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Blues Guitar Using instructional text and actual songs, author Kenny Sultan covers blues in five different keys and positions and shows how they can be adapted to any key. Along with the basic blues rhythms and leads, fingerstyle blues is covered, using both an alternating and monotone bass. Sultan also touches ... Product Details	Picture Chord Encyclopedia for Left-Handed Guitarists At long last, the ultimate chord reference book for left-handed guitarists is here! This amazing resource features photos and diagrams for over 2,600 chords specifically shown for the southpaw player. Includes: easy-to-see photos, easy-to-read chord grids, basic chord theory, basic fingering princip... Product Details	Picture Chord Encyclopedia The most comprehensive guitar chord resource ever! Beginning with helpful notes on how to use the book, how to choose the best voicings and how to construct chords, this extensive, 264-page source for all playing styles and levels features five easy-to-play voicings of 44 chord qualities for each of... Product Details
Rock Rhythm Guitar In this helpful new book/CD pack, ace instructor Dave Celentano cuts out all the confusing technical talk and just gives guitarists the essential tools to get them playing. With his tips, anyone can build a solid foundation of basic skills to play almost any rhythm guitar style. The exercises and ex... Product Details	Picture Chord Encyclopedia for Left Handed Guitarists At long last, the ultimate reference for left-handed guitarists! This amazing book features photos and diagrams for over 2600 chords specifically shown for the left-handed player. It includes easy-to-read chord grids, easy-to-see photos, basic chord theory, basic fingering principles, open chords an... Product Details	Swing Guitar Essentials This comprehensive book/CD pack includes 5 full songs (including Minor Swing and Avalon) and 10 in-depth lessons for players of all levels, taught and recorded (slowly and up to tempo) by the master teachers at Acoustic Guitar magazine. It introduces guitarists to swing's essential styles and pionee... Product Details
The Reggae Riddim by Ray Hitchins Whether you are an instru-mentalist, producer, song-writer, or arranger, The Reggae Riddim will give you a better understanding of how reggae rhythms are created and performed. This book/CDpack covers: ten popular reggae pieces (riddims); the history of reggae; how to create a riddim... Product Details	Blues Turnarounds Written by blues expert Dave Rubin and Rusty Zinn, one of the finest young guitarists and singers on the contemporary blues scene, this book/CD pack provides the beginning to advanced blues guitarist with all of the essential turnarounds and so much more! The CD includes 76 demonstration tracks.... Product Details	Power Chords Learn to master rock's most tried-and-true sound: the power chord. With just a few different power chord shapes, you can rock through hundreds of songs - from death metal, to rockabilly, to grunge and beyond. This book/CD pack includes: famous progressions from popular songs, by artists from Alice i... Product Details
SmartStart Guitar Songbook A companion volume to Jessica Barron Turner's bestselling method book, this excellent guitar songbook/CD pack features 43 special songs for home and school, in arrangements designed to help beginners of all ages begin to hear, feel and remember the music. Songs include: America · Apples and Bananas ... Product Details	Left-Handed Guitar Attention all Southpaws: it's time to turn your playing around! We're proud to announce that our groundbreaking guitar method solely devoted to lefties is now available with a CD! Complete with photos, diagrams and grids designed especially for the left-handed player, this book/CD pack teaches funda... Product Details	Guitar Chords Deluxe Small in size but loaded with valuable info, this 5-3/4 inch. x 8-1/2 inch. guide features: easy-to-read chord grids, easy-to-see color photos, basic chord theory and fingering principles, open chords and barre chords, partial chords and broken-set forms and more. Over 1,600 glorious chords in all -... Product Details
Riff by Riff: Eric Clapton This unique book/CD pack breaks down six Clapton songs into manageable sections to help you learn each by heart, with a special pull-out Riff Route Maps section that shows you how to link them all together. It includes chord boxes and symbols linked to the song lyrics, a full demo and backing tracks... Product Details	Rhythm & Blues Guitar Renowned R&B, blues and funk ace Cornell Dupree is a guitarist of legendary proportion, with more than 2,500 albums as a sideman to his credit! In this authoritative book/CD pack, he reveals his playing secrets, covering: R&B, blues and funk styles; double-stops, vamps, scales and playing tips; comm... Product Details	Blues by the Bar If you're a guitarist who's learned the pentatonic scale up and down the neck but still asks, During a solo, how do I know what to play and when to play it?, then this book is for you. Its goal is to give you a variety of great blues licks that you can put together bar by bar to create a complete bl... Product Details
Tune Ups for Guitar Now available with CD! This individual booklet/audio pack allows beginners as well as veteran players to tune their instruments quickly, easily, and accurately. The audio explains the tuning process in easy-to-understand terms, then provides a step-by-step method for tuning each string. The audio al... Product Details	Funk Rock Cult Of Personality (Living Colour) · Bombtrack (Rage Against The Machine) · Suck My Kiss (Red Hot Chili Peppers). CD includes 60 song excerpts.... Product Details	Warren Haynes - Guide to Slide Guitar Learn the slide guitar stylings of Warren Haynes from the man himself! The legendary guitarist of Gov't Mule, Phil Lesh and Friends, the Grateful Dead, and the Allman Brothers Band offers instructions on choosing a slide, perfecting left- and right-hand techniques, playing rhythm, and blues soloing-... Product Details
Tune-Ups for Banjo Now available with CD! This individual booklet/audio pack allows beginners as well as veteran players to tune their instruments quickly, easily, and accurately. The audio explains the tuning process in easy-to-understand terms, then provides a step-by-step method for tuning each string. The audio al... Product Details	Guitar Works At last, a method that covers all the most important aspects of guitar playing and music making in one volume! Containing nearly 200 pages, Guitar Works will get you started and take you to an advanced level of musicianship. Players of all levels and styles will benefit from this comprehensive appro... Product Details	The Art of James Hetfield This comprehensive overview of Hetfield's techniques features: more than 70 classic Metallica riffs, six complete guitar solos, an exclusive interview, picking techniques, gear set-ups, Metallica chord charts, photos, and a complete transcription and analysis of Sad but True. A must for Metallica fa... Product Details
Ozzy Osbourne: The Randy Rhoads Years With note-for-note transcriptions of Randy Rhoads' searing guitar work, gear set-ups, performance notes, historical retrospective and a play-along CD, this info-packed book will teach you to play 72 licks from 11 of Ozzy's most recognizable songs: Crazy Train · Dee · Diary of a Madman · Flying High ... Product Details	Jazz Rhythm Guitar This book/CD pack by award-winning guitarist and distinguished teacher Jack Grassel will help rhythm guitarists better understand: chord symbols and voicings; comping styles and patterns; equipment, accessories and set-up; the fingerboard; chord theory; and much more. The accompanying CD includes 74... Product Details	Playing Funky Rhythm Guitar Learn how to play funk and R&B rhythm guitar with easy-to-follow instructions on the hottest grooves. CD features recorded demonstrations of every example, plus 8 jam along tracks! Topics covered include: the backbeat · single-line parts · quarter note, eighth note, and 16th note feels · reggae groo... Product Details
Surf Guitar This totally tubular book/CD pack gives you all the tools to play convincing surf guitar, covering concepts, techniques, equipment and even surf slang! At the core of the book are six original surf songs by The Torquays, one of the best retro surf bands around. You can play along with these six tune... Product Details	Put It On & Play!(TM) This specially priced package contains the revolutionary finger positioning guides Don't Fret Note Map and Don't Fret Chord Map, created by Nicholas Ravagni. These maps fit electric and acoustic guitars without using adhesives or fasteners, showing note names all over the fretboard or the ten most c... Product Details	Chords This book allows you to find any chord quickly and easily. Each chord is displayed on every possible string from the lowest to the highest with numerous voicing options. The unique Chord-Finder System(TM) is included on every page to help you locate the specific root you need, which allows for insta... Product Details
Rock and Roll Back-Up Session Here's the perfect way for an aspiring player to practice taking lead solos on electric guitar, keyboards, horns, harmonica, violin, etc. Produced by Artie Traum, these fifteen rhythm tracks played by veteran studio rockers encompass every major groove from basic Chicago blues to heavy metal. This m... Product Details	Acoustic Guitar Accompaniment Basics There are a few things all guitar players want to know about accompaniment, such as how to sing and play simultaneously without missing a beat, how to master barre chords, and how to vary chords to make any song their own. This book/CD pack lets players get down to the basics with the master teacher... Product Details	Metallica - Under the Microscope This book systematically dissects 12 bone-crunching hits. You'll learn all the techniques necessary to play James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett's most menacing licks, riffs and solos. With lessons on bending, vibrato, harmonics, tapping and a whole lot more - plus complete transcriptions - you'll be shr... Product Details
Bluegrass Practice Session Here are solid back-ups to ten popular bluegrass instrumentals, recorded to provide practice for the lead fiddler, banjo picker, mandolinist or guitarist. Bill Keith, Happy Traum, Larry Campbell and Molly Mason play each tune several times through in both slowed-down and up-to-tempo versions. Perfec... Product Details	Guitar Chords & Scales This book for both acoustic and electric guitarists is designed to be a handy guide to the two most important components of playing: chords and scales. More than just a reference, it will also help you understand how chords and scales are created, named and used, and how they are related to each oth... Product Details	Ted Nugent - Legendary Licks Learn the licks, fills, riffs and solos for Nugent's most recognized songs! Includes note-for-note transcriptions of 11 songs like Cat Scratch Fever and Motor City Madhouse with detailed performance notes and recordings on CD for each.... Product Details
Tony's Choice Tony Rice is perhaps the greatest innovator in acoustic guitar flatpicking playing today. This CD features some of his favorite licks, intros and solos, broken down so the aspiring flatpicker can learn to master them. These examples provide a real taste of Tony's guitar style and technique. Includes... Product Details	SmartStart Guitar Every kid wants to play guitar, and this innovative new instructional method lets them do just that! It's designed for use in the general music classroom, and is developmentally structured to get all beginning guitar students playing and singing from the very first lesson, no matter what their level... Product Details	1001 Jazz Licks This book presents 1,001 melodic gems played over dozens of the most important chord progressions heard in jazz. This is the ideal book for beginners seeking a well-organized, easy-to-follow encyclopedia of jazz vocabulary, as well as professionals who want to take their knowledge of the jazz langua... Product Details
The Guitar of Richard Thompson Richard Thompson teaches the intricacies of his unique guitar style through the analysis of eight classic originals: Don't Let a Thief Steal into Your Heart · The Great Valerio · When the Spell Is Broken · Move It On Over · Rockin' in Rhythm · Time to Ring Some Changes · I Want to See the Bright Lig... Product Details	Basic Fingerpicking Features over 25 original tunes and exercises to teach fingerpicking in all styles, including rock, folk-rock, blues, country and folk. The accompanying CD includes 57 demo tracks, and the book covers: how to create fingerpicking solos; accompaniment patterns for rhythmic grooves; tunes and exercise... Product Details	Exercises An incredibly useful reference for guitarists, this book presents a wide variety of exercises designed to enhance not only technical ability, but also fretboard visualization skills. Unlike other giant books that cover only the most common exercises, this book presents every exercise type with numer... Product Details
Charlie Parker for Guitar (Guitar) 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 thes... Product Details	Rockin' the Blues Take a journey inside the blues with Dave Rubin's latest book, Rockin' the Blues: 1963-1973. This seminal 10 years produced some of the most influential blues-rock guitarists of all time. Learn about the lives of these trail-blazing guitarists, their individual styles, accomplishments, and technique... Product Details	Color Your Chords Hendrix-ize a C chord! Van Halen-ize a G chord! Color your chords like the masters of rock guitar! With expert yet user-friendly advice on fretting, voicing, technique, feel and other topics, you'll learn how to cop the chordal styles of: Chuck Berry, John Frusciante, Jimi Hendrix, James Hetfield, D... Product Details
The Guitar Style of George Benson (Guitar) Learn the licks, tricks, techniques, funky phrasing and hip melodic ideas of jazz great George Benson in these transcriptions of 13 of his signature standards: Affirmation · Billie's Bounce (Bill's Bounce) · Breezin' · The Cooker · Easy Living · Gentle Rain · Low Down and Dirty · Poquito Spanish, Po... Product Details	Dicionario De Estilos De Guitarra (Guitar) This Spanish translation of the book The Dictionary of Guitar Styles provides a crash course in 25 guitar styles. Learn the who, what, where, when and HOW of: alternative/grunge, blues, Celtic, classical, country, flamenco, folk, funk, fusion, jazz, ragtime, reggae, rockabilly, surf, thrash, and muc... Product Details	Sight Reading for Rock Guitarists When you know how to read standard music notation, you set yourself apart from other rock guitarists. Being able to read music fluently is a skill that you should possess in order to play new sheet music on the fly, fill in on those last-minute calls for session gigs, or just expand your horizons. W... Product Details
Blues Power Trios - Book/CD Inside The Blues Series 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 tr... Product Details	Alternate Tunings Guitar Essentials Unlock the secrets of playing and composing in alternate tunings with this unique, comprehensive book/CD 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 le... Product Details	A Guide to Blues/Rock Guitar Soloing If you're looking to break out of rhythm guitar mode and into the solo limelight, then this book is for you. With advice on licks, technique, feel and what to do (and what not to do) during your moment out front, David Grissom takes you through what every blues/rock guitarist needs to have under the... Product Details
Jazz Guitar Soloing A handy how-to guide to the scales, arpeggios, and licks needed in improvising jazz on the guitar, all in an easy-to-follow format!... Product Details	The Guitarist's Guide to the Capo The capo is one of the most useful devices ever invented for guitarists. Whether you're a capo novice or a pro looking for new ideas, this book will have you clamping your way to guitar heaven in no time! It covers: choosing your capo, with a listing of the benefits and drawback of all the most popu... Product Details	The Dictionary of Guitar Styles Take a crash course in 25 guitar styles. Learn the who, what, where, when and HOW of: alternative/grunge, blues, Celtic, classical, country, flamenco, folk, funk, fusion, jazz, ragtime, reggae, rockabilly, surf, thrash, and much more. The CD includes 48 full-demo examples.... Product Details
Blues Licks You Can Use 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 a CD featuring full-band examples of each. Styles covered incl... Product Details	Incredible Scale Finder Learn to use the entire fretboard with the Incredible Scale Finder! This book contains more than 1,300 scale diagrams for the most important 17 scale types, including major and minor scales, pentatonics, the seven major modes, diminished, melodic minor, harmonic minor, and more - in all 12 keys! Bas... Product Details	Jim Kelly's Guitar Workshop Jim Kelly's Guitar Workshop is an exciting book/CD pack to help guitarists improve their playing in jazz, blues, Latin and R&B styles. The ten original compositions Jim has written especially for this book are designed to help guitarists learn how to play in the style of Kenny Burrell, Mike Stern, P... Product Details
Open Tunings for Blues Guitar Open tunings have played an important role in the genesis of blues guitar since the early 1900s. This book/CD pack is solely devoted to providing you with a complete overview of the techniques and styles popularized by the greatest bluesmen of all time. Includes note-for-note transcriptions, perform... Product Details	Arlen Roth's Complete Electric Guitar A self-teaching guide by one of America's best players and teachers. Includes chapters on: fundamentals, rhythm guitar techniques, early blues and rock n' roll styles, playing electric lead guitar, electric country guitar, equipment, and much more.... Product Details	Classical Riffs for Guitar 30 famous classical melodies from cartoons, movies, commercials and television. Presented in standard notation with tab, chords, performance tips, and background information, this is the book for guitarists seeking to incorporate quotes from the masterpieces of classical music into their solos. Spic... Product Details
Jam with Buddy Holly This book/CD pack lets guitarists learn 8 great Buddy Holly songs, then jam along with a professional session band! The book features performance notes and exact transcriptions with tab, and the CD features a section of backing tracks minus lead guitar and vocals, and another section with all guitar... Product Details	Picture Chord Pocket Guide Conveniently sized to fit in your guitar case, this handy reference provides easy-to-see photos and easy-to-read chord grids for more than 900 guitar chords - open and barre, partial chords and broken set forms. Also includes basic chord theory and fingering principles. Over 250 pages of content!... Product Details	39 Progressive Solos for Classical Guitar 39 outstanding classical guitar solos arranged with tablature for the first time. Includes: Bouree · Lagrima · Six Pavans · Canarios · Tarelton's Resurrection · Bach's B Minor Sarabande · and more.... Product Details
Scale Chord Relationships Scale Chord Relationships teaches players how to determine which scales to play with which chords, so guitarists will never have to fear chord changes again! This book/CD pack explains how to: recognize keys; analyze chord progressions; use the modes; play over nondiatonic harmony; use harmonic and ... Product Details	Total Rock Guitar (Guitar) Total Rock Guitar is a unique and comprehensive source for learning rock guitar, designed to develop both lead and rhythm playing. This book/CD pack covers: getting a tone that rocks; open chords, power chords and barre chords; riffs, scales and licks; string bending, strumming, palm muting, harmoni... Product Details	39 Progressive Solos for Classical Guitar 39 outstanding classical guitar solos arranged with tablature for the first time. Includes: Bouree · Lagrima · Six Pavans · Canarios · Tarelton's Resurrection · Bach's B Minor Sarabande · and more.... Product Details
Don't Fret Note Map(TM) This innovative new product created by 11-year-old Nicholas Ravagni and featured on ABC's World News Tonight makes it easier to learn to play electric or acoustic guitar! Whether you're a beginner just starting out or an experienced player who wants to learn to read music, it will give you the tools... Product Details	Swing Guitar Learn to play swing rhythm and lead guitar in the style of the masters! With this book/CD pack you get: transcriptions of 15 original hit recordings from the classics of the 1930s and '40s to the revival of the '90s; performance notes to help you understand the solos; instruction in comping patterns... Product Details	Scales Find any scale quickly and with ease! This book presents over 70 scales from bebop scales to synthetic scales to exotic scales from around the globe. Each scale is displayed on every possible string from lowest to highest with numerous fingering options. This is the ideal book for beginners seeking ... Product Details
Guitar Worship - Method Book 1 We are very proud to present the first guitar method ever targeted towards church musicians! If you're an aspiring acoustic or electric guitarist who wants to sing and play songs in praise of God, then this book/CD pack is a must-have. You'll learn: chords, strum patterns, 24 great songs, how to rea... Product Details	Chops Builder for Guitar This book/CD pack makes learning technique fun and musical for guitarists - teaching them real licks to help build their chops! Topics covered include: alternate picking, economy picking, sweep picking, fingerstyle, chicken pickin', classical, legato, tapping and more. Each technique is isolated, th... Product Details	Best of Steely Dan This book/CD pack lets guitarists learn 11 Steely Dan classics from Can't Buy a Thrill through Gaucho. Includes note-for-note transcriptions with tab for each tune, a play-along split-channel CD with both slowed-down and up-to-speed recordings, in-depth instruction and performance notes, an historic... Product Details
Pentatonic Scales for Guitar (Guitar) This book provides the pentatonic scale fingerings, diagrams, lessons and licks that every guitarist needs to know. It covers: major and minor pentatonic scale patterns in all positions; licks in the styles of Chuck Berry, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, B.B. King, Jimmy Page and other great artists; an... Product Details