Includes blues, rock, country and hard rock styles---over 100 licks & riffs for live and studio performance. All licks are shown in standard music notation and TAB. These are scale and fingering patterns every guitarist needs to know. The CD includes all examples and solos.

This book is a fast and fun way to learn how to use scales and modes from day one, and provides a strong foundation upon which to build. Contains 14 essential scales and modes, licks in the styles of famous guitarists, and guitar TAB, neck position and standard music notation. The online audio includes accompaniments for songs and exercises.

Solid guitar instruction at a great value. Each book in this series comes with a CD so you can listen and play along with every song and exampleall for the same price as the book alone! Learn by playing familiar blues, rock, jazz, classical, folk and country songs, from the fundamentals of level 1 to the more advanced techniques of level 4. 48 pages.

You know your scales, understand how to play over a chord progression, and learned enough music theory to fill an encyclopedia, but you still aren't satisfied with your solos. This book teaches jazz guitarists how to apply their knowledge of scales, chord progressions, and music theory towards creating great guitar solos. Eight full-length solos in a variety of styles are studied in detail, including analysis of chord progressions and the material used to improvise over them, techniques, and structural characteristics. Styles range from classic standards and Gypsy jazz to Latin, modal and smooth jazz. All eight solos are performed on the accompanying CD.

This handy resource illustrates 36 chords in each key with the most commonly used fingerings, along with chord theory such as intervals, chord structure, building chords and the circle of fifths. With the CD, which includes listening examples for all the chords and styles found in the book, examples of how to play different chords come to life in a variety of styles, such as bluegrass, blues, country, funk, heavy metal, jazz, R & B, reggae, rock, and rockabilly.

Learning jazz guitar is fun and easy with this unique step-by-step method. This thorough approach to applying scales and modes to improvisation includes exercises and licks in standard music notation and TAB, easy-to-read scale diagrams, and basic theory lessons. The CD includes performances of the exercises.

Fifty well-known pieces from the classical repertoire, written in full standard notation with TAB and recorded on the included CD. This collection is invaluable for all guitarists looking to expand their classical guitar repertoire. Pieces range form easy to intermediate levels. Composers include Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Dvorak, Grief, Handel, Mozart, Schubert, Tchaikovsky Verdi and even Scott Joplin.