Beginning Slide Guitar

Essential slide guitar patterns all great guitarists know and use. With this book you can play lead and rhythm anywhere on the fretboard in a variety of styles and open tunings. Easy-to-follow diagrams and instructions are included for beginning intermediate and advanced players.

This course is a fun easy way for a beginning to intermediate guitarist to learn how to play the blues. You'll learn blues chord progressions as well as a variety of blues strumming and picking patterns.This course alsopresents basic blues scales lead Guitar techniques and combination rhythm and lead playing. The basics of slide Guitar and open tuning are also covered.No music reading is required for this course but the student shouldunderstand basic chords and strumming as taught in Mel Bay's Anyone Can Play Guitar Volume 1 video. This method was created and is taught by Vern Juran who has an extensive background in teaching and performingblues music.

Recognized for over 50 years as the best-paced and most-thorough guitar method available, Alfred's Basic Guitar Method has introduced over 5 million beginners to playing guitar. Now, Alfred's Basic Rock Guitar Method provides a new approach to learning guitar for beginners who want to play rock.Book 2 features new techniques like hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, and teaches you barre chords, new scales, and how to improvise with pentatonic scales. There are many more licks and melodies in the styles of many of the greatest rock artists, and an authentic arrangement of the opening from Led Zeppelin's 'Stairway to Heaven.' Companion audio tracks that can be downloaded or streamed online are included with the book, so you'll have everything you need in one place. The included DVD is newly updated and features video lessons, MP3 audio tracks, and you can also download the TNT 2 software which lets you slow down tracks, isolate and loop parts, and change tempos and keys for customized practice. Learning to play has never been easier or more fun than with the Alfred's Basic Guitar series---the best choice for beginning guitarists. / Guitare

Recognized for over 50 years as the best-paced and most-thorough guitar method available, Alfred's Basic Guitar Method has introduced over 5 million beginners to playing guitar. Now, Alfred's Basic Rock Guitar Method provides a new approach to learning guitar for beginners who want to play rock.Book 2 features new techniques like hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, and teaches you barre chords, new scales, and how to improvise with pentatonic scales. There are many more licks and melodies in the styles of many of the greatest rock artists, and an authentic arrangement of the opening from Led Zeppelin's 'Stairway to Heaven.' The DVD includes video lessons, live performances of all the examples, and MP3 play-along tracks for practice. Learning to play has never been easier or more fun than with Alfred's Basic Guitar Method---the best choice for beginning guitarists. / Guitare

This book is designed to be useful for guitarists at any skill level. Beginners can use it as an introduction to the foundational concepts of the instrument intermediate players can use it for training and theoretical work and advanced players can explore the sections on advanced theory extended technique and the exhaustive tables of melodic and rhythmic possibilities. It is divided into two parts: pitch and rhythm.Part 1 (pitch) begins withthe properties of string harmonics and tuning systems. It then moves methodically through pitch information beginning with locating all versions of a single pitch building pentatonic heptatonic and all possible symmetricalscales. This is followed by a study of intervals with all possible locations of every two pitches and a long study that moves through every possible fingering of three pitches with a series of exercises to master triadicsyntax. Part 1 closes with a study of four-pitch structures and complete tables that show all possible pitch sets in circular visual notation.Part 2 (rhythm) begins with a complete course in 'Symmetrical Picking ' a methodbased on drum rudiments that builds control in the picking hand through an exhaustive variety of movements. The focus of this section is building a strong rhythmic foundation with a focus on efficiency accuracy speed dynamics and groove. It is followed by a study of legato playing working with ornaments and slides. The study of playing with fingers on multiple strings takes up the remainder of the book. This begins with the study of pulse againstpulse playing two simultaneous tempos.The book concludes with a study of polyrhythm playing one rhythm against another. Plain English is used as much as possible to describe theoretical concepts and hundreds ofillustrations were made for the book as an aid to those who either don't speak English or prefer to think visually. This approach is designed to be inclusive and to promote creative practice. The main idea of the book is described

In Spanish and Vestapol Tunings-The use of open tunings on the guitar to accompany singing is one of the hallmark sounds of the Country Blues. Unquestionably the two open tunings that have been used most commonly in the Country Blues have been Spanish tuning often called Open G tuning and Vestapol tuning quite often called Open D tuning. For this 2-DVD lesson we've chosen the names Spanish and Vestapol to designate these tunings because in practice Spanish tuning was not always tuned exactly to an open G chord and Vestapol tuning was not always tuned to an open D chord.Each one of these tunings represents its own sort of sound universe but what is really interesting to hear is the different approaches that different players took to the same tunings and the different sounds that resulted. In each of these tunings you'll encounter players whose approach was so melody-driven that it ends up sounding almost like slide guitar played without a slide and at the opposite end of the spectrum high concept chordally sophisticated arrangements. We've purposely chosen the songs that are taught on the lesson to encompass as much of that sound spectrum as possible.On Disc 1 the Spanish tuning lesson we start by presenting an overview to the tuning how it is set up and where the foundational chord positions needed to play Country Blues in that tuning are located. Then we launch into the repertoire: Elizabeth Cotten's serene rendition of the hymn When I Get Home Mississippi John Hurt's danceable Boys You're Welcome Teddy Darby's hypnotic Built Right On The Ground Clifford Gibson's uptown Bad Luck Dice Mance Lipscomb's ancient-sounding Willie Poor Boy and Kenny Baker's haunting Legend of the Whistling Brakeman.On Disc 2 the Vestapol tuning lesson we begin with the an overview that provides the sound of the tuning the approach that is best suited to it and the

Alfred's Basic Guitar Method, Book 3 builds on the skills learned in Books 1 and 2. Learn new concepts and techniques like sixteenth notes, arpeggios, slides, bends, hammer-ons, and pull-offs. For the first time, companion audio tracks that can be downloaded or streamed online are included with the book, so you'll have everything you need in one place. Recognized for over 50 years as the best-paced and most comprehensive guitar method available, Alfred's Basic Guitar Method has introduced over five million beginners to the joy of playing guitar. Correlating theory, chord, and pop books provide everything you need from one complete method. Learning to play has never been easier or more fun than with Alfred's Basic Guitar Method---the first and best choice for today's beginning guitar students. / Guitare

Learning the Blues Has Never Been So Easy! Have you always wanted to play the blues? Authentic blues? Realize your dream of becoming a great blues guitarist with Alfred's Learn to Play Blues Guitar---the simple, straightforward, and effective way to learn the blues. Whether you are a beginning guitarist or an advanced player just getting into the style, start playing real blues music right away through easy-to-understand instructions and great-sounding examples. The first part of this book and video covers blues rhythm playing. Learn over 50 blues rhythm patterns, including medium shuffle, uptown blues, slow blues, blues-rock, mambo, and more. The second part covers blues lead guitar. Start with learning basic soloing techniques---such as slides, hammer-ons, pull-offs, bending, vibrato, and rakes---then dive right in by playing 18 great blues solos in the styles of legends like Eric Clapton, Albert Collins, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Albert King, and B. B. King. Features: * All examples include standard music notation and TAB * Every lesson and music example is clearly demonstrated on the video by noted educator Steve Trovato * MP3 accompaniment tracks to hone your skills as a blues lead guitarist / Guitare

The First and Only Beginning Guitar Method of Its Kind!This is the guitar method students and teachers have been waiting for. Learn single notes with riffs like ?Day Tripper? and ?Crazy Train ?power chords withclassics by AC/DC and the Who strumming with songs from Neil Young and Nirvana and much more. The methods unique well-paced and logical teaching sequence will get students playing more easily than everbefore and music from popular artists likethe Beatles Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin will keep them playing and having fun. Book 1 includes: parts of the guitar easy-to-follow guitar tablature notes

The Ideal Package for the total Beginner-If you're an absolute beginner this book/DVD is for you. On the DVD guitar instructor Jeff Bihlman is your personal guide to playing chords riffs and solos so that you can rock out on the world's coolest instrument - the guitar. You'll learn how to: hold the guitar â?¢ tune the guitar â?¢ read chord diagrams and tablature â?¢ strum â?¢ play chord progressions â?¢ make the guitar talk with bends slides and vibrato â?¢ play solo â?¢ play barre chords â?¢ and so much more! All lessons are presented both in the book and on the DVD.