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Looking to add to your Blues toolbox to enhance your playing and improv skills? The blues tend to be very improvisational music and Lance Ruby's Tricks of the Trade course for beginner blues players will not only give you a leg up in making your blues playing more dynamic, but it will also lay the groundwork for you to start expressing yourself with blues improvisation!
Complete course with step-by-step lessons and practice examples.
Course filmed with 6 cameras for the perfect angles.
All tabs and notation provided in PDF and Guitar Pro formats.
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Lance Ruby starts us out by discussing some key techniques for playing the blues such as; sliding notes, bending notes, and double stops. He also will unpack two different stylistic forms such as the The Albert King Box and The BB box. Along with these new tools that will be added to your player's toolbox he will talk about the conversational style within the improv of blues playing. You'll get a chance to practice these ideas and concepts with 5 backing tracks where you and Lance will trade off playing with each other!
Lance Ruby introduces us to his course, 'Tricks of the Trade: Beginner Blues Improv'
3:08 Runtime
0.0 Difficulty
For our first lesson, Lance discusses how to get into the mindset of improvisation. Further, into the lesson, we get our hands on his first trick of the trade, sliding!
13:28 Runtime
2.0 Difficulty
Let's jump into our first track utilizing sliding as the core skill when improvising.
7:41 Runtime
In this lesson, Lance teaches us a quintessential technique within the blues genre, bending!
11:06 Runtime
Let's continue to trade off playing with Lance in this next track with a focus on really trying to master the bending technique.
5:00 Runtime
Lance breaks down double stops and how they can be used to "thicken up" your playing.
8:07 Runtime
Let's really lock in this concept we just learned from the previous lesson with this next track!
7:31 Runtime
In this next lesson, we take a dive into the style of Albert King!
10:06 Runtime
Let's take that Albert King box we just learned and implement it into this next track!
7:09 Runtime
For our final trick of the trade, Lance introduces us to the BB Box!
8:00 Runtime
In this last jam session for the course, we use focus on the BB Box as the main skillset when playing with Lance!
7:06 Runtime
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