Technique

Open tunings have played an important role in the genesis of blues guitar since the early 1900s. This book/CD pack is solely devoted to providing you with a complete overview of the techniques and styles popularized by the greatest bluesmen of all time. Includes note-for-note transcriptions, performance notes, and full-band CD demonstration for 9 classic songs: Boogie Chillen No. 2 • Cherry Ball Blues • Doing My Thing • Drunken Hearted Man • I Can't Be Satisfied • It Hurts Me Too • Life Saver Blues • Phonograph Blues • Statesboro Blues. Also includes historical analysis and rare photos.

Examine the solo concepts of the masters in this unique book/CD pack. You'll learn the signature techniques of Jimi Hendrix, Yngwie Malmsteen, Randy Rhoads, Steve Vai, Edward Van Halen and many others through phrase-by-phrase performance notes. Also covers long ascending and descending runs, two-handed guitar, rapid-fire repeating licks, sweep picking, building solos and more. The book includes standard notation & tab, and the CD features full demonstrations and rhythm-only tracks.

Explore the over-the-top riffs and solos of this Swedish neoclassical/heavy metal master with our Signature Licks book/CD pack. You'll learn Yngwie's dazzling techniques via detailed study of these 12 hit tunes: Black Star • Deja Vu • Dreaming (Tell Me) • Far Beyond the Sun • Heaven Tonight • I'll See the Light Tonight • Icarus Dream Suite Opus 4 • Making Love • Marching Out • Rising Force • Trilogy Suite Op. 5 • You Don't Remember I'll Never Forget.

This book/CD pack makes learning technique fun and musical for guitarists - teaching them real licks to help build their chops! Topics covered include: alternate picking, economy picking, sweep picking, fingerstyle, chicken pickin', classical, legato, tapping and more. Each technique is isolated, then applied to a range of musical styles: rock, jazz/fusion, blues, country, folk, metal and more. Also includes advice on warming up and practicing, a scale and arpeggio index, and a CD with 74 demo tracks.

This book systematically dissects 12 bone-crunching hits. You'll learn all the techniques necessary to play James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett's most menacing licks, riffs and solos. With lessons on bending, vibrato, harmonics, tapping and a whole lot more - plus complete transcriptions - you'll be shredding along with Metallica in no time! Includes: Battery • Blackened • Enter Sandman • For Whom the Bell Tolls • Frantic • Master of Puppets • Nothing Else Matters • One • Sad But True • St. Anger • The Unforgiven • Until It Sleeps.

Derek Cornett. Centerstream Publications. An introduction to the most commonly used scales and techniques for the modern blues player, complete with demonstration CD.