(Musicians Institute Press). Navigate the guitar neck better than ever before with this easy-to-use book Designed from Musicians Institute core curriculum programs, it covers essential concepts for players of every level, acoustic or electric. A hands-on guide to theory, it will help you learn to build any scale or chord on your own and unleash creativity. No music reading is required.

(Play Today Instructional Series). This complete guide to the basics contains everything you need to get started on the uke: in-depth instruction, terrific songs, two professional-quality CDs with full-demo tracks, and a helpful DVD Perfect for students who want to teach themselves, or for teachers giving private or group lessons. Simply follow the tips and lessons in the book as you listen to the teacher on the CDs and DVD. Covers: songs, chords and melodies; picking, fingerpicking and strumming; playing tips and techniques; standard notation and tablature; and much more. Over 150 songs and examples Have fun as you open the door to the fun world of ukulele DVD running time: 1 hr. 15 min.

(Musicians Institute Press). Learn how the professionals create monster solos with this easy-to-use book/CD pack The accompanying CD includes 68 tracks of exercises, licks, solo examples, and play-alongs. Includes all necessary foundation materials; detailed instructions on how and what to practice; essential concepts for players at every level; developing your real-time melodic reflexes; soloing over any progression in any style of music; using chords as an endless source of ideas; and more.

Get more variety into your playing with this concise, easy-to-use book from one of today's best-regarded instructional authors. For intermediate to advanced players who already know and use major and minor scales and modes, this book includes complete notation and tablature for all examples, shortcuts to getting the scales under your fingers, interval studies and melodic patterns, analysis of non-diatonic harmony, modal applications, and licks for each scale, including 3 complete solos. Exact fingerings are supplied for challenging passages, some of which are excerpts from the author's solo cds and client sessions. Includes download code for all 74 audio examples.

Master the mechanics of single-string technique with this clear concise book and feel the creative freedom that comes when your fingers easily express any musical idea you conceive. Includes: Alternate, economy, sweep, outside, and inside picking . Precise string damping and muting for clear punchy tone . Anticipating and preventing fingering glitches . Scales, modes, triad and 7th arpeggios with inversions . CAGED system fretboard navigation . Intervallic exercises from 3rds through 7ths, with sequencing permutations to keep your fingers and brain working for years to come . Developing natural phrasing senses . Breaking down the learning and memorization process . Making sure practice time produces results . Sprint training regimen for efficiently building speed . Examples notated and tabbed with exact picking and fingering . Password to download audio of all 114 examples.

Get the rock-solid fundamentals of rhythm, pitch and harmony with this easy-to-use book and CD pack. Learn the universal language used by all musicians, regardless of instrument. It includes concise, detailed explanations, illustrations and written exercises with full CD examples and practice drills. The book will teach you how to: construct scales, chords and intervals; identify major and minor key centres and common chord progressions; accurately play various rhythm feels and figures; and; learn the basic principles of form and compositional analysis.

(Musicians Institute Press). The notes of any solo are only half the story; the other, equally crucial element is the rhythm. Though there are leagues of books teaching you the scales, modes, and arpeggios that are used when soloing, there's been a great void in the available material with regards to teaching the concept of rhythm. We don't instinctually possess knowledge of which notes to use, so why would we instinctually know which rhythms to use when playing these notes? This is where Rhythmic Lead Guitar comes into play. In this book, you'll learn the timing of notes from the ground up, helping you to develop a solid, internal sense of rhythm that will stick with you throughout your career. You'll be armed with an intimate knowledge of a beat's anatomy, and you'll possess the tools necessary to manipulate the timing of any phrase as you see fit. With a strong command of rhythm, your solos will sound more authoritative, unique and memorable.

Learn to read standard music notation on the guitar with this easy step-by-step book! Great for beginners or more-experienced "by ear" players who want to start reading, it explains notation reading in detail, relating notes on the staff to guitar fingerboard diagrams and tablature. Practice routines and over 100 written exercises (with a complete answer key included) help you steadily and painlessly develop from an absolute beginner into a real reading and writing musician. You'll learn to recognize larger patterns as you progress, working with scales, chords, arpeggios, key and time signatures, chart directions, and complete rhythmic vocabulary from dotted whole notes down to tied sixteenths. From the author of The Guitar Fretboard Workbook and Chord Tone Soloing.

(Play Today Instructional Series). This is the ultimate self-teaching method designed to offer quality instruction, terrific songs, and a professional quality CD with 61 full-demo tracks. It can be used by students who want to teach themselves or by teachers for private or group instruction. Simply follow the tips and lessons in the book as you listen to the teacher on the CD. This book includes over 60 great songs and covers: songs, chords and melodies; picking and strumming; playing tips and techniques; music notation; and more.