Rock Guitar for Adults
The Grown-Up Approach to Playing Rock Guitar
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SKU: AP.40175
The Grown-Up Approach to Playing Rock Guitar. Composed by Tobias Hurwitz. Guitar Method or Supplement; Method/Instruction. Rock. Book and CD. 96 pages. Alfred Music #00-40175. Published by Alfred Music (AP.40175).ISBN 9780739092866. UPC: 038081448770. English.
This fun and friendly step-by-step introduction to rock guitar is written with the adult learner in mind. It is both a great self-teaching book and a great method for use with an instructor. Rock Guitar for Adults covers rock chords, jamming, fingerpicking, scales and techniques for lead guitar, and more. Easy-to-read examples are written in standard music notation and TAB, and there's even a section on music theory geared toward rock musicians. Large diagrams and detailed photographs help simplify the learning process. A CD demonstrating all the examples in the book is included, making learning easier and more fun. This is the perfect how to book for the grown-up who wants to rock!
Song List (104)
- Strumming Patterns
- Play That Funky Music
- Other Techniques
- CHAPTER FIVE: THE FIRST WAVE OF ROCK SCALES
- The Major Scale
- Five Major Scale Forms
- Tune in G Major
- The Minor Pentatonic Scale
- Five Minor Pentatonic Scale Forms
- Beneath My Digital Extremity
- Power Pentatonic
- CHAPTER SIX: THE SECOND WAVE OF ROCK SCALES
- The Blues Scale
- Five Blues Scale Forms
- Improvisation Concepts & Strategies
- A Blues Groove
- The Major Pentatonic Scale
- Five Major Pentatonic Scale Forms
- Melinda
- CHAPTER SEVEN: THE MODES OF THE MAJOR SCALE
- Where Modes Come From
- Aeolian Mode (Natural Minor)
- Five Aeolian Mode (Natural Minor) Forms
- Aeolian Metal
- Dorian Mode
- Five Dorian Mode Forms
- Mixolydian Mode
- Five Mixolydian Mode Forms
- CHAPTER EIGHT: HARMONIC MINOR SCALE
- Five Harmonic Minor Scale Forms
- Gypsy Rock
- CHAPTER NINE: USING THE SCALES
- Soloing On The Blues
- Matching Scales to Chords
- Understanding Diatonic Chord Progressions
- Recognizing Modal Progressions
- Using the Harmonic Minor Scale
- CHAPTER TEN: LEAD GUITAR EXAMPLES
- Bending
- Sliding
- Hammer-Ons and Pull-Offs
- Finger Tapping
- Eddie's Tune
- Harmonics
- Harmonics Etude
- CHAPTER ELEVEN: JAMMING
- Leading
- Following
- Common Musical Forms
- Jamming Exercises
- Try This with Your Band
- Going "Out"
- Song for Jamming
- Jam Tune
- CHAPTER TWELVE: PICKIN' AND GRINNIN'
- Arpeggios
- For Kathy
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN: "THE WORLD'S GREATEST ROCK 'N' ROLL BAND"
- Honky-Tonk Groove
- CHAPTER FOURTEEN: SLOWHAND
- Melodic Embellishment
- Melodic Lead Style of Eric Clapton
- Eric's Blues
- CHAPTER FIFTEEN: A NEW ROCK EXPERIENCE
- Chord Embellishment
- Licks
- CHAPTER SIXTEEN: ANOTHER PAGE OF ROCK HISTORY
- Pentatonic Madness: "Box Licks"
- Appendix A: The Basics
- Reading Music
- Scale Diagrams
- Reading Tablature
- Special Notation
- Appendix B: An Introduction to Music Theory
- The Major Scale and Key
- Key
- Minor Key
- Key Signatures
- How Chords Are Derived from the Major Scale
- Diatonic triads
- Diatonic 7th Chords
- About the Author
- Introduction
- CHAPTER ONE: ROCK CHORDS
- The First Wave of Rock Chords
- The Second Wave of Rock Chords
- Power Chords
- Barre Chords
- CHAPTER TWO: GETTING BLUESY
- The 12-Bar Blues
- Rockin' Up the Blues
- Varying the Shuffle
- Shuffle Blues
- Cool Chords & the Blues
- Cool Chord Blues
- Blues in E with Mixed Techniques
- Turn Me Around
- Late-Night Wanderer
- Playing the Blues in Any Key
- CHAPTER THREE: FUN WITH CHORD PROGRESSIONS
- Common Progressions
- Transposing
- CHAPTER FOUR: SPICE UP THE STRUMMING
- Musical Strumming