(Music Sales America). In 100 Tips for Blues Guitar You Should Have Been Told , respected author and musician David Mead focuses on the styles and techniques associated with one of the guitar''s longest-surviving and most-played genres. In a series of illustrated exercises that work in combination with an accompanying CD, he tackles the problems associated with playing a form of music that stretches the harmonic boundaries of Western music tradition, covering subjects from choosing the right plectrum to executing the most accomplished finger roll this side of the Mississippi!