Fred Sokolow: Fretboard Roadmaps Jazz Guitar: Guitar: Instrumental Tutor

Essential Guitar Patterns-Fred Sokolow's best-selling guitar method and series has helped hundreds of thousands of guitar players. For the first time this system is presented for the absolute beginner. While teaching the basic skills needed to play countless songs Sokolow presents practical music theory that will enhance your playing. The visual fretboard patterns used in all of the Roadmaps books make it easier to understand the guitar and think like a musician. With chord grids tablature music notation and a recording you'll immediately learn how to: play over 20 familiar tunes; strum and fingerpick songs with many different rhythms; play melodies in five different keys; playdozens of chords; use the ???blues box??? to play solos and to jam with other players; play power chords and barre chords up and down the neck; read tablature and music notation; and more! The accompanying recording includes the songs scales and exercises that are presented in tablature and music notation throughout the book. The success of the Fretboard Roadmaps series is due to its practical visual patterns which help the guitarist learn to play quickly!

The Essential Patterns That All the Pros Know and Use-Take your baritone uke playing to the next level with this great package that will teach you how to: strum backup chords all over the fretboard in any key; play chord solos up and down the fretboard; solo in any key using first-position major scales chord-based licks and moveable major and blues scales; understand chord progressions; increase your chord vocabulary; and more. Tunes and exercises that illustrate each technique are written in standard notation and tablature and played on the accompanying audio. An absolute beginner can follow the diagrams and instruction from the beginning. Intermediate and advanced players can use the chapters non-sequentially toincrease their understanding of the baritone ukulele. Audio is accessed online using the unique code in each book and includes PLAYBACK+ tools such as tempo adjustment looping and more.

A valuable tutor which demonstrates the essential patterns that all great guitarists know and use. Learn how to play lead and rhythm anywhere on the fretboard in any key and in a variety of styles. Includes tuition onmoveable patterns double-note licks and sliding pentatonic scales with easy to follow diagrams. Includes online audio with full demo tracks for all the examples.