The Book To Use To Learn Blues Guitar

A review of the guitar method book Blues You Can Use by John Ganapes with musical examples of pieces from the book. This is great book for learning blues guitar which is the foundation of rock, soul, funk RnB and jazz playing too.
The book covers essential blues topics including:
12 bar blues structure and I IV V chords
Minor 12 bar blues structure
Dominant 7, 9 and minor 7 chords
Blues chord and lick turnarounds
Scales including the minor pentatonic, makor pentatonic and blues scales.
Plus it comes with great pieces and solos which include to learn how to use all these elements to play the blues. A highly recommended book.
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[@AngelMartinez-qs3cf]

Great video. Thank you for posting this. This seems to be a great book. Plan on getting this.

[@speedmasterrobert6965]

I have the book, but the video helps a lot

[@rickwhitmire3960]

Hey i rember this book,had some good info and licks!

[@Jazzadrin]

Cool review. I have this book and I think it’s really good

[@LearningToPlayTheGuitar]

Yes it’s a great book for learning blues guitar. His 2nd book More Blues You Can Use is good too.

[@Jazzadrin]

Learning To Play The Guitar I will look in to that one when I complete Blues You Can Use. I heard that second book is a significant jump in difficulty

[@stringman509]

I have this book but CD is scratched can you just buy a new one thanks Colin uk

[@Alex_U]

You can get mp3 and videos on their website, use the key code from the first page

[@MidnightStorm4990]

Is this book any good for beginners? I feel so dry when playing my guitar and covers and I really want to learn the blues.

[@LearningToPlayTheGuitar]

Yes it’s a great book for beginners. Highly recommended!

[@1708170817081]

I just found this book and am loving it I’m on lesson 5 and the CD cracked....bummed out

[@vivinbangera3382]

Search for blues you can use on UA-cam and you’ll see a playlist by a person called Ota Pinkner. He has all the songs from this book recorded. Hope this helps.

[@LearningToPlayTheGuitar]

This channel has perfomances of most of the tunes. Something I should do myself! ua-cam.com/users/Amilton7videos

[@Alex_U]

You can access the library at their website, the key is printed on the first page. There you can download mp3 and videos with John Ganapes

[@solarpumpkin9709]

There´s also a book called "Blues You Can Use 2". How is that one (the search for that book brought me to this clip, at least ; ) ) ?
EDIT: I was wrong with the title, correctly it´s titled "More Blues You Can Use".

[@bishalghimirey2993]

Hey can a guitarist just be a blues guitarist without delving into any styles, is it practical in real life situations as a musician,pls suggest.....

[@LearningToPlayTheGuitar]

It’s perfectly fine to be just a blues player. In most major cities in the world there is an active blues scene with many musicians and an audience for it too.

[@bishalghimirey2993]

@@LearningToPlayTheGuitar Thank you so much for your help......

[@Tom-tw1wd]

​@@bishalghimirey2993 Use the blues as your base (pentatonic shapes, phrasing, licks, basic structure etc) then add other things too it once you're more comfortable with what you're doing. The blues is useful because you can use it to leapfrog into other genres and most players who you'll meet in the outside world will have some grounding in the blues so it's easy to jam with them without knowing the same songs. But unless you're Peter Green or like in some blues specific band learning more then what's in this book isn't going to help you in a general sense because everything else you learn is going to be some deviant of the blues (unless like he said you learn classical) so you're going to improve your ''blues'' without even playing the blues because you'll be incorporating different stuff into your playing . So for example say you learn Country, that's basically the blues with some added Country flavour so you mix the two. Say you learn Rock N Roll, that's the same thing, Hard Rock, same thing. They're all just basically the blues but with added stylistic inflections so to just be like ''Right I'm a blues player, that's that.'' it's like majoring in the minors. Unless ofcourse you have a specific purpose for doing it. Hope that helps u mate.