Blues Guitar for Dummies - Jon Chappell

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Résumé :

Introduction 1

About This Book 1

Conventions Used in This Book 2

What You're Not to Read 3

Foolish Assumptions 3

How This Book is Organized 4

Part 1: You Got a Right to Play the Blues 4

Part 2: Setting Up to Play the Blues 4

Part 3: Beyond the Basics: Playing Like a Pro 4

Part 4: Sounding Like the Masters: Blues Styles through the Ages 4

Part 5: Gearing Up: Outfitting Your Arsenal 5

Part 6: The Part of Tens 5

Part 7: Appendixes 5

Icons Used in This Book 5

Where to Go from Here 6

Part 1: You Got a Right to Play the Blues?7

Chapter 1: Every Day I Have the Blues Hallelujah! 9

Capturing the Blues Train from Its Departure Then to Its Arrival Now 10

The pieces of blues that made the genre 10

The place of the blues' conception 11

Rejoicing over 100 years of blues: The shifting shape of the genre 11

The qualities that made blues cats hit the big-time 12

It's Not All Pain and Suffering - The Lighter Side of Blues 13

Surveying the Means to Make the Music: The Guitar in All Its Glory 14

The low-fi acoustic guitar 14

The semi-hollowbody electric guitar 15

Solidbody electric guitars 15

The Collision of Two Worlds: Acoustic versus Electric 16

Getting a Grip on How Guitars Work 17

You've gotta use your hands - both of them 17

Producing the tones: String vibration and pitch 18

Electric guitars only: Pickups and amplification 18

Performing and Looking Like a Blues Player 19

Expanding and filling your brain with know-how 19

Looking the part 20

Blues Trivia For Dummies 21

The questions 21

The answers 22

Chapter 2: Blues Meets Guitar: A Match Made in Musical Heaven 23

Beyond the Delta: Defining the Blues Guitar Sound 24

The method to the music: Chord progressions 25

The guitarist's language of melody 25

The expression that invokes your senses 26

The groove that sets the pace 27

Dissecting an Acoustic and an Electric 27

Getting Down with the Blues: A Quick How-To 31

The foundation for all guitar playing: Acoustic guitars 31

Shifting acoustic to overdrive: Electric guitars 32

What You Need to Get Your Groove On 35

Chapter 3: Grab Hold, Tune Up, Play On! 39

Holding Your Axe (That Is, Your Guitar) 39

Grabbing your guitar's neck 40

Pushing down on the strings 41

Getting sound to come out 42

Holding the Pick, Attacking the Problem 44

Getting Situated 45

Sitting down? 46

?or standing up 46

Tuning Up 47

Helping your guitar get in tune with itself 48

Holding your guitar to an electronic standard 49

Playing a Chord 50

Music Notation: Not Just for Geeks 51

Guidance for your aimless fingers: A chord diagram 52

Mapping out your short-term path: Rhythm notation 53

Guiding you all the way through a song: Tablature 54

Part 2: Setting Up to Play the Blues?55

Chapter 4: Getting a Grip on Left-Hand Chords 57

Starting Out Simple: Blues Chords Even Your Mom Could Play 58

Going to the Next Level: Barre Chords 59

Forming a barre chord 61

Naming barre chords 62

Playing E-based barre chords 63

Playing A-form barre chords 65

Combining forms 67

Taking Advantage of Versatile Power Chords 68

Chapter 5: Positioning the Right Hand for Rhythm and Lead 71

Strumming Along 71

Stroking down 72

?And stroking up 72

Combining down and up 73...

Biographie:

Jon Chappell has jammed with countless blues musicians at Chicago's blues clubs. He is an award-winning guitarist and composer as well as past editor- in-chief of Guitar Magazine and Home Recording Magazine. His other books include Guitar For Dummies, Guitar Exercises For Dummies, Classical Guitar For Dummies, and Rock Guitar For Dummies

Sommaire:
Its Name was Rockabilly 206

Quintessential Blues: Slide Guitar 208

The tools that let you slide 208

Sliding technique 208

Tuning your guitar for slide, a technique all its own 209

Chapter 12: The Birth and Growth of Classic Electric Blues 213

The Rise of the Electric Guitar in Blues 214

Giving Props to the Earliest Electric Pioneer 215

Sweet Home Chicago, Seat of the Electric Blues 218

Muddy Waters, leader of the pack 218

Elmore James, slide guitarist extraordinaire 219

Otis Rush: Soulful player with a flair for vibrato 220

Buddy Guy, the father of blues rock 221

Modern-Day Blues Styles: The Sounds of Texas 222

Four Blues Giants: Three Kings and a Collins 224

Albert King, the upside-down string bender 224

B.B King, the blues' king of kings 225

Freddie King, a two-pick man 227

Albert Collins, master of the Telecaster 228

Children of the Post-War Blues Revival 229

Son Seals, Chicago's favorite son 230

Robert Cray, smooth persuader 230

Bonnie Raitt, stellar lyrical slides artiste 231

Chapter 13: Blues Rock: The Infusion of Ol' Rock 'n' Roll 233

The Blues Had a Baby, and They Called It Rock 'n' Roll 234

Chuck Berry, blues rock's first superstar 234

Bo Diddley, king of the jungle beat 236

The Brits Invade the Blues 236

Clapton and Green, early blues icons 236

Jeff Beck, blues-rock's mad scientist 237

Trippin' the Blues 238

Eric Clapton, the original guitar god 238

Jimi Hendrix takes the blues psychedelic 240

Heavy Blooze: The Infusion of Hard Rock 241

Jimmy Page, frontrunner of the metal blues 241

Leslie West, big man with a big sound 241

Blackmore and beyond, where blues gets scary 242

Southern Comfort 243

The Allmans, especially brother Duane 243

Lynyrd Skynyrd 243

Hot Barbecue Blues, Texas Style 244

Johnny Winter, Texas blues-rock titan 245

Billy Gibbons and ZZ Top, giving rock some soul 246

Stevie Ray Vaughan, the greatest modern bluesman of them all 246

Blues on Steroids 249

Eddie Van Halen takes the blues to '80s metal 249

Euro-Metal brings virtuosity and precision to the blues 249

21st-Century Soul 250

John Mayer, new kid on the blues block 250

Allmans Redux: Warren Haynes and Derek Trucks, keepers of the flame 250

Part 5: Gearing Up: Outfitting Your Arsenal?253

Chapter 14: Shop Till You Drop: Buying the Right Guitar for You 255

Before You Begin Shopping 256

Deciding On a Make and Model 257

Evaluating a Guitar 257

Construction 258

Materials 259

Workmanship 262

Appointments (aesthetic options) 263

Welcome to the Jungle: Shopping 263

Bringing a friend 264

Money matters: Deal or no deal 264

Protecting Your Guitar 266

Hard cases 266

Soft cases 267

Gig bags 267

Chapter 15: Choosing Your Amp and Effects 269

Getting Started with a Practice Amp 270

Shopping for a practice amp 270

Playing with a practice amp 272

Powering Up to a Larger Amp 273

Choosing among different amp formats 274

Feeling the power 276

Dissecting the Amplifier 277

Input jack 277

Preamp 278

Tone 278

Effects 279

Power amp 280

Speakers 280

The flexibility of having separate channels 280

What's That Sound? Checking Out Your Amp Choices 281

Tube amps 281

Solid-state amps 283

Hybrid amps 283

Digital-modeling amps 284

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