Mastering Rock Guitar (+DVD)

The perfect book for guitarists who have been playing for a while and are ready to expand their skills and technique, "Mastering Rock Guitar" features in-depth lessons on pentatonic extensions, the major and harmonic minor scales, arpeggios, triads, chords derived from scales, and modes. Also included are technique-expanding exercises for legato playing, speed picking, intervallic playing, tapping, sweep picking, and bending. The second edition features new examples on string skipping and combining scale patterns, new examples in the styles of the hottest guitar players on the scene, new audio recordings, and brand-new video demonstrationg the examples in the book.

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About the DVD

Introduction

1. Getting started
-The guitar fingerboard
-Tuning
-Music notation
-Reading tab, scale and chord diagrams
-Roman numerals

2. Techniques
-Slides
-Hammer-ons and pull-offs
-Legato playing
-Bending
-Speed picking
-Tapping
-Sweep picking
-Harmonics
-The whammy bar

3. Pentatonic creativity
-The minor pentatonic patterns
-The major pentatonic patterns
-Combining patterns
-String-skipping patterns
-One-note-per-string pentatonics
-Sliding one-note-per-string licks

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

5. Harmonic minor scale improvisation
-Harmonic minor three-note-per-string patterns
-Harmonic minor two-/one-note-per-string
-Combining harmonic minor patterns

6. Arpeggios
-Major
-Minor
-Octave displacements
-Dominant 7th
-Dimished 7th

7. Triads
-Review
-String sets
-2-for-1 altered triads
-Minor
-2-for-3 altered triads

8. Chord creativity
-Stacked 5ths and the pentatonic scales
-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

9. Mode applications
-Review
-Ionian
-Lydian
-Dorian
-Aeolian
-Mixolydian