IMMERSE YOURSELF IN THE GOLDEN AGE OF ACOUSTIC BLUES. WITH A COLLECTION OF PROGRESSIVELY CHALLENGING COMPOSITIONS, THIS BOOK IS A MUST-HAVE FOR ANY ACOUSTIC GUITARIST. Miggs Rivera, master guitarist, composer, and instructor guides you step by step through the different techniques and styles of fingerpicking blues, showing you the secrets of the technique of the greatest guitarists of all time such as Robert Johnson, Lightning Hopkins, Charlie Patton ...with explanatory videos of all exercises and compositions. This book will help you to play with greater expressiveness and emotion, opening new horizons so that you can fully enjoy the exciting world of the guitar. YOU'LL LEARN TO BUILD TO INDEPENDENT VOICES TO SOUND LIKE THE GREATEST! 12 AWESOME COMPOSITIONS TO ENJOY! TECHNIQUES: Hammer-on, pull-off, slide and rubato bends grace notes, mastering 12/8 time signature, octaves and unisons, amazing chord positions, quarter-note bass line accompaniment, the turn around, thirds and sixths in melody, bass-melody independence, palm muting, percussive techniques, Drop-D and Open-G tunings, walking bass and more... Table of Contents: INTRODUCTION Chapter 1: BUILDING TWO INDEPENDENT VOICES “HIT THE ROAD” 1.1. 12-bar Blues Progression: building two independent voices 1.2. Hammer-on grace notes study 1.3. Slide grace notes study 1.4. Rubato bends study 1.5. Chords study 1.6. Rubato bends study on the higher and lower strings 1.7. “Hit the Road” Chapter II: “BLUES WHEELS” 2.1 12/8 time signature 2.2 12/8 time signature vs. 4/4 time signature with swing 2.3 Unison and its powerful sound 2.4 Octaves 2.5 Pull-offs 2.6 “Blues Wheels” and the importance of playing with Punch Chapter III: “GOING TO MISSISSIPPI” 3.1 Licks 3.2 New chord positions and rubato bending 3.3 “Going to Mississippi” Chapter IV: “THE YOUNG BOY DELTA BLUES” 4.1 Quarter-note bass line accompaniment 4.2 The Turn Around 4.3 “The Young Boy Delta Blues” Chapter V: “GOOD EVENING DELTA BLUES” 5.1 Thirds in melody with ‘on beat’ bass in 12/8 5.2 Dominant seventh chords with root on fourth string and diminished seventh chords 5.3 “Good Evening Delta Blues” Chapter VI: “JOHN LEE BOOGIE” 6.1 Sixths 6.2 More Punch 6.3 “John Lee Boogie” Chapter VII: “CHARLIE’S BLUES” 7.1 Index-finger strumming technique 7.2 Walking bass 7.3 Percussive hits 7.4 “Charlie’s Blues” Chapter VIII: “NEW YORK BLUES” 8.1 Using vibrato 8.2 Drop-D tuning 8.3 More percussive effects 8.4 “New York Blues” Chapter IX: “HOUSE SLIDING” 9.1 The Slide in the blues 9.2 Open-G tuning 9.3 Sound qualities in Slide Guitar 9.4 The slide vibrato 9.5 “House Sliding” Chapter X: “CROSSROADS BLUES” 10.1 Palm muting 10.2 Diminished Seventh chords 10.3 “Crossroads Blues” Chapter XI: “BLUE LIGHTNING” 11.1 Index for everything 11.2 The totally independent melody from the bass 11.3 “Blue Lightning” Chapter XII: “MIDNIGHT N’ PARTY BLUES” 12.1 Neck Bend 82 12.2 More percussive techniques: The BD and SS techniques 12.3 “Midnight n’ Party Blues” TABLATURE GUIDE ACKNOLEDGEMENTS