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Get to know the nuts and bolts of country-blues and other rootsy styles with this series of in-depth lessons by blues guitar expert Steve James. You'll learn essential chord shapes and picking patterns in standard and open tunings, with and without the bottleneck slide, as well as a wealth of melodic vocabulary. You'll discover how these devices work in a wide range of traditional and blues settings. All examples are provided in standard notation and tablature, with video downloads so that you can see and hear exactly how they're played. Throughout, a wealth of historical information and anecdotes, some of them first-hand, will give you a clear picture of how this music came together.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Notation Guide
• Gearing Up
• The Rule of Thumb
• The Mold Was Broke: Three Songs by Three Roots (Guitar Originals)
• The Tool Box
• Yes, We're Open
• Doin' the Slide
• Waltz, Breakdown, and the Blues: An American Guitar Story
• About the Author
• Sources and References

Catalog:	HL00289572
Publisher:	Hal Leonard
Composer:	Steve James
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Voicing:	Guitar
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Pages:	80