Roots & Blues Fingerstyle Guitar Explorations

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 opentunings, 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 notationand 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 musiccame together. Songs includes: Bull Doze Blues · Crow Jane · Georgia Buck · Green Corn · I've Been All Around the World · Knoxville Blues · Little Hammer · Memphis Rounders Blues · See See Rider · Texas Shorty · Yo Yo Blues · andmore.