Beyond Pentatonic Blues Guitar: Master Intermediate to Advanced Blues Lead Guitar Concepts, Licks, Scales & Theory for More Sophisticated Soloing and Improvisation Paperback – April 15, 2023

Well, I've boughten Beato's book as well. It's sitting in the corner collecting dust. Sorry Rick. I love ya buddy, but I just can't get into it. It has a lot of information, but it's kind of dry learning.This is more of what I personally needed. Lessons along with video tutorials.I also very much appreciate the master classes online. Thank you.I think that for me, the best way to learn all the notes on the guitar, is learn to read music. Use the tabs for reference, but for the most part, ignore them. It's definitely not easy, and slow to gratify, but I found myself cheating the way Ross suggested. I recognized the pattern and found myself using my ear too much. To each his/her own.So thank you again for catering to guitarist who are stuck in a rut. Forever grateful.

Great book and resource for really understanding thoroughly the guitar fretboard. Thank you!

I'm only about 1/5 of the way through this book, after about a week of working with it, and I'm already a better player. This is the best single resource I've ever found for guitar instruction, and I have decades of looking. The available video (or audio) clips are perfectly matched to the text. I noticed one reviewer here who criticized the book as being no more than a mediocre lick book. Yes, there are plenty of licks, and good ones, but they are there to illustrate principles and motifs. The fact that you'll end up incorporating some of the licks into your own playing is just an added bonus. (To hit the ground running with this book you should at least be fairly conversant with the minor pentatonic scale, and even better if you're familiar with the major pentatonic, too.) If you're serious about improving your blues playing, and have the patience to really work at it rather than just noodling, buy the book.

This is a great improvisation book, for blues guitar players. I really like the video and jam track access on line. The only negative thing is the TABS IN THE BOOK are small and lightly printed. it is hard to read. I wish it would be a larger font and darker ink. otherwise- still worth the admission price.

This is a great lesson to learn how to understand playing blues on the guitar. Ross is a good teacher and he makes things easier to understand. I teach guitar myself and have been playing over 40 years and I myself have learned a lot from Ross.

I ordered the paperback version and am I glad I did. The quality of the book is up there with Cherry Lane and Hal Leonard tab books. NOT cheap at all. Ross's forward is really inspiring and well written. The lessons are great and have helped me reinvigorate my playing since Ive been stuck for a while and getting bored with my playing. After 35 years playing this is the kind of book I want to refresh my memory on playing the notes and not just licks. I honestly cant believe this was only $20 bucks. He could charge 5 more and I would buy it. It now sits next to my favorites, Rikki Rooksby -How to write Songs on Guitar, and The Heavy Guitar Bible The first book i got as a kid in 85. Great work Ross!

Ross knocked this one out of the park. Very well written book that doesn't assume that you are at any certain level to start. Great explanations of his reasoning in choosing these concepts. Also, the examples emphasize the note choices instead of the speed at which they are played. We all know that Ross can play fast, but he knows that we may not be able to, so his instruction is not an ego show but instead is a very sound foundation for interesting blues soloing. The book is of high quality, and the examples are all tabbed out very well. It gets you away from memorizing licks and actually teaches you how to get out of the box. The videos and backing tracks are a great practice aid too. I did his bulletproof guitar course too. Ross is one of the best and most modest teachers out there. You will learn from this book. Guaranteed.

I've watched many of Ross' videos on YouTube and found his teaching straight forward and easy to understand. Many others on YouTube are clearly knowledgeable, but don't translate that very well for the novice. Ross' teaching is much clearer. Then when he promoted this book, I kind of wondered, how can you learn blues guitar through a book, but I decided to give it a go. Man, was it worth it! I'm only up to chapter 5, but I've already had my eyes open to things I never would have thought of. Playing the blues is getting much more fun, and less frustrating. And I just read at the conclusion of chapter 4, "not to worry if you don't recognize some chord tones, we are only just getting started." By the end of this book I'll being saying, "John Mayer, move over!" (LOL)