FINGERSTYLE BLUES

RICK FINES

Guitar Tuition DVD

In this 75 minute lesson, Rick Starts with his 'thumb driven' style of fingerstyle blues and slowly builds, adding new licks and techniques throughout the lesson. Rick's teaching is clear and concise and allows the student to begin playing from start of the lesson and to grow as a player in a methodical, fun process

Some of the topics Rick discusses on This DVD include:

• Thumb technique and damping
• Call and answer on an E riff
• Vibrato
• The E Pentatonic scale with bass added
• Call and Answer adding more scale notes
• Blues Riffs
• Picking-hand triplets
• Building tension in the triplets
• G bass line riffs
• E turnarounds
• Climbing up the neck 12 Bar Blues in A
• The Diminished chord
• Mixing Forward and Backward Rolls
• Mixing rolls and pinches {right hand)
• Endings for A Blues
• Sliding into chords/notes
• The classic turnaround using the G shape
• Moving the turnaround to A
• Syncopation
• And much more!