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"More Advanced Than "Blues You Can Use""
This book picks up where "Blues you can use" left off. The lessons and exercises are significantly more advanced and produce a much more professional grade blues vibe in my opinion. Check out how the beginner book "blues you can use" has a lot more reviews than this one since not as many people make it this far. I worked my way through John Ganapes' first book over the course of a year and am really glad I got this one. For me The Blues is a journey and the "blues you can use" series has really helped me along the way. After buying over a dozen of these blues lesson books I've found John Ganapes' are far and away the best...but then again everybody has different tastes and abilities. If you consider yourself an advanced beginner or even an intermediate blues guitarist, you owe this book to yourself.

"so far, so good."
I've been playing guitar for about three years now, but I never really practice much. I'd just learn a few parts of songs that sounded cool, and then sit in frong of the tv playing them and messing around in pentatonic scales. I bought this book without the first one because I am quite familiar with 12 bar blues forms and techniques from guitar one magazines. This book is great. I just started the first lesson, and it begins exactly where I needed to begin at. No skimming throught trying to find pages I don't already know. The book is well written and explains the songs and note selections very well. The main point of the book seems to be to get you to creatively follow the changes of a 12 bar blues form, in both rhythm and lead. I imagine I will work on each lesson for about a week at a time. I would recommend this book to those who practiced and enjoyed the first book, or to those blues fans that have a hard time picking notes outside pentatonic scales. Be prepared to work hard on each lesson though!

"Great...but challenging"
I think both this book and the original "Blues You Can Use" are terrific. I learned a ton from the first one, and I'm learning another ton from this one. What I like best about these books is that the material never sounds stilted or dull--as it does in too many other books.

Be warned, though: this book is quite a bit more demanding than the first one. It's almost like there was supposed to be a "middle" book between the first one and this one. There is some EXTREMELY fast playing in the practice tracks. It will take me lots and lots of practice and patience to get them down.

Beginners should steer clear of this book. You'll only be disappointed. Try the first "Blues You Can Use" book instead.

That being said--the stuff sounds exciting. I can't wait until I master all of it. It's a great chance to learn how some of those great high-speed riffs I've heard in the past work. Because I don't think I'll ever be able to work them out on my own.

"Solid ground and bluesy sound"
More Blues You Can Use picks up where Blues You Can Use left off. The two books are a great combo for self-teaching blues electric guitar. In this second book, Ganape puts more focus on rhythm guitar than in the first book, with each lesson including a rhythm lesson that is very useful. The scale portion of each lesson is also much more instructive--he gets beyond the (necessary and useful) pentatonic pattern inculcation of the first book, and into lead patterns and runs that can help in building new, improvised solos and licks. The solos are now generally two DIFFERENT choruses, which adds to repertoire and illustrates more of the principles of improv and lick playing. And more important, the solos are (as they were in the first book too) tasteful and progressively more challenging.

You can actually learn a lot from this book in practical terms and principles.

  

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"Blues you can use. New melodic ways through the blues scales", I found the lead breaks simplistic, easy and well composed. Good to start out on. For the intermediate to advanced player new ideals / knowledge is offered. The lessons increase in difficulty as you learn more about the use of technique and the scale relationships up the neck. Don't be fooled by the simple. This book will reveal new ways around and through the blues. I'm an intermediate to advanced player and I have learn't from these lessons. Plus I enjoyed it.


"More Blues than you can use.", Every picture tells a story, don't it? And you can learn something from every book..This book will show you and tell you how..

"Can't Quite Recommend", This is a pretty good extension to John Ganapes first tutorial on the Blues, "Blues You Can Use". The songs are interesting and, as does the first book in the series, it contains well thought-out instruction on playing the Blues. However, it has a serious drawback. There are no backing tracks for songs on CD. Also, since it does not provide the tempo (in beats per minute), one has to spend valuable practice time building one's own backing tracks (unless you have your own band handy). The book claims one can adjust the channel selection in order to hear only the rythm guitar. I did not find this to work very well. These days, there are plenty of tutuorials that include backing tracks, as part of the package. For this reason, I cannot quite recommend it.

"Worthy Companion to "Blues You Can Use"", If you're a beginning/intermediate electric guitar player, going through this book and it's easier companion "Blues You Can Use" is the quickest way to learn the instrument. In many artists' compilation CDs, you'll see "Essential such and such", well there are essential topics that needs to be covered in electric guitar playing too, and these two books does a pretty good job covering the essentials of guitar playing. Spend a year working on these two books (the two books combined will give you about 50 songs to practice), and you'll be playing most styles with inpunity with the steady increase in speed gained here. Now consider that compared to spending few fruitless years with a guitar instructor, you'll see what I mean. Each song is written to illustrate specific structure or a technique and you'll be learning tons of information as you go along. These two books are the most economic way to master the essentials of electric guitar playing both money and time wise. Some people may not like the style of blues guitar presented in this book as it's bit of blues/rock style mixed in, but to get the basics down I can't recommend a better set of books.

"Blues you certainly can't use", I actually thought I wanted this book/cd combo... the reviews were really good, I love playing blues and I thought this might add something to my playing. It most decidedly didn't. The style that the author's partial to is fill up every bar with licks. Licks are good on their own terms, but when it comes to blues... you need to breathe.. not ramble. The author doesn't breathe, his phrasing is terrible, his chord changes are trite and he doesn't play off the other instruments - sure, he's got two guitar parts dubbed, but with some thought he could have played along with himself, not *over* himself.

Another thing that bothered me is that the description for this product says there's 23 full band tracks... not true, there's 21... and they're short, ranging from 51 seconds to 2 and a half minutes. There's barely enough for eight bars - I'd hit repeat to make the tracks last longer, but the author insists on speaking before each of his 'songs'.

This book is for absolute beginners, any intermediate blues player would be better off looking to another series if they want some decent instruction. Even better, just go listen to some decent players (like albert king) and play along... don't waste your money on this.



 
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