Mark Dziuba's Serious Blues: Expanding Grooves
Get Your Fingers to Play What's in Your Head
By Mark Dziuba
Guitar Book & DVD
Item: 00-42453
$17.99
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Description
Mark Dziuba helps you become a great blues guitarist by expanding your groove palette. You'll learn about shuffle and straight rhythms, the 12/8 feel, triplets, blues forms, the minor blues, and various blues rhythm tricks, including chord fills, using accents and mutes, sliding into chords, and open-string drones. Additionally, Dziuba explores harmonic concepts, like chord extensions and advanced voicings, plus rhythms from music beyond the blues---the Charleston and Latin montuno. The included DVD is hosted by Dziuba and features live demonstrations of the examples in the book.
About the Author
A performer and teacher for over 30 years, Mark Dziuba directs the Jazz Studies Program at the State University of New York at New Paltz, where he serves as a tenured professor. His workshops on guitar styles and improvisation have been featured at the International Guitar Festival (Bath, England), the National Guitar Workshop (various U.S. and European locations), and the Crown of the Continent Guitar Festival (Montana). He has taught and performed with many legendary guitarists, including John Scofield, John Abercrombie, John Jorgenson, Tal Farlow, Larry Carlton, Trey Anastasio, Julian Lage, and Reeves Gabrels.
About the Author
A performer and teacher for over 30 years, Mark Dziuba directs the Jazz Studies Program at the State University of New York at New Paltz, where he serves as a tenured professor. His workshops on guitar styles and improvisation have been featured at the International Guitar Festival (Bath, England), the National Guitar Workshop (various U.S. and European locations), and the Crown of the Continent Guitar Festival (Montana). He has taught and performed with many legendary guitarists, including John Scofield, John Abercrombie, John Jorgenson, Tal Farlow, Larry Carlton, Trey Anastasio, Julian Lage, and Reeves Gabrels.
Contents
| Title | |
| Introduction | |
| The Heart of the Shuffle | |
| Strumming in 12/8 | |
| Accenting the Downbeat | |
| Using Accents and Mutes | |
| Eighth-Note Patterns and Variations | |
| Putting It All Together | |
| Minor-Key Shuffle | |
| Sliding into Chords | |
| A Minor Blues (First Four Bars) | |
| Fingerstyle Shuffle | |
| Chord Fills | |
| Putting It All Together | |
| The 8-Bar Blues Form | |
| 8-Bar Shuffle in E | |
| Four to the Floor in A | |
| In the Style of "Key to the Highway" | |
| 8-Bar Blues in A Minor | |
| In the Style of "The Thrill Is Gone" | |
| The Chord Progression | |
| Chord Voicings and Open-String Drones | |
| Advanced Chord Voicings | |
| In the Style of "Call It Stormy Monday" | |
| Traditional "Stormy Monday" Changes | |
| Modern "Stormy Monday" Changes | |
| 4th-String-Root 9th Chords | |
| Crossover Method | |
| 4th-String-Root 9th-Chord Blues | |
| Playing Dominant 7 Sharp-9 Chords | |
| E7 Sharp-9 Vamp | |
| Crossing Over Minor 9 Chords | |
| Minor Blues | |
| Minor Blues Line | |
| Minor Line Using D Minor | |
| Using the Minor Line in a Blues Progression | |
| Voicing Options | |
| Montuno Lines | |
| Charleston Rhythm | |
| Quarter-Note and Eighth-Note Strums | |
| The Charleston Rhythm | |
| Blues in A with the Charleston Rhythm | |
| Chord-Defining Intervals | |
| The Charleston Blues with Chord-Defining Intervals | |
| Upbeat Shuffle | |
| Review the Feel | |
| Introducing the Upbeat Rhythm | |
| Blues in A with the Upbeat Rhythm | |
| Additional Voicings and the Upbeat Rhythm | |
| 6th-String-Root 6th Chords | |
| Constructing Major and Minor 6th Chords | |
| 8-Bar Blues in A | |
| 16-Bar Blues in A Minor | |
| Improvisation Exercise | |
| Three-String 6th and 9th Chords | |
| 6th- and 9th-Chord Relationships | |
| 8-Bar Blues in G | |
| Additional Voicings | |
| Cool Riff with 9th Chords | |
| Funky 13th-Chord Lick | |
| Appendix | |
| Reading Chord Diagrams | |
| Minor Pentatonic Scales |
Additional Information
| Series: | Serious Blues |
| Author: | Mark Dziuba |
| Instrument: | Guitar |
| Format: | Book & DVD |
| Page Count: | 56 |
| Item Number: | 00-42453 |
| ISBN 10: | 1-4706-1118-X |
| ISBN 13: | 978-1-4706-1118-7 |
| UPC: | 038081474953 |
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