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Mastering Rock Guitar c\w DVD (2e)

  • Weight : 250g
  • Width : 23.5cmLength : 30.5cmHeight : 1cm
RM 132.50

Description

This book and DVD-ROM are ideal for guitarists looking to enhance their skills and techniques after gaining some experience. It offers comprehensive lessons on various topics, including pentatonic extensions, major and harmonic minor scales, arpeggios, triads, scale-derived chords, and modes. Additionally, it features exercises designed to improve techniques such as legato playing, speed picking, intervallic playing, tapping, sweep picking, and bending, catering to those aspiring to excel as rock guitarists. The revised edition introduces new examples focusing on string skipping and the integration of scale patterns, along with fresh audio recordings and a new video that illustrates the book's concepts. Led by the engaging and relaxed instructor Jared Meeker, a master of rock guitar, this resource makes learning enjoyable and accessible. For those who have completed Beginning Rock Guitar and Intermediate Rock Guitar, this book represents the perfect next step in their musical journey.

Songs / Content

  • CHAPTER 1 -- GETTING STARTED
  • The Guitar Fingerboard
  • Tuning
  • Music Notation
  • Reading Tab, Scale, and Chord Diagrams
  • Roman Numerals
  • CHAPTER 2 -- TECHNIQUES
  • Slides
  • Hammer-Ons and Pull-Offs
  • Legato Playing
  • Bending
  • Speed Picking
  • Tapping
  • Roll Over Johann
  • Skip It
  • Sweep Picking
  • Harmonics
  • The Whammy Bar
  • CHAPTER 3 -- PENTATONIC CREATIVITY
  • The Minor Pentatonic Patterns
  • The Major Pentatonic Patterns
  • Combining Patterns
  • String-Skipping Patterns
  • Weaving Pentatonic Patterns
  • One-Note-Per-String Pentatonics
  • Sliding One-Note-Per-String Licks
  • CHAPTER 4 -- MAJOR SCALE CREATIVITY
  • Three-Note-Per-String Patterns
  • The Major Scale System
  • Major Scale Extensions
  • Spicing Things Up
  • Two-Note-Per-String Patterns: A New Approach
  • The Two-Note/One-Note-Per-String Pattern
  • Get Up, Get Down
  • CHAPTER 5 -- HARMONIC MINOR SCALE IMPROVISATION
  • Harmonic Minor Three-Note-Per-String Patterns
  • Harmonic Minor Two-/One-Note-Per-Strings
  • Combining Harmonic Minor Patterns
  • CHAPTER 6 -- ARPEGGIOS
  • Major
  • Minor
  • Octave Displacements
  • Dominant 7th
  • Diminished 7th
  • CHAPTER 7 -- TRIADS
  • Review
  • String Sets
  • 2-for-1 Altered Triads
  • 2-for-3 Altered Triads
  • CHAPTER 8 -- CHORD CREATIVITY
  • Stacked 5ths and the Pentatonic Scale
  • 2nd/6th Chords from the Major Scale
  • 2nd/5th/2nd Four-Note Chords
  • 3rd/2nd/6th Four-Note Chords
  • 2nd/5th/5th Four-Note Chords
  • CHAPTER 9 -- MODE APPLICATIONS
  • Ionian
  • Lydian
  • Dorian
  • Aeolian
  • Mixolydian

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