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Thread #18400   Message #182040
Posted By: Crowhugger
21-Feb-00 - 03:57 AM
Thread Name: Book Review--Blues for Dummies
Subject: RE: Book Review--Blues for Dummies
If you are even a slightly piano-literate, I'd recommend "Blues Hanon" by Leo Alfassay. Making the music comes before naming it, IMHO. Get a feel for the different sounds, then go wear out your library card. Even our piddling small-town library has plenty of books, CDs and videos on the genre.

If you're a guitar-type, well, skip the Hanon and go straight to the CD section of your library,and start playing along with a variety of (yes, Amos, I daresay "black") artists. Chances are that if the artist is non-black, the music was sanitized for broad commercial appeal. As you make the music and read liner notes, you'll figure out what's what.