Blues Guitar For Dummies. Jon Chappell

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       Chord diagrams: You form the left-hand chords you need by looking at the diagrams and matching your fingers to the symbols on the guitar’s neck.

       Guitar tablature: Tablature is a type of notation that tells you to finger certain frets on specific strings. No “notes” are involved, just locations on which frets and strings to play. The tab staff appears just below the standard music notation staff. If you can already read music — even just a little — you can always see what note you’re fingering by looking at the staff immediately above the tab.

       The Website (www.dummies.com/go/bluesguitarfd): Playing by ear is important because after you get a good idea of where to place your fingers, you want to let your ears take over. Listening to the audio tracks is important because it shows you how the music sounds, so you can figure out the rhythm of the song and how long to hold notes by listening, not reading. The audio tracks also has some cool features:Provides accompaniment, so you can hear how the examples sound in a band setting — with drums, bass, and rhythm guitar.Enables you to always find the track that corresponds to the printed music example in the chaptersGives you a count-off so that you can play along in time

       The tab staff and music staff: To those of you who do like to read music (you two know who you are), this book delivers in that department, too. The music for many exercises and songs appears in standard music notation, just above the tab staff. You get the best of both worlds: tab showing you where to put your fingers and the corresponding music notation to satisfy all those schooled musicians out there.

       Right hand and left hand: If you play the guitar as a right-handed person, the right hand strums and picks and the left hand frets. If you’re left-handed, you can either play as a right-handed person, or you can reverse the process. If you choose the second method, remember to convert the terms and that I refer to the right hand and right-hand fingers as the strumming and picking hand and the left hand as the fretting hand. Nothing against lefties, mind you, but it’s easier and shorter to say “right hand” instead of “strumming or picking hand.”

       High and low, up and down: When I say “higher on the neck” or “up the neck,” I refer to the higher-numbered frets, or the region closer to the body of the guitar than the headstock. “Going up” always refers to going up in pitch, which means toward the higher frets or skinnier strings — which happen to be closer to the floor than the ceiling.

       One staff at a time, please: Many of the exercises contain both music notation and tablature. The tab tells you what frets and strings to play; the music tells you the pitches and the rhythms. These ways present the same information in different ways, so you need to look at only one at a time. Pick the one that works best for you.

       You’re an average reader who knows a little something about the guitar or the blues.

       You want to sound like a blues player and take the path that allows you to discover many things about the guitar and music.

       You want to play quickly without a lot of messing around with music theory and all that stuff. You want exactly what you need to know at that moment in time without all the lectures and teacherly instincts.