Time to get excited about playing blues Guitar! This book and CD pack provide time-tested lessons covering rhythms leads slide fingerstyle shuffles boogies and so much more.This is not a method book you go straight to the meat and potatoes of Blues playing with tried and true phrases that you've heard on countless songs by the biggest blues legends.The CD contains 78 tracks so you can hear every sample.

A Step-by-Step Breakdown of Joe Satriani's Guitar Styles and Techniques-A special opportunity to learn some of Satch's greatest tunes and techniques on DVD!The songs of Joe Satriani are not simply an excuse to burn up the fretboard at breakneck speed the classic blues-inspired melodies and jazzy chord moves make for some of the best solo guitar rock of recent years. This 2-DVD set gives you the chance to learn six entire songs from start to finish with in-depth discussion of the specialist techniques and tones the guitar legend employs. Whether it's wammy-bar dive bombs of Surfin' With The Alien the eight-finger tapping of Midnight or the heartbreaking lyrical playing of Always With Me Always With You every Satriani song isa technical feat that will endlessly inform and inspire your own rock solos.

Guitar Play-Along Volume 120-The Guitar Play-Along series will help you play your favourite songs quickly and easily! Just follow the tab listen to the CD to hear how the Guitar should sound and then play along using the separate backing tracks. The melody and lyrics are also included in the book in case you want to sing or to simply help you play along.The audio CD is playable on any CD player. For PC and Mac computer users the CD is enhanced so you can adjust the recording to any tempo without changing pitch!   

Intermediate-advanced level. Contains 15 solos carefully written and edited to build technique. Ideal for solo performances and recitals this volume contains works by Joplin J.S. Bach Tarrega Arcas Mozzani Sor and others.All solos are written in notation and tablature.

With Online Audio-This comprehensive method book is best suited to an intermediate to advanced six string guitarist who is learning the seven string Guitar. Included are sections on scale and arpeggio fingerings as well as an extensive sectionon chord voicings. All examples are presented in both tablature and standard notation with diagrams also included where appropriate.The seventh string is tuned to a low A throughout. The included CD contains play-alongtracks with full rhythm section single note studies with accompaniment (in split-track format) and unaccompanied solo studies. Most examples can be played either fingerstyle or with a pick.

Here?s yet another book that should be in every serious classical and flamenco guitarist?s library; this time Ioannis Anastassakis (The Art of Rasguedo) eliminates the guesswork on how to practice and perform the tremolotechnique. The book addresses over 70 different approaches and methods to practice the tremolo with unprecedented advice from some of the greatest classical and flamenco guitarists including: Andrés Segovia John Williams SharonIsbin Christopher Parkening Pepe Romero Scott Tennant David Russell Narciso Yepes Stanley Yates Stepan Rak Juan Serrano Manolo Sanlucar Manolo Franco José Antonio Rodriguez Paco Serrano and many more. Characteristically Anastassakis presents an exhaustive analysis of the different tremolo patterns: 4-note 5-note 5-note extended melody tremolo 6-note tremolo 8-note tremolo and continuous extended tremolo. A comprehensivebibliography of classical and flamenco guitar pieces that utilize traditional and/or extended tremolo techniques is also included. Written in standard notation and tablature.

This landmark book of music for the plectrum style jazz guitar took years to compile write and edit. It contains some of the greatest solos and duets ever written and performed on the plectrum or flatpicked guitar includingworks by Carl Kress Dick McDonough George Van Eps Bucky Pizzarelli George Barnes Eddie Lang George M Smith Al Valenti Mel Bay Frank Victor Harry Volpe Carmen Mastren Oscar Moore Mundell Lowe Tony Mottola AlHendrickson and Cal Collins. All solos are in notation and tablature while the duets are shown in standard notation only.

This is an incredibly comprehensive book dealing with every harmonic and technical aspect of guitar improvising. Included are analyses of scales arpeggios picking technique chord progressions cadences and modulations. Inaddition numerous studies and exercises are contained to help you play through the concepts of being taught. The goal is technical and mental mastery of the guitar fingerboard. Tablature is included.

Never before have so many riffs been assembled in one publication The Rifftionary is the ultimate reference work for any guitarist.It’s packed with guitar trivia and The Rifftionary also features TAB for over 130 of the most famous riffs of all time.It also reveals the original guitarist’s set up together with how to recreate that sound. Also included are technical tips key lyrics and fascinating facts including the highest chart placing in the UK and US.From Led Zeppelin to The Who from Hendrix to Radiohead The Rifftionary is packed with pure riffing genius.

Media Type : Book Level : Intermediate-Advanced Musical Genre : All Styles Series : Complete Number of pages : 248 This is a very comprehensive text that combines theory, harmony and voicing material with emphasis placed on voice leading. Although this book's primary focus is on four-note chord voicings on the middle strings of the guitar, much of the knowledge conveyed here can be appreciated and used by all jazz musicians, not only guitarists. Topics covered include: Tensions, Voice Leading Chord Scales, Enharmonic Chordal Substitutions, Fourth Voicings, Chromatic Guide Lines, Triad Over Bass Voicings, and much more! The best part of this book, however, is the unique and practical way the author takes modern harmonic concepts and shows you how to apply them in real music situations! Written for the intermediate to advanced music theory enthusiast who wishes to master this facet of music.

Media Type : Book Level : Intermediate-Advanced Musical Genre : All Styles Number of pages : 384 The most in-depth, revolutionary presentation of the harmonic framework of music as applied to the guitar fingerboard ever presented. Leads to total mastery of harmonic and technical aspects of the guitar.

This is the second volume of thirteen standards arranged for solo Guitar by Barry Galbraith. Facilitating the learning experience, all chord symbols, left-hand fingering and tablature are included. There is also a companion audio download available online recorded by John Purse. Jim Hall, in his review of the first volume (Just Jazz Guitar magazine, August 2002), said, "The book starts simply and clearly and moves toward fascinating complexity and maturity - a musical life experience trip. If you don't take it, I will." Appropriate for the intermediate to advanced guitarist. Audio download available online.

Description Presents scales, chords etudes, and solo and duet arrangements in the keys of B major/G# minor, D# (E-Flat) minor, F# (G-flat) major. Includes in-depth theory notes and studies incorporating minor seventh, major seventh, dominant seventh flat-5, and dominant seventh #5 chords. Chords are presented as four-note groupings on the three sets of adjacent strings as well as in “Orchestral Forms” incorporating all six strings with some strings muted. Throughout, the author integrates theory with technique and performance. Grade 6 is an advanced text designed to develop well-rounded musician/guitarists. Written in standard notation only.