https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/blues-you-can-use-any-good/ Guitar Noise Discussion Board en-US Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:34:47 +0000 wpForo 60 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/blues-you-can-use-any-good/paged/3/#post-235327 Fri, 23 Mar 2007 06:46:53 +0000 Guitar Players Discussion Rum Runner https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/blues-you-can-use-any-good/paged/3/#post-235327 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/blues-you-can-use-any-good/paged/2/#post-235289 Fri, 23 Mar 2007 02:40:46 +0000 Guitar Players Discussion Hyperborea https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/blues-you-can-use-any-good/paged/2/#post-235289 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/blues-you-can-use-any-good/paged/2/#post-235275 Fri, 23 Mar 2007 01:11:15 +0000 + 1 from me too. :)

I've browsed through the first few lessons and most of it looked not too tough. But looking at it and actually doing it properly turned out to be two very different things!! :wink:

Being mostly a rhythm/chord player I thought that I'd find the chords reasonably easy and have to do a lot of work on the 'solo' bits. But so far it's proving to be the other way round! :shock: It's all very well to be able to fast change between a fairly wide range of familiar chords, but when you get a bunch of new chords and unfamiliar changes, then it's back to the fumble-fingered newbie days.... :?

I've already asked my first "dumb newbie" question on JGs forum and got a very quick and helpful response from the author himself, which is a great bonus.

So I've now got the first piece down reasonably well, but got pretty tangled up with the second one. In fact I ended up substituting a simpler chord in one spot and put the tricky one on my 'keep practising' list. Now I'm really enjoying the 3rd piece, which seems fairly easy by comparison. So I'll stay working on all 3 for a while. :)

It's all good, and - yes - I'll also be going through this book a lot more than once I think.

Cheers,

Chris]]> Guitar Players Discussion Chris C https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/blues-you-can-use-any-good/paged/2/#post-235275 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/blues-you-can-use-any-good/paged/2/#post-235242 Thu, 22 Mar 2007 21:01:46 +0000 I've just begun Lesson 5, Double Stop Stomp, and I'd hate to tell you how long I've had the book. Hey, sounds like we are on the same page, literally and figuratively :-)

I've been working on other things too, and I am just about to start Double Stop Stomp. I am still not happy with my timing on the previous one, and I am only trying to play along with the slow version of that, not the full speed one.]]> Guitar Players Discussion vink https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/blues-you-can-use-any-good/paged/2/#post-235242 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/blues-you-can-use-any-good/paged/2/#post-235239 Thu, 22 Mar 2007 20:43:48 +0000
I've just begun Lesson 5, Double Stop Stomp, and I'd hate to tell you how long I've had the book. Though there have been a few blocks of time when I was working on other things and neglected BYCU. Even so, the lessons are definitely challenging for me.

Great book, and definitely my favorite.

Margaret]]> Guitar Players Discussion margaret https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/blues-you-can-use-any-good/paged/2/#post-235239 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/blues-you-can-use-any-good/paged/2/#post-235230 Thu, 22 Mar 2007 20:03:06 +0000 Guitar Players Discussion Anonymous https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/blues-you-can-use-any-good/paged/2/#post-235230 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/blues-you-can-use-any-good/paged/2/#post-235212 Thu, 22 Mar 2007 18:07:49 +0000 Looks pretty good, at first glance through, easy to start, but some some surprises further on....will take it slowly through and see what happens. 8)]]> Guitar Players Discussion OdNt43 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/blues-you-can-use-any-good/paged/2/#post-235212 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/blues-you-can-use-any-good/paged/2/#post-235186 Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:13:28 +0000
BTW, yesterday my teacher passed me on "Bending The Blues" but he couldn't quite give me "Delta Mood". Seems I need to get a little more consistent with my right hand accuracy with all of the string skipping in that one. He also said I'm coming along nicely with the 9th chords, andb yesterday we went over the 7#9 chord. Now thatone sounds real nice!]]> Guitar Players Discussion Rum Runner https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/blues-you-can-use-any-good/paged/2/#post-235186 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/blues-you-can-use-any-good/paged/2/#post-235093 Wed, 21 Mar 2007 20:56:40 +0000 I'm not to the advanced beginner stage, so I've been 'stuck' on 'Swinging the Blues' (Lesson 6?) for a month or so.
But 'stuck' implies it's frustrating and it's really not. It's a fun piece, it sounds good played slower, so I'm constantly working at it and making progress.
And they really are blues you can use. I lift little bits out of the lessons I've done all the time when I'm improv-ing.
By far the best book I've ever bought re. learning guitar.]]> Guitar Players Discussion boxboy https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/blues-you-can-use-any-good/paged/2/#post-235093 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/blues-you-can-use-any-good/paged/2/#post-235088 Wed, 21 Mar 2007 20:06:41 +0000
I had been playing for over two years when I started. Some lessons so far I have breezed through and others were a little more challenging because they did introduce some techniques that were new to me- such as going back and forth between chords and single notes, double stops, etc. Bends I already had down, so a study like "Bending the Blues" came pretty easily. Also, this book was my first real wexposure to moveable 9th chords. In other words, given my level when I started, which i consider as advanced beginner pushing intermediate, I have so far come across some new concepts and some old ones. I am sure that there will be less I already know as I forge ahead. The author mentions in the next lesson that it is the last of the "beginner-intermediate" lessons, and from then on it wioll be "intermediate-advanced".

One thing i do like about this book is that the studies are all nice compositions in thier own right. When you play them you feel like you are really making music. This is opposed to some other books where you just learn an individual phrase or lick which doesn't sound like much all by itself. You actually learn something about composition this way. My teacher is using these studies to point out examples of good composition and soloing.

So, overall, I think this is a great book if you are intersted in blues and at least at an advanced beginner level. I would think that knowing barre chords and having some background in single note playing would be prerequisites.

mike]]> Guitar Players Discussion Rum Runner https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/blues-you-can-use-any-good/paged/2/#post-235088