Master the Blues in Open G Guitar Tuning (DGDGBD)
101 Blues Riffs & Solos in Open G Guitar Tuning is the most complete book ever written exclusively for blues in DGDGBD tuning. It is suitable for beginners and intermediate guitarists and an excellent reference for advanced guitarists.
Guitarist Brent Robitaille has written over 50 instructional guitar books and is recommended by students worldwide. Brent is a well-known session guitarist who has recorded extensively and specializes in altered tunings and blues.
His latest book, 101 Blues Riffs & Solos in Open G Tuning, is a complete course covering a wide range of essential blues styles, including traditional, Delta, rock, funk, and jazz blues. The 101 riffs and solos cover stylistic riffs, practical one- and two-bar riffs, blues rhythm guitar riffs, fingerstyle patterns, slide guitar, and solos, all designed to be immediately applicable to your playing, ensuring that your time and effort will be well-spent.
Using a combination of slide, fingerstyle, and pick playing, you will cover all the bases needed to develop a solid blues technique in open G guitar. Refer regularly to the extensive scale charts, which show the blues, major, minor, modal, and pentatonic scales, chords and arpeggio patterns, essential blues chords and progressions presented in all keys.
Additional material on slide guitar playing includes accompaniment with a bottleneck slide, chords with slide and fingers, and exercises to develop your steel skills further.
Best of all, you can go to Brent's website to listen to all the audio tracks and a selection of videos to enhance your learning. If you want to begin or continue exploring the world of open G, you are in the right place. Everything you need to master the blues with essential lessons in 6-string DGDGBD open guitar tuning!
Brent Robitaille is a musician, composer, arranger, and owner of Kalymi Music Publishing (www.brentrobitaille.com). Brent has written over 50 music instruction books and completed hundreds of arrangements for a variety of instruments and ensembles. Brent is also a well-known music producer and session musician who has recorded and written for television, movies, commercials, and a lengthy list of artists and bands spanning 30 years. His compositions have been performed throughout the world, with recent performances in Italy, England, Las Vegas, New Jersey, and on the television show "American Pickers" on the A&E network in the U.S.A. Brent is a well-known YouTuber publishing over 800 music videos. His music videos have accrued over 10 million views in over 196 countries, with 50,000+ subscribers and counting. Brent studied composition, guitar, piano and theory at the Royal Conservatory of Music, Humber College, McGill and York University.
