Beginning guitarists will benefit from these easy-to-absorb lessons designed to teach the essential basics of blues guitar playing. Essential lead guitar techniques are also covered including string bending, hammer-ons and pull-offs, sliding and vibrato, which can be useful in many styles of guitar playing from jazz to metal. Other topics covered include: the blues scale • the major and minor pentatonic scales • outlining the chords • double stops • phrasing • relative scales • turnaround licks • extended pentatonics • 12-bar blues progressions • blues phrasing • and more.