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TGMatt
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Fri Nov 26, 2010 2:19 pm

This new lessons package includes Country Blues Guitar Volume 1 valued at over $89. Right now we are offering lifetime access to these lessons for a limited time for $57.95. This video lesson series is expertly taught by Neil Hogan teaching you Country Blues Guitar.

Country Blues Guitar Volume 1 is a course designed to give you the tools and develop the techniques needed to play fingerstyle acoustic blues in the styles of the early masters; Blind Lemon Jefferson, Robert Johnson, Reverend Gary Davis, Blind Blake, Blind Boy Fuller, Big Bill Broonzy, and Mississippi John Hurt to name a few, as well as those by the next generation; Jorma Kaukonen (Hot Tuna), Stefan Grossman, Dave Van Ronk, David Bromberg, and many others. The course is presented in 6 multi-part sections; an Introduction and 5 Lessons, and includes over 3 hours of detailed instruction and information.

Even if you have just started playing the guitar, you will be able work methodically through the set of lessons, and with practice be well on the path to playing a variety of songs from the world of acoustic country blues. Many songs from the genre will be within your grasp as you progress, and by the end you will have the tools and techniques needed to play classics like Candyman, Cocaine Blues, That'll Never Happen No More, Hey Hey, Sally Where'd You Get Your Liquor, Keep On Truckin', I Am The Light Of This World, Spike Driver Blues, and even fairly difficult pieces like Policy Blues and Hesitation Blues. You will even start to understand how to take a chord progression and make it your own with a little knowledge of key signatures, blues scales, and improvising techniques.

The Introduction starts with an overview of the entire volume, continues with a bit of blues theory regarding key signatures and common chord progressions, and concludes with a brief discussion on some of the players who popularized the style.

Lesson 1 covers some basic concepts and techniques, starting with an explanation of the shuffle rhythm commonly used in blues, continuing with discussion and demonstrations of right hand positions and techniques, and then heading into some left hand techniques like string bending and vibrato. This lesson then introduces some exercises to get you started on keeping a steady bass pattern going while playing a few simple licks. Even an absolute beginner could master Exercise #1 with a little practice. The subsequent exercises expand on the first and are followed by Play Along segments for each one, all done with a metronome to help develop good rhythmic techniques and habits.

In Lesson 2 we learn a couple of songs in the key of E. These expand on the exercises in Lesson 1 by combining them with some chord changes and arranging them in a pattern of measures. Smokestack Blues is an 8-bar progression over 1 chord and is a variation of Howlin' Wolf's Smokestack Lightning. Blues Man takes the idea a step further and branches into a 16-bar progression using chords Iyep -IV-V in the key (E-A-B). Both songs are done using the Mono Bass technique in a style similar to pieces by Big Bill Broonzy, among others, and would be considered Level 1 and 2 respectively. The lesson concludes with a segment on experimenting with your own licks.

Lesson 3 introduces a song the key of A and adds the technique of Alternating Bass notes. Mississippi Blues #3 uses some hammer ons and passing bass notes between chords and is a bit more folk-blues, in the style of Mississippi John Hurt. This song is an example of a 24-bar progression, mainly because the first 8 measures are essentially repeated as the last 8 measures. It is a bit more advanced than the songs in Lesson 2 and would be considered a Level 4 song.

In Lesson 4 we look at Sand Dollar Blues, a 16-bar progression in the key of G. This uses the Alternating Bass technique as well, and introduces the idea of syncopated melody notes being played before the chord changes, an anticipation by musical definition. We also discuss chord inversions; chords with bass notes other than the root, sometimes known as 'slash' chords (D7/F#). Sand Dollar Blues is a Level 4 song and is similar to pieces by John Fahey and some simpler ones by Reverend Gary Davis.

Lesson 5, Summertime Strut is another 16-bar progression, but with a ragtime feel like more complex pieces by Reverend Gary Davis, Blind Blake, Blind Boy Fuller, and even a touch of Arlo Guthrie's Alice's Restaurant. This lesson is in the key of C and addresses the theory of using chords outside the key signature. It includes some quick changes and other left hand techniques that will require a little more time to master- stretching and moving separate fingers in different directions at the same time, and the option of using your left thumb to fret notes on the 6th string. It is a Level 5 song and completes Volume 1 of the Country Blues Guitar course.



Introduction - 3 Parts

Intro and Overview
Key Signatures and Chord Progressions
Pioneers and Messengers
Lesson 1 - 9 Parts

Intro and the Shuffle Rhythm
Right Hand Techniques
Left Hand Techniques
Exercise #1 - Mono bass in E
Exercises #2 and #3 - Mono Bass in A and E
Exercise 1 Play Along
Exercise 2 Play Along
Exercise 3 Play Along Conclusion
Lesson 2 - 8 Parts - Key of E

Smokestack Blues Play Through & Overview
Play Along
Let's Experiment
Blues Man Play Through and Structure
Break It Down
Play Along
Let's Experiment
Lesson 3 - 5 Parts - Key of A

Mississippi Blues #3 Play Through and Structure
A Look at the Left Hand
Break It Down
Play Along
Conclusion
Lesson 4 - 4 Parts - Key of G

Sand Dollar Blues Play Through and Structure
Break It Down
Play Along
Conclusion
Lesson 5 - 5 Parts - Key of C

Summertime Strut Play Through and Preview
Chords and Structure
Break It Down
Play Along
Wrap It Up


Country Blues Package


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crjordison
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Sat Nov 27, 2010 1:49 am

I am trying to figure out which blues lesson to start with blues volume 1 or country blues volume 1 or maybe even accoustic guitar genius any ideas?


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