Rock Guitar Mode Mastery

If you have completed Beginning Rock Guitar and Intermediate Rock Guitar, this is your best next step. Mastering Rock Guitar is perfect for guitarists who have been playing for a while and are ready to expand their knowledge and technique. The book contains in-depth lessons on pentatonic extensions, the major and harmonic minor scales, arpeggios, intervals, and chords derived from scales and modes. Exercises extend technical abilities to include legato playing, speed picking, tapping, sweep-picking and bending. All music is shown in standard notation and TAB, and the CD demonstrates the examples in the book. 96 pages.

Includes 25 Licks based around the four most common rock guitar scales; The Blues Scale, The Aeolian Mode, The Lydian Mode and the Mixolydian Mode. With 5 licks based around each of the 5 fretboard positions you always have great lines to play wherever you are on the guitar neck.

If you have completed Beginning Rock Guitar and Intermediate Rock Guitar, this is your best next step. Mastering Rock Guitar is perfect for guitarists who have been playing for a while and are ready to expand their knowledge and technique. The book contains in-depth lessons on pentatonic extensions, the major and harmonic minor scales, arpeggios, intervals, and chords derived from scales and modes. Exercises extend technical abilities to include legato playing, speed picking, tapping, sweep-picking and bending. All music is shown in standard notation and TAB, and the CD demonstrates the examples in the book. 96 pages.

(Guitar Educational). If you're looking to break out of rhythm guitar mode and into the solo limelight, this book is for you! With advice on licks, technique, feel, and what to do (plus what not to do) during your moment out front, David Grissom takes you through what every blues/rock guitarist needs to have under their fingers. Topics covered include: scales * picking techniques * string bending * double stops * rockin' country licks * jazz lines * equipment and gear * and more. Book includes access to audio online for download or streaming, with loads of demonstration tracks, plus play-along tracks for practicing!

2004 Silver Award Winner for Best Instructional Materials by Acoustic Guitar Magazine.Correct Practice is what all good players do, whether they know they are doing it or not! That's how they get to be good players. Whether you are a beginner or a player with the usual problems, here is your Foundation book, "The Principles of Correct Practice for Guitar!"- for ALL styles and ALL levels. "The Principles of Correct Practice for Guitar" is composed of three elements:Understandings: Concepts which you must understand in order to begin to practice effectivelyTools: Practice Approaches to be used to solve problems in playing. These approaches are based on certain key Understandings, such as Muscle Memory and Sympathetic Tension, as well as Attention and Awareness.Exercises: Specific routines to be done during practice, that will build technique, (playing ability) in a step by step fashion, each step building on the previous one, and preparing for the next.

Perfect for beginning guitarists as well as players who want to enhance their knowledge, this volume covers basic rock theory, essential left-hand techniques, power chords, rhythm guitar, and how to improvise with the pentatonic scale. Includes licks in the styles of rock greats like Chuck Berry, Van Halen, Led Zeppelin and others. The most thorough book for beginning rock students! All music is shown in standard notation and TAB.

This advanced volume in the comprehensive method for blues guitarists is also great for rock players who want to develop a blues edge. Covers theory from blues scales, composite scales, and the Mixolydian mode to arpeggio superimpositions and the 8-bar blues, with examples of gospel blues, minor blues and others. Also contains licks in the styles of blues masters such as Muddy Waters, Big Bill Broonzy, Freddie King, B. B. King, John Lee Hooker and many others. All music is shown in standard notation and TAB.