Many a guitar legend has cut their teeth and left their mark on the jazz-influenced blues style known as “West Coast Blues” (aka “jump” blues): Charlie Christian, Clarence Gatemouth Brown, Albert Collins, Johnny Guitar Watson, Duke Robillard, Hollywood Fats, Little Charlie Baty are just a few.

Composer, producer, and top NYC educator, Blacker has been featured on numerous albums, commercials and radio spots. Blacker has studied and documented “roots” styles of guitar for almost twenty years establishing him as one of the few top experts in the field. Blacker has pulled together an essential vocabulary of West Coast Blues phrases, feels and techniques. Rather than just working through a collection of “licks” and theory, Blacker has designed a contextual course of study; you’ll play your way through the course working with 10 rhythm tracks, learning 30 choruses worth of West Coast Blues solos.

Master these 30 solos and you’ll have all the moves, feels, applied theory and phrases needed to take on any Jump or West Coast Blues playing situation. Better yet, your contemporary blues bag will explode with new colors, tasty lines and improvisational possibilities.