If you're new to guitar, you're probably ready to expand your rhythm skills beyond strumming simple open chords. First 50 Riffs & Patterns You Should Play on Rhythm Guitar will help you do just that, with dozens of commonly used rhythm guitar examples in blues, rock, jazz, and country styles. Each riff or pattern is shown in standard notation and tab, with helpful notes on technique, theory, and listening recommendations so you can hear how these ideas are used in real songs. You'll cover triads, seventh and ninth chords, chord inversions, boogie woogie and bass line patterns, power chord riffs, open-position blues riffs, jazz progressions, and more. Includes online access to audio demonstrations of every example in the book!
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Are you looking for an acoustic guitar tab method book filled with music you already know and love? Do you need a reliable resource to teach beginner guitarists the fundamentals? You're in the right place! Hal Leonard Acoustic Guitar Tab Method – Combo Edition is the guitar method students and teachers have been waiting for. Written by Jeff Schroedl, this guide uses easy-to-follow instruction and iconic songs to keep learners engaged. This best-selling method is the ideal starting point for anyone learning acoustic guitar.
Covering the Basics
Designed with a step-by-step teaching approach, this combo edition includes Books 1 and 2 of the series, demonstration audio tracks online, and plenty of bonus material. Key skills and content included: Parts of the guitar, guitar tablature, tempo and time signatures, strumming patterns and arpeggios, fingerpicking, sixteenth notes, basic music theory, the minor pentatonic scale, using a capo, many musical styles, and much more. Beginner musicians will quickly progress while playing iconic songs by artists like AC/DC, The Beatles, Metallica, and The Rolling Stones.
Audio Access for Songs You'll Enjoy Playing
Using a unique code inside each book, audio demos of every example can be streamed or downloaded. Audio tracks use PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows players to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right. The method's carefully-paced and logical teaching sequence will keep students playing and having fun. Get started quickly with songs like: 3AM • About a Girl • Across the Universe • Batman Theme • Black Velvet • Come As You Are • Day Tripper • Don't Fear the Reaper • Dust in the Wind • Eleanor Rigby • Free Bird • Free Fallin' • In My Life • Knockin' on Heaven's Door • La Bamba • Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) • Piano Man • Proud Mary • Ring of Fire • Take Me Home, Country Roads • Wish You Were Here •?and more.
Have fun on your musical journey with a method you can trust!
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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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Ready to unlock your full potential on the guitar? 1000 Guitar Licks delivers a massive treasure trove of inspiration, technique, and creativity – all in one power-packed resource. Inside, you'll find:
• 1000 notated guitar licks covering blues, rock, acoustic, country, and jazz
• Tabs only – zero filler, just pure ideas you can plug into your playing instantly
• Streamable video access with over 18 hours of instruction, including: Every lick performed at regular & slow speeds; Every lick explained by experienced instructors; Every lick broken down with a quick take on the important points so you can master it faster!
From fiery blues bends to slick jazz runs, searing rock shred to twangy country riffs, this is the ultimate encyclopedia of guitar vocabulary – your go-to reference for writing solos, improvising, and developing your unique sound.
Whether you're a beginner hungry for ideas or a seasoned pro looking to recharge your creativity, 1000 Guitar Licks will keep you inspired and keep your chops up for years to come.
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Illustrated dictionary groups major, minor, and related chords together. Contains easy-to-understand diagrams.
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All the right chords at your fingertips! Contains nearly 1,000 standard chord forms presented in easy-to-read color-coded diagrams with clear, close-up full-color photos. Keep this handy reference in your gig bag and never be at a loss again!
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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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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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Starting at the elementary level and progressing to advanced techniques, this comprehensive method is like a complete two-year guitar course in book form. It includes over 450 songs and examples, and covers: notes, rhythms, keys, positions, dynamics, syncopation, chord charts, duets, scale forms, phrasing, odd time, and much more. Designed from an MI core curriculum program.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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Learn to play proper reggae guitar from the former head of the Guitar Department at the Jamaica School of Music in Kingston, Jamaica. This complete guide to the style includes explanations of the rhythms and techniques used, essential exercises, fun-to-play examples, discussion of equipment and amplifier settings, and much more. Every exercise in this book is demonstrated in the included online audio so you can clearly hear exactly how everything should sound. How to Play Reggae Guitar is a must-own for anyone interested in learning how to play the real thing! This book includes online access to more than 50 audio tracks for demonstration and play-along. 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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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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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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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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This comprehensive follow-up to Blues You Can Use is designed to help players develop their lead and rhythm techniques. Covers: pentatonic scales, single-note tremolo, double-string bends, reverse bends, shuffle rhythms, 6th and 9th chords, boogie patterns, chord substitutions, vibrato techniques, chord accents, voice leading, arpeggios, rakes, blues runs and more! Examples are in standard notation and TAB, and the audio includes 23 full-band tracks. The audio is accessed online using the unique code in each book and includes the PLAYBACK+ audio player that includes tools such as tempo adjustment, looping and panning.
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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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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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The world of electric blues guitar is rich with many styles linked to players who have achieved legendary status over the last century. In 12-Bar Blues Guitar Licks, author, guitarist, and blues historian Dave Rubin shows you how to play in the style of your favorite blues guitar heroes, ranging from the early 20th century to the modern era. Each guitarist's style is presented in a quick and straightforward collection of short licks and phrases. Artists covered include: T-Bone Walker, Johnny Moore, B.B. King, Otis Rush, Albert Collins, Freddie King, Albert King, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and many more! As a bonus, each lick is demonstrated on the accompanying audio, capturing the phrasing that's essential to master for this way of playing.
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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Navigating the guitar fretboard is a complex undertaking, full of endless possibilities that are often confusing to choose. But now, memorizing these patterns is made clear! Author Tom Fleming shows you how to internalize the map of the fingerboard, highlighting useful tools such as: scales, intervals, chords, arpeggios and much more!
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