Alfred's Basic Rock Guitar Method 2
Starts on the Low E String To Get You Rockin' Faster!
By Nathaniel Gunod, L. C. Harnsberger, and Ron Manus
Guitar Book, DVD & Online Video/Audio/Software
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Recognized for over 50 years as the best-paced and most-thorough guitar method available, Alfred's Basic Guitar Method has introduced over 5 million beginners to playing guitar. Now, Alfred's Basic Rock Guitar Method provides a new approach to learning guitar for beginners who want to play rock.
Book 2 features new techniques like hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, and teaches you barre chords, new scales, and how to improvise with pentatonic scales. There are many more licks and melodies in the styles of many of the greatest rock artists, and an authentic arrangement of the opening from Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven."
Companion audio tracks that can be downloaded or streamed online are included with the book, so you'll have everything you need in one place. The included DVD is newly updated and features video lessons, MP3 audio tracks, and you can also download the TNT 2 software which lets you slow down tracks, isolate and loop parts, and change tempos and keys for customized practice.
Learning to play has never been easier or more fun than with the Alfred's Basic Guitar series---the best choice for beginning guitarists.
Book 2 features new techniques like hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, and teaches you barre chords, new scales, and how to improvise with pentatonic scales. There are many more licks and melodies in the styles of many of the greatest rock artists, and an authentic arrangement of the opening from Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven."
Companion audio tracks that can be downloaded or streamed online are included with the book, so you'll have everything you need in one place. The included DVD is newly updated and features video lessons, MP3 audio tracks, and you can also download the TNT 2 software which lets you slow down tracks, isolate and loop parts, and change tempos and keys for customized practice.
Learning to play has never been easier or more fun than with the Alfred's Basic Guitar series---the best choice for beginning guitarists.
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Contents
| Title | |
| What You Should Know Before Starting This Book | |
| Move Up the Neck on the 2nd String | |
| Two Positions on the 2nd String | |
| Move Up the Neck on the 1st String | |
| Two Positions on the 1st String | |
| Qutie Sue | |
| The Seventh Navy | |
| Introducing Dotted Notes | |
| Qutie Sue | |
| The Seventh Navy | |
| Rock Licks and Tricks | |
| Hammer-Ons | |
| Pull-Offs | |
| Slides | |
| Hammer-On and Pull-Off Riff | |
| Cannon Slide | |
| Knowing the Fretboard | |
| Chromatic Scale to the 8th Fret | |
| G Boogie | |
| The New Black | |
| Is This Your Card? | |
| The Five-String C Chord | |
| 2/4 and 12/8 time | |
| Dirty Rat | |
| 12/8 Exercise with the Five-String C Chord | |
| The Fermata | |
| 1950s 12/8 Ballad (Duet) | |
| Palm Mute | |
| Palm Mute Exercise 1 | |
| Palm Mute Exercise 2 | |
| Vibrato | |
| Vibrato in the Style of Jimmy Page | |
| Introducing Triplets | |
| Rockin' Triplets | |
| Out of Class | |
| Improvising with Pentatonic Scales | |
| Minor Pentatonic Lick in the Style of Black Sabbath | |
| Minor Pentatonic Lick in the Style of Jimmy Page | |
| Minor Pentatonic Lick in the Style of Eric Clapton | |
| Major Pentatonic Lick in the Style of John Mayer | |
| Major Pentatonic Lick in the Style of The Allman Brothers | |
| Improvise Your Own Pentatonic Lick in A | |
| The Three Principal Chords | |
| Tonic, Sub-Dominant, and Dominant | |
| Tonic (I) | |
| Sub-Dominant (IV) | |
| Dominant (V) | |
| Three Principal Chords in Common Keys | |
| The Blues Scale | |
| Blues Scale Lick 1 | |
| Blues Scale Lick 2 | |
| The 12-Bar Blues Progression | |
| Blues Scale Solo on 12-Bar Blues in A (Duet) | |
| Chord Theory and Three-String Power Chords | |
| Three-String Power Chords with the Root on the E String | |
| Power Chord and Palm Mute Exercise | |
| I Really Got You | |
| Gorilla Hammer | |
| More Three-String Power Chords | |
| Three-String Power Chords with the Root on the 5th String | |
| Pep Squad | |
| Preparation for Barre Chords | |
| Barre Chord Prep Exercise | |
| Most Commonly Used E-Type Barre Chords | |
| E-Type Barre Chord Exercise | |
| Barre Chord Progression 1 | |
| Barre Chord Progression 2 | |
| Done Waiting | |
| A-Type Barre Chords | |
| A-Type Barre Chord Exercise | |
| Barre Chord Progression 3 | |
| Barre Chord Progression 4 | |
| In My Head | |
| Major Scale Review | |
| Key Signatures | |
| The Key of C Major | |
| The Key of G Major | |
| The Key of F Major | |
| Dynamics | |
| Stupid Patriot | |
| Echoplex | |
| Listen to Me | |
| You Don't Know How Lucky You Are | |
| Tempo Signs | |
| Three-Tempo Rock | |
| Andante Ballad | |
| Allegro Punk | |
| Sixteenth Notes | |
| How Sixteenth Notes Look | |
| Exercise In Sixteenths | |
| Dotted Eighth and Sixteenth Notes | |
| Dotted Eighth/Sixteenth Note Exercise | |
| Heavy Metal Lick | |
| Sixteenth-Note Triplets | |
| It Ain't Nuthin' | |
| Key of A Minor | |
| The Two-Octave A (Harmonic) Minor Scale | |
| The Three Principal Chords in the Key of A Minor | |
| Three A Minor Examples | |
| The Red Door | |
| Key of E Minor | |
| The Two-Octave E (Harmonic) Minor Scale | |
| The Three Principal Chords in the Key of E Minor | |
| E Minor Barre Chords | |
| Three E Minor Examples | |
| Minor Blues | |
| E Minor Pentatonic Scale | |
| E Blues Scale | |
| Your Blues | |
| Fingerstyle | |
| Right-Hand Fingers | |
| Basic Position | |
| Bouree in E Minor | |
| Waiting for This Moment | |
| Important Small Barre Chords | |
| Preparation for "Stairway to Heaven" Intro | |
| Stairway to Heaven (Introduction) | |
| Certificate of Promotion |
Additional Information
| Series: | Alfred's Basic Guitar Library |
| Author: | Nathaniel Gunod, L. C. Harnsberger, Ron Manus |
| Instrument: | Guitar |
| Format: | Book, DVD & Online Video/Audio/Software |
| Page Count: | 48 |
| Item Number: | 00-45055 |
| ISBN 10: | 1-4706-3234-9 |
| ISBN 13: | 978-1-4706-3234-2 |
| UPC: | 038081515106 |
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