
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
* 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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