Alfred Publishing Bottleneck Blues Guitar + CD - Guitar
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Essential Information About This Method
Essential Information About This Method
- Comprehensive Approach to Blues: turnarounds, blue notes, authentic rhythms, licks and phrases to immediately enrich your vocabulary.
- Must-Know Techniques: bottleneck (slide), harmonics, work in open G tuning, and focus on right-hand techniques for a more expressive playing style.
- Concrete Material to Play: full transcriptions of "Terraplane Blues", "Moon Goin' Down", and "Rhythm in the Blues" to learn closely from the style.
- Coherent Musical Progression: ideas applicable both in accompaniment and solo playing, to sound bluesy with naturalness and precision.
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Summary of This Method
This blues guitar method focuses on the elements that create the color and authenticity of the style: rhythmic placement, typical melodic inflections, and essential sequences that "tell" the blues. You will find structured work on turnarounds to confidently close your chord progressions, as well as bottleneck techniques to achieve a singing, expressive, and percussive phrasing simultaneously.
The content also highlights blue notes and their musical use (tension, resolution, intention), going beyond the simple scale to build credible phrases. The proposed blues licks and phrases are designed as a true language: to memorize, vary, and then integrate into your improvisations and musical responses in a group context.
A chapter dedicated to open G tuning helps you exploit the natural resonances of the tuning, understand characteristic fingerings, and develop effective patterns for accompaniment or melodic lines. The work on right-hand techniques (attack, dynamics, articulation, groove) completes the approach, as this is often where the "blues sound" is created: a lively touch, precise accents, and a solid pulse.
Finally, the method relies on reference musical examples with complete transcriptions of "Terraplane Blues", "Moon Goin' Down", and "Rhythm in the Blues". These pieces provide an excellent study ground to analyze rhythmic turns, vocabulary, ornaments, harmonics, and playing intention, then reuse these ideas in your own pieces.
Technical specifications
| Publication | Methods | ||
| Instrumentation | guitar | Genre | blues method |
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Questions frequently asked
Does the method cover bottleneck playing?
Bottleneck techniques are practiced to develop a singing phrasing and a percussive attack in the blues style.
Can open G tuning be learned with this blues method?
A chapter is dedicated to open G tuning. The resonances of this tuning and its characteristic fingerings are discussed. Riffs are offered for both accompaniment and melodic lines.
Which songs are transcribed in Bottleneck Blues Guitar + CD?
The book contains full transcriptions of "Terraplane Blues," "Moon Goin' Down," and "Rhythm in the Blues." These studies allow analysis of rhythmic figures, ornaments, and harmonics.
Are there turnarounds and blues licks included?
The content offers structured work on turnarounds to conclude blues progressions. Blues licks and phrases are also presented to be memorized, varied, and integrated into improvisation.
Is the right hand technique addressed in this method?
The approach includes right hand techniques, covering attack, dynamics, articulation, and groove. Rhythmic placement as well as the use of blue notes are among the developed themes.
