Bøger af Joseph Alexander

Master the Harmonic & Melodic Minor Scales for Jazz GuitarAt last, a straightforward guide to using the often-confusing Harmonic and Melodic minor scales, designed especially for jazz guitarists!Harmonic & Melodic Minor Jazz Guitar Soloing teaches the why, how, when, and where of these powerful scales with a methodical approach that will develop your jazz guitar soloing as you go.¿Incredible Attention to Your Learning GoalsIn Harmonic & Melodic Minor Jazz Guitar Soloing,· Each substitution idea is explained in detail· Learn exactly which minor scale to reach for and when· Discover how to combine harmonic and melodic minor scales with Dorian and Lydian sounds· Master 128 creative jazz licks that expand your jazz guitar soloing vocabulary· Create structured jazz lines using motivic and rhythmic development

This compilation brings together three best-selling books that will help you master the essential rudiments of playing the guitar; Technique, Theory and the Application of all the Essential Scales in Music. At over 285 pages, this book contains over 400 notated audio examples and 60 backing tracks that demonstrate every technique, lick and scale clearly in a musical context. Beginners to very advanced players will all find plenty of ideas, techniques and musical vocabulary to keep them improving for years. Complete Technique for Modern Guitar destroys the notion that aspiring players must spend all their practice time accelerating through progressively more difficult and obscure exercises. This book focuses on only the exercises that most quickly develop the fundamental four areas of guitar technique: Picking, Legato, Playing in time, and expression. It contains over 200 essential, digestible, exercises to help you master the guitar with comprehensive coverage of picking, legato, rhythm and expressive techniques. The Practical Guide to Modern Music Theory for Guitarists is a complete and practical music theory course for guitarists takes you on a journey starting from simple major scale construction, its 3 and 4 note harmonisations, and common chord sequences, to a massively deep and structured dissection of all the modes of the major scale. The seven modes are broken down into their constituent intervals, triads, arpeggios and Pentatonic scales, with each theoretical approach discussed and analysed and bought to life with over 200 notated examples, licks and professional backing tracks. After the many soloing possibilities are discussed for each mode, the author's favourite sounds are given as a concise list of recommended approaches. This will save you many hours of practice time, and provide solid starting point to explore the best of each tonality. Guitar Scales in Context goes further than every other scale dictionary available: it provides you with backing tracks and licks for every one of the essential eighteen scales and modes that it covers. With over fifty backing tracks included, each scale is analysed, discussed and shown in the five most commonly used patterns. Each scale shape is given with a corresponding chord, triad and arpeggio pattern to help you build and memorise the scale, both physically and aurally.

Werde Meister der Blues-GitarreBlues-Gitarre - The Complete Guide - Band I gibt dir alles, was du brauchst, um Rhythmusgitarre im Blues zu spielen, zu verstehen und zu fühlen.Über 150 Audio-Beispiele Bringen Dir Den GrooveMan kann Musik nicht verstehen, wenn man nur Bücher liest. Deshalb findest du in Blues-Gitarre - The Complete Guide über 150 professionell aufgenommene Audio-Beispiele in Noten und Tabulatur. Jeder Aspekt, der für großartiges Blues-Gitarrenspiel wichtig ist, wird behandelt. Zunächst geht es um Grundlagen, wie Blues-Rhythmus, Riffs, Struktur und Fills, und später um fortgeschrittenere Techniken, wie Durchgangsakkorde, Shell-Akkorde und "Drop-2-Voicings". Du wird die klassischen Turnaround-Akkordverbindungen lernen, ungewöhnliche Bluesformen kennen lernen und meistern, wie du entsprechend stilsicher in einer Band spielst.Probleme mit der Blues-Gitarre anzufangen oder weiter zu lernen?Viele Gitarristen bleiben mit der Blues-Gitarre schon früh auf einem gewissen Niveau stecken. Sie haben nur wenige Riffs und Ideen parat und langweilen sich schnell mit dem immer gleichen Rhythmusgitarrenspiel.Lerne Blues-Gitarre, indem Du die Wichtigsten Grundelemente Beherrschen LernstIn Blues-Gitarre - The Complete Guide findest du individuelle musikalische Elemente, mit denen du Blues-Riffs noch großartiger und besser spielen kannst. Schluss mit musikalischer Stagnation! Wenn du die Grundelemente gemeistert hast, wirst du schnell merken, dass du kreative Rhythmusparts und Fills ganz leicht komponieren und improvisieren kannst.Das KomplettpaketEntwickle Eigene: - Riffs mit leeren Saiten, Blues-Akkorde und Akkorderweiterungen, die toll klingen- Intros, Outros und Turnarounds- Fills für die Lead-Gitarre, Durchgangsakkorde, Rhythmische Platzierungen und GrooveSchau dir die Bewertungen an!"Ein praktischer und praxisorientierter Zugang mit grundlegenden Theorieinhalten zum besseren Verständnis."Blues-Gitarre - The Complete Guide ist seit seiner Veröffentlichung Amazon Bestseller. Beachte die über 60 positiven Bewertungen!Kauf jetztKaufe dir jetzt Blues-Gitarre - The Complete Guide und begib dich auf eine Reise zu rhythmischer Perfektion mit deiner Blues-GitarreKostenloser Versand mit Amazon Prime!

The Complete Advanced Guitar Practice MethodFrustrated with long-term plateaus?Feel like you're wasting time in the practice room?Don't know what to study to improve your guitar playing? If you already practice guitar but struggle with the what, when, and how, then this book is for you.Because what you need is a structured practice plan that yields positive short-term growth, and long-term guitar excellence.Guided Practice Routines for Guitar - Advanced Level is book three in Levi Clay's ground-breaking guitar practice series. Books one and two were both instant bestsellers, and now he's ready to take you on the ultimate guitar practice bootcamp!There's no fluff here, Levi's no-nonsense approach cuts to the heart of the skills you need to become a bulletproof guitar player. This serious set of routines will expose the areas in your playing that need development, but immediately set about fixing them.You'll learn by using carefully designed practice drills and play along with Levi himself on 128 exercises with accompanying audio tracks.Plus... everything is clearly illustrated with neck diagrams, standard notation and TAB.Advanced-Level Skills for Every Guitar Player!Whatever style of guitar you want to play, there are certain key skills you need to master regardless of genre - and this book covers them all.Each of the 10 routines in Guided Practice Routines for Guitar - Advanced Level lays the foundation for guitar mastery

- 100 Licks in Top-Qualität - - Mit einer Methode das ganze Gitarrengriffbrett lernen - - Über 1 Stunde Live-Beispiele und Audio-Material im KOSTENLOSEN Download - Egal, ob du nach einer lückenlosen Methode zum Erlernen der Blues-Gitarre suchst oder nur eine Sammlung von großartigen Blues-Licks haben willst, dieses Buch ist genau das Richtige für dich. Die meisten Gitarristen verwenden über Jahre hinweg immer wieder dieselben Muster und Tonleiterformen. Sie können sich nicht von ihren Gewohnheiten und den Licks, die sie als Anfänger zuerst gelernt haben, befreien. Dies führt zu kreativer Stagnation, langweiligen Solos und dem Gefühl, dass immer etwas in ihrem Spiel fehlen wird. Frage dich selbst: - Wenn du ein Solo spielst, verwendest du normalerweise sofort eine bestimmte Position der pentatonischen Tonleiter? - Spielst du normalerweise im begrenzten tonalen Bereich einiger "leichter" Tonarten, wie A, E, G und C? - Hättest du gerne vollkommene Freiheit jede Tonart zu visualisieren und in jeder Position auf der Gitarre zu spielen? - Verwendest du nur Moll-Pentatonik, oder nur ganz selten klanglich komplexere Modi, um dein Spiel zu bereichern? Wenn du eine dieser Fragen mit Ja beantwortet hast, ist dieses Buch genau das Richtige für dich. Dieses Buch hilft dir, dein Spiel über das ganze Griffbrett hin auszudehnen. Es befreit dich daraus, ständig die gleichen Ideen immer wieder zu spielen. Dieses Buch kurbelt den kreativen Prozess an, indem es das Griffbrett aufschlüsselt und dir vor allem eine unglaublich starke visuelle Methode vermittelt, wie man Tonleitern und Licks an 5 leichten Akkordformen, die man sich leicht merken kann, "befestigt". Das CAGED System für Bluesgitarre behandelt Dur- und Moll-Pentatonik, Die Bluestonleiter und Den Mixolydischen Modus. Mit 25 Licks in jeder Tonleiter auf allen 5 Positionen, wirst du immer etwas Interessantes auf deinem Instrument zu sagen haben. Im Buch findest du auch die Tricks und Geheimnisse, die professionelle Gitarristen verwenden, um das Griffbrett auf zu schlüsseln, so dass sie immer etwas Neues und Frisches spielen. Das wichtigste Konzept ist das CAGED System, das es dir ermöglicht, das Griffbrett wie deinen Handrücken zu betrachten, so dass du leicht in jeder Tonart und jeder Position spielen kannst. Dies ist kein Buch über Tonleitern und Skalen. Es beinhaltet über 100 Licks für Blues-Gitarre, die du leicht auswendig lernen kannst und die eine Basis für deine neuen und verbesserten Solos bilden werden. Du wirst lernen, wie man diese an jeder Akkordform befestigt, so dass du nie den Groove verlierst, wenn du Gitarre spielst. Jeder Lick wird in einem individuellen Audio-Beispiel vorgestellt, das du von www.fundamental-changes.com herunterladen kannst. Es gibt über eine Stunde Audio-Material und acht maßgeschneiderte Backing-Tracks zum Mitspielen. Diese Methode wird auch im Fachbereich Gitarre am London College of Music gelehrt und ich freue mich sehr diese starken Konzepte mit dir in meinem Buch zu teilen.

A collection of Appalachian journal articles, research papers, historiographies, and oral histories prominently featuring Appalachian culture, dialect, and stereotyping. Vignettes of oral history from the 30s and 40s will charm and amuse the reader, highlighting the observation that Appalachians are both natural-born storytellers and humorous. Appalachia has fought harder than most other American cultures in establishing an evenhanded reputation, dispelling various stereotypes such as being the land of hillbilly backwardness with a culture of harsh poverty and illiteracy that has entrapped its people, and enriching and preserving its heritage. Scholars who supported the poverty-stricken image of the Appalachians claimed their research revealed an oppressive culture that imprisoned its people. In contrast, histories, historiographies, and oral histories from Appalachia demonstrate that the people made their culture; the culture did not make the people. Excerpts from The Forties: I was born on October 14, 1938. I don't remember this event, but believe it to be factual and accurate. Life was very settled and routine for a couple of years and then upheaval threatened my serenity. We moved to Newport News, Virginia. From the conversations around me, I believed that we were going far, far away to a land populated by very odd people. We referred to our future home as "Newpertnews." The Alexander family was about to embark on a disjointed journey through the unsettled Forties, a very different decade. Excerpt from The Music: One of these come-lately musicians caused the only real dust-up among the members of our original group that I can remember or knew of during those years. Someone who had not played with us before brought an electric, amplified guitar to our house one Saturday night. To the old-time pickers, an amplified instrument was an insult to their music and they were incensed by the intrusion. The transgressing guitar player plugged in his guitar and proceeded to rattle the windows and the nerves of the old-time musicians. The fiddle, banjo, mandolin and acoustic guitar could not be heard above the distorted din of the Sears and Roebuck guitar and amplifier. Without a word, Homer, Johnny and Red packed up their instruments and departed. They did not come back until Pappy finally and firmly convinced them that there would never again be any amplified instruments allowed in the house. And, as far as I know, Pappy kept his word.

Altcoins, an abbreviation of alternative coins, are any other cryptocurrency that is not Bitcoin. Since Satoshi Nakamoto unveiled Bitcoin in 2008 we've seen dozens of promising currencies emerge. This alternative coins have been seeing such meteoric rises that it is leaving the financial sector speechless. Cryptocurrency is resulting in a change to how the next generation envisions their retirement. Cryptocurrency has made saving money into a game for millennials. These returns are just for the young. Anyone can come in and invest in this market. The true value behind this market is the underlying technology known as the Blockchain. In this book we will take a deep looker to what is the blockchain and its relationship with these coins. Reading this book will cover: -Understanding Cryptocurrencies from Bitcoins to Altcoins. -Future applications and explanations of the Blockchain. -Safely securing you cryptocurrencies in cold storage. -ICO's, exchanges, cashing out, buying and selling tokens. -The inevitable direction that cryptocurrency is going too. This book is directed towards those who have heard of Bitcoin in passing, have a vague understanding of what it is, and are looking to know more about this popular opportunity. After reading this book you'll be an expert in your community and will be able to hold yourself in crypto conversations which are happening more often by the day. Bitcoin is first to market but just because you are the first does not make you the best. The alternative coins saw mainstream attention in the late 2017 and will see historic rises in the years to come.

Effortlessly Fuse Funk, RnB, Blues, Rock and Jazz GuitarLet's get this out of the way... Shane Theriot's Grammy Winning resume includes Beyoncé, Hall & Oates, Willie Nelson, and The Neville Brothers - so you know he's the real deal!And in Modern Funk Fusion Guitar he shows you how to combine the best elements of Funk, RnB, Blues and Jazz to create that cutting-edge style that you're already hearing on countless platinum tracks.A Modern Twist on Classic StylesYou'll learn all this by studying five gorgeous original tracks, each of which will hone the guitar techniques you need.First, you'll learn the fundamentals...How to create short, well-formed melodic motifs and build them in your solo How to nail your phrasing with ear catching dynamics and note placementHow to freshen up pentatonic scales by breaking out of standard patterns and adding ear-catching chromatic ideas·How to build and get creative with hybrid pentatonic scalesThen you'll master some real game changers...Discover how to superimpose arpeggios/scales to access the "secret" sounds of fusion. It's easier than you think!The best way to add "outside" notes to shapes you already know and form those long, flowing lines you hear from the likes of Scott Henderson and Wayne KrantzHow to really ignite your solos up with the dominant-diminished concept. It's a killer!You'll also gain sage advice on building solos that tell a story, and how to easily resolve any line... no matter how far "outside" you take it! 5 Great Tunes from a Grammy Award WinnerDid we mention that Shane is also a Grammy-winning producer?In Modern Funk Fusion Guitar he shares 5 original tunes, which you'll learn to sharpen your skills.You'll learn killer solos over:A modal vampA slow-burning gospel-blues A New Orleans-style funk-bluesA Neville Brothers-style minor blues A Tower of Power-style high energy funk track Bonus: If all that's not enough, Shane also includes stunning rhythm guitar ideas you can immediately add to your arsenal of riffs!Hear it, Play it, Own it...In Modern Funk Fusion Guitar Shane breaks down every single musical idea in detail. In fact, he explains not just what was played but why he played it... and passes on game-changing advice for every guitarist.You'll get the backing tracks and over 100 audio examples of every exercise as a free download so you can explore the music and get really deep into the groove. If you're ready to inject your guitar playing with fresh exciting ideas, then Modern Funk Fusion Guitar is the creative shot in the arm you've been waiting for.Buy it now...

Learn Gypsy Jazz Guitar Soloing Strategies for 8 Classic StandardsStruggling to play authentic Gypsy Jazz Guitar Solos? Ready to progress from licks to longer, meaningful solos that tell a story?In his new book, Gypsy Jazz Guitar Soloing Etudes - Volume One, world renowned Gypsy Jazz guitar virtuoso Remi Harris presents 8 immaculately crafted guitar etudes, packed full of authentic Gypsy jazz language.Master Gypsy Jazz Guitar Organically Discover engaging melodic solos over multiple choruses of 8 tunesDevelop long-form Gypsy Jazz vocabulary that goes beyond scales and arpeggiosLearn to improvise incredible Gypsy Jazz guitar solos that grow organicallyTell a musical story that connects your solo to the melody of the tuneMaster Solos over 8 Essential Gypsy Jazz standards:These tunes cover a selection of must-know Django Reinhardt originals and other Gypsy Jazz standards that have become staples of the repertoire. You'll learn how to play over the changes to...All of MeAutumn LeavesCoquetteDanse Norvégienne Dark EyesDinetteDjango's TigerMinor SwingMore Than Just Gypsy Jazz Guitar Licks...But this book is about so much more than simply learning licks or solos!For each tune you get:A rock-solid soloing strategy for soloing over the changesCreative ideas that will enhance your musicalityAn in-depth breakdown of every single idea to use as a template for your own linesDozens of beautifully conceived licks, runs, sequences and motifs you can use to navigate common chord changes and add to your Gypsy Jazz vocabularyBonus - Unlimited Jazz Lick Generation ConceptsIn Gypsy Jazz Guitar Soloing Etudes you'll be given access to Remi's secret approach to creating unlimited jazz guitar licks. Understanding and applying this method is an absolute game changer.Accelerated Learning For Every Gypsy Jazz guitaristIf you want to learn a language, there's no better way than spending time with someone who speaks it fluently. Remi Harris has invested years of study and thousands of hours into playing Gypsy Jazz and has mastered every style, from old school to modern.In Gypsy Jazz Guitar Soloing Etudes he shares a wealth of practical, exciting concepts you can use to never run out of ideas. Your playing will improve immediately as you go direct to the source and absorb tons of new ideas.Bonuses and AudioBonus 1: Download backing tracks and audio examples for every tune. Practice the solos, then jam out and develop your own ideas.Bonus 2: Get access to Remi's performance videos for every tune so you can see and hear exactly how each one should be played.Bonus 3: Learn Remi's secret approach generating to unlimited Gypsy Jazz Guitar LicksIf you're ready to play Gypsy Jazz like Django and beyond, Gypsy Jazz Guitar Soloing Etudes is the only choice you need to make today. Buy it Now...

The Comprehensive Guitar Practice GuideFeel like you're wasting time in the practice room?Don't know which skills to study to improve your guitar playing? Frustrated with long-term plateaus?If you understand the need to practice guitar, but struggle with what, when, and how, then this book is for you. Because what you need is a structured practice plan that yields positive short-term growth, and long-term excellence on guitar.Guided Practice Routines for Guitar - Intermediate Level is book two in Levi Clay's ground-breaking series. Book one was an instant bestseller, and now he's ready to take your guitar playing to the next level.This book solves the problems posed by millions of guitar students around the world:"What should I practice, and for how long?" "What should my practice routine look like?" And, quite simply, "How do I get good on guitar?!"You'll learn by using carefully designed practice drills and play along with Levi himself on over 125 exercises with accompanying audio tracks. Plus... everything is clearly illustrated with neck diagrams, standard notation and TAB.Next-Level Skills for Every Guitar Player!Whatever style of guitar you want to play, there are key skills you need to master across every genre - and this book covers them all.After a meaningful warm-up session, each of the 10 routines in Guided Practice Routines for Guitar - Intermediate Level builds and refines your guitar skills in the following essential areas:Foundational Techniques Review - review and sharpen the areas of technique that will form the foundation of what's to comeClosed Voice Triads - learn to visualise CAGED chord shapes and break them into smaller, closed voice triads. Quickly 4x your chord voicing options. Dominating Dominant 7s - get fluent with one of the most important chord and scale sounds in Blues, Rock, Country and JazzPlaying 1/8th and 1/16th Note Rhythms - sort out your rhythm skills once and for all with Levi's no-nonsense approachMajor 7 and Minor 7 Workout - a complete workout for major 7 and minor 7 chords. You'll cover multiple chord voicings and scales all over the neck. Then you'll use these to play some must-know song progressionsMastering Intervals - break out of clichéd patterns and runs by creating sequenced patterns using 3rds, 4ths, 5ths, 6ths and 7th intervalsEmbellishing CAGED Chord Voicings - this vital routine teaches how to connect closed voice triads across the fretboard, from position to position, adding musical embellishmentsArticulation and Phrasing - learn one of the most important articulation techniques in modern guitar, and effortlessly combine alternate picking with legatoDrilling Minor Modal Scales - dive into the Dorian minor scale - an essential tool in your soloing arsenalBuild practice habits that will keep you growing musicallyEvery routine in this ultimate guitar practice guide improves your playing and enhances your musicality. It's a powerful approach that has already paid off for literally thousands of students, and now it's available to you!Buy it now and quickly hear meaningful practice become excellent musicianship.

Learn Jazz Guitar Bebop Scales - Musically!Struggling to play convincing jazz guitar solos?Bebop scales are at the heart of jazz guitar soloing and essential for developing your chops. However, they are greatly misunderstood and often poorly taught, making your jazz solos boring and uninspired. Enter Bebop Scales for Jazz Guitar! It's a complete jazz guitar method packed with essential bebop guitar vocabulary - and it's taught by Eleonora Strino, who has taken the jazz guitar world by storm with her jaw-dropping solos. You'll learn these bebop guitar skills:How to form bebop scales to suit every chord in the songMajor, Minor and Dominant Bebop ScalesHow to solo with bebop scales over a Charlie Parker bluesHow to solo with bebop scales over other well-known jazz standardsYou'll be learning bebop guitar scales musically and discovering patterns that are beautiful phrases in their own right. The essential theory is taught with simple language and is followed by immediate musical application so can add these ideas to your playing instantly.

Pentatonic Speed Strategies for Guitar is Chris Brooks' guide to building jaw-dropping speed and fluency with the pentatonic scale. Famous for his picking technique and guitar teaching strategies, Chris has turned his attention to the humble pentatonic, and is here to show you its speed strategy secrets.Using pentatonic scales, you'll learn to work smarter (not harder) to reach your true speed potential.Condensing decades of experience into an incredibly well-structured method, Pentatonic Speed Strategies for Guitarbreaks down speed barriers by streamlining your mechanics and offering you 124 exhilarating licks that effortlessly combine virtuosity and musicality.Take Pentatonic Licks to the LimitPentatonic scales are a different animal when it comes to speed and require a different approach to three-note scales. Not to worry though, Chris is here to guide you, step-by-step.Using various picking and fretting solutions, you'll master:Streamlined alternate picking approaches that create logical and fast patternsRearranging fretboard patterns to make fast licks a joy to playUsing hammer-ons and pull-offs to increase speed and dynamic variationEconomy picking patterns in the styles of Eric Johnson and Frank GambaleTraditional pentatonic boxes, extended shapes, and three-note-per-string pentatonic fretboard coverageLicks in the styles of Paul Gilbert, Eric Johnson, Kee Marcello, Vinnie Moore, Frank Gambale and Richie KotzenUsing pentatonic scales in colourful new harmonic contextsGetting in and out of speed licks in a musical waySee it, Hear it, and Jam AlongKey sections of Pentatonic Speed Strategies for Guitar are supported by detailed video demonstrations, so you can see what Chris' perfect guitar technique looks like in action.Every example is played at multiple speeds in the free audio download, with space for you to try the licks right after Chris.You get:124 awesome speed licks for the pentatonic scaleAudio for every example with space for you to play to the trackVideo demonstrations for important parts of each chapterTAB and notationBonus 1: The Ultimate Pentatonic Scale Soloing Reference ChartBonus 2: A Special Chapter on Using Speed Licks in the Real WorldBuild your technique, create your own personalised vocabulary, and find new ways of using the humble pentatonic in the modern world of virtuoso guitar!

Learn how Write a Guitar Solo with Deep Purple Legend Steve MorseKnown for his intricate, original solos, innovative guitar techniques and musical versatility across several genres, Steve Morse is undoubtedly a legend of rock guitar. As founder of the Dixie Dregs, guitarist for Flying Colors, and Deep Purple's axe-man for over 25 years, his achievements in rock are unequalled.Now, Steve shares his secrets in the art of guitar soloing in Steve Morse: Melodic Rock Guitar Concepts.It's a phrasing masterclass... but so much more besides!Steve Morse is a storyteller at heart, and when it comes to soloing, he thinks like a composer, which allows him to improvise with breathtaking musicality. This book teaches you to develop the mindset and skillset to play compositional, melodic rock guitar solos. Steve Morse First Teaches You These Guitar Techniques: How to create vocal, melodic phrasingHow to develop motifs to build guitar solos How to use diverse rhythms to create engaging guitar melodiesHow to create well-formed phrases with momentum and directionHow to use space to punctuate ideas and keep your listeners engagedThen Freshens Up Your Playing With These Rut-Busting Approaches:How to combine different rhythms in fast-picked passagesHow to sequence ideas to avoid clichéd patternsHow to add passing notes to create fresh hybrid soloing shapesHow to use string skipping to create modern, unpredictable phrasesHow to use multiple bends to span the bar lineLifting the LidMelodic Rock Guitar Concepts shows you the influences that have shaped Steve's unique guitar style and he shares how he has adapted his favorite country licks into a rock context. You'll discover how Charlie Parker was a great influence, and how to recreate many of Steve's chromatic bebop inspired licks.You'll also learn how Morse visualizes scales and master a set of challenging picking drills to sharpen your technique.To conclude, Steve presents a guitar masterclass on how to create tension/resolution in your solos while adding some outside-inside interest.

The Comprehensive Guide to Practicing GuitarFeel like you're wasting time in the practice room?Don't know what guitar skills you should be working on when? Need a complete guide to the most beneficial way to practice guitar? Every musician understands the value of practice, but we can all struggle with the what's, when's and how's when we learn guitar. What we need is a structured plan that yields positive long (and short!) term improvements.Levi Clay's new ground-breaking series, Guided Practice Routines for Guitar, is proven to work based on his experiences with thousands of guitar students, and cuts to the heart of this age-old problem.It solves the problems posed by millions of guitar students around the world:"What should I practice, and for how long?" "What should my practice routine look like?" And,"What's the quickest way to get good?" It answers all these questions with carefully designed practice drills that you'll play along with Levi himself on over 125 exercises with audio tracks, clearly illustrated in full standard notation and TAB.The result is a series of proven guided practice routines that cover the essential, foundational guitar skills all players must have.Foundational Skills for Every Guitar Player!Whatever style of guitar you want to play, there are foundational skills that are required across every genre. This book helps you master them all. After a fun yet meaningful warm-up session, Guided Practice Routines for Guitar builds and refines your guitar skills in the following essential areas:Rhythm - build fretting hand dexterity and excellent alternate picking hand motion. Learn to execute syncopated rhythms and apply them to musical pentatonic scalesPicking - master picking drills, and use these mechanics on beautiful chord changesDrill moveable CAGED shapes - learn to play any chord, arpeggio, or scale in any key with powerful moveable shapesMoveable major scales using CAGED - break away from predictable patterns and begin a scale anywhere to 10x your fretboard visualisationAdvanced picking approaches - learn outside and cross-picking techniques to play more versatile phrases, then combine these with melodies, strumming patterns, and bass notesAdvanced CAGED exercises - learn the Circle of 4ths with CAGED shapes to play the major scale in every key. Plus combine arpeggios and scales musicallyLegato - develop fluid phrases then combine picking and legato to play any line of music fluentlyMajor scale melodic approaches - complete your mastery of the major scale shapes by using sequenced patterns to create unique melodic ideasConsolidate your skills - nail a final series of drills that combine everything you've practiced and get even more creative with some sneaky bending tricks. Build a practice habit that will keep growing your musicalityEvery routine in this book enhances your skills and develops your musicality. Better still, you'll be able to practice along with Levi on the 125 exercises and audio tracks as he coaches you and plays the exercises with you. This unique approach has paid dividends for the thousands of students he's taught over the years, and now it's available to you.

The Ultimate Guide to Perfect Guitar Technique This ground-breaking guitar technique collection brings together three bestselling books by rock guitar virtuoso Chris Brooks. Master the essential techniques of alternate picking, economy picking and tapping to open up a new vista of exciting licks and musical possibilities. Get access to:Over 370 exercises and musical examplesOver 3 hours of audio you can download for freeBonus video content Book One: Alternate Picking Guitar TechniqueThis complete method teaches you everything from building firm foundations to performing blazing, musical etudes. You'll master:Fundamental pick grips and movementsChanging strings correctly to avoid your pick getting "trapped"Essential scale sequences to build your musical techniqueMusical etudes that make key concepts fun and musicalBook Two: Economy Picking Guitar TechniqueEconomy picking is like two powerful picking systems in one - the strengths of alternate picking with the unbeatable efficiency of sweep picking. Each jam-packed chapter focuses on an essential aspect of economy picking technique and application, with plenty of licks and drills to reinforce every concept.You'll master:Where and when to apply economy pickingAscending and descending sweep strokesPicking patterns optimised for economy and creativityHow your heroes play their legendary licksBook Three: Rock Guitar Tapping TechniqueTapping is an essential guitar technique and has found its way into most modern genres. Once mastered, a whole new palette of sounds and textures is available to enhance your creativity.Module 1: Learn the perfect mechanics for tapping and a range of cool licks and discover articulation techniques.Module 2: Get the most from single-string tapping with a collection of scale sequenced, arpeggio-based and ostinato licks. Learn etudes in the style of Eddie Van Halen and Randy Rhoads.Module 3: Learn how to extend pentatonic patterns with tapped notes to create powerful licks. Discover polyrhythms and explore advanced blues scale ideas.Module 4: Create diatonic modal licks and sequences. Learn three-note-per-string legato runs in the style of Reb Beach and Steve Vai. Play string-skipping taps in the style of Guthrie Govan and Michael Romeo.Module 5: Master three-octave string-skipping triads, seventh arpeggios and extensions, and how to sequence arpeggios. Play lines in the style of Guthrie Govan and Steve Vai.All in all, Chris Brooks' 3 in 1 Picking & Tapping Guitar Technique Collection contains everything you'll ever need to know about building perfect technique, and applying it musically.