Creative Guitar Mastery


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"A practical approach to mastering the entire fretboard of the guitar in a very natural and practical way. Nurtures the discovery and development of the learners unique creative voice. Includes an Audio CD with over 1 hour of music for the learner to play along with applying the learning in the book. This book and the CD read like a complete course in mastering the guitar fretboard, plus lays the foundation to further mastery of even more important concepts to the practicing guitarist."




Super Chops


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Creative Shred Guitar Exercises


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If you're stuck in a rut with your rock guitar soloing, Shred legend Chris Zoupa is here to set you straight. Creative Shred Guitar Exercises is an eccentric collection of Zoupa's most devilish shred guitar ideas - all lovingly crafted to sharpen every area of your modern rock guitar technical skills. You'll discover 100 fun, creative and outlandish exercises that will improve your abilities and equip you to tackle any soloing situation. Every musical example is focused on the four essential areas of picking, legato, sweeping and tapping... ... and each discipline is stretched to breaking point with exciting and left-field exercises to unleash your inner virtuoso. Break Out of the Box and Break That Rut! If you're sick of playing the same old clichéd licks, or have an over-reliance on "pure technique", Zoupa has the antidote with this set of 100 creative drills that isolate your technique and get you creative in any guitar soloing situation. Chromatic and whole tone exercises to build clean execution Ascending and descending diminished patterns that add tension to your playing Finger independence workouts to help you play anything on guitar Major 7th, tritone and augmented combos to add unique depth to your solos String skipping and odd-grouping drills to add exciting melodic leaps and rhythms Pentatonic shred ideas that go way beyond the ordinary Go Way Beyond the Diatonic and Harmonic Concepts of the Masters You'll also get to drill shred sequences that take inspiration from iconic guitarists and quickly learn to create your own takes on... Triplet and string-changing monster runs in the style of Paul Gilbert and Buckethead Epic Hirajoshi Pentatonic sequences in the style of Trivium and Cacophony No-nonsense Neo-classical picking workouts a la Yngwie Malmsteen Futuristic, spacey intervallic lines reminiscent of Steve Vai and Tosin Abasi Joe Satriani and Guthrie Govan-style licks to make diatonic legato sound cool and fresh But there's more! You'll also discover: Josh Middleton's (Sylosis) astonishing "legato arpeggio" style Greg Howe-style arpeggio runs and hammer-ons from nowhere Amazing sweep sequences in the style of Jason Becker and Jason Richardson The arpeggio, chromatic and pentatonic tapping approaches of Synyster Gates and Rusty Cooley Creative Guitar Technique You've Been Craving Creative Shred Guitar Exercises quickly helps you master the challenging techniques used by today's virtuoso guitarists, and presents them all in Chris Zoupa's hilariously irreverent teaching style that's loved by millions on YouTube. Open your ears to 100 incredible new possibilities in rock guitar soloing, but be warned... don't forget your safe word!




Guitar Looping - The Creative Guide


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Guitar looping, the creative guide is here to answer your questions and teach you countless ways to make music with your looper pedal.




Rock Guitar Mode Mastery


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Chris Zoupa's straightforward guide to guitar modes for rock, shred and metal. Learn how to make great music with the modes and avoid cliched, boring scales. Learn licks in the style of Kirk Hammett, Michael Paget, Slash, Alexi Laiho, Paul Gilbert and many more!




Creative Guitar 1


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(Music Sales America). This series of three books aim to provide frustrated rock guitarists with new directions to explore their art. Armed with the accompanying CD, featuring detailed examples of pentatonic patterns, minor arpeggios and backing tracks, you will be able to do much more than simply learn solos and licks note for note. This book also contains a thorough explanation of music theory.




The Christopher Parkening Guitar Method - Volume 1


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(Guitar Method). This premier method for the beginning classical guitarist, by one of the world's pre-eminent virtuosos and the recognized heir to the legacy of Andres Segovia, is now completely revised and updated! Guitarists will learn basic classical technique by playing over 50 beautiful classical pieces, 26 exercises and 14 duets, and through numerous photos and illustrations. The method covers: rudiments of classical technique, note reading and music theory, selection and care of guitars, strategies for effective practicing, and much more!




Guitarist's Guide to Scales Over Chords


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(Guitar Educational). Lots of guitar players know several scales, but how many really know what to do with them? With Guitarist's Guide to Scales Over Chords , you'll learn how to apply the most commonly used scales in a musical manner. This book examines how scales and chords are closely linked and how this relationship is key to crafting memorable, intelligent solos. If you've been stuck in a pentatonic rut, or you feel that you're constantly relying on the same old patterns, this is the book for you! The book covers 14 scales in detail, and the audio features 99 tracks, including 15 backing track progressions for practice.




High Intensity Guitar Technique


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The Ultimate Guide To Modern Guitar Technique Are you in awe of the worlds best guitarists wondering just how do they do it? Are you dreaming of being able to play mind-blowing guitar but just don't know where to start? The High Intensity Guitar Technique series is the ultimate guide for guitarists that want to expand their technical ability. In this complete volume, you get all three books from this indispensable course that will take you from the foundations of proper technique to the stratospheric heights of virtuoso playing. You save 20% on the price of the individual books when you buy all three in this edition. Here's what's in this encyclopedia of modern guitar technique 450 pages of technical guitar mastery that focuses on the main areas of contemporary playing, including Legato, Alternate Picking, Sweep Picking, Economy picking, string bending and vibrato. 489 notated examples, written in a combination of guitar tab and standard notation, all accompanied by a detailed explanation and downloadable mp3 files so you can hear exactly how to perform each one. Supporting video tutorials that show you exactly how to perform concepts the right way. Fretboard diagrams, licks, backing tracks and etudes that expand upon the notated examples to keep you learning, practising and improving for years. Detailed practice programs to suit every schedule for every type of learner, with essential advice on how to build speed, fluidity and maintain your technique. With 450 jam-packed pages full of top quality resources, this indispensable course is the most comprehensive course on guitar technique ever written. It might just be the only one you will ever need. High Intensity Guitar Technique Book one - teaches you the foundations of proper guitar technique. You will learn how to correctly perform hammer-ons, pull-offs, mute unwanted string noise and bend strings accurately for a pure tone. You will learn the differences between alternate and sweep picking, understand the correct way to use tapping and learn the fundamental scales and arpeggios for implementing these ideas in different keys. High Intensity Guitar Technique Book 2 - takes your playing to a professional level, improving your technique with advanced pentatonic and modal playing, and superior string crossing and picking mechanics. Youll learn how to use tapping to extend the legato technique, neo-classical style sweeping and more. Book 2 contains licks and backing tracks that will allow you to implement your pro-level of skill. High Intensity Guitar Technique 3 - takes your playing up to virtuoso level. You will learn how players like Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Yngwie Malmsteen, Allan Holdsworth and hordes of others have taken guitar technique to the extreme. You'll learn the most impressive ideas for the four main areas of guitar technique in fours stages, so your learning is progressive and continually gets results. The four included etudes at the end of the book will keep your playing skills honed to an extremely high level. These three books combine to make the ultimate guitar technique course, buy now to save 20% on the price of the individual books and take your playing to the next level.




Creative Chordal Harmony for Guitar


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Jazz guitarist Goodrick teams with Miller to explain his system of Generic Modality Compression, a way of studying harmony which allows guitarists to discover fresh and unusual chord voicings. With an introduction and appendix.