The updated edition of this bestselling guitar instruction book now includes new music examples! 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 and advanced players can use the chapters non-sequentially to increase their understanding of the guitar.
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Creative Guitar 2 studies in depth the various techniques used by today's guitar stars in their playing, including eight-finger tapping, playing harmonics and the undiscovered world of emulating other instruments. With an accompanying CD full of riffs and examples to illustrate the exercises and techniques presented, this book aims to provide guitarists with a lexicon of new musical ideas and a performance style that sounds both easy and professional.
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Learn guitar tips, tricks and secrets with this collection of articles and tips from Satriani's famous columns that have appeared in Guitar For The Practicing Musician magazine. Who better to learn guitar from than the master himself?
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Express yourself through the beautiful voice of the solo guitar. Solo Guitar Playing can teach even the person with no previous musical training how to progress from simple single-line melodies to mastery of the guitar as a solo instrument. Fully illustrated with diagrams, photographs, and over 200 musical exercises and repertoire selections, this book offers thorough instruction in every phase of classical guitar playing. Complete coverage of individual skills includes: Basic technique; Reading music, memorizing, and ear-training; Mastering the fingerboard; Building dexterity and speed; Developing tone color and musical phrasing; Position playing; Interpretation; and more. Since its first printing in 1968, Frederick Noad's Solo Guitar Playing has been used by countless students and teachers of classical guitar. The fourth edition features revised and updated exercises and an expanded selection of solo guitar repertoire gleaned from the best-selling Frederick Noad Guitar Anthology.
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Learn to master the entire guitar fretboard with the Guitar Chords, Scales & Arpeggio Finder. This comprehensive reference guide contains three voicings for the 31 most important chord types, diagrams for 17 essential scales, and 28 arpeggio qualities for each key presented in four different shapes. Basic music theory is also included to assist in using this book. An ideal supplement to any guitar method!
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Strum your favorite hits from the Beatles, the Police, Steve Miller, and more! Guitar for Kids Songbook is a useful supplement to the Guitar for Kids Method Book as the songs follow the chords in the order they are taught, beginning with simple two- and three-chord songs and ending with songs that contain four and five chords. 10 songs, including: At the Hop • Don't Worry, Be Happy • Electric Avenue • Every Breath You Take • Feelin' Alright • Fly like an Eagle • Jambalaya (On the Bayou) • Love Me Do • Paperback Writer • Three Little Birds.
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Get started quickly and easily, and with songs you want to play! Learn the notes of the bass with riffs like “Day Tripper” and “Stand by Me,” reading rhythms and tab with classics by the Who and Red Hot Chili Peppers, fingerstyle and pick technique with songs like “Roxanne” and “Low Rider,” beginning slap technique with songs like “Higher Ground” and “Fly Away,” and much more. The method's unique, well-paced, and logical teaching sequence will get students playing more easily than ever before, and music from popular artists like the Beatles, Nirvana, and Green Day will keep them playing and having fun. This special combo edition includes books one and two of the series plus online audio access.
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Standard Tuning Slide Guitar is a compilation of slide guitar techniques accumulated by author and über-guitarist Greg Koch for over 30 years. With detailed notation and tablature for over 100 playing examples and video demonstrations, Koch demonstrates how to play convincing blues, rock, country, and gospel-tinged slide guitar while in standard tuning by using techniques and approaches that emulate common altered slide tunings, such as open E or open G. Drawing from a well of influences, from Blind Willie Johnson and Elmore James to Duane Allman and Sonny Landreth, Greg will show you how to create these slide guitar sounds in standard tuning while also providing ideas to inspire the development of your own style.
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This innovative method for acoustic or electric guitar picks up where Book One leaves off. Learn notes up the fretboard with riffs like “Purple Haze” and “Sunshine of Your Love,” lead guitar licks from Stevie Ray Vaughan and Eric Clapton, more chords with songs by the Beatles and Bob Dylan, and much more. The method's unique, well-paced, and logical teaching sequence will get students playing more easily than ever before, and music from popular artists like Jimi Hendrix, Metallica, and Pearl Jam will keep them playing and having fun. The accompanying online audio access, available using the unique code in the book, features demos of all 80 riffs and songs in the book.
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If you're new to the guitar, you're probably eager to learn some chords to play along with your favorite songs. This one-of-a-kind collection of accessible, must-know chord shapes and progressions used in famous rock, pop, folk, blues, R&B, and reggae tunes provides easy-to-read notation, tips, chord grids, and photos showing you exactly what to play for both acoustic and electric styles. With this book you'll learn how to play basic guitar chords with these hit songs: Ain't No Sunshine • American Pie • Back in Black • Bang a Gong (Get It On) • Brown Eyed Girl • Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) • Hey, Good Lookin' • A Horse with No Name • I Shot the Sheriff • Imagine • Landslide • Let It Be • Mustang Sally • Riptide • (Sittin' On) the Dock of the Bay • Summer of '69 • Take Me Home, Country Roads • Twist and Shout • Won't Get Fooled Again • You've Got a Friend • and more.
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Learn to play arpeggios on the guitar with this comprehensive yet easy-to-use book, a supplement to the Hal Leonard Guitar Method. The Arpeggio Finder contains more than 1,300 arpeggio shapes, covering 28 different qualities for each key, with each quality presented in four different shapes. Great for guitarists looking to hone their skills!
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Learn to play guitar quickly while using popular Worship songs as your guide. As soon as the ChordBuddy device is properly attached to your acoustic or electric guitar, you will be able to make music instantly. Within a few weeks, you'll begin removing some of the tabs and making the chords on your own. In two months, you'll be able to play the guitar with no ChordBuddy at all!
Package includes: ChordBuddy • instruction book • companion DVD with a 2-month lesson plan • and ChordBuddy Worship songbook with 60 songs. Works on acoustic and electric guitars. The ChordBuddy is in the key of “G” and makes the “G” “C” “D” and “Em” chords. The ChordBuddy Guitar Learning System has earned the Parent Tested Parent Approved (PTPA) Seal of Approval and was rated the Most Trusted Seal by 22,000 parents! Great for home, Sunday School, and other faith-based places of learning. The ChordBuddy currently does not work on left-handed guitars, nor does it work on classical or half-sized (children's) guitars.
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A guide to learning the basic tools for becoming a good player and musician. Includes Al's own lesson plan system, tunes, blues patterns, jazz chord exercises, playing and practicing tips, and a complete guide to chords, scales and arpeggios.
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This poster is a must for students and teaching studios! Features dozens of the most commonly used chord diagrams.
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A good warm-up session can be the most crucial part of your practice session. Not only does it limber and stretch your finger muscles, it helps to ward off injuries, gets your hands in “sync,” and promotes accuracy and speed. This book contains a wide variety of exercises to help get your hands in top playing shape. It addresses the basic elements of guitar warm-ups by category: stretches and pre-playing coordination exercises, picking exercises, right and left-hand synchronization, and rhythm guitar warm-ups. The Odds & Ends chapter covers other misc. topics such as legato warm-ups, string-bending exercises, scale sequences, and arpeggios. Use this book daily, choosing one or two exercises in each chapter to warm up, and you'll playing will be cleaner, more articulate, and of a higher caliber.
The price of this book includes access to audio tracks online, for download or streaming, using the unique code inside the book! Now including 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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Illustrated dictionary groups major, minor, and related chords together. Contains easy-to-understand diagrams.
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The Hal Leonard Guitar Method has been a mainstay for students of the guitar for many years. In this latest installment, the Hal Leonard Gypsy Jazz Guitar Method, guitarist Jeff Magidson (Hot Club of Francisco, Duo Gadjo) guides you through this ubuquitous style that first emerged in the 1930s as a result of cross-pollinating American swing with distinct European and Romani folk flavors, along with brilliant virtuosity. This book gives you all the necessary tools and information to help you authentically play this singular style, emulating the playing of greats like Django Reinhardt and other icons. Co-author Dave Rubin documents the history of the style and popular players that helped shape it. To enhance your experience even further, the concepts in the book are demonstrated by the author himself in over an hour of video instruction! We've also included play-along tracks for you to solo over.
Includes: • Rhythmic feel and understanding “La Pompe” (the pump)
• Improvisation and embellishing melodies
• Picking techniques
• Fingerings and fretboard idioms
• Articulations
• Scales and arpeggios in practice
• Chord voicings and advanced harmony
• Incorporating licks from iconic players
• Recommended listening
• Video lessons
• Play-along tracks
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This contains a complete course for anyone wanting to learn how to play acoustic or electric guitar. After 20 years of teaching guitar and hearing from hundreds of thousands of followers on You Tube, Justin has realized that the majority of beginner guitarists struggle with the same problems, and has worked out how to help them overcome the things they find difficult. The course is divided into nine stages. Each one has a practice routine and ear-traning exercises that will help you quickly improve. The book comes with access to online recordings containing demonstrations of every chord, technique and exercise you'll need. Along the way you'll learn: how to choose a guitar, amp and accessories • how to read chord boxes and tab • tuning up • all the important open and power chords • rhythm guitar techniques • how to practice • playing a 12-bar blues • fingerstyle patterns • the pentatonic scale and basic improvisation • and much, much 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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This Berklee Workshop is designed for serious guitarists who want to sharpen their high register reading skills and take their playing expertise to the next level. It introduces studies in all keys, using positions 8 through 12 and all major, minor and symmetric scales. Individual studies consist of scale passages, arpeggios, intervals and notated chord sequences in various time signatures.
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This quick and easy introduction for beginners covers: the basics • major scale • minor scale • scale theory and transposing • scale patterns and alternate fingerings • pentatonic scales • blues scales • three octave scales • and much more. No music reading is required and audio examples are available online for download or streaming.
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All three books of The Complete Guitar Player series are published in this single volume at a substantial savings over the price of the individual books.
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This second volume of the popular classical guitar method features instruction, graded exercises, practice studies, and a survey of the guitar repertoire. Volume Two develops technique, sightreading, and includes an advanced repertoire of thirty works.
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The ideal book for either a beginner in need of a well-organized, easy-to-follow guide, or a gigging professional seeking a handy reference of exercises for every possible musical situation. The exercises are designed to enhance not only technical ability, but also fretboard visualization skills. Unlike other giant exercise books that cover only the most common ways to visualize the fretboard, this book presents every exercise type alongside numerous fingering options. Features include: over 150 exercises • standard notation and tablature • scales and arpeggios in all positions • diatonic and linear sequences.
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The FastTrack songbooks were designed to supplement the FastTrack method books, but also can be used independently. They feature 8 great songs by artists including the Beatles, Eric Clapton, Van Morrison, and Van Halen.
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Hundreds of guitar tunings in all styles, from folk to Celtic to rock, are included in this unique volume. It covers artists such as Hedges, Kottke, Sonic Youth, Cooder, Crosby Stills & Nash, Pearl Jam, and more. Includes tablature.
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Expand your guitar knowledge with the Guitar Lesson Goldmine series! Featuring 100 individual modules covering a giant array of topics, each lesson in this Rock volume includes detailed instruction with playing examples presented in standard notation and tablature. You'll also get extremely useful tips, scale diagrams, chord grids, photos, and more to reinforce your learning experience, plus online audio featuring performance demos of all the examples in the book!
A huge variety of rock guitar styles and techniques are covered, including: vibrato, string bending, string skipping, tapping, shred techniques, soloing approaches, exotic scales, rockabilly guitar, surf guitar, southern rock, and much 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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This book contains a complete course for all guitarists who want to progress from beginner to intermediate level. It follows on from the hugely successful Justinguitar.com Beginner's Course, and is the ideal next step for students who are already comfortable with the basics of guitar playing. After 20 years of teaching guitar, Justin has assembled the essential techniques that progressing guitarists need to know and has worked out to help them overcome the things they find difficult.
The course is intelligently structured, and divided into five stages; each stage builds on what you already know, introducing enough new material to keep you busy, but not so much that you'll feel overwhelmed. Each stage has its own practice routine and ear-training exercises that will help you improve quickly and consistently. The book comes with two specially-recorded CDs containing demonstrations of every chord, technique and exercise featured in the course. Along the way, you'll learn: How to play barre chords • How to play scales • New voicings for Major and Minor chords • More advanced rhythm guitar techniques • Basic note reading and theory • Transcribing • String bending • Hammer-ons and flick-offs • Simple soloing • and much, much more.
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A valuable reference for use at home or on the go, the compact Playbook – Guitar Chords contains 80 pages of handy chord information designed to be flicked through quickly and easily to find what you're looking for. The Playbook's pint-sized design allows you to flip to each chord easily, wherever you are. So keep a copy at home, at the studio, or just in your guitar case so that you never forget a chord. This pocket-sized playbook includes all the essential guitar chords, helpfully divided into open chords, barre chords and power chords. Each chord is displayed as a diagram, as well as in standard notation and photographs to ensure that every one is easy to understand and play. With this innovative structure, you'll be strumming the open chords, traveling up and down the fretboard with barre chords and rocking out with power chords in absolutely no time. 2-3/4″ x 4″ spiral bound.
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A comprehensive source for mastering the art of single note, melodic improvisation. The online audio includes over 30 tracks for demonstration and play-along. The topics covered include: scales, modes, arpeggios, technique and visualization exercises; rock, blues, jazz, and other styles; and sequences, phrases, and licks. 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 songs in Hal Leonard's Essential Elements Guitar Ensemble series are playable by multiple guitars. Each arrangement features the melody (lead), a harmony part, and a bass line. Chord symbols are also provided if you wish to add a rhythm part. For groups with more than three or four guitars, the parts may be doubled. Play all of the parts together, or record some of the parts and play the remaining part along with your recording. All of the songs are printed on two facing pages, so no page turns are required. This series is perfect for classroom guitar ensembles or other group guitar settings.
Includes 15 hits arranged for three or more guitarists: Aqualung • Behind Blue Eyes • Crazy Train • Fly like an Eagle • Free Bird • Hey Jude • Into the Great Wide Open • Low Rider • Maggie May • Oye Como Va • Proud Mary • Smoke on the Water • Start Me Up • We Will Rock You • You Really Got Me.
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