101 Essential Riffs for Acoustic Guitar: Guitar Solo: Instrumental Tutor

60 essential riffs from some of the greatest acoustic guitar moments of all time. Includes: Angie · Annie's Song · Bus Stop · Change the World · Crash into Me · Dust in the Wind · Fire and Rain · Free Fallin' · Heaven Beside You · Here Comes the Sun · Hold My Hand · Iris · Landslide · Leader of the Band · Loser · Maggie May · Melissa · More Than Words · Name · Silent Lucidity · Wonderwall· You Were Meant for Me · and more.

Levels 1-3 Complete-Designed by John McCarthy this Master Edition combines all three levels of this award-winning series in a complete course! Learn all the essential techniques needed to play all genres of music for electric or acoustic guitar. Start with how tohold the guitar for comfortable playing and fast effective learning. Next learn picking and strumming techniques chords rhythm timing and how they are used to play popular songs. Learn melodies scales and the basics of the blues. You will alsolearn lead techniques such as hammer ons pull-offs and bends and how to put them together to play leads and riffs! Level 2 guides you to learn and apply scales such as Natural Minor Pentatonic Major and Blues scales. Learn to play the mostused chords and progressions that will have you playing hundreds of songs quickly. Level 3 gives you all the guitar knowledge to stand toe to toe with the best guitar players in the world! Learn advanced chords scales techniques andcoordination building exercise that will have you tearing up the fretboard. As an added bonus included are audio backing tracks and playing examples you can download that follow each lesson and let you apply them over full band backing tracks.

A perfect companion to the best-selling Killer Riffs! cards More Killer Riffs! presents another fifty essential acoustic rock and pop guitar riffs.The riffs are featured on easy-to-read cardswith full colour photographs and clear diagrams. Each card includes full notation in clear TAB format with images and inside info for each riff on the flipside. Ideal for guitarists of all abilities and great for teachers andstudents these flash cards are a brilliant reference for on-the-spot riffage!Riffs include: Highway to Hell (AC/DC); Master of Puppets (Metallica); Romeo and Juliet (Dire Straits); Eye of theTiger (Survivor) and many many more!

80 studies developing all aspects of Rock & Pop Guitar playing through focussed technical work. This progressive collection helps players learn and understand the many different challenges of popular Guitar playing.Written by rock & pop music experts each study concentrates on a particular style exploring the technical elements associated with it.Focussing on a huge variety of stylistic riffs finger-picking patterns speed runs palm-muting studies and many more essential guitar techniques.Each study features accompanying teaching tips and further listening ideas.Styles covered include metal the blues soul funk ska reggae disco country indie rock & roll classic rock acoustic pop and many more.Suitable for established beginner to intermediate level Guitar players.

2 - Essentials Of Fingerstyle Blues-The second in Happy Traum's tutorial series for the novice guitarist introduces you to the world of fingerstyle blues guitar. Building upon the basics established in the first DVD (Catalogue No. HL00641834) Traum's lessons will give you the skills to create bass pulses with your thumb whilst picking out the tunes and syncopations on the upper strings. The result is a rich self-accompanying sound full of groove and swing!Traum's Easy Steps method reduces these key techniques into smaller modules that can be digested quickly and easily. Through carefully constructed exercises these techniques become gradually more complex and advanced allowing your playing to growat your own pace.You will learn how to break up your chords as well as the funky 'Lightnin' Hopkins Lick'. There are shuffle and boogie-woogie basslines solo riffs scales and chord progressions all just waiting to be absorbed into your playing to develop your own unique country-blues sound.