Because rhythm and timing lie at the foundation of everything you play, its importance can't be underestimated. This series will give you that solid foundation you need. Starts with simple upbeat rhythms for the beginner and moves step by step into advanced syncopations - all demonstrated with seriously heavy metal examples that have practical applications to today's styles. Tablature. Music and examples demonstrated on accompanying online audio.
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Features tips & instruction on how to play more than 30 Metallica songs on the guitar: ...And Justice for All • Battery • Damage, Inc. • Enter Sandman • Fade to Black • Fuel • Hero of the Day • Master of Puppets • Nothing Else Matters • One • Ride the Lightning • The Struggle Within • The Unforgiven • and many more! Also available: Learn to Play Bass with Metallica (02500189) and Learn to Play Drums with Metallica (02500190).
Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the 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.
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Take your playing to the stratosphere with the most advanced lead book by this proven heavy metal author. Speed Mechanics is the ultimate technique book for developing the kind of speed and precision in today's explosive playing styles. Learn the fastest ways to achieve speed and control, secrets to make your practice time really count, and how to open your ears and make your musical ideas more solid and tangible. Packed with over 200 vicious exercises including Troy's scorching version of “Flight of the Bumblebee.” Music and examples demonstrated in included online audio. 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.
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Improve your command of the guitar by mastering the essential scales and their fingerings. This reference will help you play scales up, down, and across the fingerboard, in all keys. You will learn multiple scale fingering options to suit different musical contexts. Practice exercises will help you build your muscle memory as you play different fingering patterns across the strings, and then expand them to three octaves. Graphical illustrations, exercises, and etudes will help reinforce all the most useful scale types. Traditional notation and tablature are included.
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La Méthode de Guitare Hal Leonard s'adresse à quiconque désire apprendre à jouer de la guitare électrique or acoustique. Elle repose sur l'expérience acquise durant de nombreuses années d'enseignement de la guitare à des élèves de tous ages, et constitue aussi l'une des meilleures méthodes de guitare dans le monde. Le Volume 1 aborde: l'accordage; le jeu en position; les sybmoles musicaux; les notes en première position; les accords de C, G, G7, D, D7, A7 et Em; les rythmes en croches; les attaques; 100 superbes chansons, riffs et exemples. Inclus 47 pistes pour démonstration ou playback.
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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.
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This premier method for the beginning classical guitarist, by one of the world's pre-eminent virtuosos and the recognized heir to the legacy of Andrés Segovia, is now available with online audio! Guitarists will learn basic classical technique by playing over 50 beautiful classical pieces, 26 exercises and 14 duets, and through numerous photos and illustrations. The method covers: rudiments of classical technique, note reading and music theory, selection and care of guitars, strategies for effective practicing, and much more!
The price of this book includes a unique code that provides access to audio tracks online, for download or streaming. The tracks 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 – available exclusively from Hal Leonard.
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This intense metal method teaches you the elements of lead guitar technique with an easy to understand, player-oriented approach. The metal concepts, theory, and musical principles are all applied to real metal licks, runs and full compositions. Learn at your own pace through 12 fully transcribed heavy metal solos from simple to truly terrifying! “One of the most thorough” and “one of the best rock series currently available” - Guitar Player magazine. Music and examples demonstrated through the online audio available using the unique code printed in the book.
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This book uses classic excerpts from country songs to teach you the basics of rhythm and lead country guitar in the style of Chet Atkins, James Burton, Albert Lee, Merle Travis, and many others. Lessons include: Chords, Scales and Licks • Common Progressions and Riffs • Carter Style and Travis Picking • Steel Licks, String Bending and Vibrato • Standard Notation and Tablature • and much more! Full songs include: “Country Gentleman” and “Rebel Rouser.” Song excerpts include: Could I Have This Dance • Green Green Grass of Home • I Fall to Pieces • Satin Sheets • Yakety Sax • and more. This edition also includes 99 full-band tracks for demonstration and play along. The audio files are accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be downloaded or streamed. They also 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.
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Are you tired of playing the same licks over and over again? Or maybe you just don't know what to play during your solo? Lead Licks is a unique book designed to increase your improvising vocabulary by taking a short phrase, or “lick,” and morphing it into different styles! This book with online audio examples pack covers rock, blues, jazz, country, and “outside” styles. It gives you major, minor and dominant 7th licks (12 of each!) plus a special “exotic” section. You'll have a lick for nearly any musical situation. The audio includes each lick played at full speed and at a slower practice tempo.
Written by Greg Koch, Hal Leonard Guitar Method co-author, Fender clinician, and Favored Nations recording artist!
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Do-It-Yourself Guitar Setup & Maintenance is a fun way to get started maintaining your guitar on your own. Using a variety of guitars and real-life scenarios, you will be given step-by-step instruction on what you need to know to get started. Follow along with detailed video tutorials by guitar luthier Denny Rauen and you'll understand everything in no time.
• Instruction for acoustic, electric, Floyd Rose-equipped guitars and MORE!
• Tools of the trade, with tool lists for every job
• String replacement
• Truss rod adjustment
• Action and intonation
• Basic electronic modifications
• Toolboxes: the tools and tricks you need to maintain your instrument like a pro
• Over four hours of video instruction and demonstration!
• and more!
The price of this book includes access to instructional videos, for download or streaming, using the unique code found on page 1.
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The Hal Leonard Folk Guitar Method is your complete guide to learning folk guitar. This book uses popular folk songs to teach you the basics of rhythm and lead playing in the styles of Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Simon & Garfunkel, the Carter Family, Peter Paul & Mary, John Denver, and many others. You'll learn: basic strumming; strumming variations; Carter-style flatpicking; bass runs; basic fingerstyle patterns; alternating thumb patterns; flatpicking solos; hammer-ons and pull-offs; fingerpicking solos; using a capo; I-IV-V chord families; and much more. Songs include: Blowin' in the Wind • Freight Train • The House of the Rising Sun • I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow • Leaving on a Jet Plane • Little Boxes • Puff the Magic Dragon • Scarborough Fair • This Land Is Your Land • Tom Dooley • Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season) • and more. The price of this book includes access to 31 audio tracks online for download or streaming using the unique code inside the cover. The tracks provide audio demonstrations of each example in the book performed by the author. The 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.
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Learn how triads are key to understanding harmony, soloing, and comping. Triads are the basis of all harmony. By understanding how they relate to larger chord structures, you will improve your command over harmony generally and be able to use triads more effectively in all your playing. Through visualizing and using common triads on the first three strings, you will create smooth lines that make sense of the chords even when the song changes keys or modes. Examples are in traditional notation and guitar chord diagrams and audio demos are provided for each.
Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the 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.
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Because rhythm and timing lie at the foundation of everything you play, its importance can't be underestimated. This series will give you that solid foundation you need. Starts with simple upbeat rhythms for the beginner and moves step by step into advanced syncopations - all demonstrated with seriously heavy metal examples that have practical applications to today's styles. Tablature. Music and examples demonstrated with the online audio tracks available using the unique code printed inside each book.
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This book teaches the techniques, licks, chords, scales and strums you need to play rockabilly guitar. It shows you how to play rhythm & lead for all kinds of rockabilly grooves, in the style of masters such as Carl Perkins, Brian Setzer, Cliff Gallup, Buddy Holly, Scotty Moore, and others. Instead of learning exercises, you learn excerpts from classic rockabilly songs and solos that made the genre come together in the first place. 58 audio tracks will help you catch the rhythms and nuances of the rockabilly style. The audio is accessed online for download or streaming and includes PLAYBACK+ tools such as tempo adjustment and looping software. Excerpts from these songs are included: Be-Bop-A-Lula • Get Rhythm • Honey Don't • Milk Cow Blues • No Particular Place to Go • Rock Around the Clock • Rock This Town • Susie-Q • Train Kept A-Rollin' • and more!
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