Rockabilly Guitar Method

Learn to play rhythm and lead rockabilly guitar with step-by-step lessons and 17 great songs.

This book teaches the techniques, licks, chords, scales and strums you need to play rockabilly Guitar. It shows you how to play rhythm & lead for all kinds of rockabilly grooves, in the style of masters such as Carl Perkins, Brian Setzer, Cliff Gallup, Buddy Holly, Scotty Moore and others. Instead of learning exercises, you learn the classic rockabilly songs and solos that made the genre come together in the first place.

The 58-track CD will help you catch the rhythms and nuances of the rockabilly style. Songs include: "Be-Bop-A-Lula", "Get Rhythm", "Honey Don't", "Milk Cow Blues", "No Particular Place to Go", "Rock Around the Clock", "Rock This Town", "Susie-Q", "Train Kept A-Rollin'" and more.

CONTENIDO:

Introduction

Preliminaires
-The role of guitar in rockabilly & which guitars to use
-Amps & delay pedals
-Fingerpicks & flatpicks
-Great players to listen to

Accompaniment
-Moderate shuffle-beat strum
-Fast shuffle-beat strum
-Straight-eighths strum
-First-position boogie bass lines
-Deadstring boogie bass lines
-Double-note boogie bass lines
-The 12-bar blues form
-I-IV-V chord families
-Moveable single-note boogie bass lines
-Moveable double-note boogie bass lines
-Fingerpicking backup
-Chop chords
-Chord-based fills

Soloing
-First-position E minor pentatonic scale
-The moveable blues box
-Chuck Berry-style double-note licks
-Chord-based soloing
-Fingerpicking solos
-Swing-style single-note soloing
-Octave soloing
-Psychoblly
-Endings & closing chords: 6ths, 7ths, and 6/9 chords

Where to go from here
Abouth the author
Guitar notation legend