Master the mechanics of single-string technique with this clear concise book and feel the creative freedom that comes when your fingers easily express any musical idea you conceive. Includes: Alternate, economy, sweep, outside, and inside picking - Precise string damping and muting for clear punchy tone - Anticipating and preventing fingering glitches - Scales, modes, triad and 7th arpeggios with inversions - CAGED system fretboard navigation - Intervallic exercises from 3rds through 7ths, with sequencing permutations to keep your fingers and brain working for years to come - Developing natural phrasing senses - Breaking down the learning and memorization process - Making sure practice time produces results - Sprint training regimen for efficiently building speed - Examples notated and tabbed with exact picking and fingering - Password to download audio of all 114 examples.

(Musicians Institute Press). Navigate the guitar neck better than ever before with this easy-to-use book! Designed from Musicians Institute core curriculum programs, it covers essential concepts for players of every level, acoustic or electric. A hands-on guide to theory, it will help you learn to build any scale or chord on your own and unleash creativity. No music reading is required.

(Musicians Institute Press). The notes of any solo are only half the story; the other, equally crucial element is the rhythm. Though there are leagues of books teaching you the scales, modes, and arpeggios that are used when soloing, there's been a great void in the available material with regards to teaching the concept of rhythm. We don't instinctually possess knowledge of which notes to use, so why would we instinctually know which rhythms to use when playing these notes? This is where Rhythmic Guitar comes into play. In this book, you'll learn the timing of notes from the ground up, helping you to develop a solid, internal sense of rhythm that will stick with you throughout your career. You'll be armed with an intimate knowledge of a beat's anatomy, and you'll possess the tools necessary to manipulate the timing of any phrase as you see fit. With a strong command of rhythm, your solos will sound more authoritative, unique and memorable.

Learn to name the notes you see, then the beat a rhythm falls on, translate tab into notes, identify the chord notes make, etc. Then grab your guitar and play the notation!

Serious about jamming, understanding, and creating guitar-driven music? Easy. With an approachable and engaging style, Guitar Theory For Dummies goes beyond guitar basics, presenting the guidance intermediate to advanced players need to improve their improvisational and compositional skills. Plus, with access to audio tracks and video instruction online you can master the concepts and techniques covered in the book. Key content coverage includes: pentatonic and major scale patterns; the CAGED chord system, chord progressions, and playing by numbers; roots, keys, and applying scales, plus modes and modal scales; intervals and chord extensions; popular song references and theory applications that help you understand how to play popular music and contemporary guitar styles, and create music of your own. This title also features companion audio tracks and video content hosted online at Dummies.com The expert instruction and easy-to-digest information provides comprehensive guidance on how to apply music theory concepts to fretted instruments If you already have a handle on the basics and want to know more about the building blocks and theory behind guitar music, Guitar Theory For Dummies has you covered.

Get more variety into your playing with this concise, easy-to-use book from one of today's best-regarded instructional authors. For intermediate to advanced players who already know and use major and minor scales and modes, this book includes complete notation and tablature for all examples, shortcuts to getting the scales under your fingers, interval studies and melodic patterns, analysis of non-diatonic harmony, modal applications, and licks for each scale, including 3 complete solos. Exact fingerings are supplied for challenging passages, some of which are excerpts from the author's solo cds and client sessions. Includes download code for all 74 audio examples.

When improvising, what your mind hears is more often than not determined by what your body can reproduce on your instrument. Much of your conception as an improviser is determined by your technique. If you can't play certain types of ideas, you are simply not going to conceive of them while you are improvising. Even if you could, it wouldn't matter, since you couldn't play them anyway. This book presents serious chops-building technical studies for single note lines and chords. Plus, the examples feature a lot of harmonic content. The material is written in standard notation.