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Table of Contents:

• Getting started. Holding the guitar ; Stretching and warming up ; Tuning up
• Chords and rhythm guitar. Easy chords for the beginner ; And now for some "real" chords! ; Adding or subtracting fingers ; Slash chords ; Eighth-note strumming logic ; Sixteenth-note strumming logic ; The blues ; Shuffle riffs ; Playing shuffle blues ; Chucking, damping and palm muting ; The art of the power chord ; The art of the barre chord ; Nine movable chords ; The CAGED sequence of barre chords ; Chord fragmentation ; Funkin' with fragments ; Chord ornamentation (Hendrix style) ; Fingerstyle ; Chord scales
• Melody and lead guitar. Five major scale forms ; Five minor pentatonic scale forms ; Five blues scale forms ; Five major pentatonic scale forms ; The CAGED sequence applied to scales ; Exotic scales ; Vibrato ; Other left-hand techniques ; Five-note patterns and the Albert King box ; Pentatonic/blues lick index ; Melodic patterns ; Modes ; Introduction to slide guitar ; Harmonics ; Dude etudes and Lilith licks ; Improv (Phrasing) ; Single-string licks ; The art of finger tapping ; The art of the sweep arpeggio ; The art of speed picking
• Appendix. An introduction to music theory ; The guitar fretboard and reading diagrams ; Reading music ; Final note from the author.

Author/Creator:

Hurwitz, Tobias

Contributors:

National Guitar Workshop

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Accompanying materials: English

Main Work:

The total rock guitarist: a fun and comprehensive overview of rock guitar playing [by Hurwitz, T.]

Subjects:

Guitar — Methods (Rock) — Self-instruction

Rock music — Instruction and study

Guitar — Methods (Rock)

Guitar

Rock music

Genres:

Self-instruction

Methods (Music) — Rock

Performance Medium:

1 performer: guitar

General Notes:

In staff notation, tablature or guitar chord diagrams.
Companion CD contains demonstration tracks keyed to exercises in the book.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 4) and discography (p. 127).
"National Guitar Workshop book ; approved curriculum"--Cover.

Physical Description:

1 score (127 pages) : illustrations, portraits ; 30 cm + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)

Physical Characteristics:

30 cm

Call Numbers:

MT582 .H87 2006
LPCD 107,710

ISBNs:

0739038508 (bk. & CD)
9780739038505 (bk. & CD)

Other Standard Numbers:

Publisher Number, Alfred (CD): 24425
Publisher Number, Alfred: 24423
Publisher Number, Alfred: BN 24424

OCLC Numbers:

162106426