16 new rock and blues exercises: shuffles, bends, funk and country
The Rock & blues division grows from 8 exercises to 24: the 12-bar shuffle, bends and vibrato, the blues scale, funk rhythm and country licks.
The Rock & blues division has grown from 8 exercises to 24. The blues and bending exercises play with a crunch guitar, the funk and country ones clean, each over a drummer in its style, counted in at 60% of its goal tempo and speeding up as you go.
- Blues rhythm. A new section: the boogie shuffle in A, the whole 12-bar blues with a quick change, and two turnarounds that lead back to the top of the form. The eighths swing, as a shuffle does.
- Bends and vibrato. Another new section: bends set against the note they should reach, bends and releases, pre-bends, and vibrato narrow, wide and on a bent note. The take check hears a bend that falls short.
- The pentatonic and blues scales. The blues scale with its flat fifth, the major and minor pentatonic mixed, and rock and roll double stops.
- Funk and soul rhythm. 16th-note scratching on an E9, ninth-chord stabs with a slide into the chord, and soul fills on small triad shapes.
- Country licks. Slides into notes, hybrid picking with the pick and two fingers, and chicken picking.
The tab on every exercise page now draws bends, with an arrow and how far they go, and vibrato as a wavy line, the Metal pinch harmonics included. The Rock & blues page has new practice routines built from the new exercises.