Explore the music of one of rock's greatest bands with this step-by-step breakdown of the Chili Peppers' various guitar styles and techniques by Dale Turner.

Spanish VersionThe long-awaited book from Joe Bennett author of numerous best-selling Guitar tutors! The Complete Junior Guitarist is the perfect starter course for young boys andgirls.Expert advice on all the key areas: Advice about what sort of Guitar to buy Holding the Guitar properly Tuning up Basic chords and strumming patternsMastering all of the basics This fully-illustrated book also features a wide range of songs all specially composed to be easy to play so that great-sounding results come faster!Start them right withthe book that delivers fast-track learning from day one.

With Online Audio-A popular and easy to understand book which teaches and explores the many aspects of bottleneck/slide guitar techniques developed nearly a century ago and made famous through the recordings of legendary blues greats like RobertJohnson Mississippi Fred McDowell and Muddy Waters.Much of the book is dedicated to teaching you how to use these assorted techniques to make original improvised solos. You will learn to play bottleneck guitar in open Dtuning open E tuning open A tuning and standard tuning. Written in notation and tablature. Includes access to online audio.

From bluesy bends and crying harmonics to dazzling multi-finger tapping and grotesque animal noises this tutorial features a huge arsenal of techniques that will make your solos explode!Hone your skills with chop-building exercises that will dramatically improve the strength and accuracy of your hands. The accompanying audio examples and demonstrations will help you get the very best from each idea. Includes: Exercises Tremolo tapping and harmonics Bends slurs and slides Picking styles and rakes Fret-hand techniques Pick-hand techniques ...other crazy sound effects!

In this Musicians Institute Master Class edition David Oakes teaches both fundamental and advancing Classical and fingerstyle guitar techniques. Aimed at any guitarist who wants a quick thorough grounding in the essential techniques of fingerpicking and classical styles style guitar technique this book covers free stroke and rest stroke natural and artificial harmonics three-to-a-string patterns. Includes CD with demonstrations of all examples exercises and full demo tracks.

Progressively graded for intermediate and more advanced-This is the second volume of Play Solo Flamenco Guitar With Juan Martin. The book cotains 21 progressively graded solos for intermediate to advanced level players as well as a CD and DVD containing all of the solos in thebook plus 4 bonus extras! Written in both standard notation and TAB this book is perfect for all guitarists!

Guitar Play-Along Volume 103-The Guitar Play-Along Series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily! Just follow the tab listen to the CD to hear how the guitar should sound and then play along using the separate backing tracks. The melody and lyrics are also included in the book in case you want to sing or to simply help you follow along. The audio CD is playable on any CD player. For PC and Mac computer users the CD is enhanced so you can adjust the recording to any tempo without changing pitch! This collection features 8 Switchfoot hits including: Dare You To Move · Learning to Breathe · Meant to Live · New Way to Be Human · Only Hope · Spirit · Stars · You Already Take Me There.

Play Guitar with the CD backing tracks and the matching music booklet (DVD insert sized) included in the case. This pack includes five hits by Jeff Buckley.On the CD: Two specially recorded 'soundalike'backing tracks of each song:Full demo with Guitar showing you how the song should sound.Backing track without Guitar for you to play along with on your own Guitar.In the Musicbooklet:Music chords and lyrics. Learn the Guitar part from the tab or the standard notation.

Introduction to Acoustic Blues. 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 on the specific techniques of various well-known players open tuning and bottleneck guitar. The accompanying CD includes each example and every song most of which are played both in slow speed and at regular tempo.

Learn to Play Using the Techniques & Songs of American Roots Music. A complete collection of all three Acoustic Guitar Method books and CDs in one volume! Learn how to play guitar with the only beginning method based on traditional American music that teaches you authentic techniques and songs. Beginning with a few basic chords and strums you'll start right in learning real music drawn from blues folk country and bluegrass traditions. You'll learn how to find notes on the fingerboard expand your collection of chords by learning songs in various keys and learn different kinds of picking patterns. When you're done with this method series you'll know dozens of thetunes that form the backbone of American music using a variety of flatpicking and fingerpicking techniques. Songs include: Bury Me Beneath the Willow · Delia · Frankie and Johnny · The Girl I Left Behind Me · House of the Rising Sun · Ida Red · In the Pines · Little Sadie · Man of Constant Sorrow · Sally Goodin · Scarborough Fair · Will the Circle Be Unbroken? · and many more.

A funk institution and Tower of Power founding member Rocco Prestia is one of the most important innovators of the electric bass. This Play-It-Like-It-Is Bass book/CD pack from Cherry Lane allows bassists to learn Rocco's authentic bass parts. The songbook includes full transcriptions with tab for eight songs a bio on Rocco and his performance notes for each tune. The special accompanying CD features performances by Rocco along with Tower of Power members Larry Braggs (vocals) Dave Garibaldi (drums) Roger Smith (keyboards) and Jeff Tamelier (guitar) on four TOP classics (Credit · Down to the Nightclub · There's Only So Much Oil in the Ground · What Is Hip) plus fournew grooves created especially for this book (Don't Knock It · F-Funk · Free-Fallin' Funk · Hip-E-Jam)! Tracks on the CD are included both with and without the bass line so that players can sit in with Tower of Power!

More Than 140 Video Examples!-In Modern Jazz & Fusion Guitar  Jostein Gulbrandsen shares his unique style that blends European and American jazz and fusion. With this informative method you will learn: Lines over dominant seventh chords Lines over minor seventh chords Lines over major seventh chords Major ii-V-I lines Minor ii-V-i lines Lines over modern jazz chord progressions Motifs Comping and voice-leading Lines by influential guitarists Solos over jazz standards: Chord changes to 'Invitation' Chord changes to 'On GreenDolphin Street' Chord changes to 'Some Day My Prince Will Come' Chord changes to 'Stella By Starlight' Chord changes to 'St. Thomas' Modern Jazz & Fusion Guitar includes online access to video examples for download or streaming using the unique code inside the book. Each example is demonstrated on video and presented in standard notation and tablature. More than 140 video examples are included.  

Step One: Play Guitar Chords. 200 essential chords in all keys, fully fingered, in standard notation and handy chord diagrams. A complete resource for the beginning guitarist, to go with the Step One series. Includes a full length CD containing all the music examples and tunes played by professional musicians.