Posts Tagged ‘Chords’

The Everything Rock & Blues Guitar Book: From Chords to Scales and Licks to Tricks, All You Need to Play Like the Greats (Everything (Music))

June 8th, 2011

Have you ever dreamed of playing lead guitar like John Lee Hooker, Carlos Santana, Jimmy Page, Slash, and Eric Clapton? Perhaps you took a few lessons, but became frustrated and gave up. If so, The Everything® Rock & Blues Guitar Book with CD is for you.

With easy-to-understand text and audio instruction, The Everything® Rock & Blues Guitar Book with CD provides you with everything you need to play all your favorite songs. You will learn the scales and chords found in all rock and blues songs, and achieve the unique techniques that define them. Frequent practice exercises allow you to put your knowledge to work, while the audio examples help train your ear.

The Everything® Rock and Blues Guitar Book with CD also includes professional tips on:

·Inflection and phrasing
·Chord progression
·Alternate tuning, harmonics, and slide playing
·Transcription and ear training
·Equipment, such as electric guitars, straps, amplifiers, strings, and pedals

Written in plain English by longtime professional guitarist and instructor Marc Schonbrun, The Everything® Rock & Blues Guitar Book with CD shows you how to play with your head as well as your hands.

List Price: $ 19.95

Price: $ 3.93

Knack Guitar for Everyone: A Step-by-Step Guide to Notes, Chords, and Playing Basics (Knack: Make It easy)

June 7th, 2011

Knack Guitar for Everyone is a self-instruction book for beginners to intermediates, fully illustrated with 350 full-color photographs and more than fifty exercises and songs in musical notation. By Dick Weismann, who is the author of numerous successful music books and has performed on the Today Show, it covers everything one needs to know about the instrument itself—the parts, different kinds of guitars, care for guitars—and provides the basics of reading guitar music and playing. Lessons are geared toward achievable results, and sidebars address various styles and techniques. Plus, there are a book’s worth of play-along audio tracks available for free at knackbooks.com/guitar.

List Price: $ 19.95

Price: $ 11.50