Franco Morone succeeds in unifying a manual for playing fingerstyle blues and an interesting music book. He presents a stringent method that begins with easy preliminary exercises, moves quickly to the more sophisticated ones, in which typical fingerstyle blues phrases are elaborated, which are then used in full-scale fingerstyle blues pieces.

The compositions even represent a challenge for more advanced players.

Morone’s edition has maintained its success in Italy for years and is now ava...