Rock Guitar for Adults
The Grown-Up Approach to Playing Rock Guitar
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SKU: AP.40175
The Grown-Up Approach to Playing Rock Guitar. Composed by Tobias Hurwitz. Guitar Method or Supplement; Method/Instruction. Rock. Book and CD. 96 pages. Alfred Music #00-40175. Published by Alfred Music (AP.40175).ISBN 9780739092866. UPC: 038081448770. English.
This fun and friendly step-by-step introduction to rock guitar is written with the adult learner in mind. It is both a great self-teaching book and a great method for use with an instructor. Rock Guitar for Adults covers rock chords, jamming, fingerpicking, scales and techniques for lead guitar, and more. Easy-to-read examples are written in standard music notation and TAB, and there's even a section on music theory geared toward rock musicians. Large diagrams and detailed photographs help simplify the learning process. A CD demonstrating all the examples in the book is included, making learning easier and more fun. This is the perfect how to book for the grown-up who wants to rock!
Song List (104)
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- Strumming Patterns
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- Play That Funky Music
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- Other Techniques
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- CHAPTER FIVE: THE FIRST WAVE OF ROCK SCALES
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- The Major Scale
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- Five Major Scale Forms
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- Tune in G Major
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- The Minor Pentatonic Scale
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- Five Minor Pentatonic Scale Forms
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- Beneath My Digital Extremity
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- Power Pentatonic
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- CHAPTER SIX: THE SECOND WAVE OF ROCK SCALES
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- The Blues Scale
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- Five Blues Scale Forms
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- Improvisation Concepts & Strategies
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- A Blues Groove
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- The Major Pentatonic Scale
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- Five Major Pentatonic Scale Forms
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- Melinda
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- CHAPTER SEVEN: THE MODES OF THE MAJOR SCALE
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- Where Modes Come From
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- Aeolian Mode (Natural Minor)
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- Five Aeolian Mode (Natural Minor) Forms
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- Aeolian Metal
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- Dorian Mode
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- Five Dorian Mode Forms
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- Mixolydian Mode
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- Five Mixolydian Mode Forms
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- CHAPTER EIGHT: HARMONIC MINOR SCALE
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- Five Harmonic Minor Scale Forms
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- Gypsy Rock
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- CHAPTER NINE: USING THE SCALES
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- Soloing On The Blues
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- Matching Scales to Chords
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- Understanding Diatonic Chord Progressions
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- Recognizing Modal Progressions
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- Using the Harmonic Minor Scale
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- CHAPTER TEN: LEAD GUITAR EXAMPLES
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- Bending
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- Sliding
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- Hammer-Ons and Pull-Offs
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- Finger Tapping
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- Eddie's Tune
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- Harmonics
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- Harmonics Etude
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- CHAPTER ELEVEN: JAMMING
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- Leading
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- Following
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- Common Musical Forms
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- Jamming Exercises
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- Try This with Your Band
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- Going "Out"
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- Song for Jamming
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- Jam Tune
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- CHAPTER TWELVE: PICKIN' AND GRINNIN'
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- Arpeggios
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- For Kathy
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- CHAPTER THIRTEEN: "THE WORLD'S GREATEST ROCK 'N' ROLL BAND"
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- Honky-Tonk Groove
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- CHAPTER FOURTEEN: SLOWHAND
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- Melodic Embellishment
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- Melodic Lead Style of Eric Clapton
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- Eric's Blues
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- CHAPTER FIFTEEN: A NEW ROCK EXPERIENCE
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- Chord Embellishment
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- Licks
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- CHAPTER SIXTEEN: ANOTHER PAGE OF ROCK HISTORY
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- Pentatonic Madness: "Box Licks"
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- Appendix A: The Basics
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- Reading Music
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- Scale Diagrams
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- Reading Tablature
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- Special Notation
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- Appendix B: An Introduction to Music Theory
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- The Major Scale and Key
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- Key
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- Minor Key
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- Key Signatures
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- How Chords Are Derived from the Major Scale
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- Diatonic triads
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- Diatonic 7th Chords
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- About the Author
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- Introduction
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- CHAPTER ONE: ROCK CHORDS
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- The First Wave of Rock Chords
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- The Second Wave of Rock Chords
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- Power Chords
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- Barre Chords
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- CHAPTER TWO: GETTING BLUESY
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- The 12-Bar Blues
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- Rockin' Up the Blues
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- Varying the Shuffle
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- Shuffle Blues
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- Cool Chords & the Blues
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- Cool Chord Blues
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- Blues in E with Mixed Techniques
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- Turn Me Around
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- Late-Night Wanderer
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- Playing the Blues in Any Key
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- CHAPTER THREE: FUN WITH CHORD PROGRESSIONS
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- Common Progressions
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- Transposing
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- CHAPTER FOUR: SPICE UP THE STRUMMING
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- Musical Strumming