This intense metal method teaches you the elements of lead guitar technique with an easy to understand, player-oriented approach. The metal concepts, theory, and musical principals are all applied to real metal licks, runs and full compositions. Learn at your own pace through 12 'smoking fully transcribed' heavy metal solos from simple to truly terrifying! 'One of the most thorough' and 'one of the best rock series currently available' - Guitar Player magazine. Includes online access to music and examples. The accompanying audio is accessed through Hal Leonard's popular MyLibrary system using the provided code. The audio can be streamed or downloaded 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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Let the mosh begin! Learn the techniques and principles used by today's heaviest bands including Metallica, Anthrax, Testament, and others. This truly radical method book takes you from slow grinding metal up to the fastest thrashing. Syncopation, shifting accents, thrash theory, progressions, chromatic 'ear-twisting ' melodic dissonances, shifting time signatures, harmony, and more. The online audio features full band accompaniment for all musical examples so that you can play along with the band. Fully transcribed in tablature!
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The Hal Leonard Dulcimer Method is designed for anyone just learning to play the mountain (Appalachian) dulcimer, but is equally useful to the intermediate player. This comprehensive and easy-to-use guide includes many techniques, tips, and fun songs to learn and play. The accompanying audio contains 54 tracks of traditional songs for demonstration and play along. Completely re-edited, this second edition features more songs, new photos and brand new demonstration recordings. 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 teaches the techniques, licks, chords, scales and strums you need to play rockabilly guitar. It shows you how to play rhythm & lead for all kinds of rockabilly grooves, in the style of masters such as Carl Perkins, Brian Setzer, Cliff Gallup, Buddy Holly, Scotty Moore, and others. Instead of learning exercises, you learn excerpts from classic rockabilly songs and solos that made the genre come together in the first place. 58 audio tracks will help you catch the rhythms and nuances of the rockabilly style. The audio is accessed online for download or streaming and includes PLAYBACK+ tools such as tempo adjustment and looping software. Excerpts from these songs are included: Be-Bop-A-Lula • Get Rhythm • Honey Don't • Milk Cow Blues • No Particular Place to Go • Rock Around the Clock • Rock This Town • Susie-Q • Train Kept A-Rollin' • and more!
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A master guitarist and pioneer of guitar education, Arlen Roth has been a part of the guitar scene for decades, touring and recording with artists such as Simon & Garfunkel, Bob Dylan, John Prine, Ry Cooder, Levon Helm, John Sebastian, and countless others. In this new video series, Arlen passes along his knowledge of authentic slide guitar styles, providing tips, licks, tunings and detailed breakdowns. The accompanying book reinforces your learning experience with transcriptions of key examples from the videos, presented in standard notation and tablature. Includes over an hour of video lessons, accessed online for download or streaming, using the unique code in each book. Topics covered include: basic slide technique • dampening and muting • hammer-ons and pull-offs • slide angling • open D tuning • open G tuning • high G tuning • standard tuning • chords and scales • and blues and folk styles. Includes over an hour of video lessons!
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Are you tired of playing the same riffs over and over again? Or maybe you just don't know what to play during your solo? Loaded with new ideas, Rhythm Riffs gives you the tools to spice up your rhythm guitar playing and make your parts more authentic. This book with online audio access covers rock, blues, jazz, country, funk and “outside” styles. It gives you major, minor and dominant 7th riffs for nearly any musical situation – over 200 riffs in all! The audio is accessed online for download or streaming 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 – available exclusively from Hal Leonard!
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Bring new colors and voicings to your guitar playing. Berklee Professor of Guitar Rick Peckham unlocks the mysteries of modal tonality, with a series of exercises and demonstrations that will expand your chord vocabulary, capturing the signature sounds of groups led by Miles Davis, John Coltrane, as well as contemporary jazz, pop, and R&B artists. Peckham will show you how to extend your capabilities by integrating a variety of new voicings and chordal phrasing into your playing so that you can handle any modal situation guided by your own ears and instincts. Going beyond single chord vamps, this approach allows you to play through simple and complex chord progressions using these modern sounds. This book includes video lessons from Peckham for each chapter and also includes some audio examples. All media is accessed online for download or streaming using the unique code in each book. 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 graded anthology of solo pieces (easy to intermediate) that serves as a supplement to Books Two and Three of A Modern Approach To Classical Guitar. Features compositions by: Sor • Giuliani • Carulli • Krieger • Caroso • DeVisee • Couperin • Telemann • others.
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Everything you need to know to learn Brazilian guitar! This book uses popular Brazilian songs to teach you the basics of the Brazilian guitar style and technique. Learn to play in the styles of Joao Gilberto, Luiz Bonfá, Baden Powell, Dino Sete Cordas, Joao Basco, and many others! Songs include: Aquarela Brasileira • Chega De Saudade (No More Blues) • Desafinado • O Barquinho • Song of the Jet (Samba do Aviao) • and more. Includes 33 demonstration tracks. 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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REH Book/ Audio Pack Improve your speed and fluidity through increased pick efficiency. Gambale explains and demonstrates sweep arpeggios, speed picking licks, harmonic superimpositions, sequence licks, and more! 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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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 applies techniques to 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. The audio files include 60 demonstration tracks. 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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Learn those beautiful hot licks and fingerpicking patterns of country music. You'll learn all about the various types of country music, from classic to current–from Western Swing to bluegrass and everywhere between. Get beyond the cowboy chords to more complex arrangements, signature opening licks, and solos that characterize today's country hits. Online audio tracks illustrate these licks and concepts in context, and the book shows you exactly how to play them. You will learn how to play: Single and double-note lead style; Rhythm guitar styles; String bending, including single-, double-, and triple-note bends; Triadic pedal steel styles; Fingerpicking technique; Western swing style; Bluegrass lead and rhythm style; Sound effects, to make your guitar sound like a marimba, Theremin, banjo, and more!
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A graded anthology of solo pieces (easy to intermediate) that serves as a supplement to Books Two and Three of A Modern Approach To Classical Guitar. Features compositions by: Milan • Sor • Carcassi • DeVisee • Mouret • Diabelli • Duncan • Bergen • J.S. Bach • Johnson • Dowland • Tarrega • Giuliani • Sanz • Gaspar • Romero • DeMurcia • Narvaez • Mudarra • Scarlatti • Hamler • Albeniz • others.
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Innovative and diverse ways of playing pentatonic scales in blues, rock and heavy metal. The licks and ideas in this book will give you fresh approaches to playing the pentatonic scale, hopefully inspiring you to reach for higher levels in your playing. Companion audio features recorded examples. 37-minute audio accompaniment.
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This practical, comprehensive method is used as the basic text for the guitar program at the Berklee College of Music. Volume One builds a solid foundation for beginning guitarists and features a comprehensive range of guitar and music fundamentals, including: scales, melodic studies, chord and arpeggio studies, how to read music, special exercises for developing technique in both hands, voice leading using moveable chord forms, and more. Book includes access to online recordings of the exercises.
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The Hal Leonard R&B Guitar Method is your complete guide to learning rhythm and blues guitar. This book uses excerpts from real R&B, funk and soul songs to teach you the basics of rhythm and lead R&B guitar in the styles of Steve Cropper, Cornell Dupree, Curtis Mayfield, Jimmy Nolen, Billy Butler, and many others. Included audio features full-demo and play-along versions for each track. Songs include: But It's Alright • Honky Tonk • I Can't Turn You Loose • In the Midnight Hour • Knock on Wood • Mustang Sally • Papa Was a Rollin' Stone • Papa's Got a Brand New Bag • Soul Man • Stand by Me • What'd I Say • and more.
The price of this book includes a unique code that provides access to audio tracks online, for download or streaming. The tracks include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, and pan left or right – available exclusively from Hal Leonard.
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Do-It-Yourself Guitar Setup & Maintenance is a fun way to get started maintaining your guitar on your own. Using a variety of guitars and real-life scenarios, you will be given step-by-step instruction on what you need to know to get started. Follow along with detailed video tutorials by guitar luthier Denny Rauen and you'll understand everything in no time.
• Instruction for acoustic, electric, Floyd Rose-equipped guitars and MORE!
• Tools of the trade, with tool lists for every job
• String replacement
• Truss rod adjustment
• Action and intonation
• Basic electronic modifications
• Toolboxes: the tools and tricks you need to maintain your instrument like a pro
• Over four hours of video instruction and demonstration!
• and more!
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Music historian Dave Rubin surveys the gear, tones, licks and lives of 100 top guitarists in this exclusive book/audio pack. Includes rare photos, bios, tablature and audio demonstrations of every lick in the book! Learn the magic behind the masters, including: Duane Allman • Jeff Beck • Chuck Berry • Eric Clapton • Bo Diddley • Tommy Emmanuel • Robben Ford • Buddy Guy • Jimi Hendrix • James Hetfield • Robert Johnson • Mark Knopfler • Yngwie Malmsteen • Pat Metheny • Django Reinhardt • Randy Rhoads • Carlos Santana • Joe Satriani • Slash • Steve Vai • Stevie Ray Vaughan • Angus Young • Frank Zappa • and more.
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Study the trademark songs, licks, tones, and techniques of the original guitar god, Eric Clapton. This comprehensive book and audio teaching method provides detailed analysis of Slowhand's gear, tone, techniques, styles, songs, licks, riffs, and much more. You'll learn everything you need to know about Clapton's legendary guitar playing, from the '60s blues-rock period to his solo career to Unplugged and beyond. Each book also includes a unique code that gets you access to online audio samples of all the music in the book. Songs covered include: Badge • White Room • Bell Bottom Blues • Change the World • Cocaine • Cross Road Blues (Crossroads) • Lay Down Sally • Layla • Sunshine of Your Love • Tears in Heaven • and more.
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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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Learn all about this versatile open tuning, from basic chord shapes to sophisticated arrangements of J.S. Bach, the Beatles, and much more. Includes 11 in-depth lessons with Pierre Bensusan, Laurence Juber, and other masters, and 17 full songs to play.
DADGAD is one of the most popular and versatile open tunings, lending itself to traditional music, blues, jazz, rock, and everything in between. This is the perfect guide for getting to know DADGAD, whether you're just starting out in alternate tunings or have a bit of experience under your fingers. Guided by master teachers of Acoustic Guitar magazine's lessons, you'll learn chord and scale forms, arranging approaches, full songs, and much more.
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This comprehensive source for mastering the art of single-note, melodic improvisation includes: scales, modes, arpeggios, technique and visualization exercises • rock, blues, jazz and other styles • sequences, phrases and licks • over 50 audio tracks for demonstration and play-along • ten video lessons. The audio and video lessons are 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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A simplified approach to learning the art of playing finger picking solos which combine melody with finger picks. Written for the intermediate-level guitarist, this book includes both standard notation and tablature.
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Study the trademark songs, licks, tones and techniques that made Chet Atkins a legend. Each book comes with a unique code that will give you access to audio files of all the music in the book online. This pack looks at 17 of Atkins' most influential songs including: Cannon Ball Rag • The Entertainer • Galloping on the Guitar • Mister Sandman • Yakety Axe • and more.
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Learn how to play in the style of guitar greats such as Jeff Beck, Mike Stern, Kenny Burrell, Joe Pass, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and other players. This workshop will help you develop your own approaches and phrase your own solos by using the techniques of master guitar players. Learn to play rock, blues, jazz, funk, Latin or R&B. Traditional lead sheet music notation and guitar tablature includes notes on style, tempo, form, fingerings, song descriptions and commentary, hints, tips, and practice ideas. Note: This revised edition includes the content from several products in the “Jim Kelly Guitar Workshop” series, with audio and video files available online.
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El segundo libro incluye estudios y canciónes en los claves de C, G, D, Em y F, síncopa, rasgueadno y ritmo avanzado, accordes en primera postura, solos y varios estilos de música desde bluegrass hasta blues-rock.Las canciónes incluyen: Simple Gifts • Mamma Don't 'Low • Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms • Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring • y muchas más! The accompanying audio is accessed through Hal Leonard's popular MyLibrary system using the provided code. The audio can be streamed or downloaded 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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For many years, musicians in Nashville have used a system of numbers, rather than standard musical notation, in playing and singing and at recording sessions. Neil Matthews, Jr., one of the original members of Elvis Presley's back-up vocal quartet The Jordanaires, invented the system and also wrote this book, which teaches the whole system and also includes quotes, stories and photos of country and pop stars. The second edition features 12 songs to play: Beautiful Brown Eyes • Blue • Boot Scootin' Boogie • Crying in the Chapel • Green Green Grass of Home • He Stopped Loving Her Today • Heartbreak Hotel • (Hey, Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song • I Fall to Pieces • King of the Road • Make the World Go Away • Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow up to Be Cowboys.
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Book 2 includes studies and songs in the keys of C, G, D, Em, and F, syncopations and dotted rhythms, more advanced strums, the most common 1st position chords, solos, bass runs and a variety of styles from bluegrass to blues-rock. A great selection of traditional songs including: Simple Gifts • Mamma Don't 'Low • Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms • Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring • and many more. Pages are cross-referenced for supplements. FRENCH LANGUAGE EDITION. 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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Here is a comprehensive stylistic breakdown of country guitar techniques from the past 50 years. Drawing inspiration from the timelessly innovative licks of Merle Travis, Chet Atkins, Albert Lee, Vince Gill, Brent Mason and Brad Paisley, the near 90 musical examples within these pages will hone your left and right hands with technical string-bending and rolling licks while sharpening your knowledge of the thought process behind creating your own licks, and why and when to play them. Whether you're an intermediate-level player wanting to add chicken pickin' flavors to your jazz lines or a rocker interested in dressing up your licks with chromatic sophistication and hybrid picking techniques, turn off the distortion, switch to your brightest pickup, and bring on the twang!
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Learn 'every trick in the book' including virtually every whammy bar and two-handed fretting technique conceivable as well as all types of harmonics, sound effects, and other techniques. All of the techniques are applied to a variety of licks. Also includes five fully transcribed solos. Loaded with instructional photos demonstrating the techniques. Music and examples demonstrated on CD.
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