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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 -...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Funk Rock
Cult Of Personality (Living Colour) · Bombtrack (Rage Against The Machine) · Suck My Kiss (Red Hot Chili Peppers). CD includes 60 song excerpts....
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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-...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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!...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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!...
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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....
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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 ...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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The Acoustic Guitar Method, Book 1
We're proud to present the first in a series of beginning method books that uses traditional American music to teach authentic techniques and songs. From the folk, blues and old-time music of yesterday have come the rock, country and jazz of today. Now you can begin understanding, playing and enjoyi...
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The Heavy Guitar Bible
The complete book on the world of rock guitar, covering fretboard basics, chords, structure, and all rock styles, with accompanying illustrations....
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Don't Fret Note Map(TM) for Bass
It's never been easier to learn to play bass guitar! Whether you're a beginner just starting out, or an experienced bassist who wants to learn to read music, the Don't Fret Note Map(TM) for Bass will give you the tools you need to succeed. This unique map fits most full-size electric or acoustic bas...
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Ska Guitar
This book/CD pack is the complete guide to playing in the styles of the Skatelites, Specials, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Sublime and others. Provides in-depth coverage of: Jamaican ska, English ska, Southern California ska, and ska-ska; punk and hard rock sounds in ska; soloing and strumming technique...
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Learn Funk Guitar with Tower of Power's Jeff Tamelier
Not only will you learn classic funk guitar techniques, but you can also sit in with members of Tower of Power, playing four fan favorites and four new grooves created especially for this book! Features a CD of full-band tracks both with and without guitar parts, an interview with Jeff, his funk per...
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Hard Rock
'Troy Stetina's Guitar Lessons: Hard Rock.' Troy covers three popular songs from Classic Rock music that he breaks down into pieces to show the hidden principles at work withing the music. This is a great book to teach guitar students how to disect a song and learn it....
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Rock Guitar for Kids Songbook
A fun, easy guitar songbook and CD with full-band backing tracks designed especially for today's kids, featuring cool songs from great rock bands. This book is a companion to the instructional book Beginning Rock Guitar for Kids, but also works as a stand-alone songbook. Tunes include: Come Out and ...
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Be Dangerous On Rock Guitar
The most comprehensive rock guitar instruction today with tablature transcriptions, 200 fretboard diagrams, chord figures and dozens of charts and photos....
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12-Bar Blues
The term 12-bar blues has become synonymous with blues music and is the basis for an incredible body of jazz, rock 'n' roll, and other forms of popular music. This book/CD pack is solely devoted to providing guitarists with all the technical tools necessary for playing 12-bar blues with authority. T...
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Ultimate Guitar Chord Chart
This handy booklet includes 120 of the most commonly used chords, as well as information on chord theory and easy-reference diagrams....
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Blues Guitar Inside And Out
This unique, insightful book tells the story of an old man and a boy as they travel through the history, development, implementation, and universe of the blues. Essential for every guitarist's library....
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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, 272-page source for all playing styles and levels features five easy-to-play voicings of 44 chord qualities for each of...
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Birth of the Groove
The years 1945-1965 saw a radical and exciting shift in American popular music. Blues and swing jazz helped to produce a new musical form called rhythm and blues, which in turn set in motion the development of soul and funk, not to mention rock 'n' roll. What united these genres was an emphasis on t...
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Dave Matthews Band (Guitar)
The Legendary Licks series presents the music of a band or artist in a comprehensive play-along package. Each book contains note-for-note transcriptions and detailed performance notes on how to play with a multitude of classic licks, fills, riffs, and solos - complete with recorded demonstrations on...
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More Blues You Can Use
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, c...
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Guitar Tapping
This book/CD pack is a hands-on guide to the tapping techniques used by Eddie Van Halen, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Michael Hedges, Jeff Watson, Vito Bratta, Jennifer Batton, Stanley Jordan and other top guitarists. It covers: the basics of tapping; tapping arpeggios; tapping scale fragments; the asce...
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Brian Setzer - Guitar Legendary Licks
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. Slowed-down versions are also on the CD ...
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Essential Chords and Progressions for Acoustic Guitar
This lesson was developed to take chord shapes and progressions way beyond the basic chords most novices know. The secrets of jazz, blues and singer-songwriter chords will add color and depth to any guitarist's playing. These chords, progressions and turnarounds are fun and easy to learn, contain a ...
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Chords for Jazz Guitar
This book/CD pack will teach you how to play jazz chords all over the fretboard in a variety of styles and progressions. It covers: voicings, progressions, jazz chord theory, comping, chord melody, chord soloing, voice leading and many more topics. The CD includes 98 full-band demo tracks. No tablat...
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The Blues Bass Handbook
Instead of progressive harmony and fancy licks, blues bass playing is all about creating a great feel and locking it in. This book/CD pack teaches classic blues bass lines, as well as how to create your own. Once you know the bass lines, the author shows you how to apply them to different blues styl...
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Electric Slide Guitar
This book/audio method explores the basic fundamentals of slide guitar: from selecting a slide and proper setup of the guitar, to open and standard tuning. Plenty of music examples are presented showing sample licks as well as backup/rhythm slide work. Each section also examines techniques and solos...
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Mariachi Method for Guitar
The Mariachi Method Book transforms the traditional verbal teaching of this time-honored genre into a written text. This book is especially designed to teach the beginning player the fundamentals of Mariachi guitar. It contains lessons that introduce the primary chords, followed by easy exercises, n...
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Joe Satriani - Guitar Secrets
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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Fretboard Roadmaps - Dobro(TM) Guitar
Learn to play a variety of Dobro/lap-steel guitar styles using moveable scale patterns, common licks and techniques with this outstanding book/CD pack. The CD includes 46 demonstration tracks, and the book features easy-to-follow diagrams and instructions for beginning, intermediate and advanced pla...
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Blues You Can Use
A comprehensive source designed to help guitarists develop both lead and rhythm playing. Covers: Texas, Delta, R&B, early rock and roll, gospel, blues/rock and more. Includes 21 complete solos; chord progressions and riffs; turnarounds; moveable scales and more. CD features leads and full band backi...
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Metallica - Riff by Riff - Guitar
Every essential riff from every song written and recorded by Metallica from Ride the Lightning, Kill 'em All, Master of Puppets, ...And Justice for All, and Metallica. Includes notes and commentary for each plus tablature....
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The Ultimate Guitar Scale Chart
This handy resource was created to assist guitarists in learning to play today's most commonly used scales. It's a fast and fun way to gain instant access to 120 scale patterns through easy-reference diagrams. It also features a useful section on scale theory....
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Don't Fret Note Map for Lefties
Southpaws rejoice! Now there's a Don't Fret Note Map(TM) made just for you! This innovative 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 experie...
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Fingerpicking, Flatpicking and Slide
During the fifteen years that Merle Watson toured and recorded with his father, Doc Watson, the duo was one of the most popular and beloved musical teams in folk music history. On these two CDs, Merle teaches the traditional fingerpicking, flatpicking and slide guitar styles for which he was famous....
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Blues You Can Use Book Of Guitar Chords
A reference guide to blues, R&B, jazz, and rock rhythm guitar, with hundreds of voicings, chord theory construction, chord progressions and exercises and much more. The Blues You Can Use Book Of Guitar Chords is useful for the beginner to advanced player....
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101 Guitar Tips (Guitar)
101 Guitar Tips contains invaluable guidance on everything from scales and music theory to truss rod adjustments, proper recording studio set-ups, and much more. The book also features snippets of advice from some of the most celebrated guitarists and producers in the music business, including B.B. ...
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Art of the Shuffle
This method book explores shuffle, boogie and swing rhythms for guitar. Includes tab and notation, and covers Delta, country, Chicago, Kansas City, Texas, New Orleans, West Coast, and bebop blues. Also includes audio for demonstration of each style and to jam along with....
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Classic Guitar Styles of Duke Robillard
Master musician Duke Robillard provides fans and fellow guitarists an inside look at the techniques and philosophy behind his classic American guitar style. This book/CD pack includes: 11 complete songs; more than 25 photos; tips on choosing a guitar and getting a great sound; country blues chords, ...
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Riff by Riff - The Beatles
This cool book/CD pack presents a simple way for guitarists to learn 8 great songs exactly as recorded by The Beatles! It breaks each song down into manageable sections to learn, then links them together with simple Riff Route Maps. Features standard notation and TAB, chord boxes and symbols, lyrics...
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Punk Guitar Method
This volume contains all the blistering moves, scales, chords, and rhythm charts you'll ever need... - Guitar School. Take an inside look at the guitar styles of bands like the Sex Pistols, The Ramones, Green Day and The Offspring. This new method teaches: common chords, progressions, solo scales an...
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Guitar Dial 9-1-1
Need to breathe new life into your guitar playing? This book is your admission into the Guitar ER! You'll learn to: expand your harmonic vocabulary; improvise with chromatic notes; create rhythmic diversity; improve your agility through helpful drills; supply soulful fills; create melodic lines thro...
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Eric Johnson - Guitar School
This book explores twelve tracks from Eric's two solo albums 'Tones' and 'Ah Via Musicom.' Transcription excerpts are provided with accompanying lessons on how to perform and study the playing techniques involved in each example....
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Jazzing It Up
A basic guide for learning to play jazz chord solos, chord backup, and improvising with jazz chords. Includes: 175 moveable chord shapes; chord construction; common chord progressions; and more. Complete with a dozen sample chord solos plus chord grids and a CD to help guitarists learn how to jazz u...
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Acoustic Country Blues Guitar
This valuable collection presents note-for-note transcriptions and performance notes for 12 timeless songs that inspired the legendary Robert Johnson, including: Cross Road Blues · I'm Gonna Yola My Blues Away · Lead Pencil Blues · Life Saver Blues · My Black Mama · Roll and Tumble Blues · You Gonna...
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Tune-Ups for Bass
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...
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101 Must-Know Blues Licks
Now you can add authentic blues feel and flavor to your playing! Here are 101 definitive licks - plus a demonstration CD - from every major blues guitar style, neatly organized into easy-to-use categories. They're all here, including Delta blues, jump blues, country blues, Memphis blues, Texas blues...
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101 Must-Know Rock Licks
Now you can add authentic rock licks to your vocabulary. Here are 101 definitive phrases, plus a demonstration CD, from every major rock guitar era, neatly organized into easy-to-use categories. They're all here! Includes licks from the Early Rock era, and the '60s through the '90s, plus a listing o...
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Guitarra De SmartStart - Método y Cancionero
This book/CD pack teaches guitarists to play and sing 26 beautiful songs in both Spanish and English using classic tunes such as: Caballito Blanco · Cielito Lindo · De Colores · Guantanamera · La Cucaracha · La Bamba · Las Mańanitas · Mi Gallo · and more. It's perfect for beginning or intermediate l...
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Mariachi Method for Guitar (Guitar)
The Mariachi Method Book transforms the traditional verbal teaching of this time-honored genre into a written text. This book is especially designed to teach the beginning player the fundamentals of Mariachi guitar. It contains lessons that introduce the primary chords, followed by easy exercises, n...
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101 Must-Know Jazz Licks
Now you can add authentic jazz feel and flavor to your playing! Here are 101 definitive licks, plus a demonstration CD, from every major jazz guitar style, neatly organized into easy-to-use categories. They're all here: swing and pre-bop, bebop, post-bop modern jazz, hard bop and cool jazz, modal ja...
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Jam with Dire Straits
Brothers in Arms sold over 26 million copies, and guitarist Mark Knopfler is renowned for his wide range of playing styles. Now guitarists can jam along with eight great Dire Straits favorites using this book/2-CD pack featuring note-for-note transcriptions, one CD with backing tracks minus lead gui...
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Barre Chords
Learn to master any chord progression, anywhere on the guitar! With just a few different chord shapes, you can strum through hundreds of songs - from blues, to rock, to folk and beyond. Includes: famous progressions from hit songs in all styles; notes & tab; barre chords in alternate tunings; and mo...
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Guitar Techniques
This book/CD pack for beginners to pros is the first to cover the entire wide-ranging spectrum of guitar techniques necessary to be a complete, well-rounded player. More than a book of tricks, Guitar Techniques is a terrific reference and teaching companion, as it clearly defines and demonstrates ho...
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Intros, Endings & Turnarounds for Guitar
In this book/CD pack, Dale Turner, the West Coast Editor of GuitarOne magazine, teaches invaluable intros, endings and turnarounds that all the pros know and use, in jazz, blues, rock and country styles. The book includes examples in standard notation and tab, and the CD features 99 demonstration tr...
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Artie Traum Teaches Essential Blues for Acoustic Guitar
This book/CD pack is designed to help you quickly become a better blues player. Award-winning guitarist, songwriter, author and Taylor Guitars clinician Artie Traum explores essential blues techniques in fret-by-fret detail for both finger and flatpick styles. You'll learn to play classic blues song...
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7-String Guitar
Introducing 7-String Guitar, the first-ever method book written especially for seven-stringed instruments. It teaches chords, scales and arpeggios, all as they are adapted for the 7-string guitar. It features helpful fingerboard charts, and riffs & licks in standard notation and tablature to help pl...
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Crash Course on Guitar Tunings
How can I retune my guitar? What are the most common tunings and what do they sound like? Can I invent my own tunings? This book/CD provides detailed answers to all your questions, showing you how to unlock the secrets of altered tunings and discover cool new sounds! Includes: six essential tunings ...
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Book's Blues Book
A seasoned vet with a unique sound, Roy Book Binder has been singing, playing guitar, and writing songs since the '60s. This book/CD pack presents traditional and original blues tunes that have delighted his audiences for years. Features great lessons & an intro from Roy, note-for-note transcription...
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Left-Handed Guitar
Finally, a guitar method solely for south paws! This comprehensive book covers: chords, scales, riffs and strumming; rock, blues, fingerpicking and other styles; tuning, theory and other fundamentals; reading standard notation and tab; and lots more. Includes lots of photos, diagrams and grids desig...
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POD Player's Guide and Songbook
This book, fully authorized by POD manufacturer Line 6, lets you dial in the guitar tones of superstar recordings and learn how to get the most from the popular POD, a must-have tone tool! You get professional user tips to help you create your own sound, easy-to-read diagrams, and complete note-for-...
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Crash Course on Jazz Guitar Voicings
Which chords should I use if I want to play jazz? How does jazz harmony work? How can I sound like a real jazz guitarist? You'll find the answers to these questions and many more in this detailed introduction to jazz guitar voicings. By learning only a handful of simple shapes, you'll soon be playin...
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101 Essential Riffs for Acoustic Guitar
Here are over a hundred great riffs that can be played in virtually any style! Easy to learn, these sizzling licks will make learning guitarists better players, whether in blues, folk, bluegrass or country music. Numerous examples are included that will show how to use these lead lines in songs, all...
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Acoustic Guitar Slide Basics
David Hamburger, leading sideman, solo performer and teacher, guides players through this complete introduction to bottleneck slide guitar playing with progressive lessons in open tunings and fingerstyle technique, tips on slide guitars and gear, technical exercises, and full songs. The accompanying...
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The Guitarist's Guide to Set-Up & Maintenance
This ultimate guide to caring for your guitar includes: how to strip down and clean your instrument · how to set the action · how regular maintenance can improve your guitar and your playing. Top repairman Charlie Chandler will show you how to carry out basic maintenance and repairs, all of which ca...
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Amazing Phrasing - Guitar
This book/CD pack explores all the main components necessary for crafting well-balanced rhythmic and melodic phrases. It also explains how these phrases are put together to form cohesive solos. Many styles are covered - rock, blues, jazz, fusion, country, Latin, funk and more - and all of the concep...
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Acoustic Guitar Chord and Harmony Basics
Learn the fundamentals of acoustic guitar, from your first chords and beyond! Whether you're a beginning or an intermediate acoustic guitarist, chords are the foundation for the songs you play. Here's a book that teaches you the real-world chord voicings, shapes and progressions used by today's top ...
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Gateway to Guitar Improvisation (Guitar)
Learn to improvise freely over any chord progression! The Fourth Note principle is a truly remarkable method for improvising in jazz and other genres, combining ear training, theory and technique to enable students to play with unrestricted creativity. In this book/CD pack, master guitarist Tony DeC...
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Don't Fret Chord Map(TM)
Due to the overwhelming success of the Don't Fret Note Map(TM), we're pleased to now offer the Don't Fret Chord Map(TM)! This unique finger positioning device is made of cling vinyl, no fasteners or glues are required, and is easy to install. Designed by acclaimed young inventor Nicholas Ravagni for...
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SmartStart Guitar
Following in the footsteps of the successful SmartStart method for young children (00695156, $12.95), this latest addition to the series is the ultimate user-friendly guitar method and songbook for older kids and adults who have always wanted to play guitar! The book contains 17 classic and timeless...
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Arpeggios
This book in the new Guitar Reference Guides series allows players to find any arpeggio quickly and with ease. No music reading is required, as each arpeggio is shown in diagram form. Unlike other giant arpeggio books that cover only the most common arpeggios, this book presents every arpeggio type ...
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Chicken Pickin'
Chicken Pickin' provides a bird's-eye-view of this quintessential country style, teaching the techniques and licks common to playing hot lead guitar! It covers: open-string licks, double-stop licks, scales, string bending, repetitive sequences, chromatic licks and much more. The book includes standa...
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Improvising Lead Guitar
Jamming with other players is one of the most fun, creative and satisfying parts of playing guitar. But after you've memorized all your favorite rock, blues, jazz and country licks and solos to play, how do you start making up your own? This book teaches you how to: build solos with scales, ad lib c...
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101 Tips and Tricks for Acoustic Guitar
From tips on arranging and speed-picking, to the maintenance of your guitar (and you!) and beyond, 101 Tips and Tricks for Acoustic Guitar is chock full of unplugged pointers to help everyone from the beginning student to the seasoned pro. Here, you'll learn how to: evaluate a vintage guitar, repair...
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Harmonics for Guitar
This in-depth look at guitar harmonics teaches the techniques of masters such as Lenny Breau, Eddie Van Halen, Billy Gibbons, Andrés Segovia and others! This book/CD pack covers: natural harmonics; tapped, plucked and pinch-style artificial harmonics; chordal and melodic applications for harmonics; ...
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Introduction to Guitar Tone & Effects
An essential manual for getting the best sounds from electric guitars, amplifiers, effect pedals and digital processors! This book/CD pack features easy-to-follow instructions, with more than 75 photos, to teach the basics of guitar tones and effects. The accompanying CD provides audio examples. Rea...
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Learn to Play Guitar with 8 Chords
This book is designed for absolute beginners who want to play real songs on the guitar just moments after opening this book! With Dydo's method, new players can learn over 40 pop, folk and patriotic songs, including: Amazing Grace · America the Beautiful · Annie's Song · Day-O · From a Distance · Le...
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Alternate Tuning Chord Dictionary
An alternate tuning is created when one or more strings of the guitar are tuned to notes that differ from standard tuning. This book is designed to familiarize you with chord shapes while playing in some of the most common alternate tunings, such as: Open D, Open G, Open Gm, Open A, Open E, Open Em,...
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Teach Yourself to Play Guitar
Teach Yourself to Play Guitar has been created specifically for the student with no music-reading background. With lesson examples presented in today's most popular tab format, which also incorporates simple beat notation for accurate rhythm execution, Teach Yourself to Play Guitar offers the beginn...
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Zakk Wylde - Legendary Licks
This comprehensive play-along pack gives you an inside look at Wilde's guitar style. Includes note-for-note transcriptions and performance notes on how to play licks, fills, riffs, and solos with recorded demonstrations on CD....
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7-String Guitar Chord Book
This convenient reference features easy-to-read diagrams of the most commonly used chords, including 30 chord qualities for each root note for a total of more than 350 chords. Includes an interesting introduction on the history of the 7-string guitar, a handy diagram of the complete 7-string fingerb...
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Crash Course on Guitar Arpeggios
Understand arpeggios with this great beginner's guide! You'll discover: the difference between arpeggios and scales; how arpeggios can improve your solos and help you play faster; essential open and moveable arpeggio shapes shown in both tab and as guitar fretboxes; and more. The CD features over 40...
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Great Country Riffs, Vol. 1
The ultimate source for riffs and licks! Covers: rockabilly, bluegrass, country rock, swing, and blues. Features licks in the style of Albert Lee, James Burton, Doc Watson, Chet Atkins, and more. Includes a CD and TAB....
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More Guitar Workshop
This continuation from Jim's first book teaches guitarists more about how to improve their playing in rock, blues, jazz, funk, Latin and R&B styles, and how to play in the style of legends like Wes Montgomery, Jeff Beck, and other greats. Players will develop their own approaches using the helpful f...
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Crash Course on Guitar Effects
Get the most out of your effects with this ultimate beginner's guide! Jargon-free and packed with professional hints and tips, it covers: how effects pedals work; how to use distortion, chorus, compression, delay, reverb, wah-wah and other effects; how to combine effects; multi-effects units and how...
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Solo Jazz Guitar
The book starts with 11 lessons on chord melody concepts, then uses 20 familiar jazz standards to demonstrate these techniques, covering: diatonic and minor third substitution, contrary motion, back cycles, walking bass lines, modal chord scales, and more. Songs (in standard notation & TAB) include:...
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Red Hot Country Guitar
The complete guide to playing lead guitar in the styles of Pete Anderson, Ray Flacke, Danny Gatton, Albert Lee, Brent Mason, and more! This book and CD pack will take your country guitar playing to the next level with loads of red-hot licks, techniques, solos, theory, and more! You'll learn: hybrid ...
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