News Release (Blues Guitar Chords and Accompaniment)

For Immediate Release...

New Guitar Instruction Book Makes Learning
Blues Rhythm-Guitar Easy and Fun

Guitarists—from beginning to seasoned players—love playing the blues. 12-bar blues is the first song form people learn and jam with friends over. Riffs by B.B. King and Eric Clapton are among the popular guitar bits and pieces exchanged on the streets or in lessons. As prominent as the blues-guitar style appears, however, guitar has historically played a modest yet important role of backing up the blues singers and bands since the beginning. More than anything else, a good and solid accompaniment is indeed what the guitarist is expected to provide with whether the blues band is vocal or instrumental.

Now, Blues Guitar Chords and Accompaniment—Ultimate Step-by-Step Guide to Playing Blues Rhythm Guitar, a new self-instruction guide from Six Strings Music Publishing, can help blues-guitar buffs to learn or improve his/her blues rhythm-guitar skills. With this book, a student can study progressively and systematically how to play the basic guitar chords and various accompaniment styles typically used in the style of the blues. Some of the book’s main topics include:

	12-bar blues progressions, turnarounds, and other blues forms and variations.
	The fingerstyle blues, shuffle, boogie-woogie, single-note riffs, double-stop riffs, small-chord riffs, etc.
	Music fundamentals: music notation, scales, and chord theory.
	Open guitar chords, barre and movable chords, and alternative chord forms.

Each subsection of a chapter characteristically presents only a handful of information that a student can digest and proceed in his/her own pace without feeling overloaded. Throughout the book, various music examples and sample songs are included to clearly exemplify how the basic guitar chords, riffs, and various techniques can be brought together to make up an effective blues accompaniment.

This blues instruction book is but the latest addition to Six Strings’ highly acclaimed Guitar Chords and Accompaniment Series, written and developed by Yoichi Arakawa. The author has penned over 40 guitar instruction titles including: 101 Basic Blues Scales for Guitar, Basic Blues for Rock Guitar, Guitar Chords and Accompaniment, Great Jazz Riffs for Guitar, You Too Can Play Jazz Guitar, A Fingerstyle Christmas, and Best of Miles Davis.

Blues Guitar Chords and Accompaniment is scheduled for a April 2003 release, but Six Strings is now taking advance orders (Web-site: http://www.sixstringsmusicpub.com/ E-mail: order/ P.O. Box 7718, Torrance, CA 90504/ Tel: 800-784-0203, Fax: 310-362-8864). The book is available for $15.95, plus $3.95 Shipping & Handling (L.A. County residents add 8.25% sales tax/ other CA residents add 7.25% sales tax). Dealers can order from the company’s exclusive distributor, Music Sales Corporation (Tel: 800-431-7187).

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