Alfred's Teach Yourself to Play Rock Guitar
Everything You Need to Know to Start Playing Now!
By Nathaniel Gunod, L. C. Harnsberger, and Ron Manus
Guitar Book & DVD
Item: 00-42010
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Learn to play rock guitar and open up a brand new world of musical knowledge with this exciting method from Alfred Music. Beginners of all ages can start their journey to a lifetime of playing electric guitar. Beginning with the fundamentals, you will learn about various guitar types and the sounds they create, how to care for your own guitar, and standard musical notation and TAB. You then move right along to playing licks and melodies in the style of some of rock's greatest songs. You will learn notes, chords, power chords, scales, and songs, lesson by lesson, all while increasing your knowledge of reading and understanding standard musical notation and TAB. When you finish, you will be playing an authentic arrangement of the main riffs from Led Zeppelin's "Good Times Bad Times."
The accompanying DVD provides over 2 hours of video instruction and over 160 performance and play-along MP3 tracks, to help you understand the concepts with more ease and efficiency. Be your own teacher, and let Alfred Music be your resource every step of the way.
The accompanying DVD provides over 2 hours of video instruction and over 160 performance and play-along MP3 tracks, to help you understand the concepts with more ease and efficiency. Be your own teacher, and let Alfred Music be your resource every step of the way.
Contents
| Title | |
| The Parts of Your Guitar | |
| The Acoustic Guitar | |
| The Electric Guitar | |
| Which Guitar Is Best for Me? | |
| How to Hold Your Guitar | |
| The Amplifier | |
| The Right Hand | |
| The Left Hand | |
| How to Tune Your Guitar | |
| Getting Acquainted with Music | |
| Getting Acquainted with Tablature | |
| The Sixth String E | |
| Sixth-String Riff 1 | |
| Sixth-String Riff 2 | |
| More Riffs | |
| Still More Riffs | |
| Rockin' Bass Line | |
| Silent Guitar Calisthenics 1 and 2 | |
| Sound-Off: How to Count Time | |
| Four Kinds of Notes | |
| Time Signatures | |
| The Fifth String A | |
| Jamming on 5 and 6 | |
| Two-String Rock | |
| Easy Rock Riffs on the 5th and 6th Strings | |
| Repeat Signs | |
| King Louie | |
| As I Arrive | |
| Ferrous Guy | |
| They Can Rock | |
| Silent Guitar Calisthenics 3 | |
| The Fourth String D | |
| Fourth-String Riff | |
| 1950s Rock Lick | |
| Foggy Lake | |
| Ladder to the Sky | |
| Crazy Kid | |
| Playing Two Notes Together | |
| Blues in 3 | |
| The Third String G | |
| Cash | |
| Introducing the Quarter Rest | |
| Ode to Joy | |
| Rockabilly Sound | |
| Power Chords | |
| Three-Chord Progression | |
| Down You Go | |
| Rock Duet | |
| Bop the Blitz | |
| The Second String B | |
| Classic Rock Lick | |
| Five-String Rock | |
| Satisfying Lick | |
| Don't Miss the Train | |
| Give Me a Hand, Lady | |
| Rockin' in D | |
| The First String E | |
| Jamming with E, F, and G | |
| Review | |
| Aura Lee | |
| The Major Scale | |
| C Major Scale Exercise | |
| Six-String Em Chord | |
| Quarter-Note Slash | |
| Em Strumming Exercise | |
| Five-String A7 Chord | |
| Strumming the A7 Chord | |
| Strumming Em and A7 Chords | |
| Minor Two-Chord Rock | |
| Introducing High A | |
| Rockin' in Dorian Mode | |
| Ties | |
| Rainforest Romp | |
| Nice Attire | |
| Eighth Notes | |
| Eighth-Note Exercise | |
| Ellis Island | |
| Four-String D7 Chord | |
| D7 and A7 Chord Exercise | |
| D7 Chord with Notes | |
| Six-String E Chord | |
| Introducing the Eighth-Note Slash | |
| Eighth-Note Slash Exercise | |
| Strumming Exercise with E Chord | |
| Five-String A Chord | |
| Minor and Major | |
| Vacate the Sky | |
| Doo Dah, Poo Bah | |
| Eleven Classic Rock Strumming Patterns | |
| Rough Evening | |
| Always Been Crazy | |
| Keep It to Yourself | |
| Sharps, Flats, and Naturals | |
| The Chromatic Scale | |
| Chromatic Rock | |
| Bluesy Accidentals | |
| Wet Duet | |
| Signs of Silence | |
| Take a Rest | |
| Ugly Times | |
| Stop-Time Bass Line | |
| Playing Two Notes Together: Blues Patterns | |
| E Blues Boogie | |
| A Blues Boogie | |
| Move Up the Neck on the 6th String | |
| Practice A, B, and C | |
| Two Positions on the 6th String | |
| Move Up the Neck on the 5th String | |
| Practice D, E, and F | |
| Two Positions on the 5th String | |
| Move Up the Neck on the 4th String | |
| Two Positions on the 4th String | |
| Move Up the Neck on the 3rd String | |
| Two Positions on the 3rd String | |
| Classic Rock Lick with 5s and 7s | |
| More on Power Chords | |
| Power Chords Are Moveable | |
| Power Chord Rock | |
| More Power Chord Rock | |
| Six-String G Chord | |
| Chords in Standard Notation | |
| Chords in Notes | |
| Rockin' the Bach | |
| Party, Party | |
| Rock and Blues Licks and Tricks | |
| Rock Lick 1 | |
| Rock Lick 1 with a Bend | |
| Rock Lick 2 | |
| The E Minor Pentatonic Scale | |
| Pentatonic Lick 1 | |
| Pentatonic Lick 2 | |
| 1950s Blues-Rock Tune | |
| A Minor Pentatonic Scale | |
| A Minor Pentatonic Call and Response | |
| Incomplete Measures or Pickups | |
| House of the Rising Sun | |
| 12-Bar Blues Duet | |
| Good Times Bad Times (Intro) | |
| Guitar Fingerboard Chart |
Additional Information
| Series: | Teach Yourself Series |
| Author: | Nathaniel Gunod, L. C. Harnsberger, Ron Manus |
| Instrument: | Guitar |
| Format: | Book & DVD |
| Page Count: | 80 |
| Item Number: | 00-42010 |
| ISBN 10: | 0-7390-9950-7 |
| ISBN 13: | 978-0-7390-9950-6 |
| UPC: | 038081464213 |
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