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A Complete Course-With this blues course designed by renowned guitarist John McCarthy you will develop general Guitar basics and a solid foundation for playing the blues. Learn essential blues chords scales and lead techniques like string bending vibrato and hammer-ons pull-offs. McCarthy teaches full blues scales with tri-tones the B.B. Box and how to construct a 12 bar blues progression. He challenges you to learn complete blues solos riffs and syncopated rhythm progressions. Learn the talk back effect expansion on a main theme and how to fuse jazz into blues music. Master techniques such as rakes pick and finger and advanced bending. McCarthy showsyou blues endings turnarounds melodic blues the circle of fourths slide techniques and many blues rhythms.See Hear and Apply Each Lesson:On the high density DVD find two full programs on one one disc! McCarthy teaches and illustrates each playing example through easy-to-follow close-up views of each hand. He slowly breaks down all the lessons so you can easily follow along to get the hand positions correct. The included video also allows you to hear how the examples are supposed to sound and most importantly how McCarthy applies them in a musical sense.Lifetime Web Membership for Lesson Support and Download Backing Tracks:You get free membership to The Rock House Method® support system on the web. Use the member number found inside this book to register for lifetime support at RockHouseMethod.com. Use this fully interactive Lesson Support site to download backing tracks to play the examples over enhance your learning experience link with instructors and connect with a community of people around the world who are also learning.

House of Blues Learn to Play Series-House of Blues and The Rock House Method join togther to offer this unique and comprehensive beginner keyboard program designed for someone with little or no experience. Your instructor Albert Margolis will guide you step-by-stepthrough the basic techniques that will have you playing today! You will learn proper body position how to find notes basic chords arpeggios how to use both hands togther major and minor scales and much more. Enjoy playingentire song rhythms with our exclusive full band backing tracks.Each Rock House product includes free lifetime membership to Rock House's online lesson support system. Enhance your learning experience links withinstructors download backing tracks access message boards and much more. You'll connect with a community of musicians around the world learning to play music using The Rock House Method.

House of Blues Learn to Play Series-House of Blues and The Rock House Method® join together to bring you this unique and comprehensive beginner acoustic program. Jam-packed with a complete spectrum of techniques and components that will have you playing today.The one-on-one lessons with world renowned instructor and guitarist Kevin McCreery start with the basics of holding and tuning your guitar then guide you step-by-step through chords strum patterns scales song rhythms fingerpicking and more. Play along with the included full bass and drum backing tracks. Also have fun while learning about the history and famous pioneers of acoustic guitar.Each Rock House product includes free lifetimemembership to Rock House's online lesson support system. Enhance your learning experience links with instructors download backing tracks access message boards and much more. You'll connect with a community of musicians aroundthe world learning to play music using The Rock House Method.

The Method For The New Generation Rock House-The Rock House Method makes learning music fun easy and effective. That means no more confusing explanations or mind-numbing outdated songs to learn. Rock House is a modern method that helps make learning music second nature.Millions of muisicians in more than 150 countries have already used the Rock House Method to fulfill their dream and play music. You are next!Building on the techniques learned in Book 1 Book 2 starts with natural minorand major scales single note patterns and how they connect across the neck. Learn bass techniques such as the finger drag hammer-ons pull-offs and how to apply them in bass lines. Learn the major scale formula to play them inany key root notes octaves and the notes in the 5th position. Walking bass lines sixteenth notes syncopated bass lines intervals and drop D tuning are just a few of the things covered that will help you play song progressionsand bass lines. From theory to complete songs this program will get you to the next level! Includes demonstration and play-along tracks plus a digital e-book on the enclosed MP3 CD.

The House of Blues and producers of The Rock House Method join together to bring you this unique and comprehensive blues guitar course!With this course designed by world renowned instructor/guitarist John McCarthy you will develop a solid foundation for playing blues guitar by learning essential blues chords and scales the BB Box lead techniques used by greats such as Stevie Ray Vaughan Buddy Guy and B.B. King string bending vibrato hammer-ons pull-offs and complete blues rhythms including the 12 bar blues. The second part of the course encourages you to cultivate your own style by emphasizing the techniques and components needed to developcreativity. You'll learn full form blues chords and scales triplet lead patterns the shuffle feel and swing effect challenging blues riffs and turnarounds and much more.This expanded edition features: redesigned packagingupdated 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

A Complete Course for Playing Guitar-House of Blues and producers of The Rock House Method join together to bring you this unique and comprehensive guitar course! With this course designed by world-renowned guitarist John McCarthy you will develop a solid foundation for playing acoustic and electric blues guitar by learning beginner through advanced techniques. You start with basic chords scales and proper technique training! You'll then graduate to strumming as you learn rhythm guitar learn lead guitar with bending hammer-ons and pull-offs and learn complete songs and leads. Finally you'll move onto full form chords and scales triplet lead patterns the shuffle feel and swing effect challenging blues riffs turnarounds and much more! John will encourage you to cultivate your own style by emphasizing the techniques and components needed to develop creativity. Everything is included to guide you through the process of mastering the guitar.