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Jon Chappell. Blues Guitar For Dummies
Blues Guitar For Dummies® To view this book's Cheat Sheet, simply go to www.dummies.com and search for “Blues Guitar For Dummies Cheat Sheet” in the Search box. Table of Contents
List of Tables
List of Illustrations
Guide
Pages
Introduction
About This Book
Conventions Used in This Book
What You’re Not to Read
Foolish Assumptions
How This Book Is Organized
Part 1: You Got a Right to Play the Blues
Part 2: Setting Up to Play the Blues
Part 3: Beyond the Basics: Playing Like a Pro
Part 4: Sounding Like the Masters: Blues Styles through the Ages
Part 5: Gearing Up: Outfitting Your Arsenal
Part 6: The Part of Tens
Part 7: Appendixes
Icons Used in This Book
Where to Go from Here
You Got a Right to Play the Blues
Every Day I Have the Blues … Hallelujah!
Capturing the Blues Train from Its Departure Then to Its Arrival Now
The pieces of blues that made the genre
The place of the blues’ conception
Rejoicing over 100 years of blues: The shifting shape of the genre
The qualities that made blues cats hit the big-time
It’s Not All Pain and Suffering — The Lighter Side of Blues
Surveying the Means to Make the Music: The Guitar in All Its Glory
The low-fi acoustic guitar
The semi-hollowbody electric guitar
Solidbody electric guitars
The Collision of Two Worlds: Acoustic versus Electric
Getting a Grip on How Guitars Work
You’ve gotta use your hands — both of them
Producing the tones: String vibration and pitch
Electric guitars only: Pickups and amplification
Performing and Looking Like a Blues Player
Expanding and filling your brain with know-how
Looking the part
Blues Trivia For Dummies
The questions
The answers
Blues Meets Guitar: A Match Made in Musical Heaven
Beyond the Delta: Defining the Blues Guitar Sound
The method to the music: Chord progressions
The guitarist’s language of melody
The expression that invokes your senses
The groove that sets the pace
Dissecting an Acoustic and an Electric
Getting Down with the Blues: A Quick How-To
The foundation for all guitar playing: Acoustic guitars
The right hand makes the sound, and the left hand guides it
Lines guide your left-hand fingers
Shifting acoustic to overdrive: Electric guitars
Going easy on your pluckers (or strummers)
Getting your sounds to be loud and lingering
What You Need to Get Your Groove On
Grab Hold, Tune Up, Play On!
Holding Your Axe (That Is, Your Guitar)
Grabbing your guitar’s neck
MUFFLES, BUZZES, AND DEAD SKIN
Pushing down on the strings
Getting sound to come out
ALL THUMBS
Holding the Pick, Attacking the Problem
Getting Situated
Sitting down …
… or standing up
Tuning Up
Helping your guitar get in tune with itself
WHO LET THE CATS OUT?
Holding your guitar to an electronic standard
Playing a Chord
Music Notation: Not Just for Geeks
Guidance for your aimless fingers: A chord diagram
Mapping out your short-term path: Rhythm notation
Guiding you all the way through a song: Tablature
Setting Up to Play the Blues
Getting a Grip on Left-Hand Chords
Starting Out Simple: Blues Chords Even Your Mom Could Play
Going to the Next Level: Barre Chords
YOU SAY BAR, I SAY BARRE; LET’S CALL THE WHOLE THING OFF
Forming a barre chord
Naming barre chords
Playing E-based barre chords
Playing A-form barre chords
Moving the A-form around the neck
Other A forms: Minor, dominant 7, minor 7, and 7 suspended
Combining forms
Taking Advantage of Versatile Power Chords
Positioning the Right Hand for Rhythm and Lead
Strumming Along
Stroking down …
… And stroking up
Combining down and up
Striking to a beat
Quarter-note striking, beat by beat
Eighth-note striking, twice per beat
Mixing Single Notes and Strumming
Separating bass and treble: The pick-strum
Playing common pick-strum patterns
Two-beat or cut shuffle
The 12/8 groove
Shuffling the Beats with Syncopated Strumming
A bit of notation: Dots that extend and ties that bind
Syncopation: Playing with dots and ties
Stopping the String Ringing (Just for a Sec)
Muting the sound between two chords (left hand)
Simulating syncopation with left-hand muting
Muting the sound of a note (right hand)
Copying the Classics: Plucking Fingerstyle Blues
The Right Hand’s Bliss: Different Rhythm Styles to Play
The shuffle groove
The driving straight-four
The slow 12/8, with groups of three
The two-beat feel
The slow and funky 16 feel
Blues Progressions, Song Forms, and Moves
Blues by the Numbers
Recognizing the Big Dogs: Primary Key Families and Their Chords
The Structure of a Blues Song, Baby
Playing the 12-bar blues
The quick four
The turnaround
THE 12-BAR BLUES IN SONG
Slow blues
The 8-bar blues
Straight-four (or rock blues)
Applying Structures to Keys
A move with many chords: The Jimmy Reed move
Jimmy’s move in G
Jimmy’s move in A
The sound of sadness: Minor blues
Accessorizing the 12-Bar Blues: Intros, Turnarounds, and Endings
Intros
Turnarounds
Endings
High Moves
Musical Riffs: Bedrock of the Blues
Basic Single-Note Riffs
For the low-down bass notes: Quarter-note riffs
The big daddy of riffs: Eighth-note riffs
Adding a little funk: 16th-note riffs
Throwing rhythm for a loop: Syncopated eighth-note riffs
Double the Strings, Double the Fun: Two-Note Riffs (or Double-Stops)
Straight feel
Shuffle, or swing, eighths
High-Note Riffs, the Bridge to Lead Guitar
Keith Richards’s borrowed trademark: Quick-four riffs
Intro, turnaround, and ending riffs
Intro riffs
Turnaround riffs
COMBINING SINGLE NOTES AND CHORDS
Ending riffs
Mastering the Rhythm Figure
Beyond the Basics: Playing Like a Pro
Playing Lead: Soaring Melodies and Searing Solos
Mastering Your Picking Technique
Becoming smooth with your simple downs and ups
Tackling tricky alternate-picking situations
The Universal Lead Language: The Pentatonic Scale
Why the pentatonic is the perfect scale
The two sides of the pentatonic scale
MINOR SCALES VERSUS MAJOR CHORDS
A common scale for practice: E minor pentatonic
The pattern
The notes
The way to make the scale shine
Pentatonic Plus One: The Six-Note Blues Scale
Adding Some Extra Flava to the Blues Scale
Clashing bitterly
A dash of sweetness
Playing Up the Neck
For Inquiring Minds: Why Up the Neck You Should Go
Positioning Your Digits for an Easy Key Change
EYEBALLING YOUR GUITAR’S NECK
The pros of closed positions
The details of closed, numbered positions
Easing Into Position: Moving the Pentatonic Up and Down
Changing Your Position
A natural first: Moving from fifth position to eighth
The eighth-position blues bonus
How low can you go? Moving from fifth position to third
The Technical Side of Moving
Like taking candy from a baby: The subtle shift
Seeking a bit of attention: The noticeable slide
When you don’t want to move, just reach or jump
Five Positions You Should Know: Meanderings of the Pentatonic Scale
Relating the positions to each other
Connecting the positions: Licks that take you up and down
Understanding the Logic behind the Corresponding Shift of Position and Key
Recognizing common keys and their comfortable positions
Mapping keys to positions
Express Yourself: Making the Guitar Sing, Cry, and Wail
Appreciating the Art of Articulation
Going In for the Attack
A little bit louder now … a little bit softer now: Dynamics
Getting accustomed to the road map
The techniques of playing loud and soft
Fine-tuning your awareness: Playing dynamically across a phrase
Hitting hard and backing off
Striking hard to be heard: Accents
A dull and shortened roar: Mutes
Breaking Down the Music: Phrasing
Connecting notes the slippery way: Slides
First things first: The difference between scoops and fall-offs
AN OLDIE BUT GOODIE: SLIDE GUITAR
A little flair for just one note: Quick slides
Slides connecting two melody notes, with some rhythm in between
Slides with two strikes (with your pick, that is)
It’s hammer time — get ready to strike a string!
The technique of playing hammer-ons
Playing hammer-ons like an old hand
Exposing a note by lifting a digit: Pull-offs
The technique of playing pull-offs
Pulling off like a pro
Giving Your Sound a Bit of Flair
Shake that string: Adding vibrato
The rubber-band blues: Bends that stretch a string
THE KINGS OF VIBRATO
The techniques of bending a note
Playing great bends like it’s nobody’s business
BENDING IN RHYTHM
RELEASING RIGHT ON TIME
BENDING A STRING BEFORE SOUNDING THE NOTE
Playing a Song with Various Articulations
Sounding Like the Masters: Blues Styles through the Ages
Acoustic Roots: Delta Blues and Its Country Cousins
Delta Blues: Where It All Began
Understanding the Delta technique
Ladies and gentlemen, king of the Delta blues: Robert Johnson
Practicing Johnson’s famous style
Grasping the elusive Johnson progression
WHEN JOHNSON SOLD HIS SOUL TO THE DEVIL (OR DID HE)?
Country Ragtime: The Piedmont Blues
DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN DELTA AND PIEDMONT
Everything In-Between: Country and Folk Blues
A quick profile of country and folk blues
Giving these “in-between blues” a listen
Closing with a lick and some style: Ragtime tags
Country and Folk Blues Had a Baby; Its Name was Rockabilly
Quintessential Blues: Slide Guitar
The tools that let you slide
Sliding technique
Tuning your guitar for slide, a technique all its own
Standard tuning licks
Open E and open D tuning
Open A and open G tuning
The Birth and Growth of Classic Electric Blues
The Rise of the Electric Guitar in Blues
THE EVER-EVOLVING ELECTRIC BODY
Giving Props to the Earliest Electric Pioneer
THEY CALLED IT SWEET HOME: THE BLUESMEN OF CHICAGO
Sweet Home Chicago, Seat of the Electric Blues
Muddy Waters, leader of the pack
Elmore James, slide guitarist extraordinaire
MAGIC SAM, A MAN WHO MARCHED TO THE PLUCK OF HIS OWN PICK
Otis Rush: Soulful player with a flair for vibrato
Buddy Guy, the father of blues rock
Modern-Day Blues Styles: The Sounds of Texas
Four Blues Giants: Three Kings and a Collins
Albert King, the upside-down string bender
B.B. King, the blues’ king of kings
BURNING FOR LUCILLE
Freddie King, a two-pick man
Albert Collins, master of the Telecaster
Children of the Post-War Blues Revival
Son Seals, Chicago’s favorite son
Robert Cray, smooth persuader
Bonnie Raitt, stellar lyrical slides artiste
Blues Rock: The Infusion of Ol’ Rock ’n’ Roll
The Blues Had a Baby, and They Called It Rock ’n’ Roll
Chuck Berry, blues rock’s first superstar
Bo Diddley, king of the jungle beat
The Brits Invade the Blues
Clapton and Green, early blues icons
Jeff Beck, blues-rock’s mad scientist
Trippin’ the Blues
Eric Clapton, the original guitar god
Jimi Hendrix takes the blues psychedelic
Heavy “Blooze”: The Infusion of Hard Rock
Jimmy Page, frontrunner of the metal blues
Leslie West, big man with a big sound
Blackmore and beyond, where blues gets scary
Southern Comfort
The Allmans, especially brother Duane
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Hot Barbecue Blues, Texas Style
Johnny Winter, Texas blues-rock titan
Billy Gibbons and ZZ Top, giving rock some soul
Stevie Ray Vaughan, the greatest modern bluesman of them all
Blues on Steroids
Eddie Van Halen takes the blues to ’80s metal
Euro-Metal brings virtuosity and precision to the blues
21st-Century Soul
John Mayer, new kid on the blues block
Allmans Redux: Warren Haynes and Derek Trucks, keepers of the flame
Gearing Up: Outfitting Your Arsenal
Shop Till You Drop: Buying the Right Guitar for You
Before You Begin Shopping
Deciding On a Make and Model
Evaluating a Guitar
Construction
Solid and laminated wood (acoustic guitars only)
Tops and body caps (electric guitars only)
Neck construction
Materials
Woods
Hardware
Pickups and electronics (electrics only)
Workmanship
Appointments (aesthetic options)
Welcome to the Jungle: Shopping
Bringing a friend
Money matters: Deal … or no deal
FACE TIME MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE
Protecting Your Guitar
Hard cases
COMPROMISING AND ACCEPTING CHANGE
Soft cases
Gig bags
Choosing Your Amp and Effects
Getting Started with a Practice Amp
Shopping for a practice amp
Playing with a practice amp
Powering Up to a Larger Amp
Choosing among different amp formats
Combo amp
Head and cabinet amp
Rack mount amp
Feeling the power
Dissecting the Amplifier
Input jack
Preamp
Tone
Effects
Power amp
Speakers
The flexibility of having separate channels
What’s That Sound? Checking Out Your Amp Choices
Tube amps
Solid-state amps
Hybrid amps
Digital-modeling amps
Remembering the Good Old Days
Vintage amps
Reissue amps
Dialing in an Amp Sound
Chronicling Classic Amps for Blues
Fender Bassman
Fender Deluxe Reverb
Fender Twin Reverb
Marshall JTM 45
Marshall Plexi Super Lead 100
Vox AC30
Mesa/Boogie Mark IIc+
Messing Around with Your Sound: Effects
Juicing Up Your Sound
When your sound is too hot to handle: Distortion
Toying with Tone Quality
EQ: The great tonal equalizer
Wah-wah, the effect that is as it sounds
Modulation Effects, from Swooshy to Swirly
Stacking sounds for a fuller effect: Chorus
Swooshing, like a jet plane: Flangers and phase shifters
Like a visit to the opera house: Vibrato and tremolo
Pretending (and Sounding Like) You’re Somewhere You’re Not
Delaying sound in a cave-like way
Adding reverb to make your sound slicker
Choosing an Effects Format
A string of effects: Pedals on parade
A box to house them all at your feet
A box to house them all at hand level
Table-top format
Rack-mount multi-effects unit
Changing Strings
Change Is Good, But When?
Choosing the Right Strings
Acoustic strings
Electric strings
CONSIDERING THE ACOUSTIC PLAIN-THIRD OPTION
Outfitting Your String-Changing Toolkit
Removing Old Strings
Stringing a Steel-String Acoustic
Stringing an Electric Guitar
The Part of Tens
Ten Blues Guitar Giants
Robert Johnson (1911–38)
Elmore James (1918–63)
T-Bone Walker (1910–75)
Muddy Waters (1915–83)
Albert King (1923–92)
B.B. King (b. 1925)
Albert Collins (1932–93)
Otis Rush (b. 1934)
Eric Clapton (b. 1945)
Stevie Ray Vaughan (1954–90)
Ten Great Blues Guitars
Gibson L-1 Flattop
Gibson ES-175 Archtop
National Steel
Gibson J-200
Fender Telecaster
Gibson Les Paul
Fender Stratocaster
Gibson ES-335
Gibson ES-355
Gibson SG
Ten (Plus One) Must-Have Blues Guitar Albums
Robert Johnson: The Complete Recordings
Blues Masters: The Very Best of Lightnin’ Hopkins
T-Bone Walker: Complete Capitol Black & White Recordings
T-Bone Walker: Complete Imperial Recordings
The Best of Muddy Waters
B.B. King: Live at the Regal
The Very Best of Buddy Guy
Robert Cray: Bad Influence
Masters of the Delta Blues: Friends of Charlie Patton
Mean Old World: The Blues from 1940 to 1994
Chicago: The Blues Today
Appendixes
How to Read Music
The Elements of Music Notation
Reading pitch
Reading duration
Expression, articulation, and miscellaneous terms and symbols
How to Use the Website
Relating the Text to the Website
Count-offs
Stereo separation
System Requirements
What You’ll Find on the Website. Audio tracks
Troubleshooting
Index. Symbols and Numerics
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
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T
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About the Author
Dedication
Author’s Acknowledgments
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