Daniel Donato - The New Master of the Telecaster


Book Description

(Guitar Educational). This exclusive instructional book with video includes guitar lessons taught by young Nashville phenom Daniel Donato. The "New Master of the Telecaster" shows you his unique "pathways" concept, opening your mind and fingers to uninhibited fretboard freedom, increased music theory comprehension, and more dynamic solos! The video features Daniel Donato himself providing full-band performances and a full hour of guitar lessons. The book includes guitar tab for all the lessons and performances. Topics covered include: using chromatic notes * application of bends * double stops * analyzing different styles * and more.




Ultimate Shred Machine


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The ultimate guide to mastering shred guitar technique with Chris Zoupa. Forget the 'vanilla' guides and make way for the Ultimate Shred Machine! This no-nonsense guide cuts through the misinformation surrounding these techniques and teaches the essential skills to super-charge your playing.




Essential Rhythm Guitar


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(Musicians Institute Press). This book/CD pack is based on the concept that, for most popular music styles, there exist a few basic, fundamental rhythm guitar techniques and a set of appropriate chords and chord voicings that determine the sound of each style. This one-on-one lesson with MI instructor Steve Trovato teaches the rhythm guitar essentials for 7 styles: blues, rock, country, fingerstyle acoustic, Latin/Brazilian, jazz and swing, and funk. The CD features 65 full-band tracks. Includes standard notation & tab.




Aces Back to Back: The History of the Grateful Dead (1965 - 2014)


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The Dead's music reflected the people's tide of emotions and changing lives throughout the 1960s. Allen updates the Grateful Dead's history through the fall of 2013. He provides a thorough account of the Dead's career, from their inception, through the death of Jerry Garcia, and on to their incarnations over the years.




Nashville Guitar


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A complete instruction guide to Nashville country guitar. With 19 songs, in standard notation and tablature, in the styles of Maybelle Carter, Sam McGee, The Delmore Brothers, Merle Travis, Clarence White, and Doc Watson. Chapters on flat and finger-picking, lead guitar, Bluegrass, Rockabilly, Special sections on string-bending techniques and pedal steel effect; licks, riffs, double notes, shuffle rhythms and much more.




Martin Taylor Beyond Chord Melody


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Beyond Chord Melody with Martin Taylor MBE condenses over 40 years of playing expertise and insight into this beautiful jazz guitar book. Learn from the internationally acclaimed master of jazz chord melody guitar as he guides you through his 7-step method to creating your own guitar arrangements. Includes free audio and bonus video lessons




Chicago Blues Rhythm Guitar


Book Description

(Guitar Educational). As rhythm guitarist for blues legend Muddy Waters, Steady Rollin' Bob Margolin has gained invaluable experience in the art of Chicago blues rhythm guitar. And now in this exclusive and comprehensive book with video, Bob Margolin and blues author/historian Dave Rubin bring you the definitive instructional guitar method on the subject, featuring loads of rhythm guitar playing examples to learn and practice, covering a variety of styles, techniques, tips, historical anecdotes, and much more. To top it off, every playing example in the book is performed by Bob Margolin himself!




Sweep Picking Speed Strategies for Guitar


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Sweep Picking Speed Strategies for Guitar helps you master the myriad factors that affect your sweep picking technique and takes you from fundamental principles to devastating speed and extensive fretboard coverage.




The Motivic Basis for Jazz Guitar Improvisation


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A method for creating jazz lines in the style of Charlie Parker, Charlie Christian, Tal Farlow, Jimmy Raney, and others. The CD includes performance examples and backing tracks from an all-star rhythm section. Book includes dozens of essential licks and phrases in standard notation and easy-to-read guitar neck diagrams




100 Country Lessons


Book Description

(Guitar Educational). Expand your guitar knowledge with the Guitar Lesson Goldmine series! Featuring 100 individual modules covering a giant array of topics, each lesson in this Country volume includes detailed instruction with playing examples presented in standard noation and tablature. You'll also get extremely useful tips, scale diagrams, chord grids, photos, and more to reinforce your learning experience, plus audio tracks featuring performance demos of all the examples in the book! A huge variety of country guitar styles and techniques are covered, including: open-chord licks, rhythm techniques, pentatonic scales, arpeggios, double-stop licks, triple-stop licks, standard bends, pedal-steel bends, Travis picking, hybrid picking, fingerstyle country, chord embellishments, and more! The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.