House of Blues: Blues Guitar Course (Book/DVDs)

The House of Blues and producers of The Rock House Method join together to bring you this unique and comprehensive Blues Guitar Course! With this course designed by world renowned instructor/guitarist John McCarthy you will develop a solid foundation for playing blues guitar by learning essential blues chords and scales, the BB Box, lead techniques used by greats such as Stevie Ray Vaughn, Buddy Guy and B.B. King, string bending, vibrato, hammer-ons, pull-offs and complete blues rhythms including the 12 bar blues. The second part of the course encourages you to cultivate your own style by emphasizing the techniques and components needed to develop creativity. You'll learn full form blues chords and scales, triplet lead patterns, the shuffle feel and swing effect, challenging blues riffs and turnarounds and much more. The DVDs illustrate each playing example through easy-to-follow close-up views of each hand, player's perspective views, a video chord chart, and much more! Zoneed to play anywhere in the world. The disks also include 137 professional backing tracks and playing examples that you can play in your home, car, portable CD player or load into your MP3 player.