This Master Class with MI instructor David Oakes is aimed at any electric or acoustic guitarist who wants a quick, thorough grounding in the essentials of classical and fingerstyle technique. Topics covered include: arpeggios and scales, free stroke and rest stroke, P-i scale technique, three-to-a-string patterns, natural and artificial harmonics, tremolo and rasgueado, and more. The book includes 12 intensive lessons for right and left hand in standard notation & tab, and the audio features 92 solo acoustic 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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In any music style, there are essentials – scales, licks, chords, etc. Acoustic Guitar Chords teaches you the must-know chords that will get you strumming quickly. You won't get bogged down with tons of details. Rather, you'll be armed with many chord shapes that have been used throughout the acoustic guitar's history in countless hits. The included videos demonstrate each chord and all the examples are accompanied by a full band, so you can hear these chords in the proper context. Teaches: open chords, barre chords, seventh chords, other chord types (suspended, add9), open-string drone chords, full song examples, and more. You don't need to learn how to read music to play acoustic guitar. But you do need to know these chords!
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Apprenez a utiliser le touche toute entiere de votre guitare! Ce guide contient plus de 1300 diagrammes de gammes pour les 17 plus importants types de gammes, dont les gammes majeures, mineures et pentatoniques, les sept modes principaux, le mode diminue, mineur melodique, mineur harmonique et plus, dans les 12 cles. La theorie elementaire des gammes est egalement expliquee pour vour aider a integrer ces sonorites colorees dans votre propre musique.
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The most complete and comprehensive guide to the acoustic guitar to date. This huge volume, with 2 CDs featuring 158 audio examples, covers everything you will need to know to approach, master and enjoy the acoustic guitar to its full potential. Topics covered include: how to care for your instrument • different approaches to tuning • effective practicing and getting the best from your hands • musical theory and composing for the guitarist • extended chords, harmony, modal soloing and unusual improvisation • self-accompaniment and building exciting rhythm parts • advanced techniques and effects such as raked harmonics and tapping • using different pickups and their properties • caring for your instrument in transit • and more! The book also includes tons of full pieces in a variety of styles.
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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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Get started playing guitar with real songs and solid lessons covering everything you need: chords, scales, theory, licks, and much more! The method's well-paced and logical teaching sequence will get beginning guitarists playing more easily than ever before, and music from popular artists like the Beatles, Eric Clapton, Eagles, Green Day, Nirvana, and Pink Floyd will keep them playing and having fun. This boxed set includes four books (Acoustic Guitar Method, Guitar Chord Chart, Guitar Scale Chart, and Guitar Theory) and the 200 Acoustic Licks DVD that includes tasty lead lines and fingerstyle phrases, creative riffs, walk-through explanations by pro guitarists, note-for-note on-screen tablature; normal- and slow-speed performance demos. Works for those who want to teach themselves or with a teacher!
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These essential fretboard patterns are roadmaps that all great acoustic guitarists know and use. By studying them, you'll learn to play lead and rhythm and chords and progressions anywhere on the fretboard, in any key and in a variety of styles. You'll 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. 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. The CD includes demos of all the exercises as well as six practice tracks to help you learn six different soloing techniques.
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Time to get excited about playing blues guitar! This book/CD pack provides time-tested lessons covering rhythms, leads, slide, fingerstyle, shuffles, boogies and so much more. This is not a method book; you go straight to the meat & potatoes of blues playing with tried & true phrases that you've heard on countless songs by the biggest blues legends. The CD contains 78 tracks so you can hear every example!
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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 book/CD pack details how to play electric guitar in a trio with bass and drums. Boogie, shuffle and slow blues rhythms, licks, double stops, chords and bass patterns are presented for full and exciting blues. A CD with the music examples performed by a smokin' power trio is included for play-along instruction and jamming. The music styles of Chicago and Texas bluesmen are presented along with rare photos of these musicians with their favorite axes. This new edition features even more blues styles – funk, soul and jazz – all with new music examples and recordings!
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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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A first of its kind, the At a Glance series pairs an instructional DVD lesson taught by a professional guitarist with a supplemental book for a comprehensive learning experience. Each book/DVD features several lessons pertaining to one topic, and the DVD lessons feature on-screen music. The lessons are loaded with valuable tips and information, and song examples help to demonstrate the concepts in action. Acoustic Guitar – At a Glance features four lessons, including: Strumming Chords, Fingerstyle Basics, Travis Picking, and Capo Basics and uses the riffs of 16 songs, including: Brown Eyed Girl • Dust in the Wind • Free Fallin' • Landslide • Maggie May • Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) • Yesterday • and more.
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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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This lesson was developed to take chord shapes and progressions way beyond the basic chords most novices know. The secrets of jazz, blues and singer-songwriter chords will add color and depth to any guitarist's playing. These chords, progressions and turnarounds are fun and easy to learn, contain a wealth of musical ideas, and create a unique opportunity for fast improvement. Level 3.
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Unlock the secrets of playing and composing in alternate tunings with this unique, comprehensive book/audio pack! Includes an introduction to alternate tunings and the players who have pioneered them (including tips from David Wilcox, David Crosby, Alex de Grassi, Duncan Sheik and more), 12 in-depth lessons in 11 tunings, 10 full songs to play, a special section on how to create your own tunings, an extensive list of 60 tunings to try – with artist songs and examples, and accessible arrangements in standard notation and tab. The complete guide to a new world of playing by the master teachers at Acoustic Guitar magazine! 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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Major Blues for Guitar is the first in a series of studies written to give the serious musician a melodic approach to playing chords. There are hundreds of blues books out there, but none show how to put chords together melodically to make great-sounding music. This book/CD pack solves that problem in a practical manner. It takes only one 12-bar C-major blues chord progression and creates 21 different melodic lines from it. By mastering all of these exercises, students will acquire greater fluency and melodic flexibility in playing chords.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Stock your musical toolbox with Cool Open String Licks! Whether you're just learning how to play guitar, or you're a more seasoned player who wants to expand your vocabulary of open-position licks, this book is for you! You'll find 76 licks in rock, blues, country, R&B, funk, jazz, and bluegrass styles. Each lick is partnered with detailed instructions on how it should be played, as well as a demonstration track on the enclosed CD. There's no better way to build your arsenal of licks and lay the foundation for your soloing chops – today!
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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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Tremendously increase your melodic chord vocabulary for soloing, chord-melodies and comping. This unique book arranges chords not only by chord type (major 7th, minor 7b5, etc.), but also by all available chord tones (1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13). Learn chords that express your emotions.
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