Blues Solos for Guitar Book/Online Audio (Reh Z Prolicks Series)

This book provides the aspiring blues guitarist a firm grasp of what it means to be a successful blues guitarist. And as a matter of fact, as a long-time blueser trying to get out of a rut, this book provided just enough info on players, genres, and broke down complete "in the style of" solos phrase by phrase. It was just enough to get this old blues guy excited about blues again, and reminded me of why I started playing the blues in the first place. Keith Wyatt is a great instructor. I have been through many audio, video, and written blues guides and Mr. Wyatt is one of the best and clearest blues teachers out there. Heck of a player too!The book focuses on different advanced techniques through learning actual solos. String bends, Vibrato, hammer-ons and pull-offs are made practical because you are learning actual solos rather than just practicing them in some sort of boring pentatonic sequence. You learn through the songs and the melodic solos. And the solos are just that...tasty, melodic, and go from late beginner/intermediate to advanced. Although I've been playing for years, the first solo in this book reminded me of the importance of being accurate in your bends, using style, strength, accuracy and taste.I highly recommend this book. It will be the gateway to an overall musical learning experience. Happy playing!

This is my second book from Keith Wyatt. The first is his rhythm book on the blues. A great book in its own right. Somehow I did not see this book in all my "blues licks" searches. However, I ran across it and immediately ordered a copy. It took me all of about 30 seconds to know I was going to love the book. The examples, contrary to a 1 star review, are OUTSTANDING. They are all in the blues category, but span several sub-categories. When I saw that he gives a lick-by-lick explanation of each solo, I was even more impressed. I own well over 50 blues/guitar books and this is right at the top. I will be practicing these solos for the next few years. His explanation of other techniques, including vibrato etc., are great. If you are in the market for some blues licks/solos that are pretty challenging for the intermediate level guitarist, this is a no-brainer.

As always Mr. Wyatt has done a very thorough job of explaining how to play some at times difficult guitar passages. There are agood variety and great examples of some differing Blues concepts here that can be played as is or integrated into your own style of play. Buy this and practice with it and you are well on your way to playing some really good blues.

This is the most amazing guitar instruction I ever have seen. Keith Wyatt explains in the clearest detail exactly how to play these tunes. It is in both TAB and manuscript with Keith playing the solos and a backing track to play the solo yourself. I love the variety styles and Keith plays them with such awe. I have been playing for years and am progressing at a rate that is surprising even myself. I am going to buy more of Keith's tutorials as soon as I finish this one. I highly recommend this if you want to play like the best blues players of our time and of times past.

Well worth it. They don't come any better than this bloke.

Good resource.

Having played guitar on and off for 30 years, I decided two years ago finally to invest the time in learning electric blues guitar properly and in detail. I purchased a stack of books and DVDs and set about working through them. Many were weak on substance and/or style and/or assumed far too much basic knowledge on the part of the player. In my opinion Keith Wyatt is by far the best blues guitar instructor out there. Not only is he articulate and incredibly clear in his delivery, but he has a wonderful style and range and is at the top of the game when it comes to phrasing and execution. How one reviewer can say this book does not draw on SRV and Albert King etc. is beyond me as they're all there in the rhythm and lead parts. It's all in the phrasing, my friend! True this is not the book to open up first if you haven't got a basic grasp of how to approach blues lead guitar. For that purchase some of Keith Wyatt's other books or DVDs, such as 'The Ultimate Beginner Series: Blues Guitar Basics, Steps One & Two Combined', or look at John Ganapes' 'Blues You Can Use' series. It's not hard to understand the basics -- learn the essential scales (major and minor pentatonics + the blue notes), the names of the notes, and, most importantly perhaps, the relationship between the notes in the scale and the notes in the chords being played and you'll be on your way -- but it does take a heck of a lot of time and effort to consolidate and apply this knowledge and to get it sound right (again, phrasing). Just listen to how BB King can make one note sound incredibly bluesy! I can't recommend this book highly enough, but you have to be prepared to work through it very slowly, mastering a bar at a time, building up to a single chorus (a full 12 bars). Once you master a lesson you'll realise that you can extract and adapt phrases and licks to suit your own style and requirements. Keith Wyatt will give you all the tools you need to approach anything from slow blues to rockabilly in this book. I'd be remiss if I didn't also highly recommend his 'Blues Rhythm Guitar' book (lead is only one dimension of this style) and his 'Rockin' the blues' DVD, which covers rhythm and lead (I'll never tire of listening to his opening solos, even if one reviewer of that product disagrees) -- both 5* as well. Work through them slowly as well and you should start to see results in a matter of months. But note it does take time, a lot of time, like learning any language. Finally, to complement Keith's works, you would, in my view, be wise to check out Dave Rubin's books on '12 Bar Blues' and 'Blues Turnarounds', Steve Travoto's DVDs on Brian Setzer and rockabilly guitar, John Ganapes' 'Blues You Can Use' series, and the 'Classic Guitar Styles of Duke Robillard', which is a great book to work on after this one. The 'Guitar Techniques' magazine also contains some wonderful analysis and tips, often on great players who don't get much attention anywhere else, such as Matt Guitar Murphy, Johnny Guitar Watson, and Little Jimmy King. Enjoy!

I bought the CD version of this book. The tuning notes are at concert 440 but at least some of the recorded tracks (including the song I wanted to learn - Blues Number One) are about half a semitone sharp. I've never encountered this problem with any book/CDs previously. Quite strange and it makes it (my version at least) pretty unusable. Even my pitch shifting software only works on whole semitones.

I teach guitar and this book is one of the best I've found for actually explaining in detail what to do and how to play the 6 solos in this book. Each solo has page of explanation - and I mean a lot. The first solo for example is a piece that is written in standard music and TAB over two pages - it runs for 1 min 34 secs on the CD - in the explanation this is broken down into 20 phrases with each element of a phrase explained as a practise point. There's 54 practice points within the 20 phrases. This text explanation is spread over 10 pages. You can see what I mean about extensive help and guidence?Six solos in differing blues styles are covered in 95 pages total. As al the solo phrases can be used across all sorts of chord sequences for your own materials this is a great opportunity to learn some professional standard soloing in easy to digest bites.If you're a beinner this book will be too difficult - try Hal Leonard's "Blues Guitar Method" first and progress to some intermediate books that you'll find in Amazon. I'd guess you'll be OK with this after playing guitar rock or blues for about a year or more.

I prefer the Blues You Can Use series of booksbut this is quite good too.I have another of Keiths books and was impressed by it so bought this one too.He is clearly a man who knows what he is talking about and if you check him outon the web you can see he has some pretty impressive credentials.Check out his YouTube videos too.The tab is easy enough to follow but you just feel as though there is something missingalthough I cant put my finger on it.Not bad though.

Challenging but very nice and very well presented

Not bad.

Bought as gift