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Blues/Rock Soloing for Guitar: A Guide to the Essential Scales, Licks and Soloing Techniques | 
 enlarge | Creator: Robert Calva
Publisher: Musicians Institute Press
Category: Book
List Price: $17.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 596600
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 88
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 11.7 x 8.7 x 0.5
ISBN: 0634038753
Dewey Decimal Number: 782
UPC: 073999346206
EAN: 9780634038754
ASIN: 0634038753
Publication Date: September 1, 2003
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Product Description
This private lesson with MI instructor Robert Calva covers: 10 complete solos in notes and tab; common scales and licks; blues, major, minor and combined tonalities; playing over changes; recommended listening; and more. Each musical example is demonstrated on the accompanying CD, which also includes rhythm-only tracks so you can practice your own solos.
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Great Book January 19, 2008
This book is done the most guitar books should be . It takes you through about 10 or 11 mainly blues based tracks. First the major licks for each piece are explained with some theory. Then the whole solo is played with both a rhythm only and rhythm with lead tracks. Further additional theory/explanation is give prior to each major solo. The author is obviously a great guitar player and draws a lot from Stevie Ray Vaughn and Johnny Winter. The solo are fairly fast though not impossible for an intermediate player if learned in stages. I wish the author would write a similar straight rock based book and maybe even a country one.
Fun Book April 27, 2006
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
I really enjoyed going through this book. There is a good amount of licks from different styles and the integration of the licks into the tracks on the CD are really good. There is a nice variety of songs and some basic scale and music theory. The only thing that I don't really like is that the lead for the songs are placed on only one track of the CD. This makes it kind of annoying to keep going back and forth. IMO he should have split it up into sections but it's not that big of a deal. This stuff may be too advanced for beginners. If you are just the casual lead guitarist, maybe 2-3 years experience would be sufficient to play this stuff. Beginners should buy Texas Blues by Calva, it is much easier than this stuff. Overall good book and worth going through.
Get this book and take your time November 4, 2005
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
I was at the point where I was playing blues scales too much. I took the time to learn one scale a week and played them thru these backing tracks mimicking the styles of the songs. I learned a lot. This guy takes you thru all types of playing styles from many of the greats in each solo. His two note exercise in Mixalydian mode (seventh scales) and minor seventh scales (very similar to blues scales) got me motivated to get deeper into the Mixalydian mode and learn them. That one two note exercise alone leads to better playing. I hear them used by Hendrix, Freddy King, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and other aggressive greats including Johnny Winter. I have improved a great deal. I would suggest this for someone with over 5 years of experience who is very able to read tab. My only wish is that he puts out a second edition in the same exact style. If he did I would suggest a strictly slow blues book in differant scales with the same use of multiple artist styles.
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