Best products from r/bluesguitarist
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1. Blues Licks You Can Use (Guitar Educational)
- Blues Licks You Can Use - Guitar (Book/Online Audio)
- The purpose of this book is to give aspiring blues guitarists and experienced players alike a large chunk of the vocabulary of the blues - in other words, lots of licks
- It contains music and performance notes for 75 hot lead phrases, with accessible online audio featuring full-band examples of each
- Styles covered include up-tempo and slow blues, jazz-blues, shuffle blues, swing blues and more! The purpose of this book is to give aspiring blues guitarists and experienced players alike a large chunk of the vocabulary of the blues - in other words, lots of licks
- It contains music and performance notes for 75 hot lead phrases, with accessible online audio featuring full-band examples of each
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2. Gretsch G9230 Bobtail Square-Neck Acoustic-Electric Resonator Guitar - 2 Color Sunburst
Body Back: Laminated MahoganyBody Shape: ResonatorBody Back & Sides: Laminated MahoganyF Holes Sound Holes: 'F' HoleFishman Nashville pickup
5. Born Under A Bad Sign [Stax Remasters]
- Albert King- Born Under A Bad Sign
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10. Plays the Blues
- 3.5 inch 2X Illuminated Helping Hand Magnifying Glass Station with 4X Auxiliary Lens
- 360° rotating neck and bendable arms allows you to adjust the lens to the position where you need it the most
- LED Lighted with 2 super bright LED lights | Powered by USB cable (included) or 3 AAA batteries
- 2 fully adjustable helping hands with clamp and alligator clips, iron holder, and tray (Patent Pending)
- Perfect workstation for soldering, building models, electronics repair, DIY projects, hobby and crafts
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12. 8-Bar Blues: Inside the Blues Series
- Inside the Blues series
- Includes:
- 44 full-band tracks
- History of the 8-bar blues form
- Instruction on boogie, shuffle, and jazz-blues progressions, including minor keys
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13. Power Trio Blues Guitar - Updated & Expanded Edition: Blues Guitar Styles from the West Side of Chicago to Texas and Beyond (Inside the Blues Series)
- 64 pages
- Size: 12" x 9"
- ISBN: 793545897
- A CD with the music examples performed by a smokin' power trio is included for play-along instruction and jamming
- The music styles of Chicago and Texas bluesmen are presented along with rare photos of them with their favorite axes
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15. Heroes of the Blues Boxed Trading Card Set by R. Crumb
- Pedal friendly lightweight, slip-n soft knee pad
- Articulated, perforated neoprene chassis
- Abrasion resistant knee-cup area padding
- Silicone gripper inside top hems prevent slippage
- Runs small, sizing up is recommended
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16. Behringer TM300 Ultimate Tube Amp Modeling Instrument Effects Pedal,Teal
Authentic modeling technology for 3 classic guitar amps, 3 gain modes and 3 mic placements for a total of 27 configurations that let you easily achieve the most sought-after tube amp sounds from clean, crunch to super-fat distortionThis BEHRINGER product has been designed to compete head to head wit...
18. AKG Perception 170 Professional Instrumental Microphone
- Rugged all-metal body and robust design - Withstands tough day-to-day use
- Switchable attenuation pad - For high SPL applications up to 155 db SPL
- Small-diaphragm condenser microphone for recording of overheads, percussion, acoustic guitars and other strings
- Delivers outstanding clarity and transient response
- Lightweight 1/2 inch true condenser transducer diaphragm
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19. TC Helicon VoiceLive Play Vocal Effects Pedal Bundle with 12V 400mA DC Power Supply, Blucoil 2-Pack of 20-FT Balanced XLR Cables, 5-FT Audio Aux Cable, and 5-Pack of Reusable Cable Ties
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Bends | Slides | Hammer-On | Pull-Off | Vibrato | Rake | Trill | Arpeggios | Volume/tone Knobs | Sweep Picking | Harmonics | Pinch Harmonics | Legato | Double Stops | Alternate Picking | Palm Mute | Chicken Picking | Tapping | Scratching - > Choose one technique a week. Spend 5 minutes a day playing a backtrack and using this technique 70% of the time. I did this for two weeks with Verbrato and it made a major improvement.
The whole series is awesome.
FUNDAMENTAL LICKS:
edit: Spelling and Added Lick Learning TIP
I'm relatively new to guitar and I took a little different route than most people and decided I wanted to learn lap steel/dobro. I love it and it's really fun but I can't help with getting a little frustrated that it seems to be very hard to find good tutorials and tabs for it and everything I find is for a standard round neck.
Does anyone have any good resources for helping me learn? I'd be very happy if anyone could help me along in my learning process with providing me some resources.
Also, here's my guitar and I love it! Would recommend to anyone! Gretsch G9230 Bobtail Square-Neck Acoustic-Electric Resonator Guitar - 2 Color Sunburst https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0087RT3X8/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_I07wzbD7R1MX4
For a beginner, the best choices are
http://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Collection-B-B-King/dp/B0007QJ1PM/
It's a recent release, notes are VERY easy to pick out, aren't frustratingly hard, but just challenging enough (especially his vibrato) to keep you coming back
http://www.amazon.com/Born-Under-Sign-Albert-King/dp/B00BCMT4RA/
Everything I said about BB, I can say about Albert. The difference is that he "worries" every note in a way that will teach you how to "feel" a solo.
http://www.amazon.com/Definitive-Collection-Howlin-Wolf/dp/B000O5905M
Jimi Hendrix said that Hubert Sumlin was his favourite guitar player. Indeed, I'd say his rhythm guitar playing is unmatched especially in how he works in fills.
These should give you an excellent foundation in blues licks. After that, move on to
http://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Collection-Freddie-King/dp/B00005B2XZ
http://www.amazon.com/West-Side-Soul-Special-Magic/dp/B004B3PBEC
http://www.amazon.com/Black-Magic-Sam/dp/B000004BIP
When you can play all of that, note for note, you will likely be my favorite guitarist :)
I guess it depends on how narrow or expansive your blues is, but there is St Louis Blues and Minor Swing, which is a 12-bar minor blues.
And there's Django Plays the Blues.
So he played blues. Maybe you're thinking, but that's jazz -- that's gypsy jazz! Every jazzman has to know how to play the blues. It's at the root of jazz. So maybe, just maybe, in the heart of every jazzman, there's a bluesman too. Maybe he's not from the Delta or Piedmont or blues rock traditions, but he's from the blues.
To be honest, I like Mark Levine's Jazz Theory better https://www.amazon.com/Jazz-Theory-Book-Mark-Levine/dp/1883217040
But I only ever saw the first edition of the Beato book
This set of cards - Heroes of the Blues by Robert Crumb (Fritz the Cat, Mr. Natural etc) is something quirky and cool:
https://www.amazon.com/Heroes-Blues-Boxed-Trading-Crumb/dp/0971008027
The pic of Robert Johnson you see on self posts in this sub is from that set.
Couldn't afford a POD, but I ordered one of these; I hope it works out okay.
all 7 of the modes are based out of the major scale, and the major scale itself is the Ionian mode. The major scale & each mode consist of 7 notes, while the pentatonic (which consists of 5 notes) is the same scale, minus two notes (and these are the 2 notes that give the modes their characteristic flavor).
I think what he is saying is it's good to be able to play the pentatonic shapes fluently, while being able to add in the modal notes when it's appropriate. I was recommended this book by someone on here and it completely changed my understanding of the modes and how to incorporate them into my pentatonic scales. I can't recommend it enough. It's written in a very readable way - not using extremely technical/theoretical stuff while still accomplishing the same thing
Most people doing this are using looper pedals and vocal harmonizers like https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B076JSGJ4Z/ref=sspa_mw_detail_0?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Looper and generates harmonies based on the chords you play.
Sucks that it has come to this but there you are.
It would definitely be an advantage for sure. For a brand new baby channel you probably don't need that fancy a mic, I just use a £5 mic ( This one to be precise ) . It's got a crazy long wire so I just dangle it in front of my speaker. The real key to it not sounding like arse is going into Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > Sound > Recording > Then the mics properties and turning down "microphone boost" to 0db (or +10 if I'm playing quieter). It totally removes peaking and I think gives a respectable recording, at least for us bedroom jammers.
I have been looking into getting a better mic recently but I don't think I'm gonna go through with it. As far as I can tell its gonna be at least £180ish. Wanted a Shure sm57 (or 58 I cant remember) but then the audio interface so I can use the damn thing really bumps the price up. Also not sure my Vox VT is worth a professional mic rig.
This book starts at zero and takes you through learning finger style blues:
http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Fingerstyle-Blues-Guitar-Books/dp/0825625564
Here is a PDF of that book, but of course without the CD:
http://tommyemmanuel.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/beginning-fingerstyle-blues-guitar.pdf
Edit: In fact, that same site has a whack of PDF books on the topic here:
http://tommyemmanuel.wordpress.com/fingerstyle/