Description

LESSON ONE: KING OF MODERN BLUES: B.B.KING, ALBERT KING, FREDDIE KING and T.BONE WALKER – By analyzing sample tunes, Fred teaches how to play electric single-string blues licks. You will learn several scale positions and how to improvise with them, how to do the “blues vibrato”, and how to use fill-in licks, chords and turnarounds. LESSON TWO: MODERN ROCK: ENGLISH BLUES and HEAVY METAL – This lesson concentrates on the licks, scales and playing styles of Eric Clapton, Van Halen, Ted Nugent and Jimmy Page – guitarists whose playing directly derives from the blues masters. This lesson includes instruction in effects (distortion, vibrato bar, etc.), blues and sliding scales. LESSONTHREE: JAZZY ELECTRIC BLUES – Our last lesson in the series illustrates how to jazz up the 12-bar blues progression, how to vary the blues scales with diminished scales a la Charlie Christian, how to apply blues scales to jazz tunes, how to “substitute scales”, and the special techniques used by Wes Montgomery and George Benson.

Contents

1. Albert’s Blues
2. All Fours
3. Augmented Blues
4. B.B.’s Shuffle
5. B.B.’s Shuffle Ii
6. Bensonville
7. Claptonium
8. Claptonium (Backup Riff)
9. Diminished Blues
10. Fred And Al’s Place
11. Freddie’s Blues
12. Halen Farewell
13. Minor Leagues
14. Misty-Fied
15. Mr. Bigsby
16. Octave Vamp
17. Over And Undertones
18. Push-Ups And Pull-Offs
19. Rock Riff #1
20. Sometimes I Wonder
21. Speed Licks – Key Of Dm
22. Super Slide – Key Of C
23. Ten Dollar Blues
24. Third Time Around
25. Turn Around, Albert
26. Turning Pages
27. Wes’ Blues