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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The songs in the Hal Leonard 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. All of the songs are printed on two facing pages; no page turns are required. This series is perfect for classroom guitar ensembles or other group guitar settings. This edition features 15 classic pop standards: All I Have to Do Is Dream • All My Loving • Blowin' in the Wind • Bridge over Troubled Water • Don't Be Cruel (To a Heart That's True) • Have You Ever Seen the Rain? • The House of the Rising Sun • I Walk the Line • Lean on Me • Let It Be • Love Me Tender • Mellow Yellow • Nowhere Man • Purple Haze • Your Cheatin' Heart.
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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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Learn how the professionals create monster solos with this easy-to-use book with online audio! The accompanying audio includes 68 tracks of exercises, licks, solo examples, and play-alongs. Includes all necessary foundation materials; detailed instructions on how and what to practice; essential concepts for players at every level; developing your real-time melodic reflexes; soloing over any progression in any style of music; using chords as an endless source of ideas; and more. The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be downloaded or streamed.
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The best single source for learning to play barre chords on the guitar! This handy guide covers: all barre chord forms and fingerings; movable shapes and roots; major, minor, seventh, ninth, added tones, alterations and extended chords; sample chord progressions for application practice; and more!
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Printed on durable card stock, this 'first-of-a-kind' guitar chord chart displays all forms of major and minor chords in two forms, beginner and advanced.
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Spanish Edition of #697291.
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If you're new to fingerstyle guitar, you're probably eager to learn some new fingerpicking patterns. This book and audio pack provides a variety of must-know examples in the styles of influential fingerstyle folk, classical, rock, country, and blues guitarists. Each is notated with easy-to-read rhythm tab notation and chord diagrams. All 50 patterns also include helpful playing tips, stylistic info, and audio demonstration tracks. The patterns are in the styles of Chet Atkins, Pierre Bensusan, Eva Cassidy, Tracy Chapman, Eric Clapton, Ani DiFranco, Bob Dylan, Mississippi John Hurt, Leo Kottke, John Mayer, Andy McKee, Joni Mitchell, John Prine, Radiohead, Simon & Garfunkel, James Taylor, Merle Travis, Mason Williams, and more.
The price of this book includes access to audio tracks online, for download or streaming, using 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 this one-on-one lesson, MI instructor Tom Kolb unravels the mystery of the modes, giving guitarists a complete approach to soloing and a thorough, hands-on explanation of Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian and Locrian. He also covers: melodic minor, harmonic minor and the blues scale; soloing over diatonic and modal progressions; superimposing modes; patterns, progressions, licks; and much more. The accompanying online audio includes 83 full-band tracks. The audio can be downloaded or streamed and includes PLAYBACK+ tools such as tempo adjustment, looping, and panning capabilities.
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Learn some of the most frequently used progressions in folk, blues, pop, and jazz.
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The songs in Hal Leonard's Essential Elements Guitar Ensembles 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 the recording. All of the songs are printed on two facing pages; no page turns are required. This series is perfect for classroom guitar ensembles or other group guitar settings. This edition features 15 popular themes, including: Addams Family Theme • The Godfather (Love Theme) • Hawaii Five-O Theme • He's a Pirate • Linus and Lucy • Mission: Impossible Theme • The Muppet Show Theme • Peter Gunn • The Pink Panther • Theme from Spider Man • and more.
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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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A Modern Method for Guitar, by William Leavitt, is one of the world's most popular guitar methods and is the basic text for Berklee College of Music's guitar program. It has stood the test of time and earned a vast and loyal following of dedicated guitar students and instructors for over 40 years. Now this renowned method is available with online video access to fourteen hours of instruction from Larry Baione, chair or Berklee's guitar department! Instruction includes on-screen demonstrations, with camera close-ups of both hands, as well as interactive duets and play-along segments so you can “sit in” with your instructor. It's like a year's worth of private guitar lessons at Berklee College of Music!
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This fascinating new book will let you explore the music of one of the 20th century's most influential musicians. For the first time ever, saxophonist Charlie Parker's legendary “heads” and improvised solos have been meticulously adapted for the guitar in standard notation and tablature. Includes these Parker classics complete with detailed performance notes: Anthropology • Au Privave • Billie's Bounce (Bill's Bounce) • Bloomdido • Blues (Fast) • Blues for Alice • Cheryl • Confirmation • Donna Lee • K.C. Blues • Kim • Ko Ko • Moose the Mooche • Now's the Time • Ornithology • Parker's Mood • Scrapple from the Apple • Yardbird Suite.
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The purpose of this book is to give aspiring blues guitarists & experienced players alike a large chunk of the vocabulary of the blues – in other words, lots of licks! It contains music and performance notes for 75 hot lead phrases, with access to online audio featuring full-band examples of each. Styles covered include: up-tempo and slow blues, jazz-blues, shuffle blues, swing blues 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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The songs in the Hal Leonard Essential Elements® Guitar Ensembles 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. 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.
Your guitar ensemble will enjoy playing these 15 holiday hits: Angels from the Realms of Glory • Angels We Have Heard on High • Away in a Manger • Coventry Carol • Deck the Hall • The First Noel • God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen • Good King Wenceslas • Hark! the Herald Angels Sing • It Came upon the Midnight Clear • Jingle Bells • Joy to the World • O Come, All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles) • Silent Night • We Wish You a Merry Christmas.
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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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Guitar Music Theory teaches fundamental music theory concepts in a fun, engaging way by using popular riffs and songs, including “Helter Skelter,” “My Girl,” “No Woman No Cry,” and “Smoke on the Water.” Written in easy-to-follow guitar tablature with online audio access to demos of every example. Topics include: intervals, the musical alphabet, the major scale, circle of 5ths, triads, dominant chords, and much more!
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The fast way to find just the chord you need. This user-friendly reference book is jam-packed with over 1,400 chords and voicings and includes a “jam session” with 20 original songs using common chord progressions.
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This pack contains just the ChordBuddy device that clamps on to most right-handed electric and acoustic guitars. The instructional material and songbooks are part of the ChordBuddy Guitar Learning System that are sold as a pack (HL#139936). This device by itself can support classrooms settings where books are sold separately or if someone wants to test out the device on their guitar first to see how it operates. A ChordBuddy device for classical guitars HL#146969 is also available for guitars whose necks are wider – about 1-7/8 inches – than normal guitars.
Click here for a video clip from a TV interview including a ChordBuddy demonstration
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Everything in this simple beginner's guide to music theory is geared toward the guitar so that you're able to apply the theoretical concepts directly to your instrument. Featuring hands-on activities like quizzes, assignments, ear training, and audio examples, this workbook teaching system is designed to reinforce each musical concept through application and practice. Topics covered include: the basics of music notation • the way notes interact with each other • how collections of notes form scales and keys • how chords are created and how they function within keys • how to identify notes, scales and chords by ear • the relationships of notes, scales, and chords on the guitar fretboard. Includes access to audio tracks online for download or streaming.
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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 Country 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 audio tracks featuring performance demos of all the examples in the book! A huge variety of country guitar styles and techniques are covered, including: open-chord licks, rhythm techniques, pentatonic scales, arpeggios, double-stop licks, triple-stop licks, standard bends, pedal-steel bends, Travis picking, hybrid picking, fingerstyle country, chord embellishments, 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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It's no secret that Nashville, Tennessee is home to some of the top musicians in the world, entertaining audiences non-stop and setting the stage for hopeful artists who are chasing their dreams of stardom. Electric guitarists in particular are some of the most technically proficient musicians in this renowned music scene, executing blistering lead lines, slippery string bending, and foot-tapping rhythms night after night. In this book and the accompanying videos, Nashville veteran Matthew Lee shows everything you need to add to your arsenal of techniques and tricks and play just like the professionals! Lessons covered include: hybrid picking • Nashville Number System • open string licks • double-stop playing • exploring intervals and scales • and more.
The price of this book includes access to videos online, for download or streaming, using the unique code inside!
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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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Here are 10 hit songs tabbed for beginning guitarists to play while they are working through the Hal Leonard Guitar Tab Method, or any other guitar method. The songs are all on facing pages for no page turns, and the included audio features both examples of how the guitar should sound, and full-band backing tracks so students can play the lead! Songs: All the Small Things • Breaking the Law • Californication • Come Together • Free Fallin' • Lick It Up • Pork and Beans • Smells like Teen Spirit • 21 Guns • You Really Got Me.
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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The Legendary Licks series presents the music of a band or artist in a comprehensive play-along package. Each book contains detailed performance notes on how to play a multitude of classic licks, fills, riffs and solos – complete with recorded demonstrations available online for download or streaming. The recording is split-channel, so you can listen to all the instruments or play along with the band, and also features playback tools such as looping and tempo adjustment. Book also includes tab, gear setups and a historical retrospective. This pack examines 12 rockin' & swingin' Setzer standards, from his Stray Cats days through his solo career. Includes: Built for Speed • The Dirty Boogie • Hoodoo Voodoo Doll • Jump, Jive An' Wail • Let's Live It Up • Rock This Town • Rumble in Brighton • Runaway Boys • Sleepwalk • Stray Cat Strut • Switchblade 327 • This Cat's on a Hot Tin Roof. Also includes a Brian Setzer Chord Dictionary and a Brian Setzer Scale Primer.
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Spanish edition of the best-selling guitar instruction book featuring down to earth instruction that will get you playing today's music fast! Audio available for streaming or download using the unique code printed inside the book.
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An insightful and helpful book written by Di Meola on his own personal technique of guitar playing. Includes exercises and excerpts from his music, which act as a step-by-step guide to help the guitar student play better.
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A method exploring the techniques, scales and fundamentals used by the greatest legends of rock guitar. The book includes access to over 75 full demonstration tracks. Covers pentatonic and diatonic scales, bending, vibrato, lead licks, and more. Includes standard notation and tab.
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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This private lesson with MI instructor Robert Calva covers: 10 complete solos in notes & tab; common scales and licks; blues, major, minor and combined tonalities; playing over changes; recommended listening; and more. Each musical example is demonstrated on the accompanying audio, which also includes rhythm-only tracks so you can practice your own solos. 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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