Stock your musical toolbox with Cool Open String Licks! Whether you're just learning how to play guitar or you're a more seasoned player who wants to expand your vocabulary of open-position licks this book is for you! You'll find 76 licks in rock blues country R&B funk jazz and bluegrass styles. Each lick is partnered with detailed instructions on how it should be played as well as a demonstration track on the enclosed CD. There's no better way to build your arsenal of licks and lay the foundation for your soloing chops - today!

Scales Modes and Melodic Patterns Level Two-Guitar virtuoso Rusty Cooley who is at the fore front of pushing the boundaries of modern guitar playing challenges you to expand on the fretboard visualization and modal knowledge learned in Level 1. Rusty unlocks the road map that will give you the freedom to improvise over the entire fretboard without being locked into positions. Learn 4 5

Most electric guitar players like their music heavy but how many of us really know the difference between Doom and Death metal? Which bands' riffs are cool and which ones will get you laughed out of the guitar shop? Nevermind... It's Easy To Bluff gives you all the skills you need! There's a guide to all the different types of metal with - most importantly - a coolness rating for each one. Learn to play some impressive licks and riffsand discover everything you need to hold your own at any metal gig.

After decades of waiting, the definitive Joni Mitchell guitar songbook is here! Joni Mitchell Complete So Far contains 167 songs spanning her entire career, transcribed accurately and including the authentic tunings Joni explored throughout her artistic development. To make it easier to navigate the tunings---absolutely integral to any student of Joni Mitchell's guitar work---this book also includes a very clear and easy-to-use tuning index, and an in-depth article on Joni's evolution as a guitarist. Hardcover and featuring an impressive all-color photo section, the songbook culls the best work from the following albums: Song to a Seagull, Clouds, Ladies of the Canyon, Blue, For the Roses, Court and Spark, The Hissing of Summer Lawns, Hejira, Don Juan's Reckless Daughter, Mingus, Wild Things Run Fast, Dog Eat Dog, Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm, Night Ride Home, Turbulent Indigo, Hits, Taming the Tiger, and Shine. Titles: All I Want * Amelia * The Arrangement * (You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care * Bad Dreams * Banquet * Barangrill * Be Cool * The Beat of Black Wings * Big Yellow Taxi * Big Yellow Taxi (2007) * A Bird That Whistles (Corrina, Corrina) * Black Crow * Blonde in the Bleachers * Blue * Blue Boy * Blue Motel Room * The Boho Dance * Borderline * Both Sides, Now * Cactus Tree * California * Car on a Hill * Carey * A Case of You * Chelsea Morning * Cherokee Louise * Chinese Cafe/Unchained Melody * The Circle Game * Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire * Come In from the Cold * Conversation * Cool Water * Court and Spark * Coyote * The Crazy Cries of Love * Dancin' Clown * The Dawntreader * Dog Eat Dog * Don Juan's Reckless Daughter * Don't Interrupt the Sorrow * Down to You * Dreamland * Edith and the Kingpin * Electricity * Ethiopia * Face Lift * Fiction * The Fiddle and the Drum * For Free * For the Roses * Free Man in Paris -

In this lesson Fernando Perez teaches several evocative instrumentals from different world music styles. The tunes are performed in standard as well as alternative tunings. Fingerstyle techniques are used throughout the lesson. Two tunes are arranged for slide Guitar. Perez takes you on a globetrotting voyage where you will explore: How to understand the sound and techniques found in the music of the Balkans Japan Brazil Hawaii Malawi and Argentina and how to apply theses to the Guitar. Cool and unusual rhythms applied to the guitar in a way that goes further than just strumming chords but also how to make guitar arrangements with theserhythms. Origins and relations between world music styles in order to better understand and perform them. Many interesting fingerstyle Guitar tricks and techniques. Main scales used in these instrumentals. Understanding grooves how to feel and apply them as you play the music. How to further develop these tunes as well as creating new ones. New musical approaches coming from other cultures which will open up your vision as a player. New simple and easy Guitar tunings which will offer you a broader sound spectrum in your Guitar arrangements. Unusual slide techniques ie. how to play behind the slide uncommon chords and special tricks. A dynamic World Music repertoire full of variety. Each tune is taught phrase by phrase and played slowly on a split-screen. Titles include: Into the Balkans (Balkans) Samba para Ti (Brazil) Ame (Japan) Malawi Dance (Malawi) Kalani (Hawaii) and Tango/ Habanera (Argentina/Cuba). 120 minutes â?¢ Level 3 â?¢ Detailed tab/music PDF file on the DVD

Always wanted to play Guitar? Then get on the FastTrack and make it happen now! FastTrack method books give you a fast way to learn how to play that new instrument (or the one that's been sitting in the closet for a few years). Skeptical because other method books haven't worked for you? That's exactly why we wrote these! They're designed for the player who wants to learn on their own terms with the help of some user-friendly instruction professional audio and video examples and cool music to play along the way. Don't worry: we're not going to just show you a few tricks to play one or two songs. You're going to get everything you need to startplaying (this is a Hal Leonard book after all!) but then in a couple of weeks you'll become the player you've always wanted to be ready to move into the songbooks filled with songs by the Beatles Clapton Hendrix and more. And just in case that's not enough to convince you the last section of all FastTrack Starter Packs (Guitar Bass Keyboard and Drums) include the same songs so that you and your buddies can form a band and jam together. So yes it IS time to reignite those rock star dreams!The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch set loop points change keys and pan left or right.

Legendary guitarist and educator Don Mock exposes the closely-guarded secret soloing techniques of jazz and rock giants, revealing easy ways to create ultra-cool sounding lines and patterns by substituting simple harmonic minor patterns over dominant 7th chords. These book/CD packages each contain over 60 music examples, lines, licks and patterns. All music is written in standard notation and tablature.

A fun easy guitar songbook and CD with full-band backing tracks designed especially for today's kids featuring cool songs from great rock bands. This book is a companion to the instructional book Beginning Rock Guitar for Kids but also works as a stand-alone songbook. Tunes include: Come Out and Play · Just a Girl · The Man Who Sold the World · Oh Pretty Woman · Tubthumping · What I Got · Wild Thing · You Really Got Me. Also available: Beginning Rock Guitar for Kids 00699376 $5.95

22 Patriotic Guitar Solos for Fingerpickers and Flatpickers-This red white and cool collection contains 22 all-American guitar solos for fingerpickers and flatpickers masterfully arranged by Larry McCabe. Includes: America the Beautiful - The Battle Hymn of the Republic - The Marines' Hymn - The Star Spangled Banner - Yankee Doodle - and many more patriotic favorites in standard notation and tab. The accompanying CD includes demo tracks for all the tunes.

Week 5-This course is designed to focus your practice towards realistic goals achievable in six weeks. Each week provides you with techniques concepts and licks to help you play and understand country Guitar at a manageable pace. Three licks in the style of a featured artist are taught each week to help you towards playing in real musical situations and develop your ear for the differences between players.Week five includes: Learn a classic country boogie blues muted bass lines introduction to dominant 7th arpeggios combining chords and licks using arpeggios to create cool licks three licks in the style of Danny Gatton.

Having created the first day-long workshop devoted exclusively to rhythm playing, renowned flatpicker Orrin Star has helped guitarists around the country improve their rhythm skills. This 95-minute video offers an enhanced version of Orrin's live workshop, featuring additional bass runs and songs, a new section on playing with other guitarists, and a guest appearance by Kenny Smith. Starting with the basics and working up from there, it will show you: - a full range of strums and bass runs - how and when to apply them - the key to killer bass runs (rest strokes) - the 'cool' chord forms - how to approach faster songs / Guitare (Flatpick) Et Plectre