The ultimate guitarist's reference book with playing techniques, solo and improvisation concepts, exercises and jam tracks. The purpose of this book is to demystify the relatively simple concepts or tricks around which much of rock guitar is built. The book is designed modularly, allowing the reader to choose any topic at any time, but is can also be sequentially as a method. Topics includes warm-ups, pentatonic scales, bending and vibrato techniques, blues scales, string skipping, major scales, alternate picking, modes, economy picking (sweeping), arpeggios, two-hand tapping, minor scales, legato techniques, exotic scales, whammy bar, how to build a solo, practice planning, and improvisation. Each concept is discussed in a thorough and easily understandable manner. The accompanying CD includes over 80 licks and exercises plus more than 20 jam tracks, helping the student put the concepts directly into practice. In notation and tablature.
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Series: Licks and Phrases
Product Class: Rock
Classification: AMA Verlag
Product Line: Guitar (Electric)
Medium: Book/CD Set
Overall Difficulty: Beginning
Rhythm Difficulty: 3+
Keys/Chords Difficulty: 1+
Notes/Positions Difficulty: 3+
Technique Difficulty: 2+
Length Difficulty: 1
Difficulty Grade: Explanation
Publisher: AMA Verlag
Binding: Flex: A very sturdy square binding.
Publication Date: 21 Jan 2000
Writer: Peter Fischer
Pages: 184
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• Table of Contents Page
Foreword
Six Tips for Practicing
Survey of the Study Program
CD Playist
Chapter 1 - Warm Ups
Note Location
Chromatics
The Spider
Chapter 2 - Pentatonic Scales
Stretch pentatonics
Sequences
Jam Tracks
Chapter 3 - The Blues Scale
Blue notes
Scale positions
Licks
Chapter 4 - String Bending/Vibrato
Smear, release and unison bends
Circle, rock and jack-off vibrato
Chapter 5 - The Major Scale
Scale positions
Licks
Projects
Chapter 6 - Alternate Picking
3-notes-per-string scales
Pedal tone licks
Mega-chops
Paganini
Chapter 7 - The Modes of the Major Scale
3-note-per-string scales
Modes
Tonal colors
Pitch axis system
Chapter 8 - Legato technique
Hammer-ons
Pull offs
Slides
Shapes
Chapter 9 - Triadic Arpeggios / Triads
Welcome to the land of arpeggios!
Chapter 10 - Economy Picking
Sweeping
Scales
Arpeggios
Chapter 11 - Four-Note Arpeggios
Standard/long form fingerings
The Jan Hammer scale
Chord substitution
Chapter 12 - String Skipping Technique
Scales
Arpeggios
Sequences
Repeating Patterns
Licks
Chapter 13 - Two Hand Tapping
Tapping scales and arps
Eight-finger tapping
Harmonics tapping
Chapter 14 - The Harmonic Minor Scale
Modes
Jam Tracks
Projects
Chapter 15 - The Melodic Minor Scale
Positions
Modes
Altered Scales
Licks
Chapter 16 - Exotic Scales
Whole tone scale
Diminished scale
The Enigmatic scale
Chapter 17 - The Vibrato Arm
The whammy bar
The dive bomb
Wang bar clips
Legato phrasing
Chapter 18 - Effective Learning - Practice Planning
Chapter 19 - Improvisation - Building Solos
Appendix
Discography and literature
List of symbols
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