Mel Bay

Compiled:Stefan Grossman
Format: Book with Audio Online
Instrumentation: Guitar

This book presents three of the greatest ragtime blues guitar players from the 1920s-1940s. They all possessed what Rev. Gary Davis called that sportin' right hand. Each could sing the blues or play a dance instrumental. They favoured first-position chords but produced incredible textures and rhythms from these easy left-hand fingerings. There are years of exciting fingerpicking challenges in these pages. But what fun it will be once you can play these tunes!

• Big Bill Broonzy
  • Big Bill Blues
  • At the Break of Day
  • Friendless Blues
  • Shuffle Rag
  • Worrying You off My Mind
  • Bull Cow Blues
  • Five Feet Five
• Blind Blake
  • Georgia Bound
  • Back Biting Bee Blues
  • Cold Hearted Mama Blues
  • Ice Man Blues
  • Righteous Blues
  • Tootie Blues
  • Rope Stretchin' Blues
  • Sea Board Stomp
  • Walkin' Across the Country
  • What a Lowdown Place the Jailhouse Is
• Blind Boy Fuller
  • Baby, I Don't Have to Worry
  • Careless Love
  • Georgia Ham Mama
  • Keep Away From My Woman
  • Somebody's Been Playing With That Thing
  • Why Don't My Baby Write To Me
  • (I Got A Woman Crazy For Me) She's Funny That Way
  • Jivin' Woman Blues

HOW TO USE THIS BOOK
1) Listen over and over to the original recordings available via the download link for this collection.
2) Get a program that can control digital audio files. Use this with the transcriptions and the recordings.
3) Be patient!! Practice, practice and practice some more!!