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this is a good licks book, but you must understand that you need to get the author style of playing. This could be solved if in each lick he had changed the style of playing a little, to get this or that lick inspired by this or that guitarist. He repeats some fingerings a lot that you must master to make your playing sound exactly like the cd. And thats the problem for me, cause I didn't like many of the fingerings for the licks, my playing is simply different. Anyway, you'll get many licks from the book, just don't expect to be the bible people are claiming. My second complain is that there are very few explanations, you'll have to figure out the scales used.
I buy a lot of guitar instruction books, but I need to see at least a few samples before I will buy. Publishers take note.
Well written and organized book that breaks down the 12 bars into 2 bar chunks. Lots of great material.Only downside I've found is that the book is so dense with material I haven't hit the sections on tying them all together.
Good book. You must have prior playing experience or some of it won't make sense. Overall, a good learning tool for a player trying to understand the blues.
What this book has going for it is that it breaks down 12 bar blues into six 2 bar units, and it shows a lot of examples of riffs for each that you can mix and match in which ever sequence moves you. I wanted to be able to play them in sequence (even with the intro to each example) that I wanted to experiment with, but that hasn't worked very well.There are only three examples of whole 12 bar blues songs offered in the book, and while that was helpful, I would have liked more examples of the 2 bar riffs that all fit well together; even a few lines that sequenced me from one riff to an appropriate next riff (e.g., Examples 2, 14, 22, etc). Regarding the CD, I ran into problems trying to copy it into my lap top with Windows Media Player.
The book shows easy and hard riffs, low energy and high energy riffs (for staring a lead or launching into a second 12 bar lead, respectively), riffs what work better with the 'quick IV chord' progression, and some comments about many of the riffs and how to use them. Each of the 70+ example riffs begins with a voice announcing each example's number (e.g., Example 78), and a 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 beat count. The CD is great for getting the emphasis and cadence of each riff, but I've had (some) good results by playing the riffs my own way.
But I was able to copy them just as files. I photocopied the 2 bar riffs that I wanted to try in various sequences and then cut & pasted them into various experimental 12 bar progressions. Some yeilded better results than others, but what was useful there was I got a feeling for which six 2 bar pairs went well in sequence and which did not.On the not-so-good side, the tablature uses harder to follow symbols for bending or releasing strings than most books use these days; a legend of the tab symbols used in this book would have been helpful eventhough you can get them from listening to the CD, I would have preferred to practice the fingering as intended in each example by reading the tabs before getting to the CD.
I would have preferred no verbal label (they're on the file names already) and the beats seemed to all be the same so I didn't need that either. would have been really helpful.
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