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Blues Licks You Can Use: Music and Performance Notes for 75 Hot Lead Phrases [With CD (Audio)] | ![Blues Licks You Can Use: Music and Performance Notes for 75 Hot Lead Phrases [With CD (Audio)]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51BV37NVNGL._SL160_.jpg) | Creator: John Ganapes
Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 263613
Media: Paperback
Edition: Pap/Com
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Pages: 40
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 11.7 x 8.8 x 0.4
MPN: 695386
Model: 695386
ISBN: 0634008293
Dewey Decimal Number: 781
UPC: 073999953862
EAN: 9780634008290
ASIN: 0634008293
Publication Date: November 2000
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 Buy this Book !! October 16, 2008
A. B. Hinds
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
If you're one of those people who have been playing for a while and have been studying scales and don't know how to apply them then this book is for you! I have had it for a couple of weeks and my playing has changed out of all recognition. I have been playing for years and struggled to play lead guitar but even my missus has noticed as I take the licks in this book and start improvising with them, and I've only got up to lick number six too! I can't wait to really memorise and master these and I'm already looking at buying the second book next.
There are many tuition books and DVD's out there that I have wasted money on but this is to the point and actually lets you get on with it and play stuff instead of just going up and down scales repeatedly. I cannot reccomend this book more.
Blues Licks you can use December 21, 2007
ellie (uk)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Excellent book !.... I have been playing quite a while and know my Blues and pentatonic scales reasonably well, so this book was not difficult to grasp. The solos provide a good method of getting to grips with the Blues and it wasn't long before I had an understanding of what notes to target during the 12 bar progressions. The explanation of each solo is well set out. I will certainly buy book 2 when I have mastered the solos in this one.
Pretty Good Intro to Playing the Blues October 21, 2005
C. R. Downing (Chippenham, Wilts England)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
This is a good start to playing the blues and uses the playing pieces to explain the underlying theory and techniques as each chapter develops. You'd need to know a few basics of playing chords and barre chords and a fingering scales - but that's more to do with dexterity as each scale and chord is explained as you progress. If you're past the banana fingers feeling, then this will work for you. Each of the playing pieces can be developed further as you get used to playing them and could be built up to full solos and improvised into better sounding songs as time passes and familiarity is gained. If you've played for a few months this could be a good stepping stone to soloing.
 Blues Licks You Can Use September 10, 2009
R. Caney (UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is great, the lead licks in all the sections are brilliant and usable licks. The backing tracks to jam along to are also great. Thumbs up so far!
My one problem is with the licks on the CD. The metronome doesn't continue during each lick, it only counts in the speed. This means that I can't always hear the correct phrasing of the lick itself seeing as there is no pulse behind it. This could be a problem for any guitarist (like myself) who relies mostly on the tab and the CD track. On the whole, however, a great book to expand your horizons of blues playing.
 ... can't use. October 29, 2009
Joe Shott (Bucks, UK.)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I've gone through two of JG's other books and rated them very highly - he has taught me blues guitar! So it gives me no pleasure to say this book has a very bad fault. Fingering the early licks at least is straightforward, they are generally from the pentatonics, but nowhere are they played on the CD with a beat behind them, so it makes learning the phrasing very difficult indeed. Even lick one's notes are a mixture of eighth and sixteenth notes in 12/8 time, interspersed between rests. The fact he plays the lick twice, the first time starting on beat one, the second time [as transcribed in the book] on beat two only confuses things further as you make your first ventures into this (for me) flawed book/CD tutor.
There are backing tracks at the end of the CD over which you are supposed to practice the licks... but if things continue like this, getting the timing is going to be at best tough, and for me I'm suspecting too tough. A real shame because the book is, as always with JG, hugely knowledgeable... I'd give it 5 stars for that, I'd probably give it 5 stars too if only the licks were played above a back-beat... but they are not and (as the book's title suggests) it's usability that counts and for that it would get a two. You may very well have a better sense of timing than me... in which case you could get the huge amount out of this book which the other reviewers seem to have got, but I just got frustrated.
But I'm not proud: if at some stage it starts falling into place, I'll change my rating and add to this review, eating humble pie... and I'd be pleased to do so, until then 3 stars is mean because this otherwise great book only has one flaw, but it is also wildly generous because that flaw is a fatal one.
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