Building Guitar Technique

This powerful and all-encompassing book & CD package is an epic vision on the art of modern rock guitar. John Petrucci offers detailed lessons on speed and accuracy, chromatic exercises, playing with dynamics, connecting scale fragments to form long solo lines and much, much more. One of the most complete courses on rock guitar.

(Guitar Recorded Versions). Another great selection of songs are inlcuded in tab from this great progressive metal act. Selections are: 6:00 * Caught in a Web * Erotomania * Innocence Faded * Lie * Lifting Shadows off a Dream * The Mirror * Scarred * The Silent Man * Space-Dye Vest * Voices.

(Guitar Book). The ultimate source for building chops while improving your technical facility and overcoming physical barriers. Covers: alternate, economy, hybrid, and sweep picking; symmetrical, chromatic, and scale exercises; arpeggios, tapping, legato, and bending sequences; and more over 200 exercises in all! The CD includes full demonstrations of the exercises.

Note-for-note transcriptions with tab for all the songs from Yngwie's metal masterpiece: As Above, So Below * Black Star * Evil Eye * Far Beyond the Sun * Farewell * Icarus Dream Suite Opus 4 * Little Savage * Now Your Ships Are Burned. A must for every aspiring shredder!

(Musicians Institute Press). This Master Class with MI instructor David Oakes is aimed at any electric or acoustic guitarist who wants a quick, thorough grounding in the essentials of classical and fingerstyle technique. Topics covered include: arpeggios and scales, free stroke and rest stroke, P-i scale technique, three-to-a-string patterns, natural and artificial harmonics, tremolo and rasgueado, and more. The book includes 12 intensive lessons for right and left hand in standard notation & tab, and the CD features 92 solo acoustic tracks.

(Musicians Institute Press). From bends and picking styles to multi-finger tapping and animal sounds, this book/CD pack contains loads of guitar techniques to learn and master. Hone your skills with chop-building exercises, and use the demonstration CD to master every technique in the book. Includes: chop-building exercises * tremolo bar, tapping, harmonics * bends, slurs, slides * picking styles, rakes * fret-hand techniques * pick-hand techniques * lead and rhythm guitar * rock, classical, Latin, folk, metal, jazz and more * tricks and sound effects * standard notation and tab.