Contents:

• Comping for Twelve-Bar blues
• Blues Shuffle in the Key of A
• Swing Rhythm
• Variations
• Blues Shuffle in the Key of E
• Alternatives to the B riff
• Variations
• Syncopation
• Guitar Boogie in E - adding the 3rd
• The Major-Minor ambiguity
• Variations
• Harmonizing the Blues Shuffle
• Chordal comping for Blues in E
• Harmonizing and comping in A
• Blues lead playing – Pentatonic Scale
• Em pentatonic box pattern
• Letter names of the notes
• Exercises
• Simple licks
• Extra notes
• Adding the 3rd
• Adding the b5th and the 7th
• Noodling with nine
• Adding the 2nd and the 6th
• Expanded box pattern
• Blues turnaround
• Singing the blues
• Hybrid blues
• Partial chord forms
• Here we go up the neck
• Movable Em box pattern
• Em shape of the Am
• pentatonic scale
• Exercises
• Simple licks
• Extra notesAdding the 3rd
• Adding the b5th and 7th
• Bending the 4th
• Adding the 2nd and 6th
• Double-stops
• Exercises in blues soloing
• Other box patterns
• Gm box pattern
• Dm box pattern
• Shifting between box patterns
• Cm box pattern
• Am box pattern
• Back to the Key of E
• Em box pattern / Em pentatonic scale
• Shape-shifting
• Major Pentatonic Scale
• Key of G
• Examples
• Here we go up the neck
• Keys of A and C
• Keys of D and E
• Slide Guitar
• Standard Tuning
• Am pentatonic scale
• Right-hand muting
• Open G Tuning
• Chords and accompaniment
• Playing lead
• Twelve Bar example
• Open D Tuning