The Serious Guitarist -- Rock Chops: A Technique-Building Approach for the Dedicated Guitarist, Book & MP3 CD


Book Description

Great musical ideas need a solid foundation of strong chops to back them up. Fill the gaps in your technique with this unique approach to rock guitar. Build your finger strength, flexibility, and independence with exercises and examples written especially for rock players. This book explores all the important soloing techniques such as speed picking, sweeping, tapping, harmonics, scale sequencing, and more. Develop your chops while practicing exercises in the style of the music you enjoy. The Serious Guitarist: Rock Chops provides the tools you need to become a better guitar player, but more importantly, it will help you become a better musician. The included companion MP3 CD features demonstrations of the examples in the book.




The Serious Guitarist -- Blues Chops


Book Description

Great musical ideas need a solid foundation of strong chops to back them up. Fill the gaps in your technique with this unique approach to blues guitar. Build your finger strength, flexibility, and independence with exercises and examples written especially for blues players. This book includes exercises to help you master bending, shuffle rhythm patterns, turnarounds, blues trills, and more. Develop your chops while practicing exercises in the style of the music you enjoy. The Serious Guitarist: Blues Chops provides the tools you need to become a better guitar player, but more importantly, it will help you become a better musician. The included companion MP3 CD features demonstrations of the examples in the book.




The Serious Guitarist -- Jazz Chops


Book Description

Great musical ideas need a solid foundation of strong chops to back them up. Fill the gaps in your technique with this unique approach to jazz guitar. Build your finger strength, and flexibility with exercises and examples written especially for jazz players. This book covers the finger independence needed for smooth, rapid changes between complex jazz chords in the context of important progressions, such as ii-V-I. Develop your chops while practicing exercises in the style of the music you enjoy. The Serious Guitarist: Jazz Chops provides the tools you need to become a better guitar player, but more importantly, it will help you become a better musician. The included companion MP3 CD features demonstrations of the examples in the book.




Rock Chops for Guitar


Book Description

Great musical ideas need great chops to back them up. Build your finger strength, flexibility and independence with these exercise books from one of America's leading guitar schools. Rock Chops deals with all the important soloing techniques, such as speed picking, sweeping, tapping, harmonics, scale sequencing and so on. Develop your chops practicing exercises in the style of music you enjoy! The CD includes the exercises.




Complete Rock Guitar Method Complete Edition


Book Description

A comprehensive guide to playing rock guitar offers beginning concepts, intermediate topics, and advanced techniques, along with a MP3 CD with over three hours of music demonstrating the examples in the book.




Essential Rock Guitar Techniques


Book Description

(Guitar Educational). If you want to be a serious rock guitarist and sound authentic, there are some things you simply must know. What would a Metallica riff be without the palm mute? Or how would a Van Halen solo sound without the tapping? Can you imagine hearing a version of Z.Z. Top's "Tush" or Joe Walsh's "Life's Been Good" without that signature slide guitar? Essential Rock Guitar Techniques teaches you all of these skills with carefully crafted exercises and inspiring musical examples, nearly all of which are featured on the accompanying audio. If you're tired of faking through your favorite rock songs because you've always neglected to learn that one special technique, you need this book. Stop skipping over the intricate details and start sounding like a seasoned professional! The accompanying audio features 96 tracks with over 275 examples.




How to Build Guitar Chops


Book Description

(Guitar Educational). If there's one thing that practically all guitarists have experienced at one time or another, it's the disappointment that comes from not being able to play something. This is nothing new, of course, and there's only one way through it practice, practice, practice! The only problem is that sometimes it's difficult to know exactly what to practice. That's where this book comes in. Written with the real-world player in mind, How to Build Guitar Chops seeks to prove that technique can actually be fun and musical! The price of this book includes access to audio online, for download or streaming, using the unique code inside. Includes PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, pan left or right.




Shred Is Not Dead


Book Description

Master shredder Terry Syrek makes it easy to become a rock lead-guitar virtuoso. Discover monster chop-building exercises and the secret to mind-bending, super-fast, sweep-picking licks. Plus, make creative use of the pentatonic scale and other scales you wouldn't necessarily think of using. 48 pages. DVD running time: 60 minutes.




Complete Rock Guitar Method


Book Description

If you have completed Beginning Rock Guitar and Intermediate Rock Guitar, this is your best next step. Mastering Rock Guitar is perfect for guitarists who have been playing for a while and are ready to expand their knowledge and technique. The book contains in-depth lessons on pentatonic extensions, the major and harmonic minor scales, arpeggios, intervals, and chords derived from scales and modes. Exercises extend technical abilities to include legato playing, speed picking, tapping, sweep-picking and bending. All music is shown in standard notation and TAB, and the CD demonstrates the examples in the book. 96 pages.




Complete Rock Guitar Method


Book Description

Perfect for beginning guitarists as well as players who want to enhance their knowledge, this volume covers basic rock theory, essential left-hand techniques, power chords, rhythm guitar, and how to improvise with the pentatonic scale. Includes licks in the styles of rock greats like Chuck Berry, Van Halen, Led Zeppelin and others. The most thorough book for beginning rock students! All music is shown in standard notation and TAB, and the CD demonstrates each example in the book. 96 pages.