Master the Blues in Open D Guitar Tuning Take your Open D guitar playing to the next level with 101 Blues Riffs & Solos in Open D Guitar Tuning. The most complete instructional book ever written exclusively for DADF#AD tuning. This book is great for beginners and excellent for intermediate and advanced guitarists looking to enrich their creative, open tuning knowledge. A complete course on its own, the book covers a wide range of essential lessons to play blues in multiple styles, including traditional, Delta, rock, funk and jazz blues. Begin by studying the 40 stylistic riffs in several keys, then move on to the 25 practical one and two bar riffs. Next, you can learn the rhythm guitar riffs, the fingerstyle patterns, and finish with the longer riffs and solos. Using a combination of slide, fingerstyle and pick playing, you will cover all the bases needed to develop a solid technique in open D guitar. The extensive scale charts show the blues, major, minor, modal and pentatonic scales with useful diagrams. Chords and arpeggios are also covered with the essential blues chords and variations on blues chord progressions presented in all keys. If you want to explore the world of open D, then you are in the right place. Everything you need to master the blues with essential lessons for DADF#AD guitar tuning! 185 pgs. Audio tracks are available at: https://brentrobitaille.com/product/101-blues-riffs-and-solos-in-open-d-guitar-tuning/

Master the Blues in Open G Guitar Tuning (DGDGBD) 101 Blues Riffs & Solos in Open G Guitar Tuning is the most complete book ever written exclusively for blues in DGDGBD tuning. It is suitable for beginners and intermediate guitarists and an excellent reference for advanced guitarists. Guitarist Brent Robitaille has written over 50 instructional guitar books and is recommended by students worldwide. Brent is a well-known session guitarist who has recorded extensively and specializes in altered tunings and blues. His latest book, 101 Blues Riffs & Solos in Open G Tuning, is a complete course covering a wide range of essential blues styles, including traditional, Delta, rock, funk, and jazz blues. The 101 riffs and solos cover stylistic riffs, practical one- and two-bar riffs, blues rhythm guitar riffs, fingerstyle patterns, slide guitar, and solos, all designed to be immediately applicable to your playing, ensuring that your time and effort will be well-spent. Using a combination of slide, fingerstyle, and pick playing, you will cover all the bases needed to develop a solid blues technique in open G guitar. Refer regularly to the extensive scale charts, which show the blues, major, minor, modal, and pentatonic scales, chords and arpeggio patterns, essential blues chords and progressions presented in all keys. Additional material on slide guitar playing includes accompaniment with a bottleneck slide, chords with slide and fingers, and exercises to develop your steel skills further. Best of all, you can go to Brent’s website to listen to all the audio tracks and a selection of videos to enhance your learning (brentrobitaille.com). If you want to begin or continue exploring the world of open G, you are in the right place. Everything you need to master the blues with essential lessons in 6-string DGDGBD open guitar tuning!

Celtic Flatpicking in Open D Guitar Tuning Tuning your guitar to DADF#AD or "Open D" compliments Celtic music brilliantly. The open tuning allows the strings to vibrate easily, creating drones and overlapped notes that sound reminiscent of a harp or bagpipe. The 30+ tunes represent a good selection of well-known Celtic session tunes including, jigs, reels, hornpipes, waltzes and songs. Each tune shows notation, tablature and chords. Some of the tunes are arranged with chords added in with the melody, while the faster tunes just have the melody line. Go to my website (KalymiMusic.com) to play along with the accompaniment tracks to help learn the tunes quickly. If you are new to this style, then check out my twelve useful tips for Flatpicking. There are also some examples of how to use ornamentation to further embellish the tunes. For further study in Open D, I have included a series of chord and arpeggio charts with fingerboard diagrams. These charts will help you learn the DADF#AD fingerboard and allow you to accompany in Open D with Major, Minor and Dominant 7th chords. Campanella (overlapping) scales in Major and Minor are given plus Mixolydian and Dorian modal scales, which are common in this style. Use these scales as a technical practice to help master the fingerboard and to help achieve a flowing legato-sound to authentically play the tunes. There is also a small selection of common chords in Open D, some Celtic strumming patterns in 4/4 and 6/8, and note charts and DADF#AD fingerboard charts. If you are new to reading tablature, there is a page on how to read tablature and how to read rhythms. Some audio tracks are available here: Celtic Flatpicking Open D Guitar Tuning - Kalymi Music (brentrobitaille.com)

45 New Arrangments for Classical Guitar Players in Open D Tuning The classical guitar book in open D guitar tuning presents a new, and I think, additional way of approaching classical guitar repertoire. Tuning to an open chord, in this case, DADF#AD can have its benefits. The most obvious is that a major chord can be played with a single finger, or in the key of D, with open strings. Every attempt has been made to keep true to the original manuscripts, but occasionally the tune is transposed from the original, or the odd note has been altered to make the pieces playable. I have kept the arrangements primarily in the keys of D, G or A to take full advantage of the open strings in D tuning. In short, this book may not be for the classical guitar purist but does expand the repertoire that is lacking with open tunings. There is a good selection of graded pieces from prominent classical guitar composers like Aguado, Sor, Giuliani, Carcassi and Carulli, plus other well-known works by Bach, Dowland, Satie, Beethoven, de Visee, Diabelli, Grieg, Haydn, O’Carolan, Pachelbel, Paganini, Petzold, Sanz, Schumann and Vivaldi. I also adapted 24 of the Giuliani right-hand exercises, major and minor scales and arpeggios, plus fretboard charts to further develop your knowledge and technique in Open D. Each piece has notation, tablature in Open D tuning, right- and left-hand fingerings, and performance markings. An assortment of reference audio tracks are available online at the authors' website. Look for the audio tracks on my website in the guitar books section: https://brentrobitaille.com/product/classical-guitar-book-in-open-d-tuning/ or, https://brentrobitaille.com/product-category/guitar-books/ or, https://brentrobitaille.com/

A comprehensive instruction guide to blues slide guitar styles. Contains over 25 accurate transcriptions of authentic bottleneck blues tunes by such masters as Son House, Robert Johnson, Charlie Patton and many more.

Tune your guitar to Open G (DGDGBD), grab your pick, and let's play some jigs and reels! Tuning your guitar to “Open G” (DGDGBD) brilliantly complements Celtic music. The open tuning allows the strings to vibrate, creating drones and overlapped notes that sound reminiscent of a harp or bagpipe. The tunes represent a good selection of well-known Celtic session tunes, including jigs, reels, hornpipes, waltzes and songs. Each tune shows notation, tablature and chords. Some tunes are arranged in the chord melody style (with pick), while the faster tunes just have the melody line with fingerings and articulations. A selection of audio tracks helps you learn the tunes quickly or jam along with the accompaniment tracks. If you are new to this style, check out my twelve tips for Flatpicking and how to use ornamentation to further embellish the tunes. I have also included an open G chord page with 96 of the most common chords, fingerboard charts, and the major and minor scales with standard and Campanella fingerings. There are also Celtic strumming patterns in 4/4 and 6/8 time to become proficient at accompanying. Tune List: After the Battle of Aughrim ~ Black Velvet Band ~ Blind Mary ~ Cape Breton Jig ~ Carolan’s Concerto ~ Connaughtman’s Rambles ~ Danny Boy ~ Drowsy Maggy ~ Eleanor Plunkett ~ Flowers of Edinburgh ~ Haste to the Wedding ~ Hector the Hero ~ Hewlett ~ High Road to Linton ~ Humours of Whiskey ~ I’ll Tell Me Ma ~ Irish Washerwoman ~ John Ryan’s Polka ~ Kesh Jig ~ Lark in the Clear Air ~ Loch Lomond ~ Merrily Kiss the Quaker ~ Morrison’s Jig ~ Neil Gow’s Lament ~ O’Carolan’s Draught ~ O’Dowd’s No. 9 ~ The Parting Glass ~ Planxty George Brabazon ~ Rakes of Kildare ~ Rights of Man ~ Si Beag Si Mor ~ Sonny’s Mazurka ~ Whiskey in the Jar ~ White Cockade

Take your blues mandolin playing to the next level with the Mandolin Blues Book. A collection of 101 blues riffs and solos ideal for all mandolinists looking to get a good grasp of jamming the blues. The book covers all the essential tools needed to play blues mandolin. Start by learning the 40 stylistic riffs and 25 one and two bar blues riffs in multiple keys, then move on to the longer 12 bar blues rhythm riffs and extended solos. Most of the longer rhythm riffs and solos follow the standard 12 bar blues form, so they are readily applicable to the many mandolin playing styles, including country, rock, jazz, and bluegrass, to name a few. To further deepen your mandolin skills, study the major, minor and blues scales and arpeggios as well as the library of mandolin chords and blues chord progressions in all 12 keys. No book covers everything, but with some practice, you will be ready to take your mandolin, jam the blues with confidence, and show off your new skills. Audio and Video online: https://brentrobitaille.com/product/mandolin-blues-book/