The Everything Rock & Blues Guitar Book,9781580628839

The Everything Rock & Blues Guitar Book

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Edition: 2nd
ISBN13: 9781580628839
ISBN10: 1580628834
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-08-01
Publisher(s): Adams Media Corp
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Summary

Offers text and audio instruction for playing blues and rock guitar, including tips on inflection and phrasing, chord progression, alternate tuning, and transcription and ear training.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Recording ix
Top Ten Things You'll Learn from This Book x
Introduction xi
How to Use This Book and CD xiii
Standard Notation and Tablature
xiv
Neck Diagrams
xiv
Chord Boxes
xv
Audio Examples
xvi
Guitar Terminology
xvi
1 Rock and Blues 101 1(6)
The Origins of the Blues
2(1)
Blues Styles, Artists, and Evolution
3(1)
The Guitar's Role
3(1)
The Birth of Rock
4(1)
Rock Evolution
4(1)
Teaching Lead Guitar
5(2)
2 Rock and Blues Styles 7(18)
Open-Position Chords
8(2)
Barre Chords
10(2)
Reading Chord Charts
12(2)
Standard Sheet Music
14(1)
Power Chords
14(2)
Playing the Blues
16(3)
Blues Theory
19(6)
3 The Pentatonic Scale 25(12)
The Most Common Scale
26
Learning to Play the Scale
21(10)
Major and Minor Pentatonic Scales
31(2)
Blues Norms
33(1)
Rock Norms
34(1)
Voicing
35(1)
Being Musical
35(2)
4 Inflections and Phrasing 37(16)
Why It's Important
38(1)
Coming Alive with Slides
38(3)
The Mechanics of a Bend
41(1)
Standard Half Step Bends
42(1)
Whole-Step Bends
43(1)
Bend Kindly
44(1)
Tuning a Bend
44(2)
Advanced Bends
46(2)
Non-Bending Inflections
48(5)
5 Beyond the Pentatonic Scale 53(14)
More Than Meets the Eye
54(1)
Five Shapes of Pentatonic
55(5)
Adding to the Scale
60(1)
The Blues Scale
61(1)
Second Helping
62(1)
Another Hexatonic Scale
63(2)
The Septatonic Scale
65(2)
6 Major and Minor Scales 67(16)
A Major Shift
68(3)
Moveable Scale Shapes
71(2)
Making Music with the Major Scale
73(2)
The Minor Scale
75(1)
Putting the Minor Scale to Use
76(2)
Performance-Ready Scales
78(5)
7 Music Theory 83(12)
An Introduction to Theory
84(1)
Intervals Big and Small
85(3)
Constructing the Major Scale
88(3)
Minor Theory
91(2)
Using Theory as You Play
93(2)
8 Chords and Chord Progressions 95(16)
What Is a Chord?
96(3)
Basic Chord Theory
99(1)
Chord Progressions
100(2)
Chord Families and Tall Chords
102(2)
Common Chord Voicings
104(5)
The Blues Chords
109(2)
9 Arpeggios 111(14)
The Theory of Arpeggios
112(2)
Fingerings for Major Arpeggios
114(2)
Fingerings for Minor Arpeggios
116(2)
Fingerings for Diminished Arpeggios
118(2)
Applying Arpeggios
120(3)
Arpeggios in the Blues Progression
123(2)
10 Modes 125(12)
Modes Defined
126(1)
The Mode You Already Know-Ionian
126(1)
The Second Mode-Dorian
126(2)
The Third Mode-Phrygian
128(1)
The Fourth Mode-Lydian
129(1)
The Fifth Mode-Mixolydian
130(2)
The Sixth Mode Aeolian
132(1)
The Seventh Mode-Locrian
132(2)
Applying Modes to Your Playing
134(3)
11 Technique 137(10)
Why Technique Matters
138(1)
The Body's Role
138(2)
The Fingers' Effort
140(1)
The Art of Playing
141(2)
Building Good Technique
143(1)
Exercises to Improve Technique
144(3)
12 Extended Techniques: Tapping and Sweeping 147(14)
Stretching the Boundaries
148(1)
Tap Mechanics
148(3)
Tapping Scales
151(1)
Tapping Chords
152(1)
Arpeggio Tapping
153(1)
The Mechanics of Sweep-Picking
154(1)
Sweep-Picking in Practice
155(2)
Real Sweeping
157(4)
13 Guitar Tricks 161(12)
Pick a Spot
162(1)
Controlling Sounds on an Electric Guitar
162(2)
Add-Ons
164(3)
Physics 101 and Natural Harmonics
167(2)
Slides
169(4)
14 Putting It All Together: Blues 173(12)
Blues Solo Riffs in A
174(2)
Blues Solo Riffs in E
176(3)
Blues Rhythm and Chord Sets
179(2)
Blues Turnarounds and Ending Lines
181(3)
Conclusions
184(1)
15 Putting It All Together: Rock and Beyond 185(14)
Endless Options
186(1)
Pentatonic Riffs and Solo Ideas
186(3)
Major and Minor Scale Ideas
189(1)
The Modes
190(3)
Arpeggios
193(1)
Tapping
193(1)
Combinations Licks
194(3)
Conclusions
197(2)
16 Playing by Ear 199(12)
Perfect Pitch vs. Relative Pitch
200(1)
Beginning Your Ear Training
200(1)
Hearing Power Chords
201(1)
Hearing Major and Minor Chords
202(1)
Longer Melodies
202(1)
Recognizing Scales
202(1)
Advanced Ear Training
203(6)
Transcribing
209(1)
Computer Help
210(1)
17 How to practice 211(10)
The Meaning of "Practice"
212(2)
The Basics
214(1)
Practicing Scales
214(2)
Practicing Arpeggios
216(1)
Practicing Modes
216(1)
Practicing Technique
217(2)
Practicing Chords
219(2)
18 Sound a Gear 221(12)
Electric Guitars
222(3)
Acoustic Guitars
225(1)
Amplifiers
225(4)
Distortion
229(1)
Delay, Chorus, Reverb, and Flange
230(1)
The Wah
231(2)
19 Technology 233(12)
Early Synthesizers
234(1)
MIDI
234(5)
Sequencers
239(1)
Notation
240(1)
Home Recording
241(1)
Other Uses for the Home Computer
242(3)
20 The Next Steps 245(9)
Finish Line
246(1)
Building Blocks
247(1)
Approach the Guitar Another Way
248(1)
Get Good Instruction
249(1)
Keep Learning
250(2)
Songwriting
252(2)
Appendix A Resources 254(1)
Appendix B Recommended Albums 255(2)
Appendix C Music Reading Tutorial 257(4)
Index 261

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