The Guitar Style Resource
A Comprehensive Guide to Exploring New Techniques and Styles from Heavy Metal to Jazz
By Raleigh Green
Guitar Book & CD
Item: 00-39292
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You've learned the basics of guitar, so now it's time to explore new styles and techniques to help you become a well-rounded and more knowledgeable player. With The Guitar Style Resource, you will be exposed to a variety of musical influences that will help you create a unique, original, and exciting sound. Using examples based on actual songs, you will learn the essential elements of various styles. Learn about important players and understand what goes into creating a great guitar part. Dig in and explore new concepts that will unleash your inner musical potential. The included CD clearly demonstrates the musical examples in the book.
* Explore a wide variety of styles from rock and reggae to classical and funk
* Learn about the styles and recordings of pioneering players
* Master techniques such as fingerstyle, palm muting, hammer-ons, pull-offs, and bending
* Covers acoustic and electric guitar technique
* Includes sample licks and tips on soloing
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Contents
| Title | |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR | |
| INTRODUCTION | |
| Basic Notation and Theory | |
| CHAPTER ONE: The Guitar Styles Toolbox | |
| Lesson 1: Simplifying the Fretboard | |
| Lesson 2: The Octave Pattern | |
| Lesson 3: The CAGED System | |
| Lesson 4: Simplifying the CAGED System | |
| Lesson 5: Movable Fretboard Shapes | |
| Lesson 6: Using Scale Degrees to Build Chords | |
| CHAPTER TWO: Rock Guitar | |
| Lesson 1: Palm Muting | |
| Lesson 2: Rock Chords | |
| Muting and Barring on the Fretboard | |
| Lesson 3: Rock Chord Shapes | |
| Lesson 4: Rock Chord Progressions | |
| Voice-Leading Labyrinth | |
| Three-String Strum | |
| Sweet Molasses | |
| Lesson 5: Rock Chord Embellishments | |
| Frost | |
| Lesson 6: Soloing in a Rock Style | |
| CHAPTER THREE: Blues Guitar | |
| Lesson 1: Roman Numerals | |
| Lesson 2: The 12-Bar Blues | |
| Basic 12-Bar Blues | |
| The Chile's Gone | |
| Lesson 3: The Blues Shuffle | |
| The Troubled 8-Bar Shuffle | |
| Stevie's Shuffle | |
| Lesson 4: The 12/8 Blues | |
| Cloudy Day Blues | |
| Lesson 5: Soloing in a Blues Style | |
| CHAPTER FOUR: Acoustic Guitar | |
| Lesson 1: Slash Chords and the Bass/Strum | |
| Afternoon Again | |
| Absolutely | |
| Lesson 2: The Quintessential Strum | |
| Half a Strum to Play | |
| A Twist of Lime | |
| Lesson 3: The Muted Strum | |
| Fret-Hand Mute | |
| Take a Seat | |
| Moments Like Those | |
| Flap | |
| Lesson 4: Tricky Strumming Simplified | |
| Lesson 5: Acoustic Soloing | |
| CHAPTER FIVE: Fingerstyle Guitar | |
| Lesson 1: Pick Your Variation | |
| Lesson 2: Fingerpicking Potential | |
| Passenger Pigeon | |
| Lesson 3: Travis Picking | |
| Travis Rag | |
| Lesson 4: Melodic Fingerpicking | |
| Fingerpicking Paradise | |
| CHAPTER SIX: Classical Guitar | |
| Lesson 1: Posture and Positioning | |
| Lesson 2: Classical Fingerpicking | |
| Lesson 3: The Renaissance and Baroque Periods | |
| Greensleeves | |
| Cello Suite No. 1 (Prelude) | |
| Minuet in G | |
| Lesson 4: The Classical Period | |
| Etude in A Minor | |
| Allegro in G | |
| Prelude in C | |
| Lesson 5: Flamenco Guitar | |
| Rapid Rasgueados | |
| Flamenco Fingers Flying | |
| CHAPTER SEVEN: Metal and Shred Guitar | |
| Lesson 1: Metal Rhythm | |
| Lesson 2: Tremolo Picking | |
| Lesson 3: Drop D and Odd-Time Riffs | |
| Lesson 4: Neo-Classical Metal | |
| Malmsteen Madness | |
| Lesson 5: Shredding Tricks | |
| CHAPTER EIGHT: Reggae and Ska Guitar | |
| Lesson 1: Reggae Chord Voicings | |
| Lesson 2: Reggae Rhythm Chops | |
| Lesson 3: Single-Note Syncopations | |
| Rastafari Police | |
| Lesson 4: Third Wave Ska | |
| Don't Come Toasting | |
| More Than Inspired | |
| Dr. Bosstone | |
| Sub-Lime | |
| Reel Big Sale | |
| CHAPTER NINE: Funk Guitar | |
| Lesson 1: Single-Note Funk Lines | |
| Funky Strut | |
| Lesson 2: The Chicken Scratch | |
| Feeling Funky | |
| Lesson 3: Building Chord Extensions | |
| Lesson 4: Funky Rhythm Guitar | |
| Theme Park Funk | |
| Bag of Potatoes | |
| Funk Machine | |
| Super Funky | |
| CHAPTER TEN: Jazz Guitar | |
| Lesson 1: Jazz Chord Progressions | |
| How New the Key | |
| Chords in the Afternoon | |
| Some Keys You Play | |
| Lesson 2: Soloing Over ii-V-I Progressions | |
| Lesson 3: Jazz Blues & Walking Bass | |
| Bop Blues Stroll | |
| Lesson 4: Soloing Over a Jazz Blues | |
| Bebop Blues Solo | |
| Lesson 5: Jazz Chord Inversions | |
| Fall Inversions | |
| Lesson 6: Adding Color to Your Chords | |
| Lesson 7: Latin Jazz | |
| How Syncopated | |
| Lesson 8: Modal Jazz | |
| Modal Impression | |
| Lesson 9: Modal Jazz Soloing | |
| Tonal Modal | |
| Lesson 10: Jazz Soloing Strategies | |
| Maybe | |
| Outward Inclination | |
| Yellow Noon | |
| Not Just Acquaintances | |
| Conclusion | |
| Guitar Fretboard Chart |
Additional Information
| Series: | Style Resource Series |
| Author: | Raleigh Green |
| Instrument: | Guitar |
| Format: | Book & CD |
| Page Count: | 96 |
| Item Number: | 00-39292 |
| ISBN 10: | 0-7390-8908-0 |
| ISBN 13: | 978-0-7390-8908-8 |
| UPC: | 038081439846 |
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