Scott A. Smith's Serious Blues: Essential Phrasing
Get Your Fingers to Play What's in Your Head
By Scott A. Smith
Guitar Book & DVD
Item: 00-42447
$17.99
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Description
Scott A. Smith teaches you all the essential blues phrasing techniques and tricks. Learn simple concepts like solo construction, phrasing over a 12-bar blues, the blues scale, pentatonic box patterns, and playing multiple scales over a single chord. Also, learn practical, effective techniques like trills, slides, and rakes. In-depth lessons on bending teach you how to use target notes, initial and destination notes, pre-bends, and how to combine bends with box patterns. The included DVD is hosted by Smith and features live demonstrations of the examples in the book.
About the Author
For the past three decades, Scott A. Smith has remained a dedicated guitarist, musician, and educator. This native Texan started playing guitar in the late '70s and has worked in a variety of genres, including blues, rock, country, and jazz. Scott is a GIT graduate and was featured in the Mike Varney Spotlight column in Guitar Player magazine. No stranger to the road and stage, this veteran guitarist has traveled near and abroad, performing live, teaching, giving clinics, and spreading his love for the instrument.
About the Author
For the past three decades, Scott A. Smith has remained a dedicated guitarist, musician, and educator. This native Texan started playing guitar in the late '70s and has worked in a variety of genres, including blues, rock, country, and jazz. Scott is a GIT graduate and was featured in the Mike Varney Spotlight column in Guitar Player magazine. No stranger to the road and stage, this veteran guitarist has traveled near and abroad, performing live, teaching, giving clinics, and spreading his love for the instrument.
Contents
| Title | |
| Introduction | |
| Bending and the A Minor Pentatonic Scale | |
| How to Bend | |
| The Whole-Step Bend | |
| Initial and Destination Notes | |
| Combining Bends with Box Pattern | |
| Half-Step Bends | |
| The Half-Step Bend | |
| Another Half-Step Bend | |
| Box-Jumping Lick with Bends | |
| Bending Licks That Rule | |
| Solo Construction | |
| Target Notes: Definition and Application | |
| Target Notes in A Minor Pentatonic | |
| The 12-Bar Blues | |
| Targeting the Roots of the Chords | |
| A Blues Scale Targeting I, IV, and V | |
| Pattern for Identifying the Minor Pentatonic | |
| Trills | |
| Trills Explained | |
| Trilling the Minor Pentatonic Box | |
| Trills and Licks | |
| Return Bend to Pull-Off | |
| Return Bends Discussed | |
| Playing Bends and Adding the Pull-Off | |
| Creating Licks | |
| Forward Rake | |
| Muted Forward Rake Explained | |
| The Articulated Forward Rake | |
| Licks with Rakes | |
| Basic Phrasing | |
| The 2nd A Minor Pentatonic Box | |
| Learning How to Phrase | |
| Phrasing Over a 12-Bar Blues | |
| Simple Slide Exercises | |
| Introducing Slides | |
| Creative Sliding | |
| Adding Smoothness to Our Technique | |
| Major Pentatonic Versus Minor Pentatonic | |
| The Task at Hand | |
| Comparing A Major and A Minor Box Patterns | |
| Major and Minor Pentatonic Theory | |
| Accompanying Yourself with Chords | |
| Multiple Scales Over One Chord | |
| Introduction to Overlapping Boxes | |
| Review | |
| Overlapping Major and Minor Pentatonic | |
| Overlapping Boxes | |
| Adding the Blues Scale to the Mix | |
| Phrasing | |
| 12-Bar Blues in A Combining Major and Minor: Full Solo and Measures 1-4 | |
| Measures 5-8 | |
| Measures 9-12 | |
| Conclusion |
Additional Information
| Series: | Serious Blues |
| Author: | Scott A. Smith |
| Instrument: | Guitar |
| Format: | Book & DVD |
| Page Count: | 56 |
| Item Number: | 00-42447 |
| ISBN 10: | 1-4706-1116-3 |
| ISBN 13: | 978-1-4706-1116-3 |
| UPC: | 038081474939 |
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