Looking to learn Joe Bonamassa’s ‘Blues Deluxe’ but I’ve only come across the opening solo to learn, which I’ve got on GPro…
I know Joe Bonamassa bought out a book called ‘Joe Bonamassa: Blues Deluxe (Play It Like It Is Guitar)’ with the complete tabs to the songs on the album. Does anyone have the book, as I’m thinking of getting a copy. I want to get it only if it has the tabs of the complete song, not just the intro.
I have this DVD, and it has a full lesson on the song you’re looking for and comes with a high quality backing track as well. Also includes a video of the instructor playing through the entire thing, which is very useful for learning. If you are not super much in a hurry the site very, very often has 50% off sales.
Kasper, you should be more careful throwing around terms from the old days like DVD - the youngin’s won’t know what you’re referring to. Surely this is on Netflix, right?
Ha ha, yeah you’re right! Well, technically I have this download product (which they actually used to release on DVDs)
(or one could buy a membership at the site, which allows for streaming the lessons - but I need/want the files offline so I can put then into Transcribe to control tempo and mark up sections)
Well, in my day…I started out using the big old floppy disk in computers and recording to tape cassette from the radio, for my mix tapes. So I know how you all feel
I’ll have a look into the lick library, thank you. Does it come with tabs as I’d like to transcribe it into Guitar Pro to help with learning the song.
On a side note:
Got to see Joe Bonamassa live in July here in Austria. Amazing concert.
It does not come with tabs - but (and this is just my opinion of course) tabs are really a very bad way of learning a piece of music anyway
The style of teaching here is pretty thorough. The teacher takes you through section by section, breaking down each lick and phrase. For practice you would normally play along to the teachers performance video of the track, or (when you’ve learned it) play along by yourself with the backing track.
I’m not familiar with the product that Kaspar is referring to but can advise you to create your own TAB.
Every so often I see an instructional video that inspires but doesn’t have the TAB. I’ll play it (YouTube allows speed reduction which helps A LOT) & pause it over & over while writing down my own TAB - this also allows me to add info that the instructor is talking about! I started doing this while watching Justin’s song lessons & have continued with other YouTubers.
I think it helps me to get a better grasp of the song structure also… very beneficial!
Thanks for all the advise. I looked at Lick Library and they had a flash sale for I bought the streaming of the 5 songs for €15 and also got a tab of the song so I’ll use both. Use the video lesson to learn to timing etc and the tabs to go over.
Normally use YouTube but the lessons for this song are scarce on YouTube, only the solo intro…
I’ll see over the weekend how it goes and give an update.