Women S Road To Rock Guitar Express Yourself By Learning How To Play Lead Rhythm Guitar Book Cd

A must-have for any woman serious about learning to play guitar! Guitarist, singer-songwriter, performer, and instructor Nikki O'Neill helps you find your way around the electric guitar in this groundbreaking, comprehensive method! Learn how to play rhythm guitar for different rock styles using power chords, riffs, barre chords, strum patterns, and more. You'll also learn how to play solos across the neck. Nikki walks you through lead guitar techniques like bends, hammer-ons, pinched harmonics, and the whammy bar, and offers tips on how to build strength in your hands. Nikki's in-depth and easy-to-understand style will have you playing along with the accompanying audio tracks in no time. The book also covers song structure, writing chord charts for your songs, the basics on amps, pedals and guitar care, and even shows you how to figure out songs by ear. Included are essential tips from important female guitarists that Nikki interviewed, a quick history note on the first female electric guitarists, and a list of music by great female rock and blues guitarists to check out. Women's Road to Rock Guitar also features ideas on how to practice, work with other musicians, and stay inspired. Features: * Examples written in TAB, so you don't have to read music to learn! * Essential information on guitar care, amps, pedals, and other equipment * An accompanying CD that includes play-along tracks for practice and demonstrations of the examples in the book. "Nikki O'Neill does a fantastic job of covering the most important things that someone who wants to learn the essentials of rock guitar. She's clear, to the point."---Martina Fasano, Playing with Chaos "It's amazing how much musical material is encompassed in this book, yet it's presented in such an accessible manner that literally anyone who possesses an ounce of good will can follow along and learn."---Top Guitar Magazine "There's such diversity of g

For many musicians, soloing is the most enjoyable part of playing music. There's no other feeling quite like spontaneously improvising music that is all your own. But for many people, soloing can be intimidating. Which notes do I play? How do I come up with new ideas? What if I make a mistake? Easy Soloing for Acoustic Guitar will help you overcome these doubts. You'll learn easy methods to approach soloing with confidence, which can be applied to thousands of songs in many different styles of music. Instead of learning a lot of technical music theory, you'll learn practical guidelines you can use in real life. This book is designed for beginners who are already comfortable with the basics, such as tuning the guitar, strumming chords, and picking single notes. The book features standard music notation and TAB, and a CD demonstrating all the examples in the book is included.

Take the first step towards experiencing the fun of playing rock keyboards. This book & CD will guide you through everything you need to know to begin playing rock and roll keyboards. Lessons include creating voicings, arranging parts, playing chords, scales and modes, playing the blues, and improvising. Also includes complete play-along tracks on CD.

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For beginner guitarists. Teaches the most important keys and scales used in music today. You will learn how to read chords in note form and understand bass note picking, bass note runs, chord runs, chords, hammer-ons and pull-offs. Also features more advanced timing including sixteenth notes, dotted eighth notes, triplets and syncopation.

Teach yourself how to play guitar with our easy rhythm guitar lessons for beginners. ***Comes with online access to free guitar videos and audio for all examples. See and hear how each one is played by a teacher, then play along with the backing band. Also includes music score animation for easy music learning.*** "Great for beginners. This taught me how to play guitar chords and rhythms, so now I can play my favorite rock songs." - Tom H, Seattle WA Progressive Guitar Method - Rhythm contains all you need to know to start learning to be a great rhythm guitar player - in one easy-to-follow, lesson-by-lesson guitar tutorial. Suitable for all ages and all types of guitars including electric guitar and acoustic guitar. No prior knowledge of how to read music or playing the guitar is required to teach yourself to learn to play guitar from this book. Teach yourself: • How to play electric guitar chords and how to play acoustic guitar chords • All the fundamental techniques of rhythm guitar playing including how to play basic guitar chords for beginners, guitar rhythms and strumming patterns • Practical guitar theory for learning how to read guitar music for beginners • How to tune a guitar • Rhythm guitar tips and rhythm guitar tricks that every player should know when learning guitar • Shortcuts for how to learn guitar fast by getting the most from guitar practice sessions Contains everything you need to know to learn to play the guitar today. Features include: • Progressive step-by-step easy guitar lessons written by a professional guitar teacher • Full color photos and diagrams • Easy-to-read guitar music and guitar chords for beginners • Guitar chord chart containing formulas and chord shapes for major, minor, seventh, sixth, major seventh, minor seventh, suspended, diminished and augmented guitar chords • 50+ rhythm guitar exercises, guitar chord progressions and popular easy guitar songs for beginners in classic blues guitar, rock guitar and country guitar styles Beginner guitar lessons have never been easier for anyone who wants to learn how to play the guitar, fast. LearnToPlayMusic.com's rhythm guitar lessons for beginners are used by students and guitar teachers worldwide to learn how to play guitar. For over 30 years, our team of professional authors, composers and musicians have crafted guitar lesson books that are a cut above the rest. We offer a huge selection of music instruction books that cover many different instruments and styles in print, eBook and app formats. Awarded the 'Quality Excellence Design' (QED) seal of approval for eBook innovation, LearnToPlayMusic.com continues to set the standard for quality music education resources.

Tobias Hurwitz teaches the basics of rock guitar playing, including concepts such as unisons, octaves, major and petatonic scales, and specific techniques for lead and rhythm guitar.