Volume one of the Berklee Modern Method For Guitar by Bill Leavitt now includes a CD with audio accompaniments to make your learning experience even more immersive and enjoyable. Theserecordings include solos duos and trios as well as selective studies. The accompaniments (including demonstration tracks as well as 'play-alongs') are perfect for teachers and students. These guides are all you need to masteryour instrument.

Starting at the elementary level and progressing to advanced techniques this comprehensive method is like a complete two-year guitar course in book form. It includes over 450 songs and examples and covers: notes rhythms keys positions dynamics syncopation chord charts duets scale forms phrasing odd time and much more.

Absolute Beginners: Acoustic Guitar is the complete guide to playing the Acoustic Guitar from the first time you pick it up all the way to playing your first songs along with backing tracks. With clear images easy-to-understand text and demonstrations of every exercise on an Audio Download this book is the easiest way to learn the techniques that are essential to learning to play the AcousticGuitar. Absolute Beginners: Acoustic Guitar opens with a clear introduction to the parts of the Guitar how to choose one and the different types. After this you'll learn the differencesbetween playing with a plectrum or your fingers you'll tune up then you'll be ready to play! A guide to your first chords and strumming will get you making music before you learn more chords different strumming patterns andsome scales. Throughout this the included Audio Download allows you to hear each exercise as it should sound ensuring you play everything correctly and train your ear at the same time. As you learnfingerpicking the twelve-bar blues some tunes and other techniques you'll find you've gone from knowing nothing about the Guitar to being able to play songs chords and even with others. The Audio Download also featuresprofessionally-recorded backing tracks for the songs so that you can play along and sound great. The book also features a handy guide to the notes of the neck and a chord reference sheet.  If you'rean Absolute Beginner with no knowledge of how to play the Acoustic Guitar this book will guide you on this journey with pictures an audio download and practical advice from expert authorDavid Harrison. The Absolute Beginners series has taught millions to play from novice to confident player over the years. Now it's your turn!

Express yourself through the beautiful voice of the solo Guitar.Solo Guitar Playing can teach even the person with no previous musical training how to progress from simple single-line melodies to mastery of the guitar asa solo instrument. Fully illustrated with diagrams photographs and over 200 musical exercises and repertoire selections this book offers thorough instruction in every phase of classical guitar playing.Completecoverage of individual skills includes:Basic techniqueReading music memorizing and ear-trainingMastering the fingerboardBuilding dexterity and speedDeveloping tone color andmusical phrasingPosition playingInterpretationSince its first printing in 1968 Frederick Noad's Solo Guitar Playing has been used by countless students and teachers of classical Guitar. Thefourth edition features revised and updated exercises and an expanded selection of solo Guitar repertoire gleaned from the best-selling Frederick Noad Guitar Anthology.

Re-issued Dutch edition.The Absolute Beginners course has been designed to tell you everything you need to know from the very first time you pick up your instrument. With this superb book you get a comprehensive guitarcourse featuring step-by-step pictures which take you from first day exercises to playing along with backing tracks.

Book 1-Start your learning of the guitar with this superb easy-to-follow method teaching you to play using both standard music notation and guitar tablature at the same time. Written by Mary Thompson this book will help you to findout about note names and notation as well as signs and symbols used in music.

An ideal course to introduce or to improve yourself to the rock guitar. It will teach you: riffs and rock rythmics the typical phrases used in rock music pieces that are played alike some of the greatest guitarists: AC/DC Rolling Stones Beatles Led Zeppelin Rammstein Linkin Park...The exercises and music pieces are recorded on the accompanying CD of this course. Grab your guitar and have fun !

This amazing Absolute Beginners tutorial pack contains books 1 and 2 from the series plus the songbook and fingering charts all in one volume with 2 CDs of professional backing tracks and a bonus DVD to accompany the first tutorbook.

This method for self-teaching ranks as one of the very best introductory rock guitar methods available. The student will learn licks phrases solos bass runs and power chords in the keys of E F G A D B-flat and C! Alsoincluded is a special section by Mark Lonergan on performing licks and riffs rock techniques such as tapping bending double stops etc. and some great solo ideas! With notation and tablature note reading ability is notnecessary! This also includes the companion DVD in which William Bay teaches the essential elements of contemporary rock and blues guitar. CD included.

2-DVD Set-A unique double-DVD set that teaches you to play guitar from the very beginning using the sounds and techniques of Amezn American roots music. Suitable for total beginners as well as those wishing to discover a different approach Hamburger's method will get you playing a whole bunch of traditional American songs in no time.DVD 1: covers all the basic chords and flatpicking techniques you will needDVD 2: provides a solid start in fingerpicking along with more advanced flatpicking stylesYou will learn how to use a capo how to add bass runs and how to apply a variety of strumming patterns and other important techniques. Soon you'll be playingsuch evergreen classics as Scarborough Fair Careless Love and Columbus Stockade Blues.

Learn the essential techniques needed to play all genres of music. Start with how to hold the bass and proper hand position for comfortable playing. Next learn rhythm timing basic bass lines and how to play along with a drummer. Learn 5ths and octaves and how to apply them in a song. Playing techniques such as slap pop and using a pick are covered in depth. Walking bass lines sixteenth notes syncopated bass lines intervals and drop D tuning are just a few of the topics that will help you play song progressions and bass lines. From theory to complete songs this program has it all! This program comes with 191 professionally recorded backing tracks on a MP3 CDfor you to play along with. Play them in your home car or load them onto your personal MP3 player. You also get lifetime membership to the Rock House Method lesson support system on the web with your purchase!

This money-saving pack features the 48-page FastTrack Guitar Method Book a 45-minute FastTrack audio CD complete with songs and lessons and the DVD Fender Presents Getting Started on Electric Guitar.