Learn the fine art of lead guitar soloing from the ground up with Lead Guitar Secrets. This well-paced, methodical workbook focuses on the essential components of great guitar solos without the typical deluge of dry music theory instruction. You'll get hands-on training with: 80 audio tracks featuring many play-along backing tracks for soloing practice; an organized, logical approach that takes you from basic melodic soloing over one chord to more advanced concepts with common chord progressions; a breakdown of the core fretboard scale patterns and how to effectively connect them up and down the neck; rhythmic phrasing and articulation techniques such as bending, vibrato & legato; tools and concepts that provide a solid foundation in improvisation; invaluable skills that are useful in all music genres; and more! Perfect for getting started with lead guitar or expanding one's existing soloing capabilities. The seasoned player could also gain a fresh perspective via the practical and systematic methodology, possibly unlocking some previously overlooked Lead Guitar Secrets.
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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This book with audio demos online will teach you to play 13 signature Mayer tunes, including: Back to You • Blues Intro • City Love • Come Back to Bed • Come When I Call • Covered in Rain • Good Love Is on the Way • Gravity • Human Nature • I Don't Need No Doctor • Neon • Vultures • Who Did You Think I Was. The book contains note-for-note transcriptions and detailed performance notes on how to play the licks, fills, riffs, and solos. The audio includes recorded demonstrations as well as slowed-down versions for the fast and tricky passages.
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Learn to play rock and pop with Rockschool. These specially written arrangements develop the skills and techniques you need to help you achieve your musical goals. Rockschool has commissioned arrangements of titles reflecting popular music's rich heritage in all its forms and have tailored each piece to make it exactly right for the grade. You can also use titles from Rockschool's Classics series as part of the syllabus. The arrangements have been written and performed by top session musicians who have worked with some of the biggest names in rock, metal and pop. The tracks were recorded at Real World's acclaimed recording studios and feature live instruments and first rate performances for an unrivalled level of feel, authenticity and musicianship. Featuring: Come As You Are (Nirvana) • Hallelujah (Jeff Buckley) • Perfect (Ed Sheeran) • Redemption Song (Bob Marley) • Seven Nation Army (The White Stripes) • Titanium (David Guetta feat. Sia) • and six Rockschool originals.
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• Band and artist fact files with recommended listening
• In-depth walkthroughs of every track
• Easy-access downloadable audio
• Example tests and exercises
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All great guitar players set themselves apart by looking beyond their instrument and their boundaries. This books helps players do just that, offering an in-depth exploration of world music, and how to play the music of other stringed instruments on the guitar. Learn inventive techniques and creative approaches to master the music of: the Puerto Rican cuatro, the Russian balalaika, the Indian sitar and swarmandal, the Chinese pipa, the Japanese shamisen and koto, the African kora, the Hawaiian ukulele, and more exotic instruments. Includes a CD of examples.
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This book/CD pack provides lessons on existing guitar traditions, plus new guitar arrangements of non-guitar music from Asia and the Middle East. Learn guitar techniques and tunes from the traditions of Afro-pop and African acoustic styles, Middle Eastern oud and saz, Indian veena and sitar, Chinese pipa, Japanese koto, Spanish guitar, Celtic folk, Andean folk, Brazilian jazz, Mexican Mariachi, and Hawaiian slack-key guitar. The CD includes demos of all the exercises, including slowed-down versions for practice.
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This fun, easy rock guitar method was designed specifically for kids, featuring cool riffs and licks in the style of some of today's hottest rock stars. It covers the fundamentals needed to get started – how to hold the guitar, basic left- and right-hand technique, tuning the guitar, music notation – and gets you jamming on simple rhythm and lead patterns.
The price of this book includes access to audio tracks online, for download or streaming, using the unique code inside the book. Now introducing PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, pan left or right – available exclusively from Hal Leonard.
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Classical Guitar for the Steel-String Guitarist is the perfect book/CD method for any aspiring guitar player who seeks to expand their musical skills and knowledge. Join author Tiger Fitzhugh as he guides you through the essentials of the classical guitar style, from playing position to technique to repertoire. It's time to begin your journey from metal to nylon! The companion CD contains demo tracks of all the examples in the book.
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This instructional guide presents you with everything you need to make the journey from a mediocre acoustic player to a solid one. It's perfect for anyone who feels that they may be in a rut – a situation all too familiar to the advancing beginner. Packed with tons of examples and audio demonstrations, this book/audio package breaks down the most common, essential acoustic techniques with clear, concise instruction and then applies them to real-world musical riffs, licks, and songs. You'll learn syncopation, power chords, arpeggios, rhythm fills, and much more. Songs include: House of the Rising Sun • Midnight Special • Amazing Grace • Scarborough Fair • Frankie and Johnny • and more.
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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10 Minute Acoustic Guitar Workout is a fully comprehensive guide to what is arguably the western world's most popular instrument. Whether you want to be the next Segovia or you're quite content to restrict your playing to campfire accompaniments, this book is for you. It covers basic topics such as string maintenance as well as more advanced areas such as modes, vibrato and creating your own songs, and includes a carefully graduated series of exercises designed to hone your playing to professional standards. Get your chops up to full power with this set of motor-exercises designed to get the best from your digits!
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Learn to play rock and pop with Rockschool. These specially written arrangements develop the skills and techniques you need to help you achieve your musical goals. Rockschool has commissioned arrangements of titles reflecting popular music's rich heritage in all its forms and have tailored each piece to make it exactly right for the grade. You can also use titles from Rockschool's Classics series as part of the syllabus. The arrangements have been written and performed by top session musicians who have worked with some of the biggest names in rock, metal and pop. The tracks were recorded at Real World's acclaimed recording studios and feature live instruments and first rate performances for an unrivalled level of feel, authenticity and musicianship. Featuring: Everybody Hurts (R.E.M.) • Let Her Go (Passenger) • Other Side of the World (KT Tunstall) • Shallow (Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper) • (Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay (Otis Redding) • We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together (Taylor Swift) • and six Rockschool originals.
Plus:
• Band and artist fact files with recommended listening
• In-depth walkthroughs of every track
• Easy-access downloadable audio
• Example tests and exercises
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David Hamburger's supplementary chord book for the Acoustic Guitar Method is a must-have resource for guitarists who want to build their chord vocabulary! Starting with a user-friendly explanation of what chords are and how they are named, this book presents chords by key in all 12 keys, offering both open-position and closed-position voicings for each common chord type. Also includes info on barre chords, using a capo and much more.
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Learn how to play guitar using eight great acoustic songs and a CD featuring demo and play-along tracks. Songs: About a Girl • Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You • Best of My Love • Every Rose Has Its Thorn • Night Moves • Norwegian Wood • Signs • 3 AM.
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If you want to be a serious rock guitarist and sound authentic, there are some things you simply must know. What would a Metallica riff be without the palm mute? Or how would a Van Halen solo sound without the tapping? Can you imagine hearing a version of Z.Z. Top's “Tush” or Joe Walsh's “Life's Been Good” without that signature slide guitar? Essential Rock Guitar Techniques teaches you all of these skills with carefully crafted exercises and inspiring musical examples, nearly all of which are featured on the accompanying CD. If you're tired of faking through your favorite rock songs because you've always neglected to learn that one special technique, you need this book. Stop skipping over the intricate details and start sounding like a seasoned professional! The accompanying CD contains 96 tracks with over 275 examples.
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This money-saving pack features the 48-page FastTrack Guitar Method Book, a 45-minute FastTrack audio CD complete with songs and lessons, and the DVD Fender Presents Getting Started on Acoustic Guitar – containing over three hours of lessons and play-along tracks! A $32.95 value for only $29.95 – a must for every learning acoustic guitarist!
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Gain some real Nashville chops and start your own country twangfest with Essential Country Guitar Technique! Starting right now you can become a country guitar daredevil by playing the exercises found in these pages. Twelve solos that demonstrate each technique are included so you can take your new-found skills for a test drive – and take charge of some hot country music while you're at it! You'll learn: Travis picking, pedal steel bends, country swing techniques, bluegrass-style banjo rolls, and much more! Recorded demos of every music example and solo are included on the CD.
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This book/CD master class gives you over 70 cool riffs that sound great over each portion of the blues progression. They're presented in two-measure chunks – organized by where they fall in a standard 12-bar progression – so you can enrich your blues vocabulary and assemble your own solos with authentic riffs and licks as played by blues master Buzz Feiten! Includes complete solos, plus jam tracks for an uptempo shuffle and a slow blues, featuring Buzz himself performing with a great band!
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If you're a blues guitarist who wants to know how the legends build their solos, then this book is for you! Rockin' Blues Licks gives you more than 50 cool licks that sound great over each portion of the blues progression. They are presented in two-measure chunks – organized by where they fall in a standard 12-bar blues progression – so you can enrich your blues vocabulary and assemble your own solos with actual licks as played by 15 greats, including: Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Jerry Garcia, Buddy Guy, Warren Haynes, Jonny Lang, Keith Richards, Muddy Waters and more! All licks are authentic, note-for-note quotes. The CD features recorded demos of all examples, plus fast, medium & slow jam tracks so you can play your solos over a full rhythm section.
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Here is a unique chance to learn classical guitar from a master. William Kanengiser shows you how to develop proper sitting positions, rest and free strokes, rasguedos, right- and left-hand synchronization and technique, slurs, and stretching exercises. You'll discover all this from a superb player and teacher who is one of the world's most honored classical guitarists.
William Kanengiser has been praised by the Los Angeles Times for his dizzying execution and exceeding vitality and warmth. He is recognized as one of America's most brilliant guitarists, and has won numerous awards such as First Prize at the Concert Artists Guild Competition as well as major international competitions in Toronto and Paris.
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Learn to master any chord progression, anywhere on the guitar! With just a few different chord shapes, you can strum through hundreds of songs – from blues, to rock, to folk and beyond. Includes: famous progressions from hit songs in all styles; notes & tab; barre chords in alternate tunings; and more. Learn riffs from artists such as: James Brown, Eric Clapton, Nirvana, The Police, Soundgarden, The Who and others.
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Break out of your blues rut and think beyond the box! If your blues solos are stuck in the box, literally and figuratively, this book/CD pack will take your soloing to a fresh, new place. Buzz Feiten teaches you how to break beyond the tried-and-true and stretch the familiar by crafting blues solos with an emphasis on variations in harmony, rhythm, melody, tone, and dynamics. The blues solo is approached like a story, with a beginning, a development, and an end, with instruction on how to build each section. The CD includes recorded demonstrations by Buzz Feiten of every example, plus slowed-down versions of each solo and five jam tracks.
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Here's your complete guide to getting your guitars to play and sound their best! Step-by-step instructions and photos teach how to adjust the action, truss rod, bridge saddles, nut, intonation and more on electric guitars and steel striing acoustic guitars. Basic electronic repairs are covered as well. With a handy Korg chromatic tuner included, this book is a fantastic value, and will get you started on the road to becoming your own guitar repairman.
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Work out with more than 25 warm-ups and exercises designed specifically for the blues/rock guitarist, then learn how to effectively incorporate them into your playing. The CD includes recorded demonstrations by Buzz Feiten of every example, plus six terrific solos and three jam tracks! Slowed-down versions are also included.
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Boost your blues I.Q. with this lively, comprehensive introduction to one of America's most vital musical legacies – from the origins of the blues in the rural South and early masters like Charley Patton and Blind Lemon Jefferson, to the guitars and techniques used by acoustic blues players, then and now. Leading roots-music performer and recording artist Steve James answers 50 key questions for contemporary blues guitarists and fans alike and provides invaluable reference information on essential recordings, books, websites, workshops and more. With Inside Blues Guitar, you'll find the right gear, repertoire and resources to play the blues and truly appreciate America's most accessible and enduring musical tradition.
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This 12-pack of lessons from Acoustic Guitar magazine offers all sorts of ways to improve rhythm playing. Learn the fundamentals, then discover new chord positions, bass lines, muting techniques, syncopated strums and more. Features exercises, licks and full songs to play in notes, tab and chord diagrams, with all songs and examples provided online.
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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The At a Glance series pairs an instructional DVD lesson taught by a professionl guitarist with a supplemental book for a comprehensive learning experience. The lessons are loaded with valuable tips and information, and popular song examples help to demonstrate the concepts in action. The DVD is filmed in high definition and features on-screen music. The book includes over 20 works in notes and tab by Beethoven, Corelli, Carcassi, Carulli, Sor, and more.
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This book/CD pack teaches guitarists to play and sing 26 beautiful songs in both Spanish and English using classic tunes such as: Caballito Blanco • Cielito Lindo • De Colores • Guantanamera • La Cucaracha • La Bamba • Las Mañanitas • Mi Gallo • and more. It's perfect for beginning or intermediate level guitar students, Spanish speakers, English language learners, Latin music fans, classroom teachers, early childhood educators, and family sing-alongs! The book includes simple guitar instruction, easy guitar arrangements, standard melodic notation and chords, lyric sheets for sing-along duplication, cultural information about specific songs, and ready-to-use lesson plans for integrating music into school programs. This is the guitar method bilingual educators have been waiting for!
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In this second volume from The Acoustic Guitar Method series for beginning guitarists, you'll continue to learn traditional American music using authentic techniques and songs. Learn how to play alternating bass notes in a country backup pattern, how to combine chords and classic bass runs, and how to play your first fingerpicking patterns. You'll find out what makes a major scale work and what blues notes do to a melody, all while learning more notes on the fingerboard and more great songs from the American roots repertoire. Songs include: Columbus Stockade Blues • The Girl I Left Behind Me • Shady Grove • Will the Circle Be Unbroken? • Shenandoah • Sail Away Ladies • I Am a Pilgrim • House of the Rising Sun • Stagolee • Bury Me Beneath the Willow • Alberta • Sugar Babe.
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This book/CD pack offers a superb selection of lessons and songs for the acoustic guitar, expertly played by teachers on the accompanying CD. It includes exercises, licks and 8 full songs to play, in standard notation and tablature with chord diagrams. The CD includes two versions of each song: one played slowly and the other, up to tempo. The book is divided into four main sections: Basics – covering the fretboard, barre chords and flatpicking; Rhythm – bluegrass in dropped D, bass lines, classic pop changes; Lead – Celtic jigs, melodic improvisation, soloing with arpeggios; and Exploration – capo use, Hawaiian slack key, classical etude variations; and modal harmony. Players of all levels will find lessons to benefit them.
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Discover highly melodic minor blues chord progressions and become fluent with them in three months with this popular book/CD pack. Gives you the freedom to play minor blues differently every time and contains 21 melodic minor blues chord progressions. David Bloom is director of the nationally recognized Bloom School of Jazz in Chicago which he founded in 1975. A noted lecturer and writer, he also plays, composes, and arranges jazz guitar.
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