Take a lesson in fingerstyle blues guitar with one of the world's most respected teachers and performers Happy Traum. This is a hands-on beginner's course in acoustic country blues made famous by Mississippi John Hurt Lead Bellyand Merle Travis to name but a few legendary figures. b Happy Traum delivers a fantastic lesson that begins with the most basic strumming of a 12-bar blues pattern gradually adding fills runs turnarounds and bass rhythmsthat make the basic blues progression come alive. An accompanying CD provides demonstrations of all examples in the book

This is a hands-on course to get you started playing traditional blues piano! Progressing from the elementary theory needed to understand chord progressions to setting up a solid left-hand rhythm in the bass to create a bedrock for the right hand improvisations to come this is a comprehensive and systematic course with a CD include that builds a solid bed-rock on which to build more complex techniques.