If the title, Teach Yourself Blues Guitar sparks you're interest then you obviously enjoy listening to a good Blues guitarist and know a "little something" about the style of music.  Whether experienced or just a beginner, it is important to realize that acoustic, electric, slide or dobro; the guitar is unquestionably the instrumental voice of the Blues.  Teach Yourself Blues Guitar with CD by Paul J.  Newman teaches the essential, classic, formative; riffs, rhythms and patterns which define Blues music.  Learn how they fit into each structure to develop and enhance playing technique as well as creativity.  Teach Yourself Blues Guitar , exclusively distributed by Santorella Publications, provides an assortment of authentic riffs, licks and patterns transcribed in both standard notation and tablature exactly "as performed" by the "Blues Masters".  Contents include; Blues Structure and Rhythm - The 12 Bar Blues - Call & Response - Syncopation - Triplets - The Slide - Blues Melody & Phrasing - The Pentatonic Minor Scale - Melodic Shape - Melodic Transposition - Position Shifting - Triplets & Swing - The Pentatonic Major - Shuffle & Swing - Minor & Major - The Octatonic Scale - The Rockabilly Boogie - Note Bending - "The Stumble" - Playing the Box - The Index/Ring Finger Box Position - Bend & Release - Octatonics in Box position - Lateral Barres - Beyond the Shuffle - Funk, Rock & Blues - Blues/Funk Rhythm - Rock Rhythm & Blues - Breaking Down the Beat - Blues to Rock - Classic Rock & Roll - The British Are Coming.