Blues Masters by the Bar

by Toby Wine

(Guitar Educational). Learn from the masters themselves in Blues Masters by the Bar ! If you're a blues guitarist who wants to know how the legends build their solos, then this book is for you. Blues Masters by the Bar gives you over 140 cool riffs that sound great over each portion of the blues progression. They're presented in two-measure chunks organized by where they fall in a standard 12-bar progression so you can enrich your blues vocabulary and assemble your own solos with actual riffs played by 16 of the greats! Every lick is authentic, and played by such blues masters as Duane Allman, Dickie Betts, Eric Clapton, Albert Collins, Warren Haynes, Albert King, B.B. King, Stevie Ray Vaughan, T-Bone Walker, Zakk Wylde, and more! The CD features recorded demonstrations of every example, plus two jam tracks so you can play your solos over a full rhythm section.

88 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2007