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Art of the Shuffle | 
 enlarge | Author: Dave Rubin
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 218236
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 64
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 11.9 x 8.7 x 0.4
ISBN: 0793542065
Dewey Decimal Number: 781
UPC: 073999950052
EAN: 9780793542062
ASIN: 0793542065
Publication Date: February 1, 1996
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Product Description
Art Of The Shuffle This method book explores shuffle, boogie and swing rhythms for guitar. Includes tab and notation, and covers Delta, country, Chicago, Kansas City, Texas, New Orleans, West Coast, and bebop blues. Also includes audio for demonstration of each style and to jam along with.
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 Will help the young and old, my dog likes it too!! September 18, 2008
If you are starting as a blues guitarist, this is a bible to memorize and internalize. You will never be stuck for a blues rhythm after this book. The book is laid out with a very rich historical overview of - (wait for it) - "The Art of the Shuffle" complete with many great photos and anecedotes. Personally, I always like to know what the time frame was for a tune or style of music. It gives me an opportunity to get the sound of my rig as close as the technology that was available back then and it also allows me to wrap my head around the time and place the music was created, which like our own lives has its own feel and experience.
The format is laid out chronologically and covers a lot styles right up to be-bop, although the book could have been fleshed out with a few more examples, hence the four stars.
Still, there is plenty to learn, especially if you take what is in the book and transpose it to different keys and styles. So even if you're an old guy like me or starting out, there's still lots to information, even if you take one thing away it's well worth the admission price and I'm sure you will get way more than one thing from Mr. Rubin's book. Good luck with your music.
I jump to this book when .... August 18, 2008
... I'm sick of my other books. Great lessons and amazing historical notes and pictures.
Any lover of blues, pop or jazz will learn a lot about the shuffle February 12, 2007
Although this book is aimed at guitar players, the history it gives of the shuffle is magnificent, from the stiff popular music of Henry "Hot Lips" Busse to the Mississippi delta, to T-Bone Walker, Kansas City jazz, bebop, and rock and roll, and many other stops, the shuffle is fully revealed in pictures and text.
In addition, there's a play-along CD demonstrating all the styles in the book at generous length.
As a drummer, I could wish for something about drums and bass, but as it stands the book is an excellent teaching guide and encyclopedic reference.
get into the blues August 10, 2006
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I'd recommend Dave Rubin's "12-bar blues" for beginners being a bit easier and basic. A few of the progressions are the same or similar, but this book has more advanced material, complex progressions, and geared more toward rhythm concepts.
This is a great book for expanding your knowledge of shuffle, swing, and boogie rhythms and of blues history. Starts off with some good old blues Jimmy-Reed type shuffles and then expands into some more challenging boogie/swing/jazzy sounding progressions. Many of the chords and progressions are meant to emulate the classic blues piano styles of the old days.
The book also has a scholarly and interesting history of the development of blues and jazz rhythms and the ragtime, dixieland and boogie woogie rhythms they developed from. Plus lots of cool pictures from the old days of big bands and original blues recordings.
Great book if you want to play the blues (rhythm guitar) May 6, 2005
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
"Art of the shuffle" is another winner by Dave Rubin and part of the worthy collection *Inside the Blues*, published by Hal Leonard. You get great music to perform - such a book can provide hours and hours of enjoyment and learning - at a fraction of the cost of a one-hour lesson!
Art of the Shuffle is like having a course with a guitar teacher who is also a music historian! The book has substantial, out-of-the ordinary information on the history of the blues, including GREAT pictures, mostly from unsung heroes of the genre.
The lay-out of the charts is superior and it is a breeze to read the charts and the tabs. Mr. Rubin's comments on the music and his performing tips are precise. The CD recordings are professional and enjoyable and cover ample territory: from basic 12-bar Delta blues to sophisticated jazzy workouts, from jump blues to classic Chicago riffs. A student should first listen, then play at a lower tempo until he/she can play the varied shuffle rhythms along with the tracks. Additional great value of the "Art of the shuffle" CD: the tracks are perfect for practicing lead guitar as well! In fact, 2 guitarists (rhythm and solo) can build an enjoyable set-list based entirely on the material of this book.
I highly recommend this book, which is a fine choice for the advanced beginner/ intermediate guitarist who wants to play blues rhythm guitar.
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