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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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 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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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 popular method starts young children on their musical journey by teaching basic principles of guitar playing. It begins with the parts of the guitar, how to comfortably hold the instrument, right and left hand positioning and tuning. Easy step-by-step playing examples are used to teach chords, picking, strumming patterns and single note melodies. This course book uses plain language that makes it easy to understand key concepts such as major and minor chords as well as rhythm and timing. Have fun playing complete song rhythms with full band backing tracks that give children the feel and excitement of playing with other musicians. In this program you will learn the important elements to understand and apply rhythm and timing. Learn to use your body clock to count whole, half, quarter, eighth and sixteenth note timing. Play common chords with strum patterns along with full band bracking tracks in song form. Learn about syncopation, accents, rests, legato and staccato. The key rhythm elements of the most popular music styles are explained and outlined. Triplets, the shuffle feel and much more are covered in this comprehensive rhythm program. A must for all aspiring young guitar players!
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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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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 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 14 Disney favorites, including: Beauty and the Beast • Can You Feel the Love Tonight • Circle of Life • It's a Small World • Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious • Under the Sea • You'll Be in My Heart • Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah • and more.
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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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Spanish Edition of #697291.
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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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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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This celebratory collection gathers the very best in music, instruction and knowledge from two previous titles, Fingerpicking Styles for Guitar and Traditional and Contemporary Guitar Fingerpicking Styles to commemorate 40 years since their original publication. Happy Traum's landmark transcriptions represent the music and art of twenty-two musicians from the mountains of Virginia, the Piedmont of North Carolina, the coal-mining country of Kentucky, as well as places as far-reaching as England, the Bahamas and Africa. Every song is presented in notation and tab, alongside biographical information about the artist, plus any hints and tips that will help you achieve a more authentic performance. The book begins with a detailed guide to fingerpicking technique, giving you all the information you need to tackle these priceless musical treasures.
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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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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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This innovative book and audio teaching system presents a clear path to learning the essential scale fingerings needed for playing lead guitar in the most popular guitar keys. As you travel along this path, you will learn to create musical phrases while simultaneously developing a large vocabulary of rhythms to improvise with. Over 400 demonstration and play-along audio tracks are included to assist you along the journey!
Includes: pentatonic scale fingerings; major and minor scale fingerings; Dorian scale fingerings; phrasing development; Rhythmic vocabulary development; marrying melody to rhythm; clear, systematic practice routines; soloing in rock, blues, and pop styles; many backing tracks for play-along practice; hundreds of demonstration tracks.
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 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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Learn some of the most frequently used progressions in folk, blues, pop, and jazz.
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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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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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Easy arrangements with tab for all ten songs on Neil Young's seminal CD: Alabama • Are You Ready for the Country? • Harvest • Heart of Gold • A Man Needs a Maid • The Needle and the Damage Done • Old Man • Out on the Weekend • There's a World • Words (Between the Lines of Age). This keepsake songbook also includes hand-written lyric pages and photos throughout.
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Playbook: Learn to Play Guitar is a great resource for beginners who want to start playing in no time at all. Despite its unassuming size, this Playbook features all of the basic techniques you'll need to get started packed into 80 pages. The compact size of the Playbook means that it is ideal for keeping with you at all times. Leave one in your house or in your guitar case so that you are never left without the essential information included here. The guide begins with the very basics, such as the anatomy of the guitar and how to hold it and start picking. As it progresses, chords are introduced, along with how to read chord diagrams and tablature so that you can get started strumming. Interspersed throughout, there is some great information on the biggest names in guitar history, like Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan, to get you inspired to join the ranks of the greatest musicians ever. We've also included some recommended listening and further reading to help you keep developing and enhancing your playing. 2-4/4″ x 4″ spiral bound.
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This “private lesson” with MI instructor Tom Kolb is an easy-to-use guide to the most essential chords, rhythms and strumming patterns for a huge variety of musical styles: rock, blues, jazz, country, folk, R&B, funk, soul, Latin jazz, fusion, ska, reggae and gospel! Each musical example in the book is demonstrated on the accompanying audio tracks, backed by a full rhythm section.
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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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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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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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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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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This pack gives essential instruction on open chords, barre chords, power chords, strumming; scales, rhythm playing, the blues, and moveable chord shapes. It includes inversions, 'color' chords, practice tips, chord charts, songs, and progressions, along with access to online audio tracks.
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Learn to play chords and scales on the pedal steel guitar with this comprehensive yet easy-to-use book. This guide features more than 1,100 chords and 430 scale forms for pedal steel guitar.
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