Guitar World Presents Steve Vai S Guitar Workout

(Guitar Educational). Steve Vai reveals his path to virtuoso enlightenment with two challenging guitar workouts, which include scale and chord exercises, ear training, sight-reading, music theory and much more. These comprehensive workouts are reprinted by permission from Guitar World magazine.

(Guitar Recorded Versions). 24 note-for-note transcriptions spanning Vai's career, including: The Attitude Song * The Audience Is Listening * Bad Horsie * Big Trouble * Building the Church * The Crying Machine * Die to Live * Eugene's Trick Bag * For the Love of God * Gravity Storm * Hand on Heart * Head Cuttin' Duel * I Would Love To * Jibboom * Juice * K'm-Pee-Du-Wee * Lotus Feet * Now We Run * The Story of Light * Tender Surrender * Touching Tongues * Viv Woman * Whispering a Prayer * Yankee Rose.

(Guitar Educational). Experience must-know music knowledge and wisdom through the highly focused lens of legendary guitar virtuoso Steve Vai. This full-color instructional book written by Vai himself features in-depth discussions of the music theory fundamentals that every aspiring (and veteran) guitar player should know, packed with practical exercises, diagrams, tips, inspiring ideas and concepts, practice methods, and ways of looking at music that you may have never considered. Topics covered include: academic vs. experiential learning * reading and writing music * key signatures * chord scales * rhythm basics * guitar harmonics * modes * and much more.

(Guitar Recorded Versions). From one of the world's truly great guitarists, this book is a matching folio to his acclaimed solo album - all edited by Steve himself! Complete with color photos and an introduction by Steve. Includes 14 songs: Liberty * The Animal * For the Love of God * I Would Love To * and more. Also includes complete drum transcriptions for 'Liberty' and 'Answers.' A must for any Vai fan!

(Guitar Recorded Versions). This songbook matches Diamond Dave's first full-length album featuring Steve Vai, Billy Sheehan, and Gregg Bissonette as his back-up band. 10 songs, including: Big Trouble * Elephant Gun * Goin' Crazy * Ladies' Nite in Buffalo? * Shy Boy * Tobacco Road * Yankee Rose * and more.

(Guitar Collection). Guitar World picked 'em, and now you can play 'em thanks to this collection of 100 must-know guitar leads transcribed note for note! This unique book also includes insightful background and performance notes for more than 40 of the best solos. Songs include: Alive * All Along the Watchtower * Aqualung * Bohemian Rhapsody * Cliffs of Dover * Crazy Train * Cross Road Blues (Crossroads) * Eruption * Get the Funk Out * Hotel California * Layla * Little Red Corvette * Money * November Rain * One * Pride and Joy * Sharp Dressed Man * Smells like Teen Spirit * Stairway to Heaven * Star Spangled Banner (Instrumental) * Sultans of Swing * Sweet Child O' Mine * Sympathy for the Devil * Walk This Way * While My Guitar Gently Weeps * Won't Get Fooled Again * Working Man * You Shook Me All Night Long * and more.

Unleash the song of your soul with Zen Guitar, a contemplative handbook that draws on ancient Eastern wisdom and applies it to music and performance. Each of us carries a song inside us, the song that makes us human. Zen Guitar provides the key to unlocking this song—a series of life lessons presented through the metaphor of music. Philip Sudo offers his own experiences with music to enable us to rediscover the harmony in each of our lives and open ourselves to Zen awareness uniquely suited to the Western Mind. Through fifty-eight lessons that provide focus and a guide, the reader is led through to Zen awareness. This harmony is further illuminated through quotes from sources ranging from Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix to Miles Davis. From those who have never strummed a guitar to the more experienced, Zen Guitar shows how the path of music offers fulfillment in all aspects of life—a winning idea and an instant classic.

(Guitar Educational). Learn guitar tips, tricks and secrets with this collection of articles and tips from Satriani's famous columns that have appeared in Guitar for the Practicing Musician magazine. Who better to learn guitar from than the master himself?