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Holiday Season Gift Suggestions Guitar Instruction Books with Audio CD's |
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Book 1 provides beginning instruction which includes tuning, 1st position melody playing (strings 1-6) the C, G, G7, D7 and Em chords, rhythms through eighth notes, solos and ensembles and strumming. Added features are a chord chart and a selection of traditional songs, including Amazing Grace, Greensleeves, and When the Saints Go Marching In. The audio accompaniment features demos of several exercises with various accompaniments. Tracks include acoustic and electric examples and some played at two different speeds. Book 2 includes studies and songs in the keys of C, G, D, Em, and F, syncopations and dotted rhythms, more advanced strums, the most common 1st position chords, solos, bass runs and a variety of styles from bluegrass to blues-rock. A great selection of traditional songs including Simple Gifts, Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms, Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, and many more. Book 3 includes the chromatic scale, 16th notes, playing in positions II - III, moving chords up the neck (bar chords), finger picking, ensembles and solos, a wide variety of style studies and many excellent songs for playing and/or singing. |
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A unique supplement to any guitar method book 1. Cross-referenced with Hal Leonard Guitar Method Book 1 (see above) pages for easy student and teacher use. 20 songs, including: All My Loving / Imagine / Low Rider / Maggie May / and more! |
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Cross-referenced with Hal Leonard Guitar Method Book 2, but suitable as a supplement to any level 2 guitar method. 18 songs, including: All Shook Up / Jailhouse Rock / Ticket To Ride / King Of Pain / and more. |
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Pop supplement to guitar books level 2-3. Includes: Badge / Daniel / Eight Days A Week / Every Breath You Take / and more. |
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Basics One launches you straight into a hands-on contemporary approach to learning the basics of both guitar and music. You'll learn exciting power chords, strum patterns, riffs, guitar techniques like muting and string bending, and 12 bar blues progression. All presented with contemporary music examples and figures (from rockabilly to hard rock). In addition, you'll gain essential musical knowledge from the basics of notation (including tablature and grids), rhythm and meter and intervals transposition. Special Playing Tips and Music Builders sections further enhance your guitar and music chops! CD of Basics One is 41 minute audio accompaniment. Power Studies One is a book/CD that correlates to each chapter in Basics 1. The songbook includes 12 songs, including: Bang A Gong / Crossroads / Sweet Emotion / and more. 52-minute audio CD. |
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Basics Two gives you a more detailed look into chord shapes and single note patterns that were introduced in Basics 1. You will learn how to move shapes and patterns to create exciting leads and melodies. Learn more playing techniques such as alternate picking, finger picking and arpeggiation used by all of today's top rock and pop guitarists. You'll get shuffle and swing rhythm playing techniques essential to contemporary rhythm playing. Audio CD for Basics 2 is 44 minutes. |
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Basics Three gives you a full exploration of expanded scale and riffs patterns. More in-depth essential guitar articulations revealed. A complete treatment of open chords and scales are covered. These are essential in every type of playing from pop to country. Chapters include: Open G, A, D, E and Em chord and scale forms essential to all styles of playing; Connecting chord and scale forms used to build all types of melodies and guitar riffs. |
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Alternate tunings are an important part of today's guitar playing for any style. This book introduces you to more than 50 essential tunings needed for rock, acoustic, blues, alternative and metal styles, and features tunings accompanied by typical progressions and grooves of each, as well as performance notes. |
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Tony Rice is known world-wide for his spectacular technique, brilliant improvisation and powerful soloing. In this lesson, he personally passes on to you the style he has developed during the two decades as the top bluegrass flatpicker of his generation. In careful detail, Tony analyzes licks, runs, solos and rhythm parts to hot bluegrass songs and fiddle tunes that will challenge and delight all flatpickers. Before long you'll be picking solos to the following essential bluegrass tunes: The Red Haired Boy / Little Sadie / Your Love Is Like A Flower / Blue Railroad Train / Home From the Forest / Wildwood Flower / Old Train / Wild Horse / Jerusalem's Ridge. |
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Take a lesson in fingerstyle blues guitar from one of the world's most respected teacher / performers. All you need to know is how to play a few basic chords to get started playing along with this user-friendly book-audio CD package. Beginning with the most basic strumming of a 12-bar blues pattern, Happy Traum gradually starts adding fills, runs, turnarounds, bass rhythms and "boogie woogie" walking bass patterns that make the basic blues progression come alive. All of these elements are notated in both notes and tab. |
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A comprehensive source for learning blues guitar, designed to develop both your lead and rhythm playing. Covers all styles of blues, including Texas, Delta, R & B, early rock and roll, gospel, blues-rock and more. Includes 21 complete solos; blues chords, progressions and riffs; turnarounds; moveable scales and soloing techniques; string bending; audio with leads and full band backing; and more! |
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This method book explores shuffle, boogie and swing rhythms for guitar. Includes tab and notation, and covers Delta, country, Chicago, Kansas City, Texas, New Orleans, West Coast, and bebop blues. Included audio CD is for demonstration of each style and to jam along with! |
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Here are some of the greatest country blues solos of all time, taught in phrase-by-phrase detail. Rory Block, one of the most knowledgeable and talented exponents of this style performs and breaks down these fingerstyle pieces by Willie Moore, Blind Willie McTell, Tommy Johnson, Mississippi John Hurt, Skip James and others. |
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This book/CD pack details how to play electric guitar in a trio with bass and drums. Boogie, shuffle, and slow blues rhythms, licks, double stops, chords, and bass patterns are presented for full and exciting blues. A CD with the music examples performed by a power trio is included for play-along instruction and jamming. The music styles of Chicago and Texas bluesmen are presented along with rare photos of them with their favorite axes. |
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Play lead guitar "live" with a pro-session band on 10 tracks in the style of Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eric Clapton, Robben Ford, Jimi Hendrix, B.B. King, and more! Tips on solo construction, phrasing, scales, string bending, and vibrato. CD includes over 60 minutes with full band backing tracks. Standard notation and tablature. |
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Play lead guitar "live" with a pro-session band on 10 tracks in the style of Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eric Clapton, Robben Ford, Jimi Hendrix, B.B. King, and more! Tips on solo construction, phrasing, scales, string bending, and vibrato. CD includes over 60 minutes with full band backing tracks. Standard notation and tablature. |
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If you play rock, blues, country, pop, soul-funk, heavy metal, jazz, or folk, here are all the strumming and picking patterns you need. Over 150 patterns and nearly 100 rhythmic grooves help you cover any musical situation. Styles are cross-referenced. The book includes tablature, music, and a recording of every pattern, plus tips on equipment and effects. |
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Includes note-for-note legendary jazz performances transcribed and performed by Jack Grassel. The CD includes two versions of each song at different tempos with the rhythm section on a different channel. Includes: Satin Doll - Kenny Burrell / Tangerine - Jimmy Raney / Honeysuckle Rose - Django Reinhardt / Billie's Bounce - George Benson / Stella By Starlight - Tal Farlow / Easy Living - Johnny Smith. |
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Includes note-for-note legendary jazz performances transcribed and performed by Jack Grassel. The CD includes two versions of each song at different tempos with the rhythm section on a different channel. Includes: All The Things You Are - Hank Garland / I Hear A Rhapsody - Howard Roberts / Oleo - Pat Martino / Speak Low - Barney Kessel / When Sunny Gets Blue - George Barnes / Yesterdays - Wes Montgomery. |
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As above: This intense metal method teaches you the elements of lead guitar technique with an easy to understand approach. The heavy metal concepts, theory, and musical principals are all applied to real metal licks, runs and full compositions. |
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"This volume contains all the blistering moves, scales, chords, and rhythm charts you'll ever need..." -- Guitar School. Take an inside look at the guitar styles of bands like the Sex Pistols, The Ramones, Green Day and The Offspring. This new method teaches: common chords, progressions, solo scales and techniques, rhythms and more. The CD features 32 musical examples played out and two complete songs. Includes background info on the British, New York, and L.A. punk scenes, with rare photos. |
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42 movable scales and modes arranged over rock, shuffle, and funk grooves. Includes: the 7 fundamental modes / major, minor and pentatonic scales / diminished and whole-tone scales / the blues scale / exotic scales. |
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Here at last is the long awaited, definitive jazz guitar scale method by music legend Chuck Wayne. With a career that includes recordings with Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Woody Herman, George Shearing, and Tony Bennett, Chuck Wayne's approach to the guitar and improvisation has paved the way for a generation of guitarists. This book presents an in-depth analysis of his own highly influential developments in technique and jazz theory. Dozens of examples and exercises are featured that Chuck Wayne has found invaluable in his own teaching. |
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The ultimate source for building chops while improving your technical facility and overcoming physical barriers. Covers: alternate, economy, hybrid, and sweep picking; symetrical, chromatic, and scale exercises; arpeggios, tapping, legato, and bending sequences -- over 200 exercises in all. CD includes full demonstrations of the exercises. |
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By legendary guitarist Richard Thompson. Learn the techniques and style of traditional Irish, English and Scottish jigs, reels, hornpipes and other tunes arranged for fingerstyle guitar. On the CD, Richard explains how he uses altered tunings, string bends, vibrato as well as other techniques to give these tunes added "flavor." The book contains all of the songs and techniques written in notation and tab. |
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