Author: John Ganapes

As the title suggests this is a follow on from the first book in the series. This version focuses on more advanced techniques such as double stops, playing the pentatonic's across the neck, intervals and arpeggios to name but a few and is not aimed at the beginner. If you own the first book "Blues You Can Use" then you will already be familiar with the theme which is based around solo examples, each introducing you to new concepts and techniques with explanations that aren't overdone so the text isn't too much.

I like this approach, guitarists will learn much more by just getting on with it and these particular books by John Ganapes are more about the hands on examples while giving the reader a short explanation of the concepts should they need it. Most other guitar learning books do this the other way around, more text, less example.

All the solo lessons are tabbed out in full and each of them comes complete with full audio examples on the accompanying CD. Unfortunately the solo parts can't be separated from the jam tracks other than panned out slightly, which was the same problem with the first book. As irritating as this is, it's still a great follow on from the first and much can be gained from it, as the title says, it simply is more blues you can use.

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