The ultimate guitarist's reference book with playing techniques solo and improvisation concepts exercises and jam tracks. The purpose of this book is to demystify the relatively simple concepts or tricks around which much of rock guitar is built. The book is designed modularly allowing the reader to choose any topic at any time but is can also be sequentially as a method. Topics includes warm-ups pentatonic scales bending and vibrato techniques blues scales string skipping major scales alternate picking modes economy picking (sweeping) arpeggios two-hand tapping minor scales legato techniques exotic scales whammy bar how to build a solo practice planning and improvisation. Each concept is discussed in a thorough and easily understandable manner. The accompanying CD includes over 80 licks and exercises plus more than 20 jam tracks helping the student put the concepts directly into practice. In notation and tablature.
SKU: BT.VOLMB118
ISBN 9788863881165. Italian.
SKU: M7.VOGG-365
ISBN 9783802403651. English.
This book is an introduction to rock guitar playing. Very easy, without notes, and right from scratch. In Part 1 you will learn easy basic rhythms played with a rock guitar sound. Things really get going in Part 2. You will discover the secrets of rock songs by Jimi Hendrix, Metallica, Van Halen and AC/DC. Here you can really take off. And there are riffs, solo techniques and the popular touch (tapping) style of playing. In Part 3 you will see how your guitar can be changed into a speeding rocket. There are finger exercises for the left hand and much, much more.
