Cool Pedal Steel Licks for Guitar gives you the instruction you need to sound just like a steeler on an electric guitar! You'll learn the essential techniques such as bends and shapes of all sizes, chordal slides, and volume swells. And then there are dozens of licks in different country flavors, as well as 11 full solos so you can try out your new skills! Included audio features recorded demonstrations of every music example and solo.
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In Giant Steps for Guitar, Wolf Marshall takes an in-depth look at the Coltrane classic from a guitarist's point of view. Topics covered include a comprehensive harmonic analysis and informative history of “Giant Steps,” melodic patterns in linear and positional form, rhythmic patterns and variations, ii-V and turnaround ideas, chordal studies, model solos, and much more. The included audio recordings feature demonstrations of most figures as well as accompanying tracks in various tempos over which to 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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David Hamburger, leading sideman, solo performer and teacher, guides players through this complete introduction to bottleneck slide guitar playing with progressive lessons in open tunings and fingerstyle technique, tips on slide guitars and gear, technical exercises, and full songs. You can access accompanying audio examples online of all of the music played slowly, then up to tempo online. In standard notation with tablature and chord diagrams.
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101 Guitar Tips contains invaluable guidance on everything from scales and music theory to truss rod adjustments, proper recording studio set-ups, and much more. The book also features snippets of advice from some of the most celebrated guitarists and producers in the music business, including B.B. King, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Warren Haynes, Laurence Juber, Pete Anderson, Tom Dowd and others, culled from the author's hundreds of interviews.
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All the essential and required studies for classical guitar are collected here in one handsome volume for classical guitar students and instructors. The studies contained herein appear on nearly every syllabus from any respected university classical guitar program. Newly engraved from early editions, with centuries-old errors now corrected and with minimal editorial annotations, this clear, uncluttered, easy-to-read reference book will be used every day for a lifetime of study. A “one-stop shopping” repertoire book for every classical guitarist. Includes selected studies by Sor (Opp. 6, 29, 31, 35, 44, 60), Giuliani (Opp. 48, 51, 139), Aguado (from his Nuevo Método para Guitarra) and Carulli (Op. 333), as well as complete editions of Carulli's 24 Preludes, op. 114; Giuliani's 120 Studies for Right-Hand Development, op. 1a; Carcassi's 25 Melodic and Progressive Études, op. 60; and Coste's 25 Études de Genre, op. 38. Of special interest to the student is the inclusion of carefully chosen audition and recital pieces from Bach, Milán, Tárrega, and Albéniz.
Also includes recordings of the editor demonstrating over 30 of 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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This bestseller is now available with a CD! The complete book on the world of rock guitar, covering fretboard basics, chords, structure, and all rock styles, with accompanying illustrations.
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A thorough guide to the most widely used tunings! Tunes and exercises that illustrate each technique are written in tab and music and played on the CD featuring 50 demo tracks. These essential fretboard patterns are roadmaps that all guitarists need to know and use to play in alternate tunings. Learn to: solo and play backup in Drop D, Open G, Open D, DADGAD, Open A, and Open E tunings; play a variety of lead guitar styles and songs (acoustic and electric) in open tunings; play chords and progressions anywhere on the fretboard, in all keys, in many tunings; and more. Each chapter presents a fretboard pattern and shows how to use it, along with playing tips and guitar insights. An absolute beginner can follow the diagrams and instruction from the beginning. Intermediate and advanced players can use the chapters non-sequentially to increase their understanding of the guitar.
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Discover a variety of guitar playing topics with internationally renowned clinician and instructor Greg Koch! Learn warm-ups, picking, sweeps, music theory, and more – in blues, country & rock styles. The accompanying audio contains 81 demonstration tracks.
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 complete guide to playing lead guitar in the styles of Pete Anderson, Ray Flacke, Danny Gatton, Albert Lee, Brent Mason, and more! This book and online audio will take your country guitar playing to the next level with loads of red-hot licks, techniques, solos, theory, and more! You'll learn: hybrid picking, single-note soloing, open chord licks, double stops, bending, open-string licks, licks in the style of the masters, CAGED system, chord and scale diagrams, 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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The updated edition of this bestseller features more songs, updated lessons, and lots of online recordings! This book will show you how to play lead and rhythm anywhere on the fretboard, in any key; play a variety of lead guitar styles; play chords and progressions anywhere on the fretboard; expand your chord vocabulary; and learn to think musically – the way the pros do. Each chapter presents a pattern and shows how to use it, along with playing tips and guitar insights. Absolute beginners can follow the diagrams and instruction, and intermediate to advanced players can use the chapters non-sequentially to increase their understanding of the guitar.
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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Join renowned guitar master Greg Koch as he clues you in to a wide variety of fun and valuable pentatonic scale applications. Whether you're new to improvising or have been doing it for a while, this book will provide loads of delicious licks and tricks that you can use right away, from volume swells and chicken pickin' to intervallic and chordal ideas. Includes 65 demo and play-along 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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From B.B. King and Buddy Guy to Clapton and Stevie Ray Vaughan, blues guitar has become a constant in the realm of American popular music. This book teaches the concepts and techniques as fostered by these legendary bluesmen: 12-bar blues; major & minor pentatonic scales; the blues scale; string bending; licks; double-stops; intros and turnarounds; and more. The book includes standard notation and tab, as well as recorded demos of every example. 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 fantastic beginner's guide will get your fingers on the fretboard in no time! You'll quickly learn easy chords, basic fingerpicking, strumming patterns, chord progressions, and much more. The companion online video features over 2 hours of instruction with Andrew DuBrock himself as your personal teacher, reinforcing all the lessons in the book.
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One of the world's most popular beginning classical guitar methods by South American guitar virtuoso Julio Sagreras and translated by Bernard Moore. Features carefully sequenced studies covering technique and theory through music etudes and pieces.
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This book/online audio pack will teach you how to play jazz chords all over the fretboard in a variety of styles and progressions. It covers: voicings, progressions, jazz chord theory, comping, chord melody, chord soloing, voice leading and many more topics. Includes 98 full-band demo tracks. No tablature.
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, change keys, and pan left or right – available exclusively from Hal Leonard.
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Expand your guitar universe with the infinite possibilities of alternate tunings! From Leo Kottke and Michael Hedges to John Lee Hooker and Jimmy Page, alternate tunings have inspired some of the most creative and unique guitar sounds in the history of the instrument. This book and audio pack will provide you with loads of fretboard diagrams, fun playing examples, and practical music applications to help you navigate through a variety of tunings – from Double Drop D to DADGAD and beyond. Includes standard notation and tablature, plus 52 audio tracks for demonstration and play-along.
“The Tao of Tunings is beautiful ... Mark Shark has created a book of tremendous value for anyone interested in thinking, feeling or playing in alternate tunings.”
– Jackson Browne 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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This book/CD package is an insider's guide to the guitar style of Johnny Winter. You'll learn blues licks, riffs, turnarounds, and solos from the master himself, plus slide technique, alternate tunings, and much more. The CD features performances by Johnny Winter on regular, slide, and National Steel guitar, with Paul Nelson on rhythm guitar and Dave Rubin on bass. Detailed performance notes are provided for each example.
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Learn an entirely new way to improvise over jazz changes! This hefty book/audio pack sheds new light on the old five-note scales that all guitarists know and love. The system is theoretically sound, easy to implement, and best of all, it's designed specifically for guitar. It will work with any chord progression – from simple to complex and, unlike other systems, there are no notes to avoid.
The 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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These are the original editions of the ever-popular instruction books for various instruments by C. Paul Herfurth. The books are packed full of lessons, illustrations, fingering charts, daily practice records, test questions, and manuscript paper for homework. Perfect for use in group lessons, school classes, or for individual lessons.
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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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Aprende a utilizar todo el diapasón con trastes! Este libro contiene más de 1300 diagramas de escalas para los 17 tipos de escalas más importantes, como las escalas mayor y menor, la escala pentatónica, los siete modos mayores, disminuidos, la escala menor melódica, la escala menor armónica y mucho más, en las 12 tonalidades. También se presenta la teoría básica de la escala que te ayudará a incluir estos coloridos sonidos en tu propia música.
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Aprende a tocar acordes en la guitarra con este libro detallado y facíl de usar. Contiene más de 1100 diagramas de acordes para los 31 tipos de acordes más importantes, e incluye tres sonorizaciones para cada acorde. Los bajistas eléctricos también pueden utilizar este libro.
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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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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. SPANISH LANGUAGE EDITION.
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A complete guide diagramming over 1,000 guitar chords in their most common voicings. The book is arranged chromatically and each chord is illustrated in three ways for three levels of difficulty: the easiest form of the chords for the beginner and the more difficult versions for the intermediate and advanced players. Note names of each string are indicated on each chord diagram to let the player know what notes are being played in the chord.
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A step-by-step approach to classical guitar. This includes: A look-and-learn course that used clear pictures instead of long explanations; Practical advice and tips covering everything you need to know about setting up, playing and maintenance; CD demonstration tracks and full-length accompaniments to play along with; and more. With this pack you'll develop correct classical playing techniques and learn to read and understand standard music notation and guitar tab.
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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.
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• Band and artist fact files with recommended listening
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• Example tests and exercises
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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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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.
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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.
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