The Chord Wheel – The Ultimate Tool for All Musicians
The Chord Wheel is a comprehensive tool for musicians, specifically designed for guitarists. Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned player, The Chord Wheel provides you with the necessary information to enhance your music practice and performance.
Acoustic Guitar Fingerstyle Method
In each lesson, you’ll learn new techniques, concepts, and chord voicings along with ways to practice and get them under your fingers. Audio is accessed online using the unique code in each book.
Acoustic Guitar Songs – 2nd Edition
This book with online audio features 10 complete songs in standard notation and tab, including: About a Girl * Babe, I’m Gonna Leave You * Breaking the Girl * Free Fallin’ * Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) * I’m Yours * Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) * The Scientist * Tears in Heaven * Wonderwall. The price of this book includes access to audio tracks online, for download or streaming, using the unique code instead. The audio features PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, pan left or right.
Acoustic Guitar Slide Basics
David Hamburger, leading sideman, solo performer and teacher, guides players through this complete introduction to bottleneck slide guitar playing with progressive lessons in open tunings and fingerstyle technique, tips on slide guitars and gear, technical exercises, and full songs. You can access accompanying audio examples online of all of the music played slowly, then up to tempo online. In standard notation with tablature and chord diagrams.
Beyond Strumming – Acoustic Guitar Private Lessons Series
Learn to create dynamic accompaniment parts in any setting with this ultimate guide for any guitarist who wants to go beyond playing the same patterns in song after song. Author Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers shares the secrets of effective accompaniment in any style. Through twenty easy-to-follow lessons, you’ll learn to: deepen your grooves, discover new chord shapes and picking styles; explore alternate tunings and partial capos; and more. With this book and its downloadable video files, you will expand your toolkit and develop fresh and varied guitar parts to make songs shine!
Texas Blues Guitar
Musicians Institute instructor Robert Calva covers rhythm and lead guitar in the styles of Stevie Ray Vaughan, Johnny Winter, T-Bone Walker, Freddie King and Albert Collins. He teaches: 24 common blues licks; common blues « box » positions; shuffle blues, slow blues, Latin blues and straight blues; and more. The book includes standard notation and TAB, and included audio features 34 full-band tracks. The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
Eric Johnson – Total Electric Guitar – From the Classic Hot Licks Video Series
The legendary Hot Licks guitar instruction video series is being made available in book format with online access to all of the classic video footage. This re-transcribed and edited book with online video includes guitar tab and new, accurate transcriptions. Techniques and approaches are presented in this Eric Johnson master class including the styles of Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Wes Montgomery, Chet Atkins, Jerry Reed, Jeff Beck and more. Topics covered include: picking techniques, pentatonic phrasing, left- and right-hand muting, pedal steel-style bends, unique chord voicings, harmonics, and more.
Nirvana – Fender Special Edition G-DEC Guitar Play-Along Pack
This book/SD Card series lets you play your favorite songs just like the artists who recorded them by plugging into your Fender G-DEC 3 and playing along with the sound-alike recordings. Each book features 8 songs with an SD card that includes tone presets along with high-quality backing tracks. Just follow the tab in the songbook, listen to the tracks 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 so you can sing along, too. The play-along recordings can be accessed by simply inserting the card into the G-DEC 3 amp’s card slot. In addition, custom G-DEC 3 tone presets are included so guitarists can easily enjoy playing the right guitar tones and effects for each song. Students and teachers who use G-DEC 3 amplifiers will find their lesson experience greatly enhanced by these convenient tools. SD card details: * Compatible with Fender G-DEC 3 Thirty and G-DEC 3 Fifteen amplifiers, or card reader on computer * Full-fidelity demo and play-along audio tracks (.wav format) * G-DEC 3 tone presets are included so guitarists can create the right tones and effects for each song in the book * SD card has additional storage capability allowing guitarists to save additional presets, backing tracks, phrase samples, or lessons. This volume features 8 Nirvana classics, including: All Apologies * Come As You Are * Dumb * Heart Shaped Box * In Bloom * Lithium * Rape Me * Smells like Teen Spirit.
Pickups, Windings and Magnets – … And the Guitar Became Electric
Guitar collectors rejoice! The first book to examine pickups in detail is here! Covers everything from the first experiments to classic models conceived for Rickenbacker, Gibson, Fender, Gretsch, Danelectro, Epiphone and others, with an overview of Japanese and European manufacturers. Includes a 32-page color section of the most popular models and rarities, a timeline, info on building pickups and technical specs, and biographical notes on George Beauchamp, Leo Fender, Seth Lover, Larry DiMarzio and Seymour Duncan.
Standard Tuning Slide Guitar
Standard Tuning Slide Guitar is a compilation of slide guitar techniques accumulated by author and uber-guitarist Greg Koch for over 30 years. With detailed notation and tablature for over 100 playing examples and video demonstrations, Koch demonstrates how to play convincing blues, rock, country, and gospel-tinged slide guitar while in standard tuning by using techniques and approaches that emulate common altered slide tunings, such as open E or open G. Drawing from a well of influences, from Blind Willie Johnson and Elmore James to Duane Allman and Sonny Landreth, Greg will show you how to create these slide guitar sounds in standard tuning while also providing ideas to inspire the development of your own style.