
The Complete Rock Guitar Method: Mastering Rock Guitar (2nd Edition)
By Erik Halbig Guitar Book & DVD-ROM Level: Advanced Item: 00-39333
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This book and DVD-ROM is perfect for guitarists who have been playing for a while and are ready to expand their skills and technique. It includes in-depth lessons on pentatonic extensions, the major and harmonic minor scales, arpeggios, triads, chords derived from scales, and modes. Also included are technique-expanding exercises for legato playing, speed picking, intervallic playing, tapping, sweep picking, and bending. For those who truly want to stand out and become exceptional rock guitar players. This revised edition features new examples on string skipping and combining scale patterns, new examples in the styles of the hottest guitar players on the scene, new audio recordings, and a brand new video demonstrating the examples in the book. The video teacher, Jared Meeker, is a rock guitar master with an entertaining and relaxed approach that makes learning fun and easy. If you have completed Beginning Rock Guitar and Intermediate Rock Guitar, this is your best next step.
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Contents
Title | |
ABOUT THE AUTHOR | |
INTRODUCTION | |
CHAPTER 1 -- GETTING STARTED | |
The Guitar Fingerboard | |
Tuning | |
Music Notation | |
Reading Tab, Scale, and Chord Diagrams | |
Roman Numerals | |
CHAPTER 2 -- TECHNIQUES | |
Slides | |
Hammer-Ons and Pull-Offs | |
Legato Playing | |
Bending | |
Speed Picking | |
Tapping | |
Roll Over Johann | |
Skip It | |
Sweep Picking | |
Harmonics | |
The Whammy Bar | |
CHAPTER 3 -- PENTATONIC CREATIVITY | |
The Minor Pentatonic Patterns | |
The Major Pentatonic Patterns | |
Combining Patterns | |
String-Skipping Patterns | |
Weaving Pentatonic Patterns | |
One-Note-Per-String Pentatonics | |
Sliding One-Note-Per-String Licks | |
CHAPTER 4 -- MAJOR SCALE CREATIVITY | |
Three-Note-Per-String Patterns | |
The Major Scale System | |
Major Scale Extensions | |
Spicing Things Up | |
Two-Note-Per-String Patterns: A New Approach | |
The Two-Note/One-Note-Per-String Pattern | |
Get Up, Get Down | |
CHAPTER 5 -- HARMONIC MINOR SCALE IMPROVISATION | |
Harmonic Minor Three-Note-Per-String Patterns | |
Harmonic Minor Two-/One-Note-Per-Strings | |
Combining Harmonic Minor Patterns | |
CHAPTER 6 -- ARPEGGIOS | |
Major | |
Minor | |
Octave Displacements | |
Dominant 7th | |
Diminished 7th | |
CHAPTER 7 -- TRIADS | |
Review | |
String Sets | |
2-for-1 Altered Triads | |
Minor | |
2-for-3 Altered Triads | |
CHAPTER 8 -- CHORD CREATIVITY | |
Stacked 5ths and the Pentatonic Scale | |
2nd/6th Chords from the Major Scale | |
2nd/5th/2nd Four-Note Chords | |
3rd/2nd/6th Four-Note Chords | |
2nd/5th/5th Four-Note Chords | |
CHAPTER 9 -- MODE APPLICATIONS | |
Review | |
Ionian | |
Lydian | |
Dorian | |
Aeolian | |
Mixolydian |
Additional Information
Series: | Complete Method |
Author: | Erik Halbig |
Instrument: | Guitar |
Format: | Book & DVD-ROM |
Page Count: | 96 |
Item Number: | 00-39333 |
ISBN 10: | 0-7390-8929-3 |
ISBN 13: | 978-0-7390-8929-3 |
UPC: | 038081440408 |
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