Blues music is a sturdy, adaptable music that reflects many shades of emotions and lends itself to numerous stylistic interpretations. This 5 1/2" by 8" QWIKGUIDE is designed to help the guitarist connect with the blues heritage. Each blues lick in this book is played over four bars of C7. By practicing all 50 licks over the same chord progression, you will be learning the basic concept of improvisation: how to play a variety of musical phrases over the same chord or chord changes. Each example is written in both notation and tablature exactly as it is recorded. The accompanying CD, featuring Larry McCabe"s Heat-Seeking Missile Blues Band is recorded in stereo with drums, pedal steel, and rhythm guitar in the center, bass guitar on the left, and lead guitar on the right. The licks are recorded at a moderate tempo for ease of learning. The rhythm guitar parts heard on the CD are taught in Mel Bay"s 101 Bad to the Bone Blues Guitar Rhythm Patterns. The bass guitar parts are taught in Mel Bay"s Famous Blues Bass Lines.