book Eric Clapton is reading on the cover, which gave its name to this famous and huge guitar sound (called the Beano tone). Basically what it was is a Marshall JTM 45 2x12 combo cranked and a Gibson Les Paul. That's it! (well a 1965 Marshall and a 1959 Les Paul...) A key thing to keep in mind is that there were no channel switching amps at the time, all the tones you hear on these great recordings are from the guitar and amp. The main element is the player's hands. Work on sounding good by emulating your heroes!
The Turnaround
The Turnaround is a video guitar lesson presented by Focus On: British Blues

I think the first time I was aware of a lick nailing the sound of the V7 in a blues was the great solo from Cream's version of Crossroads. In fact it was a real eye-opener for me and once I was aware of it, I began to hear it everywhere. In this case I am playing an A blues, simply hitting the root of the V chord—E in this case—on the second half of the last bar of the blues. It's that simple and that difficult! What makes it difficult is that we're required to know where we are in the blues form to hit that note at the right time. It's not too difficult but does require some practice. The best way to do this it to make sure you hit that note every time you play through the blues. By doing this you can really nail where that note is and where the change is.
Riff Based Straight Blues
Riff Based Straight Blues is a video guitar lesson presented by Focus On: British Blues

I absolutely love a straight groove on a blues. To me Led Zeppelin was the king of this with tunes like "The Girl I Love Has Long Brown Wavy Hair" from the BBC sessions, "The Lemon Song," "Misty Mountain Hop," "Black Dog," "When The Levee Breaks," and more.This feel is where bands like Black Sabbath took their cue and found an essential feel for rock and roll. An interesting thing to note is that Page wasn't afraid to not only use power chords (chords with no 3rd) but full major triads as well. We can hear that right at the top of a tune like "Whole Lotta Love." Adding in the 3rd of the chord really brightens things up a bit and to me makes things a little more interesting. As you watch the video lesson, do me a favor and really nail the A chord embellishments I show you, I use them ALL the time and I think you will too.
Double-Stop Jam
Double-Stop Jam is a video guitar lesson presented by Essentials: Solo Electric Blues

Double Stop Jam clearly pays tribute to Jimi and Stevie. But this style of guitar playing has its roots in Motown R&B. Jimi just borrowed it and expanded upon it. I borrowed the feel of Stevie Ray Vaughan's "Lenny" and plugged it into a 12 bar blues. I like this sound a lot as we don't hear it that often on a blues. While working through this one pay attention to the chord shapes. Where the E7, A7, and B7 chords are and where and how I am outlining them. This way you can start to plug them into your own playing.
Double-Stop Jam
Double-Stop Jam is a video guitar lesson presented by Essentials: Solo Electric Blues

As you may notice I am using my thumb over the top of the neck quite a bit in the tune. In fact, I use my thumb all the time on the low string. It really opens up left hand options such as adding in the sus4, 9, 11, and 13. I stole this from watching Jimi Hendrix, as I think many of us did! To really dig into this I recommend learning "Little Wing", "Wind Cries Mary" "Bold as Love" and "Castles Made of Sand" to really open up and see all that can be done using this technique. And what Jimi would do with it, it'll make its way into your playing just about as fast as you can learn those tunes!
Double-Stop Jam
Double-Stop Jam is a video guitar lesson presented by Essentials: Solo Electric Blues

Hey, I explain how to play the tune in the video breakdown, so I'm going to take this space to give you some of my thoughts on music and playing the guitar. Tone and time are everything. It's a given that we need to play the right notes. When practicing think a lot about your tone. Make every note be music. Experiment. Have fun. Work Hard. Record yourself and listen back. Record every gig and listen back, you may be pleasantly surprised. Tomorrow is another day. Tone is in your hands. Treat the instrument with the respect it deserves. Never play at playing something, PLAY IT. All the best players practiced their butts off. We all have bad days. We all have good days. Play with people who are better than you. Go see live music. If you liked someones playing, tell them, they will appreciate it. Find that little weird quirky thing that comes naturally to you, and run with it.
Implying The Chords
Implying The Chords is a video guitar lesson presented by 335 Blues Motifs

This set of video lessons uses a blues track in A, but this time no rhythm parts — just bass and drums. So its the typical guitar trio setting and this gives you ample opportunity to use a very effect approach with you motifs — implying chords!

Larry shows you three two-note voicings to work with for the I, IV and V chords. Play a line, punctuate with a chord punch, repeat. Everything starts coming together and the listener is enjoying the ride.

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pa

10/30/18

These lessons are really interesting

I'm really happy, after watching these lessons I decided to buy coz I want to have always with me this course during Christmas , a lot of things to study and understanding that are for me just a bit bit advanced so I can t wait start byte it!

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