Ultimate Heavy Metal Guitars


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Ultimate Heavy Metal Guitars profiles 80+ heavy metal guitarists from the 1970s to today, featuring performance photography and an authoritative text detailing the careers and gear of each.




Mammoth Metal Guitar Tab Anthology


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(Guitar Recorded Versions). Shred your axe and thrash your big hair through the air with this jam-packed collection of metal favs in note-for-note guitar trancriptions with tab. Songs include: Ace of Spades * Bark at the Moon * Breaking the Law * Crazy Train * Dying in Your Arms * Enter Sandman * Hail to the King * Iron Man * Master of Puppets * No More Tears * Painkiller * Redneck * Symphony of Destruction * Toxicity * War Pigs (Interpolating Luke's Wall) * Your Betrayal * and more.




The 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists


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The 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists is a controversial and much-needed guide to the world of metal guitar, featuring the most accomplished performers from the vast legions of metal. As well as celebrating the classic metal musicians who have defined the scene since the 1970s, author Joel McIver delves deep into the modern thrash metal, death metal, black metal, doom metal, power metal and battle metal movements to unearth those players for whom no tremolo divebomb is too high and no tuning is too low.This book is no mere list for geeks, though. McIver's objective in writing this book is to recognise the incredible skills that these players possess. Moreover, although they're all masters of sweep picking, fretboard tapping and the other tricks of the modern shredder, these players are far from simple speed freaks: The 100 Greatest... makes a point of featuring players whose feel and instinct for the values of metal outweigh mere technical mastery. If you've ever wielded a tennis rack in anger in front of a bedroom mirror, or even if you're a metal musician yourself, you need this book: the world of the overdriven guitar will never look the same again.




Ultimate Star Guitars


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First published in 2010, Ultimate Star Guitars, the first illustrated history of ticonic guitars and their owners, is now expanded to include 32 additional instruments. Where other best-selling guitar histories look at the rank-and-file models, Ultimate Star Guitars is unique in profiling the specific favorites of famous players - oftentimes million-dollar babies, such as the 1968 Stratocaster that Jimi Hendrix burned at Woodstock and which sold at Sotheby's in 1993 for $1.3 million. Guitar journalist Dave Hunter explains the stories behind each: the important sessions on which they were used, landmark tours and gigs on which they were played, modifications made by their owners, and more. From twangy country to scorching metal, from full-throttle punk to sophisticated jazz, and from gut-punch blues to lo-fi indie rock, Ultimate Star Guitars is illustrated with performance and candid photography of the artists with their star guitars, relevant memorabilia, and more often than not, studio shots of the guitars or signature models based on them. An information-packed visual feast for guitar enthusiasts!




Shredding Death Metal Guitar: Extreme Technique Meets Metal Guitar, Book & Online Audio [With CD (Audio)]


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"Features: Techniques, scales, modes, patterns and sequences for death metal guitarists ; Sample riffs in the styles of Death, Opeth, Meshuggah, and more! ; Covers classic, melodic, and progressive death metal ; Detailed breakdown of picking styles, including alternate, tremolo, sweep, economy, and cross picking ; Lessons in bending, tapping, pick harmonics, string crossing, rhythm, and odd time signatures. Includes CD with over 50 minutes of authentic and powerful demonstrations." -- front cover.




Guitar Tone


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This book explores all the guitar gear and examines the approaches famous players take to achieve their distinctive tones--vintage and new, boutique and mainstream, modern and retro. Along the way, "Guitar Tone" attempts to sort out the facts versus the myths versus the opinions and explores how each component contributes to the overall tone of our guitars and other gear.




Rock Discipline


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As the cornerstone for the innovative band Dream Theater, John Petrucci has rapidly become one of the most respected and talked about guitarists of the '90's. He has been featured in virtually every major guitar publication worldwide and was voted "Best Guitarist for 1994" in "Guitar" magazine and "Break Through Guitarist of the Year (1993)" in "Guitar For the Practicing Musician" magazine. This powerful and all encompassing book starts with a valuable segment on warm-ups followed by up-to-date practice concepts that address dealing with today's information explosion. John has provided detailed lessons concerning speed and accuracy using rhythmic subdivisions, chromatic exercises, dynamics and scale fragments. Other topics include picking through arpeggios, string skipping, sweep picking, legato technique and how to expand the color and texture of basic "power chords." Also included are detailed transcriptions and demonstrations of dozens of exercises, examples and special etudes ranging from easy-to-master to very challenging. All music examples are contained on the included recording and written in both standard notation and tablature. Book jacket.




Ultimate Heavy Rock Guitar Collection


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Warner Bros. Publications' new Ultimate Guitar Collection series is an incredible value and a tremendous resource. Each book contains more than 40 complete note-for-note guitar transcriptions -- approximately 200 pages in each book! A huge collection from Alien Ant Farm, Deftones, Disturbed, Fuel, Godsmack, Kid Rock, Korn, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Oleander, Pantera, Puddle of Mudd, Sevendust, and Staind. Titles are: Are You There? * Awake * Back to School * Bad Religion * Blurry * Break Stuff * Change (In the House of Flies) * Control * Down with the Sickness * Drift & Die * Epiphany * Falling Away from Me * For You * Hemorrhage * Here to Stay * I Stand Alone * In the End * It's Been Awhile * Last Time * Live Again * My Way * Nookie * Only God Knows Why * Outside * Points of Authority * Praise * Re-arranged * Revolution Is My Name * Smooth Criminal * Stupify * Voodoo.




Shredding Acoustic Guitar: Heavy Metal Meets the Acoustic Guitar, Book & CD


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Tap into the purity of the acoustic guitar while you put the pedal to the metal and SHRED! Master shredder Joshua Craig Podolsky covers all the most important techniques and concepts, including shred rhythms, how to develop speed and dexterity, scales and fingerings, patterns and sequences, arpeggios, chromaticism, and tremolo picking. He also provides lots of fun examples, licks, and etudes to play in standard music notation and TAB. Easy-to-read neck diagrams make learning scales and arpeggios effortless. Joshua's approach encourages the player to focus on technique, phrasing, and other musical concepts that might otherwise get lost when playing a distorted, effects-laden electric guitar. The accompanying CD features inspiring demonstrations played with jaw-dropping speed. Shredding Acoustic Guitar is a must-have for any serious shredder and will lead you to pure and straightforward shredding on the acoustic guitar that will impress musicians and audiences alike. Features: * Loads of scales, modes, patterns, and sequences designed specifically for the acoustic guitar * Amazing arpeggios and licks * Lots of acoustic shredding tips * Blazing chromatic lines and etudes * Tremolo picking with one-string modal scales * How to develop speed and dexterity "Joshua Craig Podolsky's book gives players at all levels the opportunity to enhance their knowledge of theory and also discover some new things. Josh's book will play an important role in helping young guitarists to develop their own unique style as players and songwriters."---K. K. Downing (Lead guitarist, Judas Priest) "Josh is an extremely versatile guitarist and captivating songwriter. This book lays out the methods he uses to help guitarists at any stage become more proficient at their craft."---David Ellefson (Bassist, Megadeth) About the Author An in-demand session musician, teacher, composer, and producer, Joshua Craig Podol




Heavy Metal Bass Guitar


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