The Hal Leonard Guitar Method is designed for anyone just learning to play acoustic or electric guitar. It is based on years of teaching guitar students of all ages, and it also reflects some of the best guitar teaching ideas from around the world. Book 1 includes tuning; playing position; musical symbols; notes in first position; C, G, G7, D, D7, A7, and Em chords; rhythms through eighth notes; strumming and picking; over 80 great songs, riffs, and examples.
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The Hal Leonard Guitar Method is designed for anyone just learning to play acoustic or electric guitar. It is based on years of teaching guitar students of all ages, and reflects some of the best teaching ideas from around the world. This super-convenient Complete Edition features the new and improved method books 1, 2 and 3 spiral-bound together, available as a book only (00699040) or book with online audio (00697342)!
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From the former editor of Guitar One magazine, here is a daily dose of vitamins to keep your chops fine tuned! Musical styles include rock, blues, jazz, metal, country, and funk. Techniques taught include alternate picking, arpeggios, sweep picking, string skipping, legato, string bending, and rhythm guitar. These exercises will increase speed, and improve dexterity and pick- and fret-hand accuracy. The accompanying online audio includes all 365 workout licks plus play-along grooves in every style at eight different metronome settings.
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The beginning-level book of this comprehensive method teaches a wide range of guitar and music fundamentals, including: scales, melodic studies, chord and arpeggio studies, how to read music, accompaniment techniques, special exercises for developing technique in both hands, a unique approach to voice leading using moveable chord forms, and more.
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This premier method for the beginning classical guitarist, by one of the world's pre-eminent virtuosos and the recognized heir to the legacy of Andrés Segovia, is now completely revised and updated! Guitarists will learn basic classical technique by playing over 50 beautiful classical pieces, 26 exercises and 14 duets, and through numerous photos and illustrations. The method covers: rudiments of classical technique, note reading and music theory, selection and care of guitars, strategies for effective practicing, and much more!
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Book 2 continues the instruction started in Book 1 and covers: Am, Dm, A, E, F and B7 chords; power chords; fingerstyle guitar; syncopations, dotted rhythms, and triplets; Carter style solos; bass runs; pentatonic scales; improvising; tablature; 92 great songs, riffs and examples; notes in first and second position; and more!
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The Hal Leonard Classical Guitar Method is designed for anyone just learning to play classical guitar. This comprehensive and easy-to-use beginner's guide by renowned classical guitarist and teacher Paul Henry uses the music of the master composers to teach you the basics of the classical style and technique. The accompanying audio features all the pieces in the book for demonstration and play along. Includes pieces by Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Schumann, Giuliani, Carcassi, Bathioli, Aguado, Tarrega, Purcell, and more. Includes all the basics plus info on PIMA technique, two- and three-part music, time signatures, key signatures, articulation, free stroke, rest stroke, composers, and much more. Does NOT include tablature. Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be downloaded or streamed. The audio also includes PLAYBACK+ features such as tempo adjustment, looping, and other features to assist with practice.
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A Modern Approach to Classical Guitar is designed for anyone just learning to play guitar. Written by one of the premier classical guitarists of our time and based on years of teaching students of all ages, this revised edition includes many new pieces and an in-depth introduction to two-part music (thumb-and-fingers technique) – the heart of the classical style! Book 1 includes: rest stroke and free stroke, how to read music, playing in open position, sharps and flats, basic notes and dotted notes, time signatures (4/4, 3/4, 2/4), melody with bass accompaniment, solos and duets, and more!
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As soon as the ChordBuddy is properly attached to your acoustic or electric guitar, you will be able to make music instantly. This comprehensive package features the complete learning system: a ChordBuddy device, an instruction book, a color-coded songbook with 60 songs, and DVD so you have everything you need to start playing right away! The ChordBuddy is in the key of “G” and makes the “G” “C” “D” and “Em” chords. As seen on Shark Tank!
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Book 3 covers: the major, minor, pentatonic and chromatic scales, sixteenth notes; barre chords; drop D tuning; movable scales; notes in fifth position; slides, hammer-ons, pull-offs and string bends; chord construction; gear; great songs, riffs & examples; and more!
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An outstanding source for the technique and repertoire of the classical guitar, this book continues where Vol. 1 leaves off. It teaches: all notes in the upper position; tone production; advanced techniques such as tremolo, harmonics, vibrato, pizzicato and slurs; practice tips; stylistic interpretation; and more. The first half of the book deals primarily with technique, while the second half of the book applies the technique with repertoire pieces. As a special bonus, this book includes 32 previously unpublished Parkening edition pieces by composers including Dowland, Bach, Scarlatti, Sor, Tarregá and others, plus three guitar duets.
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Play great chords instantly! The ChordBuddy learning system helps you make the C, D, G, & Em chords. All you have to do it press the buttons and strum! As soon as the ChordBuddy is properly attached to your acoustic or electric guitar, you will be able to play music and sound great. Follow the Lesson Plan and within a few weeks, you'll begin removing some of the tabs and making the chords on your own. Before you know it, you'll be able to play the guitar without ChordBuddy! The included Download Card gives you access to video lessons and a Lesson Book. Instructions for using the ChordBuddy and more can be accessed online. The package includes the ChordBuddy device, plus digital access to instructional videos, lesson plan, and songs.
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Fred Sokolow's best-selling guitar method and series has helped hundreds of thousands of guitar players. For the first time, this system is presented for the absolute beginner. While teaching the basic skills needed to play countless songs, Sokolow presents practical music theory that will enhance your playing. The visual fretboard patterns, used in all of the Roadmaps books, make it easier to understand the guitar and think like a musician. With chord grids, tablature, music notation and a recording, you'll immediately learn how to: play over 20 familiar tunes; strum and fingerpick songs with many different rhythms; play melodies in five different keys; play dozens of chords; use the “blues box” to play solos and to jam with other players; play power chords and barre chords up and down the neck; read tablature and music notation; and more! The accompanying recording, accessed online for download or streaming, includes the songs, scales and exercises that are presented in tablature and music notation throughout the book. The success of the Fretboard Roadmaps series is due to its practical, visual patterns, which help the guitarist learn to play – quickly!
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A modern method ideal for all beginning guitarists, studying individually or in a class. Technique and reading skills are developed through two-, three- and four-part ensemble arrangements of traditional and newly composed music. Also includes an introduction to chord playing.
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Guitar Workout is an intensive, comprehensive program that will increase your speed, agility, and creativity. This is the ultimate workout for any guitarist who wants to accelerate and articulate their speed picking! Train like a professional while gaining a greater understanding of the diatonic major scale, scale harmony, and the picking technique needed to play super-fast licks and riffs with melodic intelligence and creativity. Internationally renowned guitarist John Heussenstamm leads you through rigorous single-note warm-up exercises, speed drills, fingering patterns, sweeps, arpeggios, and melody construction. The book includes access to recordings of all the exercises. Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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A thorough presentation of rhythms commonly found in contemporary music, including 68 harmonized melodies and 42 rhythm exercises. This highly respected and popular book is also an excellent source for duets, sight-reading and chord studies.
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The Hal Leonard Acoustic Guitar Method uses real songs to teach you all the basics of acoustic guitar in the style of the Beatles, Eric Clapton, John Mellencamp, the Indigo Girls, Robert Johnson, James Taylor and many others. Lessons include: strumming; fingerpicking; using a capo; open tunings; folk, country & bluegrass styles; acoustic blues; acoustic rock; and more. Seven full songs include: Angie • Barely Breathing • Crossroad Blues • Dust in the Wind • Here Comes the Sun • Name • Wildwood Flower. In standard notation and tablature.
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Lots of guitar players know several scales, but how many really know what to do with them? With Guitarist's Guide to Scales Over Chords, you'll learn how to apply the most commonly used scales in a musical manner. This book examines how scales and chords are closely linked and how this relationship is key to crafting memorable, intelligent solos. If you've been stuck in a pentatonic rut, or you feel that you're constantly relying on the same old patterns, this is the book for you! The book covers 14 scales in detail, and the audio contains 99 tracks, including 15 backing track progressions for practice. The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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The First 15 Lessons series provides a step-by-step lesson plan for the absolute beginner, complete with audio tracks, video lessons, and real songs! Designed for self-teaching or for use with an instructor, you'll build a solid foundation as you work through each lesson, learning the basics of the instrument and music reading while practicing the many exercises, concepts and song excerpts within. Must-know instruction so you can start playing right away, with a free online tuner and metronome!
The acoustic guitar book, written in rhythm tab notation, features lessons on: guitar fundamentals, chords, strumming, arpeggios, time signatures, syncopation, hammer-ons & pull-offs, double stops, harmonics, fingerpicking, alternate picking, and scales & basic theory. Includes guitar parts from 31 songs: Body like a Back Road • Change the World • Dust in the Wind • Eleanor Rigby • Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) • The House of the Rising Sun • Imagine • Love Story • More Than a Feeling • The Reason • Someone like You • Thinking Out Loud • Unchained Melody • and more.
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Expand your improvisational horizons with this incredible resource for all guitarists! Soloing Strategies for Guitar explores a variety of improvisational concepts and techniques, backed up with fingering patterns, exercises, and lick examples galore. In addition, each chapter includes several extended solos (in the styles of rock, blues, funk, jazz, and country) based entirely on the techniques brought forth in each lesson. Furthermore, each chapter features Quick Theory Tutorials that you can refer to if you need to brush up on your music theory. You'll also find a section called Tone Tips that precedes each solo. Here you get suggestions for guitar, amp, and effects settings. To top it all off, there's a variety of play-along tracks on the accompanying online audio that you can jam along with, complete with chord charts and soloing suggestions. The audio is accessed using the unique code inside each book and includes PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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From the backwoods of Kentucky to modern-day concert arenas, the Travis picking technique has been a guitar staple for generations. In this comprehensive guide, Acoustic Guitar magazine contributing editor Andrew DuBrock takes you step-by-step from basic accompaniment patterns to advanced fingerpicking methods in the style of Merle, Chet and many others. The accompanying online audio tracks contain a demonstration of every example in the book.
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Untangle the mysterious regions of the guitar fretboard and unlock your potential. Fretboard Mastery familiarizes you with all the shapes you need to know by applying them in real musical examples, thereby reinforcing and reaffirming your newfound knowledge. The result is a much higher level of comprehension and retention.
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This Berklee Workshop, featuring over 20 solos and duets by Bach, Carcassi, Paganini, Sor and other renowned composers, is designed to acquaint intermediate to advanced pick-style guitarists with some of the excellent classical music that is adaptable to pick-style guitar. With study and practice, this workshop will increase a player's knowledge and proficiency on this formidable instrument.
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Southpaws rejoice! This world-famous method is now available in a special edition just for lefties, with customized photos and diagrams. Students enjoy the method's easy-to-follow format that gives them a solid music education while letting them play songs right away. Book 1 provides beginning instruction, covering tuning; 1st-position melody playing; C, G, G7, D7 and Em chords; rhythms through eighth notes; solos and ensembles; and strumming. Features a chord chart, and traditional songs like: Amazing Grace • Greensleeves • and When the Saints Go Marching In.
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Written by one of the premier classical guitarists of our time, this second edition is fully updated with new engravings, new photos, new songs, and online audio examples. It includes many new pieces and an in-depth introduction to two-part music (thumb-and-fingers technique) – the heart of the classical style! The audio includes 27 tracks for demo and play-along.
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Expand your guitar knowledge with the Guitar Lesson Goldmine series! Featuring 100 individual modules covering a giant array of topics, each lesson in this Acoustic volume includes detailed instruction with playing examples presented in standard notation and tablature. You'll also get extremely useful tips, scale diagrams, chord grids, photos, and more to reinforce your learning experience, plus online audio performance demos of all the examples in the book! A huge variety of acoustic guitar styles and techniques are covered, including: strumming techniques, basic to advanced chords, chord embellishments, basic to advanced fingerstyle, alternate tuning, hybrid picking, Carter style, percussive techniques, Travis picking, block-chord style, fingerstyle arranging, and much more! Audio can be streamed or downloaded and includes PLAYBACK+ tools including tempo adjustment, looping, and more to assist with practice!
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Bossa Nova Guitar is intended for a wide range of guitarists, from those with little experience in complex musical styles like jazz, Samba, or Bolero, to highly trained professional guitarists looking to expand their musical palettes. From Joao Gilberto to Antonio Carlos Jobim, the Bossa Nova guitar style has become firmly entrenched in the jazz culture. In this book, you'll gain a strong command of the style, concentrating on these core elements: harmony, rhythms, right-hand technique, chord progressions, essential patterns, and more. Includes online audio access to demos using the unique code printed inside the book.
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El metodo para guitarra Hal Leonard esta disenado para cualquiera que este aprendiendo a tocar la guitarra acustica o electrica. Esta basado en anos de esnenanza a estudiantes de guitarra de todas las edades, y tambien refleja algunas de las mejores ideas para la ensenanza de la guitarra de todo el mundo.
El Libro 1 incluye:
• Afinacion
• Posicion
• Simbolos musicales
• Notas en la primera posicion
• Acordes de C, G, G7, D, D7, A7 y Em
• Ritmos con corcheas
• Rasgueo y pua
• 100 grandes canciones, riffs y ejemplos
Incluye 47 pistas con una banda al completo, como demostracion o base sobre las que tocar. El precio de este libro incluye acceso a las pistas de audio en Internet, por descargar o streaming, utilizando el código único que se encuentra en la primera página del libro.
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El metodo para guitarra Hal Leonard esta disenado para cualquiera que este aprendiendo a tocar la guitarra acustica o electrica. Esta basado en anos de esnenanza a estudiantes de guitarra de todas las edades, y tambien refleja algunas de las mejores ideas para la ensenanza de la guitarra de todo el mundo.
El Libro 1 incluye:
• Afinacion
• Posicion
• Simbolos musicales
• Notas en la primera posicion
• Acordes de C, G, G7, D, D7, A7 y Em
• Ritmos con corcheas
• Rasgueo y pua
• 100 grandes canciones, riffs y ejemplos
El CD incluye 47 pistas con una banda al completo, como demostracion o base sobre las que tocar.
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