Best Guitar Books

Author: Dave Rubin

I must admit, I don’t own a single book by Dave Rubin but I’m definitely going to be checking him out. He has a few books on offer and they mostly get good (although few) reviews. This one caught my attention just because of the title. 8 Bar Blues, now there’s something I bet a lot of us don’t practice as much as we should. It’s not that 8 bars requires a different understanding or anything but if it’s something you don’t do often then the ear tends to want to gravitate to the 12 bars we’re so used to.

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25 Authentic Leads Arranged for Guitar in Standard Notation and Tablature

Author: Dave Rubin

This book doesn’t give away much info on the Amazon page other than it’s based around 25 authentic blues guitar solos for the beginner to intermediate guitarist with licks and arrangements. There’s no “look inside” so the only thing to go on is a single five star review but the reviewer mentions the CD comes with each example as the solo track as well as the play along jam track.

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