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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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This highly anticipated book traces the development of the legendary Robert Johnson's music in light of the people and songs that directly and indirectly influenced him. It includes much information about life in the Delta from the late 1800s to Johnson's controversial death in 1938, and features fascinating historical photos, maps, musical examples, and much more. Required reading for all blues fans!
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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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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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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 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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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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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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Learn the basics of acoustic rock guitar in these 12 easy-to-follow lessons. Featuring instruction on simple chord embellishments; creative uses of major, minor & pentatonic scales; and versatile techniques for playing rhythm, riffs & backup, this book is your guide to sounding like Neil Young, Dave Matthews, the Eagles, and many more of your favorite acoustic rock artists. Features exercises, riffs and full songs to play, with audio downloads for all. In standard notation and tab, with chord diagrams.
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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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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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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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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
• In-depth walkthroughs of every track
• Easy-access downloadable audio
• Example tests and exercises
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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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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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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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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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