2025 Bath Summer School - Contemporary Styles

Blues & Country Tutor: Andy Saphir

This course looks at the techniques, musical approaches and lick vocabulary used in electric blues lead guitar.

Course outline

By delving into the styles of blues guitar greats of the past and present like T Bone Walker, BB King, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Joe Bonamassa and Kirk Fletcher, you will learn staple blues guitar approaches such as mixing minor and major pentatonics, string bending and double stops. In addition, the course looks at the theory behind some of those cool jazz sounding approaches used by players like Robben Ford, Larry Carlton and Josh Smith.

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