Beginning Blues Guitar

This easy to follow video will teach you everything you need to know to get started playing the blues. Learn about the styles of blues giants like: B.B. King, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eric Clapton, and Muddy Waters. Known for his easy to understand teaching style, Paul shows you how to play blues chords, rhythm fills, licks, blues scales, and blues lead guitar solos. This video is loaded with play along examples that will have you playing blues guitar right away.
Customer Review: He demos blues music, but doesn’t instruct how to play
Unlike Beginning Rock Guitar, in which Paul Lidel takes the time to go through each riff very slowly, with on-screen tablature, and fully describes the techniques he is using, this video is strictly a demo that lets you watch as Lidel plays the blues for you. It is impossible to follow along as he plays each 12-bar rhythm or solo at full speed, without any on screen tablature, and without note-by-note instruction. Your best bet is to review the two-sided 11″ x 14″ insert that accompanies the DVD in order to learn the song, and then watch Lidel play it to see how it is supposed to sound. Unfortunately the tablature doesn’t match 100% with what he’s playing. Before a segment, he might pause to slowly play the scale from which a solo is drawn, but then launches directly into a full speed demo after which he says, “Now you try it.” You can see that he’s using alternate picking in the solos, but doesn’t bother to explain this technique. This is a very disappointing video because it purports to be targeted at beginners, but definitely seems more intermediate, and lacks any real attempt to instruct.
Customer Review: Well done Blues instruction
The split screen and progression from fairly simple to more complex was very good. It is a beginning blues guitar. You will struggle a bit to keep up if you are a beginning guitarist and never heard of the pentatonic scale etc. Work through the chapters in Guitar for Dummies and you’ll be fine. Would have liked a little more explanation in parts, but since it’s a DVD and you can rewind often as you like, it’s OK. He does a nice job explaining some blues techniques, then getting right down to some practice w/o excessive theory. Highly recommended. Looking forward to some of his other products. “BUY NOW”