Acoustic Guitar Primer Book for Beginners


Book Description

The Acoustic Guitar Primer Book for Beginners with Online Video & Audio Access is a step by step lesson was designed to take the beginner through the basics of learning how to play the guitar, including rhythm and lead playing. The student starts off by learning beginning concepts like parts of the guitar, proper playing position, strumming, chords, and how to read guitar tabs. Later you will learn how to play easy songs and then more advanced techniques. The course includes a complete chord chart, an hour of video instruction, and all music is written in both standard music notation and tablature with lyrics and melody lines. TheAudio Tracks contain 18 songs played at three speeds each along with an acoustic band, including vocals. These songs include Tom Dooley, Worried Man Blues, Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms, Dark Hollow, Amazing Grace, Pallet On Your Floor, Way Downtown, Wabash Cannonball, and others.




Bass Guitar Primer


Book Description

The most complete and easy to understand beginning bass method available today. It includes many illustrations showing correct left and right hand technique. Styles include alternating bass notes, two beat, eighth notes, walking patterns, common rock and roll riffs, and complete discussion of theory as it applies to the bass. Comes with an audio CD that features a full band (bass, drums, guitar, keyboard, and vocals). All music is written in both standard music notation and tablature.




Bass Guitar Primer Book for Beginners


Book Description

Bass Guitar Primer Book for Beginners with Online Video & Audio Access by Bert Casey is the most complete and easy to understand beginning bass method available today. These beginner lessons cover correct left & right hand technique as well as parts of the bass, alternating bass notes, two beat, eighth notes, walking patterns, common rock & roll riffs, and complete discussion of theory as it applies to the bass. After learning how to play notes, you will move on to the songbook portion of the course and start learning how to play simple patterns and easy songs like Johnny B. Goode and La Bamba. Playing along with a full band to 13 different songs helps the student work on their rhythm along with learning the basics of playing bass guitar. This course includes video instruction and audio tracks that can also be accessed online. - Watch & Learn, Inc.




Complete Acoustic Guitar Method: Mastering Acoustic Guitar


Book Description

This, the third book of a power-packed series, begins with exercises for developing speed and agility. Techniques such as machine gun strums, right-hand muting, slapping, tapping, slap harmonics and tremolo are introduced. You'll go further into Celtic music, blues, modal improvisation and alternate tunings and learn some world music styles, such as reggae, African/Brazilian, norteno and conjunto. This in-depth, thorough method for intermediate to advanced acoustic guitarists includes a look at more than ten alternate tunings and teaches analysis, counterpoint and voice leading. Any player, no matter how advanced, can improve their playing with this book.




Flatpicking Guitar Songs Book


Book Description

The clearest, most complete book on the market showing the secrets of playing bluegrass lead guitar and is the followup course to the Acoustic Guitar Primer Book. Includes exciting, accurate arrangements to popular songs and is written in both tablature and standard music notation. There are 29 breaks for 12 songs, and each break is played both slow and fast on the CD. The book features bluegrass songs that utilize several different chords and keys.




Bass Guitar Primer Deluxe Edition


Book Description

Bass Guitar Primer Deluxe Edition Book/DVD/CD by Bert Casey is the most complete and easy to understand beginning bass method available today. It includes many illustrations showing correct left & right hand technique. Styles include alternating bass notes, two beat, eighth notes, walking patterns, common rock & roll riffs, and complete discussion of theory as it applies to the bass. All music is written in both standard music notation and tablature. It comes with an audio CD that features a full band (bass, drums, guitar, keyboard, & vocals) playing 19 popular songs. It also includes a 60 minute DVD showing the exact position of the left and right hands with on screen tablature and a moving pointer showing the music note by note. This is the complete package for the beginner.




Metal Guitar Method Book


Book Description

Metal Guitar Method guides the beginning student on a journey through the art and technique of metal guitar. This comprehensive method starts with the basics like proper playing position and reading tab and then progresses to power chords, playing scales, sweep picking, drop tuning, and finger tapping. Through the course of learning to play 24 original songs along with a real band, Matthias will teach you the concepts and techniques that every metal guitar god uses. This 96 page book includes a DVD with 2.5 hours of video instruction. $19.95




Mandolin Primer Book for Beginners Deluxe Edition with DVD and 2 Jam CDs


Book Description

The Mandolin Primer Book For Beginners Deluxe Edition with DVD & 2 Jam CDs by Bert Casey is designed for the beginning mandolin student who desires an easy to follow, step by step instruction method for getting started on the mandolin. Starting with the basics, the student will learn the parts of the mandolin, left & right hand technique and playing scales. Later you will learn how to play 12 popular bluegrass songs using techniques such as hammer-ons, slides, pull-offs, and double stops. The course also includes a section on how to play rhythm on the mandolin (the famous mandolin "chop"). All exercises and songs and demonstrated at three speeds on the DVD. In addition, this course includes 2 Jam CDs where each of the songs is played along with a bluegrass band at 5 different speeds.




Teach Yourself to Play Guitar


Book Description

"This book provides a quick, effective, un-complicated, and practical method to playing guitar. Get started right away and learn at your own pace in the comfort of your home."




The Guitarist's Scale Book


Book Description

A complete scale encyclopedia for guitar with over 400 scales and modes. It contains scale diagrams with notation and tablature for each scale and tips on how and when to use each scale. Our ScaleFinder System, using icons and letters, makes scale finding easy. It also contains outside jazz scales, exotic scales, Peter's own CrossStringing scales, and easy to understand explanation of scales and modes. This is the only scale book you'll ever need.