One of the best ways for a young guitarist to connect with the blues is through instructional songbooks. The blues isn't a difficult music to learn to play, but it's difficult enough to learn to play well. Songbooks, with both standard notation and tablature, provide the young blues fan and beginning guitarist with a solid foundation to build upon, familiarizing the fledgling musician with traditional blues styles and songwriting while teaching the fundamentals of the music's often intricate and emotional instrumental phrasing.
