Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #27580 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 40 pages

Synopsis
These essential fretboard patterns are roadmaps that all great blues guitarists know and use. This book teaches how to play lead and rhythm anywhere on the fretboard in any key. Play a variety of lead guitar styles using moveable blues boxes, chord-based licks, blues scales and double-note licks. Play boogie woogie licks and turnarounds. Each chapter presents a pattern and shows how to use it and provides helpful playing tips. This book is great for beginning, intermediate and advanced players.

Customer Reviews

Great book- just as good as taking guitar-lessons!
Although the content (pentatonics, moveable chords etc) could be found in thousands of other guitarbooks, this one really does it for me. Maybe because it is so well written, short and concise, yet still gives you inspiration and desire to try the suggested exercises (or just play the blues!) I will take it with me (only one thing - it might have been nice, if it came in the "guitar-case/-bag format" like some other books), as a "first musical aid", when I "freeze" in my playing. For once I also find the cd, that goes with the book really good, great musical ideas told in the right way. I am really happy for this short little book - 40 pages, and it has been a long time since an "educational" book of this kind gave me so much inspiration. Fred Sokolow really nails down, what you've got to know in a superb way.

Fretboard Roadmaps: Blues Guitar - Superb
Fretboard Roadmaps: Blues Guitar
I have found Guitar Fretboard Roadmaps brilliantly informative and easy to understand and would recommend them to anybody, novice or advanced.

Well put together and very useful
I already owned the fretboard roadmaps and decided to purchase the Blues Guitar version recently. Initially I was slightly disappointed that there was quite a bit of duplication between the two books. However this was completely unfounded as the two books complement each other really well, although I think this one is slightly better than the first.

The book itself if really well presented and easy to understand. It takes you through blues chords and 12 and 8 bar blues formats. Pentatonics, chord fragment, blues licks etc.

One area that this book really does well is the audio CD, Fred's voice is really distinctive and the audio examples are very well presented and easy to follow, it really stands out favorably compared to some of its competitors.

I think this book is an essential purchase for anyone learning guitar.