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The Complete Guide to Roots Style Guitar

The Complete Guide to Roots Style Guitar

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The Complete Guide to Roots Style Guitar (Intermediate-Advanced)

by Rick Rossano

This electric blues guitar approach to playing roots music dives deep into gear, right and left-hand technique, and advanced soloing and rhythm accompaniment concepts, including “partial” chords that can be used creatively while a bass guitarist supplies the missing primary chord tones.

The author provides unique insights on harmonically intense chord voicings as well as a fresh look at phrasing and thematic soloing ideas. A pragmatic approach to comping includes custom-built voicings for blues and roots styles, a section dedicated to Freddie Green chord forms, 12-bar maps with various turnarounds, and an introduction to the concept of layered rhythm parts.

The section on soloing delves into applying chord tones for more expansive ideas; it contains fretboard charts illustrating pentatonic scales, the blues scale and the Mixolydian mode and suggests opportunities for tension and release by applying diminished and altered dominant subterfuge.

The book’s excellent play-along guitar, bass and drums companion recordings in jump and funk blues, rockabilly, Latin, and Cajun styles will be useful not only as rhythm guitar examples and backup tracks for lead playing, but also for songwriters who want something more than a metronome or drum track for lyric inspiration and phrasing accuracy.

Musical examples are shown in standard notation and tab, extended fretboard diagrams plus the Nashville numbering system, making it easy to play chord backup in any key like a pro.

Product Number:    31094M

Format:    Book + Online Audio

Skill Level:    Intermediate-Advanced

Pages:    40

Binding:    Saddle Stitched

Size:    8.75 x 11.75

Date Published:    05_16_2024



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