Blues Guitar For Dummies. Jon Chappell

in an Amp Sound Chronicling Classic Amps for Blues Messing Around with Your Sound: Effects Juicing Up Your Sound Toying with Tone Quality Modulation Effects, from Swooshy to Swirly Pretending (and Sounding Like) You’re Somewhere You’re Not Choosing an Effects Format Chapter 16: Changing Strings Change Is Good, But When? Choosing the Right Strings Outfitting Your String-Changing Toolkit Removing Old Strings Stringing a Steel-String Acoustic Stringing an Electric Guitar

      8  Part 6: The Part of Tens Chapter 17: Ten Blues Guitar Giants Robert Johnson (1911–38) Elmore James (1918–63) T-Bone Walker (1910–75) Muddy Waters (1915–83) Albert King (1923–92) B.B. King (b. 1925) Albert Collins (1932–93) Otis Rush (b. 1934) Eric Clapton (b. 1945) Stevie Ray Vaughan (1954–90) Chapter 18: Ten Great Blues Guitars Gibson L-1 Flattop Gibson ES-175 Archtop National Steel Gibson J-200 Fender Telecaster Gibson Les Paul Fender Stratocaster Gibson ES-335 Gibson ES-355 Gibson SG Chapter 19: Ten (Plus One) Must-Have Blues Guitar Albums Robert Johnson: The Complete Recordings Blues Masters: The Very Best of Lightnin’ Hopkins T-Bone Walker: Complete Capitol Black & White Recordings T-Bone Walker: Complete Imperial Recordings The Best of Muddy Waters B.B. King: Live at the Regal The Very Best of Buddy Guy Robert Cray: Bad Influence Masters of the Delta Blues: Friends of Charlie Patton Mean Old World: The Blues from 1940 to 1994 Chicago: The Blues Today

      9  Part 7: Appendixes Appendix A: How to Read Music The Elements of Music Notation Appendix B: How to Use the Website Relating the Text to the Website System Requirements What You’ll Find on the Website Troubleshooting

      10  Index

      11  About the Author

      12  Connect with Dummies

      13  End User License Agreement

      List of Tables

      1 Chapter 5TABLE 5-1 Blues Songs by Groove

      2 Chapter 6TABLE 6-1 The I, IV, and V Chords in Common Blues Keys

      3 Chapter 8TABLE 8-1 Comparing the Major and Minor Pentatonic Scales

      4 Chapter 10TABLE 10-1 Dynamics Symbols and Their Meanings

      5 Chapter 11TABLE 11-1 The Songs of Robert Johnson

      6 Chapter 16TABLE 16-1 Common Acoustic-Guitar String Sets by GaugeTABLE 16-2 Common Electric-Guitar String Sets by Gauge

      7 Chapter 20TABLE A-1 Pitch Symbols and Their MeaningsTABLE A-2 Duration Symbols and Their MeaningsTABLE A-3 Expression, Articulation, and Miscellaneous Symbols

      List of Illustrations

      1 Chapter 1FIGURE 1-1: The Fender Stratocaster and the Gibson Les Paul.

      2 Chapter 2FIGURE 2-1: The C major scale with blue notes.FIGURE 2-2: The 6-note blues scale and 5-note minor pentatonic scale.FIGURE 2-3: A typical acoustic guitar with its major parts labeled.FIGURE 2-4: A typical electric guitar with its major parts labeled.FIGURE 2-5: The makers of electric sound, reporting for duty.FIGURE 2-6: A left-hand string bend stretches the string, causing it to rise in...

      3 Chapter 3FIGURE 3-1: The correct position for creating notes and chords.FIGURE 3-2: The