Guitar Aerobics

Guitar Aerobics
Author: Troy Nelson
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2007-11-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781423414353

(Guitar Educational). From the former editor of Guitar One magazine, here is a daily dose of vitamins to keep your chops fine tuned! Musical styles include rock, blues, jazz, metal, country, and funk. Techniques taught include alternate picking, arpeggios, sweep picking, string skipping, legato, string bending, and rhythm guitar. These exercises will increase speed, and improve dexterity and pick- and fret-hand accuracy. The accompanying CD includes all 365 workout licks plus play-along grooves in every style at eight different metronome settings.

Jazz Chops for Guitar

Jazz Chops for Guitar
Author: Buck Brown
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
Total Pages: 84
Release: 2001-08
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781929395347

Great musical ideas need great chops to back them up. Build your finger strength, flexibility and independence with these exercise books from one of America's leading guitar schools. Jazz Chops covers the finger independence needed for smooth, rapid changes between complex jazz chords in the context of important progressions, such as ii-V-I. Develop your chops practicing exercises in the style of music you enjoy!

The Serious Guitarist -- Blues Chops

The Serious Guitarist -- Blues Chops
Author: Buck Brown (Musician)
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-09
Genre: Blues (Music)
ISBN: 9780739093047

Great musical ideas need a solid foundation of strong chops to back them up. Fill the gaps in your technique with this unique approach to blues guitar. Build your finger strength, flexibility, and independence with exercises and examples written especially for blues players. This book includes exercises to help you master bending, shuffle rhythm patterns, turnarounds, blues trills, and more. Develop your chops while practicing exercises in the style of the music you enjoy. The Serious Guitarist: Blues Chops provides the tools you need to become a better guitar player, but more importantly, it will help you become a better musician. The included companion MP3 CD features demonstrations of the examples in the book.

Rock Discipline

Rock Discipline
Author: John Petrucci
Publisher: Warner Bros. Publications
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1996-11
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781576234747

As the cornerstone for the innovative band Dream Theater, John Petrucci has rapidly become one of the most respected and talked about guitarists of the '90's. He has been featured in virtually every major guitar publication worldwide and was voted "Best Guitarist for 1994" in "Guitar" magazine and "Break Through Guitarist of the Year (1993)" in "Guitar For the Practicing Musician" magazine. This powerful and all encompassing book starts with a valuable segment on warm-ups followed by up-to-date practice concepts that address dealing with today's information explosion. John has provided detailed lessons concerning speed and accuracy using rhythmic subdivisions, chromatic exercises, dynamics and scale fragments. Other topics include picking through arpeggios, string skipping, sweep picking, legato technique and how to expand the color and texture of basic "power chords." Also included are detailed transcriptions and demonstrations of dozens of exercises, examples and special etudes ranging from easy-to-master to very challenging. All music examples are contained on the included recording and written in both standard notation and tablature. Book jacket.

Acoustic Masterclass

Acoustic Masterclass
Author: Ed Gerhard
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
Total Pages: 76
Release: 2004-07
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780757920110

Guitar arrangements transcribed by the artists themselves, in standard notation and tab. Each edition includes a masterclass-style CD in which the artist walks you through the key aspects and techniques for each arrangement. Ten of Ed Gerhard's most beautiful solo guitar pieces transcribed in full notation and tablature. On the accompanying master class-style CD, Ed carefully describes and demonstrates all the key passages for each song. Titles are: Blue Highway * Crow * Duet * Farther Along * Homage * Promised Land * Shallow Brown * Si Bhig, Si Mhor * The Water Is Wide * Wild Mountain Thyme.

Gear Acquisition Syndrome

Gear Acquisition Syndrome
Author: Jan-Peter Herbst
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781862181847

Gear Acquisition Syndrome, also known as GAS, is commonly understood as the musicians unrelenting urge to buy and own instruments and equipment as an anticipated catalyst of creative energy and bringer of happiness. For many musicians, it involves the unavoidable compulsion to spend money one does not have on gear perhaps not even needed. The urge is directed by the belief that acquiring another instrument will make one a better player. This book pioneers research into the complex phenomenon named GAS from a variety of disciplines, including popular music studies and music technology, cultural and leisure studies, consumption research, sociology, psychology and psychiatry. The newly created theoretical framework and empirical studies of online communities and offline music stores allow the study to consider musical, social and personal motives, which influence the way musicians think about and deal with equipment. As is shown, GAS encompasses a variety of practices and psychological processes. In an often life-long endeavour, upgrading the rig is accompanied by musical learning processes in popular music.

Blues Guitar For Dummies

Blues Guitar For Dummies
Author: Jon Chappell
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2011-05-23
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1118050827

Do you wish you could play your favorite blues music on guitar? Even if you don’t read music, it’s not difficult with Blues Guitar for Dummies. With this hands-on guide, you’ll pick up the fundamentals instantly and start jamming like your favorite blues artists! Blues Guitar for Dummies covers all aspects of blues guitar, showing you how to play scales, chords, progressions, riffs, solos, and more! It’s packed with musical examples, chords charts, and photos that let you explore the genre and play the songs of the great blues musicians. This accessible guide will give you the skills you need to: Choose the right guitar, equipment, and strings Hold, tune, and get situated with your guitar Play barre chords and strum to the rhythm Recognize the structure of a blues song Tackle musical riffs Master melodies and solos Make your guitar sing, cry, and wail Jam to any type of blues In addition to this must-have book, a bonus CD is included so that you can listen to famous songs, practice your riffs and chords, and develop your style as a blues musician. It also features a quick guide to musical notation and suggestions on albums, artists, and guitars for further enjoyment. With Blues Guitar for Dummies, you can re-create the masterpieces of the blues legend without the expensive lessons!

Bass Aerobics

Bass Aerobics
Author: Jon Liebman
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2011-09-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1480351822

(Bass Builders). Perfect for beginning to advanced players, this book with audio by world-renowned bassist and educator Jon Liebman provides a 52-week, one-exercise-per-week workout program for developing, improving and maintaining bass guitar technique. Liebman teaches: chromatics; scales & arpeggios; string-crossing and advanced patterns; slapping & popping; and more -- all in styles ranging from rock, funk and R&B to jazz, disco, reggae and more. Bassists using "Bass Aerobics" will benefit from increased speed, improved dexterity, better accuracy and heightened coordination not to mention an awesome new groove vocabulary! The accompanying audio contains all 52 workout grooves for both demonstration and play-along.

The Ultimate Guitar Chord & Scale Bible

The Ultimate Guitar Chord & Scale Bible
Author: Buck Brown
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2012-06-25
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1470622629

This exhaustive study of chords and scales is a must-own for any improvising guitarist. Published in collaboration with one of America's leading guitar schools, it provides the practical information you need to use each scale in a solo. With each scale, you get an explanation of the scale and its uses, a fingering on one string, six-string fingerings in all keys in a cycle of 4ths, three-note per string fingerings, and a chord vamp to practice the scale over. Give your playing a unique edge with exotic scales from all over the world. This easy-to-use book even includes a section on how to practice scales. The Ultimate Guitar Chord & Scale Bible should be part of every guitarists library.

Complete Jazz Guitar Method: Beginning Jazz Guitar

Complete Jazz Guitar Method: Beginning Jazz Guitar
Author: Jody Fisher
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 100
Release:
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781457408281

Anyone with a knowledge of basic chords and guitar scale fingerings can dig right in and start learning to play jazz right away. Spanning from the major scale and basic triad theory all the way up to extended chords and the modes, this book features a full-length etude or song to go with every new concept introduced. Beginning Jazz Guitar breaks the age-old tradition of dry, intimidating and confusing jazz books, and provides an actual step-by-step and enjoyable method for learning to play in this style. Clearly organized into easily mastered segments, each chapter is divided into separate lessons on harmony or improvisation. All music is shown in standard notation and TAB.