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Guitar Method Books, CDs and DVDs:
Whether you're just starting out or looking to enhance your education, we suggest the books below
to aid in your guitar playing skills and theory.
Also see: Piano Methods, Band Methods or Voice Methods.
Further your knowledge of scales, chords
and modes, as well as to improve playing in a variety of styles.
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Mel Bay's Guitar Chords:
An extremely popular picture/diagram chord encyclopedia. Contains chord forms for most commonly used chords in addition to modern rhythm and barre chord formations. |
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Guitar Chord Encyclopedia:
Chords are listed alphabetically and chromatically for easy reference with 36 different chords listed for each
key. With chapters on chord theory, intervals and chord construction, your chord vocabulary will be forever
expanding. Also includes an explanation of the Circle of Fifths. |
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Chord Progressions For Guitar:
Easy-to-use guide to the most essential chords, rhythms and strumming patterns for a huge variety of musical styles. Each musical example in the book is demonstrated on the accompanying CD, backed by a full rhythm section. |
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Guitar Mode Encyclopedia:
Covers all the modes of the major, melodic minor and harmonic minor scales. Twenty-one different modes are
explained in detail and examined from five different perspectives. Open position fingerings,
closed position fingerings, harmonies, chord voicings, tips for improvisation and more. |
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Guitar Scales in Tablature:
A practical user friendly text. Ideal for daily practice sessions, contains frequently used major, minor and
rock guitar scale forms in evey key. Each scale is shown in numerous positions up the guitar fingerboard, and
is carefully shown in diagram, notation, and tablature form. |
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Pentatonic Scales for Guitar:
Provides the pentatonic scale fingerings, diagrams, lessons and licks that every guitarist needs to know. It covers: major and minor pentatonic scale patterns in all positions; licks in the styles of Chuck Berry, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, B.B. King, Jimmy Page and other great artists; and much more. |
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Jazz Chord Connection:
This book/CD pack covers common fingerings and voice leading; common jazz chord progressions; tritone substitution, turnarounds, diminished principles and other important jazz comping tips. In standard notation and tab. |
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TAB Guitar Method:
An easy approach to lead and rhythm guitar. It provides the guitarist with a thorough introduction to tablature, chords, standard music notation and music fundamentals. Over 30 original and popular tunes in a wide range of contemporary styles are included to help teach lead and rhythm guitar concepts. |
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Teach Yourself to Play Guitar:
With both tablature and standard music notation, photos and diagrams, teach yourself the differences between the various types of guitars and the sounds they create. In addition to learning advanced tablature techniques, such as bending, hammer-on and pull-off, you?ll teach yourself to vary your style as you learn to play music arranged in rock, heavy metal, blues, country, jazz and folk styles. |
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Teach Yourself Guitar Theory:
Includes all the music theory fundamentals needed by guitar players. It also explains the different guitar
types, provides a step-by-step description of how to build scales and chords and offers entertaining puzzles,
riddles and quizzes to test your progress. Topics covered include rhythm, meter, rests, major and minor scales,
chords, intervals and more. |
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Acoustic Guitar Solo Fingerstyle Basics:
Enrich your playing with the expressive, dynamic, symphonic textures of solo fingerstyle guitar. Learn to build simple melodies into complete guitar arrangements, understand fingerings that will bring intimidating chords within your reach, and put you at ease with country blues, classical techniques, Celtic music and more! |
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Complete Method for Classic Guitar:
A deluxe all-in-one compilation of the three separate volumes of Mel Bay's own Method for Classic Guitar.
Features a thorough grounding in the fundamentals of music and reading guitar notation, plus graded studies
and pieces. Includes many arrangements and original studies - progressing systematically through various keys
and playing positions. Written entirely in standard notation. |
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You Can Teach Yourself Classic Guitar:
An easy-to-understand method that takes the beginner through a variety of keys, a wealth of solo material, and
then progresses into position playing. Carefully written to develop technique and under- standing in a
step-by-step manner. Written in standard notation. |
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