John Miller – Improving Your Ear for the Country Blues Guitarist

Salepage : John Miller – Improving Your Ear for the Country Blues Guitarist

John Miller will show you how to develop your ability to tell what position or tuning a Country Blues performance was played out of by simply listening to the recording. John, who has taught it for many years, will show you what to listen for and help you get started hearing the distinctive sound of the different playing positions and tunings most commonly used in Country Blues guitar. Developing your ability to do this kind of informed listening, or listening with knowledge, will reap significant rewards for your playing, most especially improving your ability to learn by ear.

You can pick up new material by increasing the speed.

The benefit of having this material presented in 2DVD format is that it allows John to go over the material in detail, presenting the sound characteristics of the different playing positions and tunings at length, and providing you with memory devices to help you remember the sound of alternating bass. As John goes along, he plays a host of examples drawn from Country Blues performances that help illustrate and demonstrate the characteristic sound of each playing position. The PDF study guide that accompanies the lesson includes a summary of the sound characteristics that identify each of the playing positions/tunings presented in the lesson, as well as the memory devices that will help you remember the sound of the bass in the different positions.

A selection of recordings of Country Blues played out of different positions and tunings for you to identify using your new skills are included on the DVD.

Disc 1:

Standard tuning, E position.

Standard tuning for the C position.

Standard tuning D position.

Standard tuning position.

Disc 2:

Standard tuning for the G position.

Standard tuning F position.

The tuning is dropped-D.

The tuning of the Vestapol.

Spanish tuning.