Blues Guitar Chords and Accompaniment: The Ultimate Step-by-Step Guide to Playing Blues Rhythm Guitar! - Yoichi Arakawa

I thought the Blues was all about feel. I imagine the good players will tell you it takes a little bit more effort to get the skills. I've also never seen a book ranked so low - 2,013,944 th.

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Arakawa breaks his guide into the following chapters after his brief introduction: Basics, Basic Open Chords, 12-Bar Blues, Barre and Movable Chords, Power Chords and Boogie-Woogie Style, Fingerstyle Blues, and Various Blues Accompaniment Styles.
Each chapter offers clear concise instruction, reinforced with diagrams, pictures and musical notation significant to that chapter’s theme. Page spacing and presentation is attractive and welcoming to the reader. With ample space for personal notations to self without taking away from the presented lesson. The reader will find space available at the end of chapters specifically for practice and self notation to provide an integrative learning experience for the reader.
I found this text to be one of value for any guitar player looking to try or brush up on this flavor of guitar work: Blues Rhythm Guitar.

Despite the correctable spelling error on the cover: rhyhm verses rhythm, I would highly recommend this text and will keep it in my music reference library to use for instruction in the future.

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