Guitar Songs and Styles For Dummies, Enhanced Edition E-Book

Mark Phillips

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 128

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2011

Beschreibung

Immerse yourself in sounds, techniques, and a whole lot of fun with this enhanced ebook. Part instruction, part video and audio play-a-long, Guitar Songs & Styles For Dummies is the perfect mix of instruction - whether you are a beginner or experienced guitar player. Watch correct hand position, posture, and playing techniques with detailed videos. Get the instruction you need to rock every type of Rock, including Classic Rock 'n' Roll, Modern Rock, and Country-Rock. Discover the Blues when you explore rhythm and lead techniques, signature riffs, and progressions. Then play along with popular Blues songs,including Chicago Shuffle and Mississippi Mud. Get familiar with Folk style, by learning fingerstyle techniques, playing Arpeggio style, trying thumb-brush and carter style, and taking on Travis picking. Have some fun with Folk when you play along with House of the Rising Sun, Gospel Ship, and Freight Train tunes. Go classical with instruction on proper seating and hand positions,ways to combine arpeggios and melody, and details to play free and rest strokes.

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Guitar Songs and Styles For Dummies®, Enhanced Edition

Table of Contents

Introduction

About This Book

Playing the guitar

Looking and listening to the e-book

Foolish Assumptions

Conventions We Use in This Book

Count-offs

Stereo separation

How This Book Is Organized

Icons Used in This Book

Where to Go from Here

Chapter 1: Gearing Up for Songs and Styles

Taking Note of Notation

Getting to the Playing Part

Strumming chords

Picking single notes

Chapter 2: Special Articulation Techniques

Getting the Hang of Hammer-Ons

Getting Playful with Pull-Offs

Playing pull-offs

Doing a double pull-off

Getting Slippery with Slides

Connecting two notes

Working with indefinite pitch

Getting the Bends

Playing bends

Getting idiomatic with bends

Varying Your Sound with Vibrato

Getting Mellow with Muting

Creating a thick, chunky sound

Preventing string noise

Playing a Song with Varied Articulation

Chapter 3: Rock

Channeling Classic Rock Rhythm Guitar

Open-position accompaniment and the 5-to-6

The 12-bar blues pattern

Singling Out Lead Guitar

Box and the pentatonic minor scale

Boxes II and III

One solo from three boxes

Modern Rock

Sus and add chords

Slash chords

Country-rock and Southern-rock lead

Playing Songs in the Rock Style

Chapter 4: Blues

Electric Blues

Blues rhythm guitar

Blues lead guitar

Improvising in the boxes

Acoustic Blues

General concepts

Specific techniques

Turnarounds

Playing Blues Songs

Chapter 5: Folk

Playing Fingerstyle

Fingerstyle technique

Right-hand position

Using the Capo

Arpeggio Style

Playing Thumb-Brush

Simple thumb-brush

Thumb-brush-up

Brushing Up on Carter Style

Picking Up Travis Picking

Playing the pattern

Accompanying

Going solo style

Playing Folk Songs

Chapter 6: Classical

Getting Ready to Play

How to sit

The right hand

Left-hand position

Free Strokes and Rest Strokes

Playing free strokes

Playing rest strokes

Playing arpeggios

Point/counterpoint

Playing Classical Pieces

Chapter 7: Ten Great Guitarists

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Cheat Sheet

Media at a Glance

Video

Strumming (0:45)

Picking (0:35)

Hammer-ons (1:13)

Pull-offs (1:12)

Slides (0:37)

Bends (1:10)

Vibrato (0:48)

Bends and pull-offs (0:35)

5th position solo (0:37)

Full-length solo (0:36)

Southern rock solo (0:23)

Blues lead with triplet (0:19)

Blues scale (0:31)

Alternation (0:21)

Arpeggio (0:30)

Thumb-brush (0:42)

Carter style (0:37)

Travis style (1:17)

Free strokes (0:44)

Rest strokes (0:50)

Contrapuntal (0:57)

Audio

The Articulate Blues (0:23)

Chuck’s Duck (0:25)

Southern Hospitality (0:36)

Turnarounds (0:11)

Chicago Shuffle (0:31)

Mississippi Mud (0:33)

House of the Rising Sun (0:30)

Freight Train (0:25)

Romanza (0:36)

Bourrée in E minor (0:22)