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Acoustic Blues Guitar Styles

By Larry Sandberg

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About the Book

Acoustic Blues Guitar Styles is an introduction to fingerstyle acoustic blues guitar, the style made popular by Robert Johnson, Bill Broonzy, and Mance Lipscomb. Following the success of the popular Acoustic Guitar Styles, Larry Sandberg’s Acoustic Blues Guitar Styles is an instructional book geared towards the intermediate guitar player, not only to teach fingerstyle blues technique, but also to approach the music creatively and with feeling and rhythm.

Part One teaches you the preliminaries, such as reading a chord chart and working out a 12-bar blues in different keys. Part Two teaches you touch, timing, and basic fingerpicking technique. Part Three teaches you how to play stylistically, with lessons on how to incorporate bends, vibrato, alternating bassnotes, and rhythmic variations into your playing. All musical exercises are presented in both standard notation and tablature, and are supported by audio tracks in the accompanying compact disc.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Preliminaries how to use this book, the twelve-bar rules form, reading chord charts and playing in different keys Part 2 Touching and Timing, Tracks 1-28 Part 3 Playing the blues Tracks 29-40 Recommended listening

About the Author(s)

Larry Sandberg has taught guitar for over 40 years; he currently teaches at the Denver Folklore Center, University of Colorado extension school, and privately. He is the author of several best-selling guitar books, including The Acoustic Guitar Guide and Acoustic Guitar Styles.