Provides a way to learn to play your favourite songs! This book includes music notation, guitar tablature and performance notes for 35 rock and roll hits.

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(Guitar Collection). This book provides a fun and easy way to learn to play your favorite songs today! It includes music notation, guitar tablature and performance notes for 35 rock 'n' roll hits, including: All Right Now * Born to Be Wild * Brown Eyed Girl * Hey Joe * Money for Nothing * Proud Mary * Rock and Roll All Nite * Rock This Town * Shattered * Smoke on the Water * Summer of '69 * Tush * Walk This Way * What I Like About You * Wild Thing * and more.

The Complete Idiot's Guide songbooks are designed to get novice guitarists playing immediately, and playing the songs that inspired them to pick up a guitar in the first place. Each song in The Complete Idiot's Guide books is preceded by a lesson that focuses on the most important technical and musical features. Fingerings, patterns, and techniques are discussed and broken down to help make learning smooth and simple. Most guitar songs are relatively easy to play, and the arrangements in these books are simplified just enough to show those core, natural guitar parts without being overcomplicated, just the way a friend might show someone how to play a song one-on-one. Learning is made even simpler with each song written in standard music notation plus TAB and guitar chord diagrams. Learning hit rock songs was never so easy! Pick up The Complete Idiot's Guide to Rock Guitar Songs and learn all 30 tunes from acclaimed artists like Cream, AC/DC, Guns N' Roses, Jimi Hendrix, Green Day, and many more.

(Guitar Collection). Everything you need to play some of the greatest acoustic rock songs is here, including note-for-note transcriptions with lyrics and tab, and easy-to-understand performance notes. Features 32 complete tunes: Against the Wind * All Apologies * Band on the Run * Every Rose Has Its Thorn * Have You Ever Seen the Rain? * The Joker * Learning to Fly * Love the One You're With * More than Words * Name * Rocky Raccoon * Walk on the Wild Side * and more.

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