Alfred's Basic Rock Guitar Method 2
Starts on the Low E String to Get You Rockin' Faster
By Nathaniel Gunod, L. C. Harnsberger, and Ron Manus
Item: 00-42286
UPC: 038081464718
ISBN 10: 0739099841
ISBN 13: 9780739099841
Series: Alfred's Basic Guitar LibraryCategory: Guitar Method or Supplement
Format: Book & CD
Instrument: Guitar
Recognized for over 50 years as the best-paced and most-thorough guitar method available, Alfred's Basic Guitar Method has introduced over 5 million beginners to playing guitar. Now, Alfred's Basic Rock Guitar Method provides a new approach to learning guitar for beginners who want to play rock.
Book 2 features new techniques like hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, and teaches you barre chords, new scales, and how to improvise with pentatonic scales. There are many more licks and melodies in the styles of many of the greatest rock artists, and an authentic arrangement of the opening from Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven."
The CD and DVD include video lessons, live performances of all the examples, and MP3 play-along tracks for practice.
Learning to play has never been easier or more fun than with Alfred's Basic Guitar Method---the best choice for beginning guitarists.
What You Should Know Before Starting This Book | |
Move Up the Neck on the 2nd String | |
Two Positions on the 2nd String | |
Move Up the Neck on the 1st String | |
Two Positions on the 1st String | |
Hammer-On and Pull-Off Riff | |
Chromatic Scale to the 8th Fret | |
12/8 Exercise with the Five-String C Chord | |
Vibrato in the Style of Jimmy Page | |
Improvising with Pentatonic Scales | |
Minor Pentatonic Lick in the Style of Black Sabbath | |
Minor Pentatonic Lick in the Style of Jimmy Page | |
Minor Pentatonic Lick in the Style of Eric Clapton | |
Major Pentatonic Lick in the Style of John Mayer | |
Major Pentatonic Lick in the Style of The Allman Brothers | |
Improvise Your Own Pentatonic Lick in A | |
The Three Principal Chords | |
Tonic, Sub-Dominant, and Dominant | |
Three Principal Chords in Common Keys | |
The 12-Bar Blues Progression | |
Blues Scale Solo on 12-Bar Blues in A (Duet) | |
Chord Theory and Three-String Power Chords | |
Three-String Power Chords with the Root on the E String | |
Power Chord and Palm Mute Exercise | |
More Three-String Power Chords | |
Three-String Power Chords with the Root on the 5th String | |
Preparation for Barre Chords | |
Barre Chord Prep Exercise | |
Most Commonly Used E-Type Barre Chords | |
E-Type Barre Chord Exercise | |
Barre Chord Progression 1 | |
Barre Chord Progression 2 | |
A-Type Barre Chord Exercise | |
Barre Chord Progression 3 | |
Barre Chord Progression 4 | |
You Don't Know How Lucky You Are | |
Dotted Eighth and Sixteenth Notes | |
Dotted Eighth/Sixteenth Note Exercise | |
The Two-Octave A (Harmonic) Minor Scale | |
The Three Principal Chords in the Key of A Minor | |
The Two-Octave E (Harmonic) Minor Scale | |
The Three Principal Chords in the Key of E Minor | |
Important Small Barre Chords | |
Preparation for "Stairway to Heaven" Intro | |
Stairway to Heaven (Introduction) | |