The Blues guitar style is more popular today than at any other time in its long history. Emphasis on feel, rhythmic ideas and melodic ingenuity are just some of the skills needed to improvise in an effective and convincing manner. As the Blues style is an evolving art form, the Fastline Blues Tutors reflect the changing emphasis in regards melody, substitution etc., in each package. For example, the Primer pack introduces all the basic techniques used as well as giving a large selection of rhythm & blues orientated music. The Intermediate/Advanced Tutor includes examples of hybrid picking as well as introducing the student to line substitution. The Advanced tutor deals in-depth with substitution ideas and reaches the boundary of jazz guitar.

Introductory package for beginners in the Blues guitar style. Lines outline the following techniques:- Full and half-tone bends, vibrato, combining vibrato techniques with bends, minor third bends, unison bends, slides, triplet ideas, rhythm and blues examples, using slides with blues phrasing.

• Five position blues scale patterns notated across the neck.
• Twelve bar blues progression provided with chord shapes in Fastline
• section. Complete solo included with play along facility

Projects include:

Working with diads, primary blues scales, riff development, dominant seventh chords and tonal and dynamic ranges. Backtrack section contains blues progression in the keys of D, G, A, E and C.

Intermediate package ideal for those who have been playing for some time, but want to increase their knowledge and technique. Tutor includes:- Double-stops, triple-stops, dominant seventh arpeggio playing, hybridpicking, pedal tone ideas, question and answerphrasing, major and minor pentatonic lines.

Complete solo included with play along facility.

Projects include:

Positional playing, phrasing, working with triads, arpeggio fingering, question and answer and melodic embellishment. Backtrack section contains blues progression in the keys of D minor (two progressions given), F, E and A.

Advanced players who have attained a high degree of technical proficiency and possess a flexible approach will benefit from the many different concepts given in this tutor.Lines include the following techniques:- Extended phrasing, mixolydian patterns in 3rds and 6ths, dominant minor substitutions, substitute arpeggios on the dominant, advanced minor concepts, eight note dominant scale lines, playing through changes, advanced ornamentation with chord fills and substitute progression lines.

Extended solo included with play along facility.

Projects include:

Arpeggio substitution, octave leaps, motif development, diatonic arpeggio substitutions, altering the dominant and extended phrasing. Backtrack section contains blues progression in the keys of B flat, G, F, C minor and G (modal).