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Fingerstyle Guitar Volume 5 - Part B

The Blues equivalent of "Pulse" bass is called "Dead Thumb".

The kind of counterpoint bass played in Blues is called "Walking Bass". Then "blues-Style" string bending is introduced. 32 song arrangements. 57 song arrangements. (80 pages) Notation edition.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction to Pulse Bass - pages Vb-1 to Vb-8
  • Blues-Style "Dead Thumb" Bass Lines
  • Introduction to "Dead Thumb" Bass - pages Vb-9 to Vb-14
  • "Dead Thumb" Bass Song Arrangements
  • "Motherless Children" - page Vb-15
  • "Motherless Children - II" - page Vb-16
  • "Momma Don't "low" - page Vb-17
  • "Wild About My Lovin'" - page Vb-18
  • "PB & J Blues" - page Vb-19
  • "East of East St. Louis Blues" - page Vb-20
  • "Backwater Blues" (Bessie Smith, 1927) - page Vb-21
  • "St. James Infirmary Blues" - page Vb-22
  • "St. James Infirmary Blues - II" - page Vb-23
  • "Things About Comin' My Way" - page Vb-24
  • "Rollin' an' Tumblin'" - pages Vb-24 to Vb-25
  • "Things About Comin' My Way - II" - page Vb-25
  • "Baby Please Don't Go" - page Vb-26
  • "Key to the Highway" - page Vb-27
  • "Broke and Hungry" - page Vb-28
  • "Told My Captain" - page Vb-29
  • "Big Road Blues - II" - page Vb-30
  • "Big Road Blues" - page Vb-31
  • "Sportin' Life - II" - page Vb-32
  • "Black Snake Moan" / "Drain Snake Loan" - page Vb-33
  • "Trouble in Mind" - page Vb-34
  • "Betty and Dupree" - page Vb-35
  • "St. Louis Blues" - pages Vb-36 to Vb-37
  • "Crossroads Blues" - page Vb-39
  • "Sweet Home Chicago" - pages Vb-40 to Vb-41
  • "Whirlpool Fool" - page Vb-42
  • "Dead Thumb" String-Bending
  • Introduction to String Bends - pages Vb-43 to Vb-48
  • "Dead Thumb" Song Arrangements with String-Bending
  • "How Long Blues" - page Vb-49
  • "Last Fair Deal Gone Down" - page Vb-50
  • "Walking Blues" - page Vb-51
  • "Hey, Hey" - pages Vb-52 to Vb-53
  • "Duncan and Brady - II" - page Vb-54
  • "I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down" - page Vb-55
  • "Bender Blues" - page Vb-56
  • "See See Rider" - page Vb-57
  • "Sportin' Life" - page Vb-58
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