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Blues Fingerpicking.
Basics
Basic blues fingerpicking styles.
By Pete Madsen.
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Chapter 2 - Monotonic Bass Fingerpicking.
Accompany your blues licks with a thumping one-note bass in the style of Mance Lipscomb and Lightnin' Hopkins.
By David Hamburger.
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Chapter 3 - Introduction to Ragtime Guitar.
Trace the blues back to its roots with this classic, piano-like style. With audio examples.
By Jerry Snyder.
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Chapter 4 - The Art of the Blues Turnaround.
These simple twists on the classic turnaround will give your playing the irresistible swagger of the great blues masters. With audio examples.
By Ron Forbes-Roberts.
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Chapter 5 - Let Your Fingers Do the Walking.
Add some swing and sass to your fingerstyle blues by learning to play “walking bass” lines.
By David Hamburger.
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Chapter 6 - Fingerstyle Blues-Rag Licks.
Contrast the bass patterns in your fingerstyle rags by adding single-note runs organized around open-string drones, partial chords, and barre-chord shapes.
By Pete Madsen.
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Chapter 7 - Intro to Slide Guitar.
Explore the funky, "vocal" sound of barrelhouse-blues guitar by wrapping a bottleneck around your finger and sliding into your notes.
By Steve James.
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Chapter 8 - Blues in Open G "Spanish" Tuning.
Sound like the Delta Blues masters by learning the techniques they used: judicious muting, vibrato, and a conservative balance of slide to fretted notes.
With music to "Delta Horizon."
By Steve James.
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Chapter 9 - Slide Techniques.
Fingerpicking and Slide.
Covers basics of using various slides and slide tunings with a fingerpicking approach.
By Pete Madsen.
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Chapter 10 - Blues Techniques.
Embellishing a Fingerstyle Blues.
Sliding from the minor third to the major third of a chord to embellish a fingerpicked blues style.
By Ernie Hawkins.
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