The Acoustic Guitar Method - Complete Edition

Anyone interested in learning to play acoustic guitar can pick up this well-paced, comprehensive method and get started right away. Beginning concepts include right- and left-hand technique, reading music, basic improvisation, barre chords, picking technique, playing bass lines, and basic arranging. Intermediate topics include alternate tunings, scales, how to play in upper positions of the fingerboard, and a rundown of styles like acoustic funk, New Orleans, gypsy swing, Celtic, bluegrass, Cajun, and more. This comprehensive book concludes with more advanced techniques, including 'machine gun strums,' right-hand muting, slapping, tapping, slap harmonics, and tremolo---as well as styles like reggae, African/Brazilian, norteño, and conjunto. Whether you are starting to learn acoustic guitar or an advanced player looking to improve your playing, this is the one book on acoustic guitar you will ever need. An MP3 CD for demonstration and play-along is included. / Guitare

A complete guide for beginning guitarists with step-by-step lessons and 45 great acoustic songs to learn and play. The Hal Leonard Acoustic Guitar Method uses real songs to teach you all the basics of acoustic Guitar in the style of The Beatles Eric Clapton John Mellencamp the Indigo Girls Robert Johnson James Taylor and many others. Lessons include: strumming fingerpicking using a capo open tunings folk country and bluegrass styles acoustic blues acoustic rock and more. Songs include: Angie Barely Breathing Behind Blue Eyes Building a Mystery Change the World Dust in the Wind Fast Car Here Comes the Sun Jack and Diane Landslide Leaving on a Jet Plane Maggie May More Than Words Name You've Got a Friend Yesterday and more. This book is written in standard notation and tablature.

Supplement To Any Guitar Method-This book with online audio features 10 complete songs in standard notation and tab including About a Girl Babe I'm Gonna Leave You Breaking the Girl Free Fallin' Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) I'm Yours Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) The Scientist Tears in Heaven and Wonderwall. The price of this book includes access to audio tracks online for download or streaming using the unique code instead. The audio features PLAYBACK+ a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch set loop points change keys pan left or right.

The House of Blues and producers of The Rock House Method join together to bring you this accelerated acoustic guitar course designed to take you from the very first stages of beginner to intermediate player in no time. It's jam-packed with instruction that covers a complete spectrum of techniques and components for acoustic guitar. You will learn the parts of the guitar proper hand position tuning open and full form chords strum patterns major & minor scales song rhythms and the basics of finger picking. You will be playing complete song rhythms with the full band backing tracks.This expanded edition features: redesignedpackagingupdated and revised lessons8 new pages of lessons addedall audio tracks now available as downloadand a PDF digital edition for portable devices when the product gets registered

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. This complete edition contains books 1 2 and 3 bound together in one easy-to-use volume. Book 1 includes: Tuning; playing position; musical symbols; notes in first position; C G G7 D D7 A7 and Em chords; rhythms through eighth notes; strumming and picking; 100 great songs riffs and examples; the online audio features 47 full-band tracks for demonstration. Book 2 includes Am Dm A E F and B7 Chords; power chords; fingerstyle chords; syncopations dotted rhythms and triplets; carter style solos; bass runs; pentatonic; improvising; tablature; 92 great songs riffs and examples; notes in first and second position; the online audio features 57 full-band tracks for demonstration or play along Book 3 includes The major minor pentatonic and chromatic scales; sixteenth notes; barre chords; travis picking; drop d tuning; movable scales; notes in fifth position; slides hammer-ons pull-offs and string bends; chord construction; gear; definitions for special guitar notation; 89 great songs riffs and examples; the online audio features 60 full-band tracks for demonstration or play along.  

Learn to Play 15 Complete Holiday Classics-Learn to Play 15 Complete Holiday Classics. Add to your repertoire with this collection of traditional easy-to-play holiday classics. You'll practice and reinforce the techniques you've learned in The Acoustic Guitar Method Book One. Bring these beautiful melodies to life by listening to the recordings on the companion CD and then using the transcriptions to practice single-note melodies in open position basic downstroke strums and simple chords. Songs: Jingle Bells · Joy to the World · Deck the Halls · Silent Night · The First Noel · Away in a Manger · O Christmas Tree · O Come All Ye Faithful · Hark! The Herald Angels Sing · It Came upon a Midnight Clear · What Child Is This' ·We Three Kings of Orient Are · God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen · Angels We Have Heard on High · We Wish You a Merry Christmas. Includes tab lyrics and notes on the song origins and arrangements.

La méthode Hal Leonard Classical Guitar est conçue pour tous ceux qui apprennent à jouer de la guitare classique. Ce guide complet et facile à utiliser, rédigé par le célèbre guitariste classique et professeur Paul Henry, utilise la musique des maîtres compositeurs pour approfondir votre compréhension du style et de la technique classiques. Le 2e volume comprend : la sonorité; la dynamique ; l\'étouffement ; la sixième corde accordée en ré ; les notes au-dessus de la position ouverte ; le déplacement de la main gauche ; les notes d\'agrément, les glissades et les articulations ; les harmoniques naturelles et artificielles ; les barrés complèts et partiels ; les trilles et les mordants ; les gammes à deux octaves ; le vibrato ; le contrepoint ; la révision de la technique de la main gauche et de la main droite ; les exercices de liaisons ; et plus encore ! Ce recueil comprend également l\'accès à plus de 50 pistes audio pour la démonstration et l\'accompagnement. L\'accès aux fichiers audio se fait en ligne à l\'aide du code unique qui se trouve dans le livre et peut être écouté en continu ou téléchargé. Les fichiers audio comprennent PLAYBACK , un lecteur audio multifonctionnel qui vous permet de ralentir l\'audio sans modifier la hauteur, de définir des points de boucle, de changer de tonalité et d\'effectuer un panoramique à gauche ou à droite. / Méthodes et pédagogie / Guitare / Guitare acoustique / HAL LEONARD

The Complete Acoustic Blues Guitar Method. SpecificationsDescription Woody Mann's teaching method for acoustic blues guitar is exactly what every aspiring blues player needs. Using his vast first-hand knowledge of the genre he has written a selection of pieces that present different blues styles into individual performances which make their essential techniques accessible as never before. The 51 instrumentals featured include many styles of acoustic blues that span ragtime, Mississippi Delta open-tuning numbers and the folk-blues sounds of the Carolinas. The book includes a dropcard with an access code to downloadable audio.

Start playing with Alex Bach and follow in the footsteps of great female guitarists such as Avril Lavigne Brodi Dalle Courtney Love Sheryl Crow Crissy Hynde and KT Tunstall. Here’s everything you need to start playing theguitar. This guitar method covers every topic from first strumming and playing position to playing complete songs. It’s your chance to learn how to play and find out if you’ve got what it takes to become a talented guitaristand singer/songwriter. Acoustic or electric either type is catered for but the style and the look are your own. This book shows you how! Author Alex Bach gives fast-track access to chords scales strumming patterns andfinger-picking style. You even get your own backing band the DVD has professional backing tracks that let you experience the excitement of perforoming onstage with a group. Also included is exclusive FREE access to The RockHouse Method’s support system on the web at www.rockhousemethod.com

The complete acoustic blues method by Lou Manzi with full tuition in all aspects of blues playing and compete with a CD of audio examples.Here's your chance to master the sometimes funky sometimes haunting sounds of the acoustic blues guitar with a comprehensive tutorial method. Every aspect of the blues is introduced in and easy-to-understand manner and the CD of demonstrations will ensure that you capture the details and nuances of this characteristic style.Lessons include:12-bar progressionsRhythm and theoryShuffles and Boogie Woogie patternsBlues soloingLeft- and right-hand techniquesTurnaroundsMoveablepatternsFingerstyle blues

Gigging guitarist and composer studio player and producer Rick Cardinali is a supreme master of guitar who has now distilled a lifetime’s playing into his very own guitar method! Rick’s book takes you frompicking up a guitar for the first time to playing a complete blues solo.To begin Rick will explain the parts of the guitar how to hold the instrument and tune it holding a plectrum correct fingering technique and how toread tablature and standard notation.Next you’ll learn how to play single-note melodies riffs open chords and power chords. Best of all you’ll learn everything while listening to Rick’s superb professionally-producedbacking tracks on the two included CDs! Even if you’re starting from scratch you’ll be playing in no time!Acoustic or electric surf rock or heavy metal let Rick Cardinali teach you to play guitar backed by a world-classband!

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 Acoustic Guitar containing over three hours of lessons and play-along tracks!

Teach yourself how to play Guitar with Progressive Guitar Method: Book 1 Supplementary Songbook which covers the important techniques required to learn to play the Guitar including notes and rhythms for beginnerGuitar songs.Progressive Guitar Method: Book 1 Supplementary Songbook is suitable for all ages and all types of Guitars including acoustic and electric. Includes 73 exercises solos and popular easy songsin folk and pop styles.Complete with easy-to-read music and tabs for beginners with chords for accompaniment.Progressive Guitar Method: Book 1 Supplementary Songbook comes with 1 DVD and 1 CDcontaining Guitar videos and audio demonstrating all examples.No prior knowledge of how to read music or playing Guitar is required to teach yourself how to play Guitar from this book. Includes free Guitar chord poster.