The Complete Guide to Playing Blues Guitar: Compilation (Learn How to Play Blues Guitar)

3 books in one. Can’t beat it. Great stuff from chords to scales. Highly recommend for beginner or advanced guitar players.

I have been playing guitar for over 55 years and am still learning how to play it. I have taken lessons and will be taking lessons again shortly. I decided that The Complete Guide to Playing Blues Guitar Compilation would be a good guitar lesson book for me. I like it. It is helpful and is one of my better purchases. Someday, I'll learn how to play guitar. Cheers!

Great book.

This book is easy to follow. Contains great step by step examples to help guide you through the learning process. Nice having the backing tracks included to play along with and the recorded lessons to refer to. I am pleased with this book.

I'm a completely self taught guitarist and I've purchased quite a few books over the years. Earlier this year I was in a rut. I was playing the same things over and over, just getting bored, and kind of disappointed with playing. The fun was gone for some reason. I wanted to just sit down and have fun with rhythms again instead of playing the same tabs over and over. After some research I came across Joseph's blues books on Amazon. I noticed the rave reviews and nearly universal 5 star ratings. I was attracted and also skeptical. I've never seen a guitar book lacking in negative reviews. I was also a bit weary of the spending the money. Not that books aren't worth it, but you don't want to drop 50 bucks on a gimmicky guitar book. I had some birthday money so I decided to take a gamble and it has paid off in spades. I'm about 30 pages into the first section of this book and I am so thrilled what it has taught me. Unlike some other popular blues books that teach you a riff or a tune, this book actually gives you the building blocks to make up your own. Within 20 pages of the first section I felt refreshed and excited about playing again. I can't wait to get into the other sections of and see my playing progress even more. No gimmicks here, this book is worth every penny and has truly earned it's 5 star ratings.

I had a guitar in high school, pre youtube but never really got into it because I already played saxophone and got terribly bored with the method books that taught me one note at a time and spent way too much time on how to read music (which I can do) and not enough time teaching me how to play music on the instrument at hand. This book is not like that. It will not waste your time teaching you to read music or how to hold your instrument you can find that on youtube and be strumming basic chord in about and hour. It starts out by giving you some chord shapes and then introduces the twelve bar blues. Then gives you some different chord shapes and more blues. Then some embellishments and more blues. As a competent musician with a new instrument this has enabled me to enjoy my guitar in the first week that I have owned it and is helping me toward my goal of be a competent blues artist on my guitar. It is nice for a musician new to guitar in that so far it has not thrown any curve balls every time it introduces a new chord it gives you the diagram for it ahead of time and there is an audio track for everything I have used so far. It may be the deep end of the pool for a beginner but I am getting results.

I am having a good time with this book. Its been really annoying picking up random blues guitar books only to find a bunch of licks and maybe a passing introduction to a 12 bar or something. I really wanted to get into the blues; down the rabbit hole; something that I could spend months with. This is that book for me. The Rhythm section has been fantastic, I am on the last chapter now, been working through in a linear fashion and I haven't been bored; On the contrary, I find that each example has a habit of leading me down a long jam session that I can't break. My playing is also noticeably better. The book is laid out in an easy to understand way; It doesn't bog you down with theory and it doesn't linger too long, its concise and effective. The audio examples are perfect which is good because you play the notation and think you've got it down and then you hear the clarity in the example and realize you need a little more work with it. Since this book, I've bought 3 other Fundamental Changes books and will probably end up owning all of them. Great Stuff