Beginning guitarists will benefit from these easy-to-absorb lessons designed to teach the essential basics of blues guitar playing. Essential lead guitar techniques are also covered including string bending, hammer-ons and pull-offs, sliding and vibrato, which can be useful in many styles of guitar playing from jazz to metal. Other topics covered include: the blues scale · the major and minor pentatonic scales · outlining the chords · double stops · phrasing · relative scales · turnaround licks · extended pentatonics · 12-bar blues progressions · blues phrasing · and more.