The Guitar Style Resource
A Comprehensive Guide to Exploring New Techniques and Styles from Heavy Metal to Jazz
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SKU: AP.39292
A Comprehensive Guide to Exploring New Techniques and Styles from Heavy Metal to Jazz. Composed by Raleigh Green. Guitar Method or Supplement; Method/Instruction. Style Resource Series. Funk; Jazz; Metal; Rock. Book and CD. 96 pages. Alfred Music #00-39292. Published by Alfred Music (AP.39292).ISBN 9780739089088. UPC: 038081439846. English.
You've learned the basics of guitar, so now it's time to explore new styles and techniques to help you become a well-rounded and more knowledgeable player. With The Guitar Style Resource, you will be exposed to a variety of musical influences that will help you create a unique, original, and exciting sound. Using examples based on actual songs, you will learn the essential elements of various styles. Learn about important players and understand what goes into creating a great guitar part. Dig in and explore new concepts that will unleash your inner musical potential. The included CD clearly demonstrates the musical examples in the book.
* Explore a wide variety of styles from rock and reggae to classical and funk
* Learn about the styles and recordings of pioneering players
* Master techniques such as fingerstyle, palm muting, hammer-ons, pull-offs, and bending
* Covers acoustic and electric guitar technique
* Includes sample licks and tips on soloing.
Song List (124)
- About the Author
- Introduction
- Basic Notation and Theory
- CHAPTER ONE: The Guitar Styles Toolbox
- Lesson 1: Simplifying the Fretboard
- Lesson 2: The Octave Pattern
- Lesson 3: The CAGED System
- Lesson 4: Simplifying the CAGED System
- Lesson 5: Movable Fretboard Shapes
- Lesson 6: Using Scale Degrees to Build Chords
- CHAPTER TWO: Rock Guitar
- Lesson 1: Palm Muting
- Lesson 2: Rock Chords
- Muting and Barring on the Fretboard
- Lesson 3: Rock Chord Shapes
- Lesson 4: Rock Chord Progressions
- Voice-Leading Labyrinth
- Three-String Strum
- Sweet Molasses
- Lesson 5: Rock Chord Embellishments
- Frost
- Lesson 6: Soloing in a Rock Style
- CHAPTER THREE: Blues Guitar
- Lesson 1: Roman Numerals
- Lesson 2: The 12-Bar Blues
- Basic 12-Bar Blues
- The Chile's Gone
- Lesson 3: The Blues Shuffle
- The Troubled 8-Bar Shuffle
- Stevie's Shuffle
- Lesson 4: The 12/8 Blues
- Cloudy Day Blues
- Lesson 5: Soloing in a Blues Style
- CHAPTER FOUR: Acoustic Guitar
- Lesson 1: Slash Chords and the Bass/Strum
- Afternoon Again
- Absolutely
- Lesson 2: The Quintessential Strum
- Half a Strum to Play
- A Twist of Lime
- Lesson 3: The Muted Strum
- Fret-Hand Mute
- Take a Seat
- Moments Like Those
- Flap
- Lesson 4: Tricky Strumming Simplified
- Lesson 5: Acoustic Soloing
- CHAPTER FIVE: Fingerstyle Guitar
- Lesson 1: Pick Your Variation
- Lesson 2: Fingerpicking Potential
- Passenger Pigeon
- Lesson 3: Travis Picking
- Travis Rag
- Lesson 4: Melodic Fingerpicking
- Fingerpicking Paradise
- CHAPTER SIX: Classical Guitar
- Lesson 1: Posture and Positioning
- Lesson 2: Classical Fingerpicking
- Lesson 3: The Renaissance and Baroque Periods
- Greensleeves
- Cello Suite No. 1 (Prelude)
- Minuet In G
- Lesson 4: The Classical Period
- Etude in A Minor
- Allegro In G
- Prelude in C
- Lesson 5: Flamenco Guitar
- Rapid Rasgueados
- Flamenco Fingers Flying
- CHAPTER SEVEN: Metal and Shred Guitar
- Lesson 1: Metal Rhythm
- Lesson 2: Tremolo Picking
- Lesson 3: Drop D and Odd-Time Riffs
- Lesson 4: Neo-Classical Metal
- Malmsteen Madness
- Lesson 5: Shredding Tricks
- CHAPTER EIGHT: Reggae and Ska Guitar
- Lesson 1: Reggae Chord Voicings
- Lesson 2: Reggae Rhythm Chops
- Lesson 3: Single-Note Syncopations
- Rastafari Police
- Lesson 4: Third Wave Ska
- Don't Come Toasting
- More Than Inspired
- Dr. Bosstone
- Sub-Lime
- Reel Big Sale
- CHAPTER NINE: Funk Guitar
- Lesson 1: Single-Note Funk Lines
- Funky Strut
- Lesson 2: The Chicken Scratch
- Feeling Funky
- Lesson 3: Building Chord Extensions
- Lesson 4: Funky Rhythm Guitar
- Theme Park Funk
- Bag of Potatoes
- Funk Machine
- Super Funky
- CHAPTER TEN: Jazz Guitar
- Lesson 1: Jazz Chord Progressions
- How New the Key
- Chords in the Afternoon
- Some Keys You Play
- Lesson 2: Soloing Over ii-V-I Progressions
- Lesson 3: Jazz Blues & Walking Bass
- Bop Blues Stroll
- Lesson 4: Soloing Over a Jazz Blues
- Bebop Blues Solo
- Lesson 5: Jazz Chord Inversions
- Fall Inversions
- Lesson 6: Adding Color to Your Chords
- Lesson 7: Latin Jazz
- How Syncopated
- Lesson 8: Modal Jazz
- Modal Impression
- Lesson 9: Modal Jazz Soloing
- Tonal Modal
- Lesson 10: Jazz Soloing Strategies
- Maybe
- Outward Inclination
- Yellow Noon
- Not Just Acquaintances
- Conclusion
- Guitar Fretboard Chart