Roots and 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 open tunings, how and when to use the bottleneck slide, as well as a plethora of melodic vocabulary. You'll discover how these stylistic devices work in a wide range of traditional and blues settings. All examples are provided in both standard notation and tablature, and access to video downloads is included so that you can see and hear exactly how they're played. Throughout the book, a wealth of historical information and anecdotes, some of them first-hand, will give you a clear picture of how this music came together.