Beginning Blues Guitar: a Guide to the Essential Chords, Licks, Techniques & Concepts

(Guitar Educational). From B. B. King and Buddy Guy to Clapton and Stevie Ray Vaughan, blues guitar has become a constant in the realm of American popular music. This book/CD teaches the concepts and techniques as fostered by these legendary bluesmen: 12-bar blues; major & minor pentatonic scales; the blues scale; string bending; licks; double-stops; intros and turnarounds; and more. The book includes standard notation and tab, and the CD features demos of every example.