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Arlen Roths Heavy Metal Guitar
Arlen Roths Heavy Metal Guitar
Roth demonstrates the major stylistic innovations of the genre, including use of harmonics, as well as modern flash techniques such as right-hand tapping, whammy bar tricks, and fast picking....

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Its Easy To Fake...Rock Guitar
Its Easy To Fake...Rock Guitar
Learn the skills you need to play some impressive licks and riffs. Discover the rock guitar secrets of Chuck Berry, Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix, Brian May, Eddie Van Halen, and Steve Vai....

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Guitar Starter Kit
Guitar Starter Kit
This convenient and attractive kit includes the Hal Leonard Guitar Method Book 1 book/CD pack, Easy Pop Melodies book/CD pack, the Incredible Chord Finder, and the Basic Guitar and String Set Up video, all for only $32.95!...

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Complete Acoustic Guitar
Complete Acoustic Guitar
Teach Yourself acoustic guitar with the help of one of today's finest players. Roth is a well known guitar teacher who has played with artists such as Bob Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel, Don McLean and others. Full of exercises and photos to get you playing in no time....

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Easy Blues Rhythms For Guitar
Easy Blues Rhythms For Guitar
The fun and easy way to learn the basics of blues rhythm patterns for the beginner. Music examples are graded from very basic rhythms and rests, to open-string boogie patterns, to more challenging techniques. CD contains over 1 hour of backing and practice tracks....

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Easy Pop Rhythms - 2nd Edition
Easy Pop Rhythms - 2nd Edition
Strum along with your favorite hits from The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Eagles, Eric Clapton, and more! The songs are presented in order of difficulty - beginning with simple three- and four-note tunes and ending with songs that contain many chords, including seventh chords and barre chords. T...

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Arlen Roths Complete Acoustic Guitar
Arlen Roths Complete Acoustic Guitar
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Its Easy To Fake...Blues Guitar
Its Easy To Fake...Blues Guitar
Learn to play some impressive blues licks in no time. You'll discover the blues styles of Robert Johnson, John Lee Hooker, BB King, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, and Stevie Ray Vaughan....

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Even More Easy Pop Rhythms - 2nd Edition
Even More Easy Pop Rhythms - 2nd Edition
Strum along with your favorite hits from the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Nirvana, and many others. The songs in this book are presented in order of difficulty, so you can work along with the Level 3 book of the Hal Leonard Guitar Method or any other guitar method. 20 songs including: Angie · Crazy ...

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The Complete Book Of Alternate Tunings
The Complete Book Of Alternate Tunings
Includes hundreds of guitar tunings in all styles, from folk to celtic to rock. Covers artists such as Hedges, Kottke, Sonic Youth, Cooder, CS&N, Pearl Jam, and more....

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Melodic Arpeggios For Lead Guitar
Melodic Arpeggios For Lead Guitar
An approach to improvisation integrating the use of arpeggios with blues and modal scales. Arpeggios are no more difficult to learn than scales, and, once learned, they can truly transform your playing. This book-and-CD package can teach you to construct arpeggios, connect them to their respective m...

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Hal Leonard Guitar Method Beginner's Pack
Hal Leonard Guitar Method Beginner's Pack
This value-priced pack contains everything a beginning electric or acoustic guitarist needs to get started! It includes the Second Edition of the Level 1 book/CD pack in the world-famous Hal Leonard Guitar Method, as well as the method's correlating DVD....

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Mickey Bakers Complete Course In Jazz Guitar: Book 1
Mickey Bakers Complete Course In Jazz Guitar: Book 1
A modern method on how to play jazz guitar. Featuring new harmonic devices and techniques including jazz riffs, breaks, fill-ins, and solos; progressive chord and melody styles....

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The Complete Guitar Player Books 1, 2 & 3 Omnibus Edition
The Complete Guitar Player Books 1, 2 & 3 Omnibus Edition
All 3 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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Acoustic Guitar Method, Book Three
Acoustic Guitar Method, Book Three
In this third volume from the Acoustic Guitar Method series for beginning guitarists, you'll learn some new alternating-bass strums with a swing feel, discover some new bass notes to play, and take on the essential fingerpicking technique known as Travis picking. You'll also check out the left-hand ...

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Mickey Bakers Complete Guitar Method: Beginners Book
Mickey Bakers Complete Guitar Method: Beginners Book
A complete course in modern guitar playing, written in a simple, easy-to-understand style by one of America's most accomplished musicians. Takes the student from the fundamentals of music to the more advanced phases of technique. Features excellent study and performance material....

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Guitar For Girls - Start Playing With Alex Bach
Guitar For Girls - Start Playing With Alex Bach
Heres everything you need to start playing guitar. Its your chance to learn how to play and find out if youve got what it takes to become a talented player/singer/songwriter/recording artist. Acoustic or electric, the style and the look are your own. This book shows you how! Author Alex Bach gives ...

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The Hal Leonard Beginning Guitar Superbook
The Hal Leonard Beginning Guitar Superbook
Five complete best-selling books in one: Hal Leonard Guitar Method Book 1, Easy Pop Melodies, The Chord Strummer, Easy Chord Trax, and Rock Trax 1. This collection gives any guitarist all the information they need to start playing, including: playing solo guitar and accompaniments in a variety of st...

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The Jazz Guitarists Handbook
The Jazz Guitarists Handbook
Everything a jazz guitarist needs to know. Covers instrument awareness, fundamental and advanced jazz approaches, and transcribed solos....

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Primer Nivel: Guitarra (Level One: Guitar)
Primer Nivel: Guitarra (Level One: Guitar)
Learn to play the guitar with this great book and CD package, written entirely in Spanish. This all-in-one instruction method gets you playing right away. Packed full of exercises, diagrams, and helpful tips. ...

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Incredible Chord Finder - 9 inch. x 12 inch. Edition
Incredible Chord Finder - 9 inch. x 12 inch. Edition
A complete guide diagramming over 1,000 guitar chords in their most common voicings. The book is arranged chromatically and each chord is illustrated in three ways for three levels of difficulty: the easiest form of the chords for the beginner and the more difficult versions for the intermediate and...

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Play Bass Guitar Now!
Play Bass Guitar Now!
Learn the basics and beyond in one simple but exciting program. Create great bass lines in any style - from rock to jazz, from blues to country. You will learn tuning, right hand techniques, major and minor arpeggios, scales, slides, hammer-ons, pull-offs, rhythm patterns, common chord sequences, a...

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Absolute Beginners: Guitar Omnibus Edition
Absolute Beginners: Guitar Omnibus Edition
The complete guitar method - both of the Absolute Beginners Guitar Books One and Two, together in one volume. Practical advice, clear layout, and a playalong CD gives you all you need to know from when you first pick up a guitar. Step-by-step pictures take you from first-day exercises, tuning and se...

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Even More Easy Pop Melodies - 2nd Edition
Even More Easy Pop Melodies - 2nd Edition
An excellent pop supplement to the Hal Leonard Guitar Method, or any guitar method book 3. Includes 20 songs: Another One Bites the Dust · Change the World · Crazy · Crazy Train · Good Vibrations · Heart Shaped Box · Heartache Tonight · Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds · Sea of Love · Tequila · Yesterd...

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Kids Can Play Guitar (DVD)
Kids Can Play Guitar (DVD)
A brilliantly simple and effective method for the younger, would-be guitarist. Using plain language and clear exciting musical examples, renowned UK teacher, Mel Reeves shows you: guitar types, guitar parts, how to hold your guitar, fingering, chords and chord diagrams, guitar tablature and how to r...

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Absolute Beginners: Guitar Value Pack
Absolute Beginners: Guitar Value Pack
For the first time guitar player. Features both audio and video backup tracks on the CD and DVD. Package comes shrink-wrapped with the CD in the book, and the DVD in a protective amaray case....

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Rock Scales For Guitar
Rock Scales For Guitar
This book contains all of the rock, blues, and country scales employed in today's music. It shows the guitarist how scales are constructed and designed, how scales connect and relate to one another, how and where to use the scales they are learning, all of the possible scale forms for each differen...

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Acoustic Blues Guitar DVD
Acoustic Blues Guitar DVD
If you know how to hold the more common chords you know enough to play Acoustic Blues. This DVD demonstrates the various techniques required to play fingerstyle blues, such as monotonic and alternating bass, slides, hammer-ons, pull offs, and more. There are also five instrumentals to learn, each ba...

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Easy Classical Guitar Gig Book
Easy Classical Guitar Gig Book
Easy Classical Guitar Gig Book. The pieces in the Easy Classical Guitar Gig Book have been culled and arranged as an aid to the working professional and semi-professional guitarist who finds himself in a variety of playing situations, such as weddings, restaurants, and other social gatherings that p...

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More Easy Pop Rhythms - 2nd Edition
More Easy Pop Rhythms - 2nd Edition
Strum along with your favorite hits from the Beatles, Eric Clapton, Tom Petty, Nrivana, and more! The songs are presented in order of difficulty, beginning with simple open-chord songs and concluding with songs that use movable power chords. 20 songs, including: Authority Song · Building a Mystery ·...

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Everything About Playing The Blues
Everything About Playing The Blues
The all in one blues book -explains blues theory, blues rhythms, blues scales, advanced solo techniques, beginnings and endings, and riff connections. Includes a play-along CD with 12 jam tracks. ...

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Paquete Doble De Abanicos Para Guitarra
Paquete Doble De Abanicos Para Guitarra
El Abanico De Acordes De Guitarra and El Abanico De Escalas De Guitarra together in one double pack! These unique Spanish-language guides have been designed for every beginning guitar player to be able to begin playing the most popular chords and scales used today immediately. The patterns are illus...

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Basic Blues for Guitar
Basic Blues for Guitar
The most thorough blues guitar book yet. Over 35 blues tunes covering electric and rock blues, folk, fingerpicking and bottleneck blues, B.B. King and Chuck Berry styles, jazzy blues and more. Plus positions, scales chords, discographies and an overview of styles from Robert Johnson to George Benso...

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So Easy Acoustic Guitar Level 2 DVD
So Easy Acoustic Guitar Level 2 DVD
A continuation of Level 1, the guitar program is designed to take you from beginner to intermediate level of play in no time. Learn essential acoustic techniques like finger picking, strumming, advanced chords and scales, blues rhythms and much more! There are complete song rhythms with full bass an...

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El Abanico De Acordes De Guitarra
El Abanico De Acordes De Guitarra
The Spanish-language edition of the Guitar Chord Deck. Instructional book contains life-size pictures of fingering positions. Select the chord you want and see exactly how to play it! Features basic chords for all popular keys. The ideal gift for the beginning guitarist....

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Hal Leonard Guitar Method Book 1
Hal Leonard Guitar Method Book 1
The Hal Leonard Guitar Method is designed for anyone just learning to play acoustic or electric guitar. It is based on years of teaching guitar students of all ages, and it also reflects some of the best guitar teaching ideas from around the world. Book 1 includes tuning; playing position; musical s...

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Rock House: Learn Rock Acoustic: Level 1 DVD
Rock House: Learn Rock Acoustic: Level 1 DVD
For someone with little or no experience, this program is a thorough trip through basic chords and rhythms, exercises, strum patterns, and song picking. You'll be pickin' and strummin' in no time!...

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El Abanico De Escalas De Guitarra
El Abanico De Escalas De Guitarra
The Spanish-language edition of the Guitar Scale Deck. This is the easiest scale book ever. Just choose a scale and see exactly how to play it! The realistic, full-color diagram shows you exactly where to place your fingers. Then turn the card over to get full details on the scale. Includes deta...

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Hal Leonard Guitar Method Book 1 - French
Hal Leonard Guitar Method Book 1 - French
Book 1 provides beginning instruction which includes tuning, 1st position melody playing (strings 1-6) the C, G, G7, D7 and Em chords, rhythms through eighth notes, solos and ensembles and strumming. Added features are a chord chart and a selection of traditional songs, including inch.Amazing Grace...

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Rock House: Advanced Metal DVD, 2nd Edition
Rock House: Advanced Metal DVD, 2nd Edition
The most advanced techniques metal guitar has ever seen! Full neck runs, sweep-tap, rakes, harmonics, whammy bar tricks, classic metal speed runs, and much more....

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Instant Guitar! In Full Color
Instant Guitar! In Full Color
Be one of the thousands of beginners who have used this method to play guitar instantly. Soon you+ll be playing songs right away with easy-to-read picture chords in full color, while improving your guitar skills as you play along with professional backup tracks on the CD....

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Hal Leonard Incredible Chord Finder/Guide Instantane Des Accords (French)
Hal Leonard Incredible Chord Finder/Guide Instantane Des Accords (French)
A complete guide diagramming over 1,000 guitar chords in their most common voicings. The book is arranged chromatically and each chord is illustrated in three ways for three levels of difficulty: the easiest form of the chords for the beginner and the more difficult versions for the intermediate and...

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New Dimensions For Bass Featuring Doug Wimbish
New Dimensions For Bass Featuring Doug Wimbish
Learn the basic rudiments that make-up Dougs unique sound and style -- his personal warm ups, right hand variations, dynamics, false harmonics, and Dougs famous Flamingo Slap. Hell show you how to construct bass lines for any style of music. Learn to use effects that will make your Bass sound like a...

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Mastering Modes
Mastering Modes
This practical guide unlocks the mystery behind the construction and application of over 60 modes. Includes special sections on advanced and world scales. All of the examples are demonstrated on the accompanying CD with a professional backup band....

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Even More Easy Pop Melodies
Even More Easy Pop Melodies
An excellent pop supplement to the Hal Leonard Guitar Method, or any guitar method book 3. Includes 20 songs: Another One Bites the Dust · Change the World · Crazy · Crazy Train · Good Vibrations · Heart Shaped Box · Heartache Tonight · Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds · Sea of Love · Tequila · Yesterd...

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House Of Blues Presents Learn To Play Blues Guitar DVD (Level 2)
House Of Blues Presents Learn To Play Blues Guitar DVD (Level 2)
A continuation of Level One, The House of Blues and the producers of The Rock House Methodr have developed this blues guitar program to take you from beginner to intermediate level of play in no time. The more than 90 minutes of one-on-one lessons with instructor and guitarist John McCarthy encoura...

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Step One: Teach Yourself Bass Guitar
Step One: Teach Yourself Bass Guitar
Your all-in-one package for learning to play the bass guitar. Guidebook gets you playing right away and allows you to practice along with accompanying audio tracks. DVD features a demonstration with an expert and features chapter menus and more for easy navigation through the lessons....

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US/Chinese Edition - Hal Leonard Guitar Method Book 1
US/Chinese Edition - Hal Leonard Guitar Method Book 1
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Fingerpicking Styles For Guitar
Fingerpicking Styles For Guitar
Step-by-step instruction in American guitar picking, from simple patterns through the more complicated styles of noted folk and blues guitarists like Etta Baker, Sam McGee, Pete Seeger, Merle Travis, Dave Van Ronk, and many others....

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Aprenda Guitarra De Rock
Aprenda Guitarra De Rock
This Spanish language book and CD method is designed to help you develop a all of the techniques necessary for playing rock and roll guitar. All of the examples are demonstrated with a backing band on the accompanying CD and there is a backup track for you to play along. Music examples are in the st...

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Hal Leonard Country Guitar Method
Hal Leonard Country Guitar Method
This book uses real country songs to teach you the basics of rhythm and lead country guitar in the style of Chet Atkins, James Burton, Albert Lee, Merle Travis, and many others. Lessons include: Chords, Scales and Licks · Common Progressions and Riffs · Carter Style and Travis Picking · Steel Licks,...

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Teach Yourself Guitar
Teach Yourself Guitar
How to play chords, accompany melodies, and develop rhythmic patterns. Songs and examples provide a steady progression in difficulty. Play in the styles of Mississippi John Hurt, Mance Lipscombe, Rev. Gary Davis, the Carter Family, and others.With chord diagrams....

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Rock House: Guitar For Girls Start Playing With Alex Bach DVD
Rock House: Guitar For Girls Start Playing With Alex Bach DVD
This complete guide has been specially designed to give you all the tools you need to begin really playing acoustic or electric guitar. Starting out with an easy-to-follow look at the basics, you will get a chance to explore all aspects of guitar playing as talented singer/songwriter/recording artis...

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Hal Leonard Guitar Method - Blues Guitar
Hal Leonard Guitar Method - Blues Guitar
The Hal Leonard Blues Guitar Method is your complete guide to learning blues guitar. This book uses real blues songs to teach you the basics of rhythm and lead blues guitar in the style of B.B. King, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Buddy Guy, Eric Clapton, Muddy Waters and many others. Lessons include: 12-bar b...

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Flat-Pick Country Guitar
Flat-Pick Country Guitar
Bluegrass licks, breakdowns, Nashville styles, Doc Watson, the Carter family and other country stars all in a volume that covers the whole range of flatpicking styles for beginners and others....

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Absolute Beginners Guitar
Absolute Beginners Guitar
Step-by-step pictures take you from first day exercises to playing along with a backup track! Absolute Beginners has been designed to tell you everything you need to know from the very first time you pick up your guitar....

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Hal Leonard Metodo Para Guitarra. Libro 1 - Segunda Edition
Hal Leonard Metodo Para Guitarra. Libro 1 - Segunda Edition
El metodo para guitarra Hal Leonard esta disenado para cualquiera que este aprendiendo a tocar la guitarra acustica o electrica. Esta basado en anos de esnenanza a estudiantes de guitarra de todas las edades, y tambien refleja algunas de las mejores ideas para la ensenanza de la guitarra de todo el ...

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Pedal Steel Guitar
Pedal Steel Guitar
A simple, straightforward instruction manual, starting at the very beginning with tuning and playing fundamentals. Discography and soundsheet included....

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Empieza A Tocar: Guitarra
Empieza A Tocar: Guitarra
Written entirely in Spanish! Provides the learner with visual information on tuning, proper hand and finger positions, basic chords and transitions as well as how to accompany the CD to play songs....

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Hal Leonard Guitar Method Book 2
Hal Leonard Guitar Method Book 2
Book 2 continues the instruction started in Book 1 and covers: Am, Dm, A, E, F and B7 chords; power chords; fingerstyle guitar; syncopations, dotted rhythms, and triplets; Carter style solos; bass runs; pentatonic scales; improvising; tablature; 92 great songs, riffs and examples; notes in first and...

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Bottleneck Blues Guitar
Bottleneck Blues Guitar
A comprehensive instruction guide to blues slide guitar styles. Contains over 25 transcriptions of authentic bottleneck blues tunes by such masters as Son House, Robert Johnson, Tampa Red, and many more....

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Step One: Play Guitar Value Pack
Step One: Play Guitar Value Pack
Learn how to play notes, chords and chord progressions. An expert teacher demonstrates proper playing techniques on the CD and DVD. With chapter menus and more for easy navigation through the lessons. Package comes shrink-wrapped with the CD in the book, and the DVD in a protective amaray case....

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Hal Leonard Guitar Method Book 1
Hal Leonard Guitar Method Book 1
This world-famous method by Will Schmid is now available with audio accompaniment on CD or cassette! Book 1 provides beginning instruction including tuning, 1st position melody playing, C, G, G7, D7, and Em chords, rhythms through eighth notes, solos and ensembles and strumming. Features a chord cha...

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Fingerpicking Styles For Guitar (New Edition)
Fingerpicking Styles For Guitar (New Edition)
Fingerpicking Styles for Guitar is a special 40th Anniversary edition of two books that pioneered the fingerpicking craze of the early seventies: Fingerpicking Styles for Guitar and Traditional and Contemporary Guitar Finger-Picking Styles. This special two-books-in-one folio features updated arrang...

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The Art Of Acoustic Blues Guitar: Do That Guitar Rag
The Art Of Acoustic Blues Guitar: Do That Guitar Rag
Discover the sounds and techniques of the classic ragtime blues guitar style. Inspired by the early masters such as Blind Blake, Big Bill Broonzy, Rev. Gary Davis, and Blind Boy Fuller, Woody has written original tunes that break down the complexities of the music into clear and playable instrumenta...

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Basics 2 - The Wolf Marshall Guitar Method
Basics 2 - The Wolf Marshall Guitar Method
This book gives you a more detailed look into chord shapes and single note patterns that were introduced in Basics 1. You will learn how to move shapes and patterns to create exciting leads and melodies. Learn more playing techniques such as alternate picking, finger picking and arpeggiation used ...

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The Art Of Acoustic Blues Guitar: Ragtime & Gospel
The Art Of Acoustic Blues Guitar: Ragtime & Gospel
This book and DVD package showcases the songs and techniques of two of the most fundamental and exciting styles of traditional fingerstyle guitar playing as exemplified by the legendary virtuoso Reverend Gary Davis. While exploring several of Davis's well-known songs, Woody Mann illustrates how the ...

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The Art Of Acoustic Blues Guitar: Handful Of Riffs
The Art Of Acoustic Blues Guitar: Handful Of Riffs
Learn five repertoire building songs arranged for the intermediate fingerstyle guitarist. Inspired by Woody Mann's favorite traditional blues tunes, these easy to follow arrangements teach a variety of acoustic blues styles and sounds. Each song spotlights a specific technique for developing fingerp...

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Basics 2 - The Wolf Marshall Guitar Method
Basics 2 - The Wolf Marshall Guitar Method
This book gives you a more detailed look into chord shapes and single note patterns that were introduced in Basics 1. You will learn how to move shapes and patterns to create exciting leads and melodies. Learn more playing techniques such as alternate picking, finger picking and arpeggiation used ...

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Guitar For Beginners
Guitar For Beginners
With this one easy-to-follow, brilliantly instructive manual, anyone will be able to pick up a guitar and learn to play. Filled with diagrams, pictures, and music, Guitar for Beginners takes would-be musicians from introductory theoretical concepts to simple scales, chords, and rhythms and finally t...

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Mickey Bakers Complete Guitar Method: Advanced Book 2