Stefan Grossman: How To Play Blues Guitar - Lesson 1

This series of lessons explores various fingerstyle blues guitar styles and techniques. It delves in to the alternating and monotonic bass techniques; blues slides, hammer-ons and pull-offs and blues slurred notes. The aim of this lesson is to give you a freedom to improvise playing a blues, and the playing techniques of Mississippi John Hurt, Rev. Gary Davis and Blind Blake are discussed, with each tune being taught phrase by phrase and played slowly on a split-screen.

Bonus audio tracks are included featuring rare recordings of the songs and styles presented on the DVD. A detailed tab/music booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD, which includes lyrics to the songs as well as tab/music transcriptions of the guitar playing.