The Big Book of Blues Guitar
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Andrew Leo Lovato
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About the Book
The Big Book of Blues Guitar is intended for anyone who loves the blues and the guitar and is enthralled with this amazing marriage of instrument and music. It is a simple and yet complete guide for any guitarists who want to feel the magic of playing the blues under their own fingers, whether you’re an aspiring beginner or have a few years behind you of happy strumming, plucking, and picking.
The book’s lessons and tips will take you from whatever level you’re at now to that magical place where your playing will make the blues come alive. The information and easy-to-follow charts are presented by a guitar teacher and writer with decades of experience, in a straightforward, simple format that requires no prior musical training.
And if any help is needed getting to, and staying at, the right point of inspiration, author Andrew Leo Lovato ties it all together by combining his dynamic teaching with the fascinating history of the guitar, of the blues, and of the legendary musicians who’ve given us this
great and beloved sound.
If you’ve ever wanted to play the blues and didn’t know where to start, let this book give you a road map to what it takes to make blues guitar part of your life.
Table of Contents
Introduction
The Birth of the Guitar
The Guitarists Who Gave Us the Blues
Blues Guitar Basics
The 12-Bar Blues
Finding the Right Notes to Jam: Blues Guitar Scale
Blues Guitar Up and Down the Neck: The F Blues Scale in Different
Positions
Got to Be Versatile, Man: Playing the Blues Scale in Different Keys
Three Essential Techniques for Playing the Blues: The Bend, Hammer-
On, and Slide
The Chords That Makes the Blues Sound Like the Blues: 7th Chords
Putting It All Together: Combining Blues Scales and 7th Chords
Finding the Lost Blues Chord: The 9th Chord
Beyond the Basic Blues
Playing Country Blues: The Folk/Country Scales
Blues with a Santana Flavor: Minor 7th Scales
Exotic Blues Colorings: Modal Playing
Roll Over Chuck Berry: Blues Scale Double-Stops
Cool Blues Jazz Stylings: Minor 7th Arpeggios
Blues Passing Notes
Fingerpicking and Slide Blues Guitar Tunings: Open Tunings
A Couple of Blues Chord Riffs You’ve Heard Before: Laying Down the
Groove
Legends of the Blues Guitar
Duane Allman
Chuck Berry
Michael Bloomfield
Joe Bonamassa
Roy Buchanan
Eric Clapton
Robert Cray
Reverend Gary Davis
Peter Green
Buddy Guy
Jimi Hendrix
John Lee Hooker
Lightnin’ Hopkins
Son House
Howlin’ Wolf
Mississippi John Hurt
Elmore James
Skip James
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Robert Johnson
Albert King
B.B. King
Freddie King
Lead Belly
John Mayall
John Mayer
Memphis Minnie
Jimmy Page
Charley Patton
Bonnie Raitt
Jimmy Reed
Keith Richards
Taj Mahal
Derek Trucks
Stevie Ray Vaughan
T-Bone Walker
Muddy Waters
Johnny Winter
Guitar Guide for Beginners
Your Most Important Instrument: Your Hands
Getting to Know Your Axe: Your Guitar
Nothing Sounds Good Until You Can Do This: Tuning the Guitar
The Basis of All Songs: Playing Chords
Discovering Your Inner Beat: Strumming
Finding Notes on the Guitar
Chords Are Not Set in Stone: Altering Chords
Focusing on the Bottom: Bass Notes
Putting All Those Fingers to Work: Fingerpicking
Becoming a Chord Monster: Moveable and Barre Chords
Got to Be Versatile Man, Part 2: Naming Barre and Movable Chords
Guitar Musings
Index
About the Author
About the Author
Andrew Leo Lovato received his Ph.D. in communication, with an emphasis on intercultural communication, from the University of New Mexico in 2000, and was a Fulbright scholar in 2008. He has taught guitar for over thirty years and is a professor of communication and music at Santa Fe Community College.
He has served as Santa Fe’s official City Historian, and has written widely on the history and culture of New Mexico, including Santa Fe Hispanic Culture: Preserving Identity in a Tourist Town and Elvis Romero and Fiesta de Santa Fe. He lives in Tesuque, New Mexico.
The Big Book of Blues Guitar is intended for anyone who loves the blues and the guitar and is enthralled with this amazing marriage of instrument and music. It is a simple and yet complete guide for any guitarists who want to feel the magic of playing the blues under their own fingers, whether you’re an aspiring beginner or have a few years behind you of happy strumming, plucking, and picking.
The book’s lessons and tips will take you from whatever level you’re at now to that magical place where your playing will make the blues come alive. The information and easy-to-follow charts are presented by a guitar teacher and writer with decades of experience, in a straightforward, simple format that requires no prior musical training.
And if any help is needed getting to, and staying at, the right point of inspiration, author Andrew Leo Lovato ties it all together by combining his dynamic teaching with the fascinating history of the guitar, of the blues, and of the legendary musicians who’ve given us this
great and beloved sound.
If you’ve ever wanted to play the blues and didn’t know where to start, let this book give you a road map to what it takes to make blues guitar part of your life.
Table of Contents
Introduction
The Birth of the Guitar
The Guitarists Who Gave Us the Blues
Blues Guitar Basics
The 12-Bar Blues
Finding the Right Notes to Jam: Blues Guitar Scale
Blues Guitar Up and Down the Neck: The F Blues Scale in Different
Positions
Got to Be Versatile, Man: Playing the Blues Scale in Different Keys
Three Essential Techniques for Playing the Blues: The Bend, Hammer-
On, and Slide
The Chords That Makes the Blues Sound Like the Blues: 7th Chords
Putting It All Together: Combining Blues Scales and 7th Chords
Finding the Lost Blues Chord: The 9th Chord
Beyond the Basic Blues
Playing Country Blues: The Folk/Country Scales
Blues with a Santana Flavor: Minor 7th Scales
Exotic Blues Colorings: Modal Playing
Roll Over Chuck Berry: Blues Scale Double-Stops
Cool Blues Jazz Stylings: Minor 7th Arpeggios
Blues Passing Notes
Fingerpicking and Slide Blues Guitar Tunings: Open Tunings
A Couple of Blues Chord Riffs You’ve Heard Before: Laying Down the
Groove
Legends of the Blues Guitar
Duane Allman
Chuck Berry
Michael Bloomfield
Joe Bonamassa
Roy Buchanan
Eric Clapton
Robert Cray
Reverend Gary Davis
Peter Green
Buddy Guy
Jimi Hendrix
John Lee Hooker
Lightnin’ Hopkins
Son House
Howlin’ Wolf
Mississippi John Hurt
Elmore James
Skip James
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Robert Johnson
Albert King
B.B. King
Freddie King
Lead Belly
John Mayall
John Mayer
Memphis Minnie
Jimmy Page
Charley Patton
Bonnie Raitt
Jimmy Reed
Keith Richards
Taj Mahal
Derek Trucks
Stevie Ray Vaughan
T-Bone Walker
Muddy Waters
Johnny Winter
Guitar Guide for Beginners
Your Most Important Instrument: Your Hands
Getting to Know Your Axe: Your Guitar
Nothing Sounds Good Until You Can Do This: Tuning the Guitar
The Basis of All Songs: Playing Chords
Discovering Your Inner Beat: Strumming
Finding Notes on the Guitar
Chords Are Not Set in Stone: Altering Chords
Focusing on the Bottom: Bass Notes
Putting All Those Fingers to Work: Fingerpicking
Becoming a Chord Monster: Moveable and Barre Chords
Got to Be Versatile Man, Part 2: Naming Barre and Movable Chords
Guitar Musings
Index
About the Author
About the Author
Andrew Leo Lovato received his Ph.D. in communication, with an emphasis on intercultural communication, from the University of New Mexico in 2000, and was a Fulbright scholar in 2008. He has taught guitar for over thirty years and is a professor of communication and music at Santa Fe Community College.
He has served as Santa Fe’s official City Historian, and has written widely on the history and culture of New Mexico, including Santa Fe Hispanic Culture: Preserving Identity in a Tourist Town and Elvis Romero and Fiesta de Santa Fe. He lives in Tesuque, New Mexico.
Praise for Andrew Leo Lovato's other books
Santa Fe Hispanic Culture: Preserving Identity in a Tourist Town
University of New Mexico Press, 2004
With its use of academic research, interviews and Lovato’s own analysis of the situation, Santa Fe Hispanic Culture offers a good introduction to the subject and will be especially valuable to newcomers who want some insight into what makes Santa Fe tick.
--Albuquerque Journal
A book all Westerners should read and consider, since the cultural identity of Santa Fe is a part of Western history that we cannot afford to lose.
--Roundup Magazine
A thought-provoking and sobering counterpoint to the city’s tourist mystique.
—Revista, journal of the Southwest Mission Research Center
Santa Fe Hispanic Culture should easily win the City Different’s chamber of commerce endorsement.
—La Herencia del Norte
Elvis Romero and Fiesta de Santa Fe, Featuring Zozobra’s Great Escape
Museum of New Mexico Press, 2011
2012 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award Finalist
2012 Pubwest Book Design Award
Lovato captures many of the historical and ritual goings-on of the Fiesta de Santa Fe with text and photographs from the Palace of the Governors Photo Archives. He also includes a thrilling fictional tale as the centerpiece of the book, about a boy named Elvis Romero and his cousin and best friend, a girl named Pepa. In the story, Elvis and Pepa decide to liberate Zozobra from his appointed fate, and hatch a plan to hide him. The author zeroes in on his own childhood fears and worries about Zozobra’s safety through his central characters, who are amalgams of the kids he grew up with in Santa Fe. Lovato examines, in a playful and sentimental way, the feelings of empathy he and other children had and still have for Zozobra.
--Pasatiempo (magazine of the Santa Fe New Mexican)
More than a colorful retelling of a young boy’s realization, the book is also a narrative of the past. Black and white photographs of the fiesta’s past complete the story [and] also complement the last part of the book, a Fiesta de Santa Fe timeline which chronicles the start of the Santa Fe Fiesta from 1625 to present day.
--New Mexico Daily Lobo
A lovingly crafted tome featuring stories about Fiesta de Santa Fe and idyllic black-and-white photography.
--Santa Fe Reporter
University of New Mexico Press, 2004
With its use of academic research, interviews and Lovato’s own analysis of the situation, Santa Fe Hispanic Culture offers a good introduction to the subject and will be especially valuable to newcomers who want some insight into what makes Santa Fe tick.
--Albuquerque Journal
A book all Westerners should read and consider, since the cultural identity of Santa Fe is a part of Western history that we cannot afford to lose.
--Roundup Magazine
A thought-provoking and sobering counterpoint to the city’s tourist mystique.
—Revista, journal of the Southwest Mission Research Center
Santa Fe Hispanic Culture should easily win the City Different’s chamber of commerce endorsement.
—La Herencia del Norte
Elvis Romero and Fiesta de Santa Fe, Featuring Zozobra’s Great Escape
Museum of New Mexico Press, 2011
2012 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award Finalist
2012 Pubwest Book Design Award
Lovato captures many of the historical and ritual goings-on of the Fiesta de Santa Fe with text and photographs from the Palace of the Governors Photo Archives. He also includes a thrilling fictional tale as the centerpiece of the book, about a boy named Elvis Romero and his cousin and best friend, a girl named Pepa. In the story, Elvis and Pepa decide to liberate Zozobra from his appointed fate, and hatch a plan to hide him. The author zeroes in on his own childhood fears and worries about Zozobra’s safety through his central characters, who are amalgams of the kids he grew up with in Santa Fe. Lovato examines, in a playful and sentimental way, the feelings of empathy he and other children had and still have for Zozobra.
--Pasatiempo (magazine of the Santa Fe New Mexican)
More than a colorful retelling of a young boy’s realization, the book is also a narrative of the past. Black and white photographs of the fiesta’s past complete the story [and] also complement the last part of the book, a Fiesta de Santa Fe timeline which chronicles the start of the Santa Fe Fiesta from 1625 to present day.
--New Mexico Daily Lobo
A lovingly crafted tome featuring stories about Fiesta de Santa Fe and idyllic black-and-white photography.
--Santa Fe Reporter