Guitar World -- Mastering Arpeggios, Volume 2

Guitar World presents its latest DVD, Mastering Arpeggios, a deluxe crash course in guitar theory. With over 2 hours of lessons, you'll learn everything you need to know about major, minor, diminished, and augmented triad arpeggios, plus a bonus tutorial on how to play like Paganini! Your Instructor is Jimmy Brown, who over the last 25 years has built a reputation as one of the world's finest music editors through his work as transcriber, arranger, and senior music editor for Guitar World magazine, the world's best-selling magazine for guitarists. In addition to these roles, he is a working musician, performing regularly as a solo acoustic guitar/vocal act and rocking out with a full band at taverns, restaurants, resorts, weddings, and private parties. / Guitare

Grammy Award winner songwriter composer producer recording artist and rst-call session and touring musician Massimo Varini is one of the world?s most celebrated and versatile Guitarists and educators.As the only Italian Guitar tutor on Truefire.com Massimo Varini is a name that is causing ripples outside of his native Italy. With a huge YouTube following and bestselling Guitar tutorials at home MassimoVarini is bringing his Basic Guitar Course to English speakers for the first time. With a focus on learning to read music and legions of happy students Massimo Varini?s BasicGuitar Course sets itself apart from other tutorial books on the market. Learn how to play scales chords and arpeggios how to accompany songs and the CAGED system to master the fretboard in this clear concise andeasy to follow volume.

As the cornestone for the innovative band Dream Theater John Petrucci has rapidly become one of the most respected and talked about guitarists of the '90's. He has been featured in virtually every major guitar publication worldwide and was voted Best Guitarist for 1994 in Guitar magazine and Break Through Guitarist of the Year (1993) in Guitar For the Practicing Musician magazine. This powerful and all encompassing book starts with a valuable segment on warm-ups followed by up-to-date practice concepts that address dealing with today's information explosion. John has provided detailed lessons concerning speed and accuracy using rhythmicsubdivisions chromatic exercises dynamics and scale fragments. Other topics include picking through arpeggios string skipping sweep picking legato technique and how to expand the color and texture of basic Power Chords. Also included are detailed transcriptions and demonstrations of dozens of exercises examples and special etudes ranging from easy-to-master to very challenging. All music examples are contained on the included recording and written in both standard notation and tablature. This book/CD package may be used alone or in conjuction with Jon's REH video: Rock Discipline

Get your fingers around some powerful and mind-bending rock riffs with this killer DVD. Stuart Bull introduces a veritable library of licks and techniques in the styles of Eddie Van Halen Jimmy Page Slash Zakk Wylde and other influential characters in the world of hard rock. Topics include:Picking licksLegato licksArpeggiosOctave licksTremolo bar licksTapping phrases and much more.The disc even includes a set of professional play-along tracks so you can master the licks and skills in the context of a full rock band!Set your soloing on fire with the licks and riffs that have inspired thousands of guitarists over the years.