File Size: 9288 KB
Print Length: 104 pages
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Publisher: www.Fundamental-Changes.com (February 13, 2014)
Publication Date: February 13, 2014
Sold by: Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B00IGAG9P6
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If you love the genre ( i.e. blues ) you could in theory google around, find patterns for all the 5 pentatonic scales, start memorising the shapes and begin to play them up and down. You will even be able to play along some of your favourite tunes and it'll sound anywhere from O.K. to good.BUT sooner or later you'll realise that you're stuck in rut and that you're noodling along tracing out geometric patterns n the fretboard rather than making blues music.I tried a few '100 Hot Blues Lick' books and I found that they were too inacesible and frustrating for me. You are presented with an exact transcript of some lick that say B.B. King played on some track somewhere in some studio some years back. No two recoridng of that phrase will sound identical and yet you'll spend a lot of time paying attention to all the various execution details capturing every grace note and slide and what have you on just that one lick.....loosing sight of the actual musical idea and never quite capturing it.I found that what works ( at least for some people ) is to explore the basic melodic ideas and the various technical tools and embellishment techniques first. Later when you've got them mastered you can add them in spontaneously as you're playing along some backing track or tune. That's a lot more effective + it is fun.Here is where this book by Joseph Alexander comes in. The author progresses the student through various artistic and melodic blues concepts in the simple pentatonic pattern. Bends and vibratos are shown separately as technical exercises as well as in context with the mainstream material of the book.To borrow from the fish versus fishing net metaphor:Blues lick collections give you the fish...that's it.
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