The First 15 Lessons series provides a step-by-step lesson plan for the absolute beginner, complete with audio tracks, video lessons, and real songs! Designed for self-teaching or for use with an instructor, you'll build a solid foundation as you work through each lesson, learning the basics of the instrument and music reading while practicing the many exercises, concepts and song excerpts within. Must-know instruction so you can start playing right away, with a free online tuner and metronome!
The electric guitar book, written in rhythm tab notation, features lessons on: guitar fundamentals, chords, strumming, arpeggios, syncopation, hammer-ons & pull-offs, slides, string bending & vibrato, double stops, harmonics, alternate picking, palm muting and scales & basic theory. Includes guitar parts from 33 songs: American Pie • Brown Eyed Girl • Crazy Little Thing Called Love • Hit Me with Your Best Shot • James Bond Theme • Layla • Runnin' down a Dream • Smells like Teen Spirit • Smoke on the Water • Under the Bridge • When I Come Around • You Really Got Me • and more. Fast-paced learning for your first year of instruction!
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Attention all Southpaws: it's time to turn your playing around! We're proud to announce that our groundbreaking guitar method solely devoted to lefties is now available with audio tracks! Complete with photos, diagrams and grids designed especially for the left-handed player, this book teaches fundamentals such as: chords, scales, riffs, strumming; rock, blues, fingerpicking and other styles; tuning and theory; reading standard notation and tablature; and much more!
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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| List | $16.99 |
Get started playing guitar with real songs and solid lessons covering everything you need: chords, scales, theory, licks, and much more! The method's well-paced and logical teaching sequence will get beginning guitarists playing more easily than ever before, and music from popular artists like the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Nirvana, AC/DC, and Green Day will keep them playing and having fun. This boxed set includes four books (Electric Guitar Method, Guitar Chord Chart, Guitar Scale Chart, and Guitar Theory) and the 200 Rock Licks DVD that includes killer lead lines and phrases, riffs, walk-through explanations by pro guitarists, note-for-note on-screen tablature; normal- and slow-speed performance demos. Works for those who want to teach themselves or with a teacher!
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| List | $29.99 |
Total Rock Guitar is a unique and comprehensive source for learning rock guitar, designed to develop both lead and rhythm playing. This book/audio pack covers: getting a tone that rocks; open chords, power chords and barre chords; riffs, scales and licks; string bending, strumming, palm muting, harmonics and alternate picking; all rock styles; and much more. The examples in the book are in standard notation with chord grids and tablature, and the accompanying online audio includes full-band backing for all 22 songs.
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Scale Chord Relationships teaches players how to determine which scales to play with which chords, so guitarists will never have to fear chord changes again! This book/audio pack explains how to: recognize keys; analyze chord progressions; use the modes; play over nondiatonic harmony; use harmonic and melodic minor scales; use symmetrical scales such as chromatic, whole-tone and diminished scales; incorporate exotic scales such as Hungarian major and Gypsy minor; and much more!
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This best-selling title is now available with demonstration audio tracks available online for download or streaming! Teach Yourself to Play Guitar was created specifically for the student with no music-reading background. With lesson examples presented in today's most popular tab format, which also incorporates simple beat notation for accurate rhythm execution, Teach Yourself to Play Guitar offers the beginning guitarist not only a comprehensive introduction to essential guitar-playing fundamentals, but a quick, effective, uncomplicated and practical alternative to the multitude of traditional self-instructional method books. It also covers power chords, barre chords, open position scales and chords (major and minor) and single-note patterns and fills; includes lesson examples and song excerpts in a variety of musical styles – rock, folk, classical, country and more; familiarizes the student with fretboard organization, chord patterns, hand and finger positions, and guitar anatomy by way of easy-to-interpret diagrams, photos and illustrations; provides complete, concise explanations while keeping text to a minimum; and prepares the student for the option of further guitar instruction.
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Always wanted to play guitar? Then get on the FastTrack and make it happen now! FastTrack method books give you a fast way to learn how to play that new instrument (or the one that's been sitting in the closet for a few years). Skeptical because other method books haven't worked for you? That's exactly why we wrote these! They're designed for the player who wants to learn on their own terms with the help of some user-friendly instruction, professional audio and video examples, and cool music to play along the way. Don't worry: we're not going to just show you a few tricks to play one or two songs. You're going to get everything you need to start playing (this is a Hal Leonard book, after all!) but then in a couple of weeks you'll become the player you've always wanted to be, ready to move into the songbooks filled with songs by the Beatles, Clapton, Hendrix, and more. And just in case that's not enough to convince you, the last section of all FastTrack Starter Packs (Guitar, Bass, Keyboard and Drums) includes the same songs so that you and your buddies can form a band and jam together. So, yes, it IS time to reignite those rock star dreams!
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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Finally, a guitar method designed specifically for girls that teaches how to play using real songs by the world's most popular female artists and songwriters! This fun and easy-to-use book/online audio pack will get you strumming chords and singing your favorite songs in no time, without even having to read music. Whether you're an absolute beginner or a budding songwriter, you'll gain many valuable tools as you progress through the book, which is loaded with inspirational quotes and words of encouragement. Topics covered include: guitar basics, tuning, basic chords, strumming techniques, chord alternatives, power chords, tab, single-string picking, palm muting, using a capo, creative songwriting ideas, and more! Songs include: Angel • Back on the Chain Gang • Beautiful • Come to My Window • Girls with Guitars • I Love Rock 'N Roll • Landslide • Mean • We Got the Beat • You Oughta Know • and more.
The 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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| List | $15.99 |
The House of Blues and producers of The Rock House Method join together to bring you this accelerated electric guitar course designed to take you from beginner to intermediate player in no time. The instruction with world renowned guitarist John McCarthy takes you step-by-step through the basics. You start by learning the parts of the guitar, proper hand position, tuning, essential chords and scales, lead patterns, practice tips, rhythm techniques and exercises to build hand coordination. You then move onto advanced lead guitar techniques like hammer-ons, pull-offs, bending and complete rhythm progressions. This comprehensive course will get you ready to play in your own band.
Your full course comes with:
• Over two hours of easy to follow video: Download video that illustrates each playing example through easy-to-follow close up views of each hand, player's perspective views and much more! The video is easily downloaded from the lesson support site using the member number found inside the book
• Downloadable backing tracks and playing examples: The instructor will talk you through demonstrations and explain each lesson in detail. The professionally produced backing tracks give you the feel and excitement of playing in your own band. Play them in your home, car, portable CD player, or load them on your MP3 player
• Web membership for online lesson support: you get lifetime membership to The RockHouse Method lesson support system on the web. Use the number found inside the book to register for support at www.hob.com.
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| List | $29.99 |
Pentatonic scales are widely used in all styles of music. This book focuses on the most often used, including ethnic and exotic scales. For each, this book presents the structure and construction, the main chords with which the scale works well, and a list of relevant scales. Development over one and two octaves follows, with fingerings and tab for 4- and 5-string basses.
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| List | $19.95 |
The Legendary Licks series presents the songs of an artist or musical style in a comprehensive play-along package. This book contains note-for-note transcriptions and detailed performance notes on how to play a multitude of classic fingerpicking styles – complete with recorded demonstrations. This edition features: Blackbird • Deep River Blues • Dust in the Wind • Helplessly Hoping • Landslide • Scarborough Fair/Canticle • Tears in Heaven • You've Got a Friend • and more.
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This book/CD pack contains 50 must-know lessons for all guitarists, beginner to pro. Covers topics including: arpeggios, chords voicings, exotic scales, fills, fingerpicking, harmony and theory, pentatonic scales, soloing and so much more!
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Hit the right note for rapid, flexible, computer-based instruction with Instant Play Electric Guitar Express, the 2-CD-ROM software suite ready to take you from rudimentary rhythm to rockin' out! From tuning your guitar to taking a solo, get into the groove of results-oriented electric guitar proficiency with these two CD-ROMs.
Product features include: 100+ chords with multiple voicings of myriad chord types • easy chord identification with the interactive fretboard • 40+ interactive basic music lessons • professional instructional videos (full-screen & slow-motion).
Product benefits include: customized, self-paced guitar lessons on your personal computer • master the electric guitar with CD-ROM instruction • the perfect tutorial for novices desiring to build their musical understanding and confidence.
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Turn up the volume with computer-based music instruction, including the on-screen lessons and audio performance tracks found in Instant Electric Guitar Deluxe on six individual CD-ROMs. From tuning your guitar to taking a solo, rock & roll to R&B – get into the groove of results-oriented electric guitar proficiency, with these CD-ROMs. Also includes a bonus DVD – Wired on DVD.
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| List | $49.99 |
Hit the right note for rapid, flexible, computer-based guitar instruction with Instant Play Electric Guitar, the 4-CD-ROM software suite ready to take you from rudimentary rhythm to rockin' out! From tuning your guitar to taking a solo, get into the groove of results-oriented electric guitar proficiency with these CD-ROMs.
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| List | $29.99 |