
Rock Guitar for Adults
The Grown-Up Approach to Playing Rock Guitar
By Tobias Hurwitz
Guitar Book & CD
Item: 00-40175
$19.99
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This fun and friendly step-by-step introduction to rock guitar is written with the adult learner in mind. It is both a great self-teaching book and a great method for use with an instructor. Rock Guitar for Adults covers rock chords, jamming, fingerpicking, scales and techniques for lead guitar, and more. Easy-to-read examples are written in standard music notation and TAB, and there's even a section on music theory geared toward rock musicians. Large diagrams and detailed photographs help simplify the learning process. A CD demonstrating all the examples in the book is included, making learning easier and more fun. This is the perfect "how to" book for the grown-up who wants to rock!
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Contents
Title | |
About the Author | |
Introduction | |
CHAPTER ONE: ROCK CHORDS | |
The First Wave of Rock Chords | |
The Second Wave of Rock Chords | |
Power Chords | |
Barre Chords | |
CHAPTER TWO: GETTING BLUESY | |
The 12-Bar Blues | |
Rockin' Up the Blues | |
Varying the Shuffle | |
Shuffle Blues | |
Cool Chords & the Blues | |
Cool Chord Blues | |
Blues in E with Mixed Techniques | |
Turn Me Around | |
Late-Night Wanderer | |
Playing the Blues in Any Key | |
CHAPTER THREE: FUN WITH CHORD PROGRESSIONS | |
Common Progressions | |
Transposing | |
CHAPTER FOUR: SPICE UP THE STRUMMING | |
Musical Strumming | |
Strumming Patterns | |
Play That Funky Music | |
Other Techniques | |
CHAPTER FIVE: THE FIRST WAVE OF ROCK SCALES | |
The Major Scale | |
Five Major Scale Forms | |
Tune in G Major | |
The Minor Pentatonic Scale | |
Five Minor Pentatonic Scale Forms | |
Beneath My Digital Extremity | |
Power Pentatonic | |
CHAPTER SIX: THE SECOND WAVE OF ROCK SCALES | |
The Blues Scale | |
Five Blues Scale Forms | |
Improvisation Concepts & Strategies | |
A Blues Groove | |
The Major Pentatonic Scale | |
Five Major Pentatonic Scale Forms | |
Melinda | |
CHAPTER SEVEN: THE MODES OF THE MAJOR SCALE | |
Where Modes Come From | |
Aeolian Mode (Natural Minor) | |
Five Aeolian Mode (Natural Minor) Forms | |
Aeolian Metal | |
Dorian Mode | |
Five Dorian Mode Forms | |
Mixolydian Mode | |
Five Mixolydian Mode Forms | |
CHAPTER EIGHT: HARMONIC MINOR SCALE | |
Five Harmonic Minor Scale Forms | |
Gypsy Rock | |
CHAPTER NINE: USING THE SCALES | |
Soloing on the Blues | |
Matching Scales to Chords | |
Understanding Diatonic Chord Progressions | |
Recognizing Modal Progressions | |
Using the Harmonic Minor Scale | |
CHAPTER TEN: LEAD GUITAR EXAMPLES | |
Bending | |
Sliding | |
Hammer-Ons and Pull-Offs | |
Finger Tapping | |
Eddie's Tune | |
Harmonics | |
Harmonics Etude | |
CHAPTER ELEVEN: JAMMING | |
Leading | |
Following | |
Common Musical Forms | |
Jamming Exercises | |
Try This with Your Band | |
Going "Out" | |
Song for Jamming | |
Jam Tune | |
CHAPTER TWELVE: PICKIN' AND GRINNIN' | |
Arpeggios | |
For Kathy | |
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: "THE WORLD'S GREATEST ROCK 'N' ROLL BAND" | |
Honky-Tonk Groove | |
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: SLOWHAND | |
Melodic Embellishment | |
Melodic Lead Style of Eric Clapton | |
Eric's Blues | |
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: A NEW ROCK EXPERIENCE | |
Chord Embellishment | |
Licks | |
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: ANOTHER PAGE OF ROCK HISTORY | |
Pentatonic Madness: "Box Licks" | |
Appendix A: The Basics | |
Reading Music | |
Scale Diagrams | |
Reading Tablature | |
Special Notation | |
Appendix B: An Introduction to Music Theory | |
The Major Scale and Key | |
Key | |
Minor Key | |
Key Signatures | |
How Chords Are Derived from the Major Scale | |
Diatonic Triads | |
Diatonic 7th Chords |
Additional Information
Author: | Tobias Hurwitz |
Instrument: | Guitar |
Format: | Book & CD |
Page Count: | 96 |
Item Number: | 00-40175 |
ISBN 10: | 0-7390-9286-3 |
ISBN 13: | 978-0-7390-9286-6 |
UPC: | 038081448770 |
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