A companion to John Ganapes original "Blues you can use" published in 1995.

Roy Book Binder demonstrates a wide variety of chords, right and left hand patterns, and a complete vocabulary of licks and techniques. He also teaches endings, runs, slides, open-string techniques, pull-offs, hammer-ons, damping, turnarounds and more.

Roy Book Binder demonstrates chords and positions needed to play in the essential key of A. He also teaches songs, turnarounds, chord variations, right hand rhythms and his own unique approach to blues guitar.

"Offered here are all the basics, many of the secrets and tricks of Lightnin's deeply accomplished, deceptively simple acoustic Texas boogie guitar style."--Container.

Takes a look at Open G tuning (Spanish tuning), Open D tuning (Vestapol tuning), and Open E minor chord tuning (Crossnote tuning). Also discusses Delta blues ideas in Open G tuning and how to apply bottleneck techniques to open tuning. Seven tunes are taught, one phrase at a time, and these include: "Vestapol," "John Henry," "If you don't want me," "Working on the new railroad," "Special rider blues," "Hard time killin' floor blues," and "I'm so glad."...

"Presents instruction in John Hurt's reportoire, with songs chosen to showcase his playing in different keys"--Containers.

"Presents instruction in John Hurt's reportoire, with songs chosen to showcase his playing in different keys"--Containers.