The style and language of the 20 most genre-defining country guitar players are discussed and analyzed, and 5 defining, "in the style of" guitar licks are given for each player.
The Ultimate Play-Along series places the aspiring guitarist with some of the finest musicians in the world. Ultimate Play-Along: Country includes ten hot country play-along trax, a live rhythm section, demo solos by monster guitarists, complete rhythm charts, and solo transcriptions with tab.
(Berklee Guide). Learn those beautiful hot licks and fingerpicking patterns of country music. You'll learn all about the various types of country music, from classic to current from Western Swing to bluegrass and everywhere between. Get beyond the cowboy chords to more complex arrangements, signature opening licks, and solos that characterize today's country hits. Online audio tracks illustrate these licks and concepts in context, and the book shows you exactly how to play them. You will learn how to play: Single and double-note lead style; Rhythm guitar styles; String bending, including single-, double-, and triple-note bends; Triadic pedal steel styles; Fingerpicking technique; Western swing style; Bluegrass lead and rhythm style; Sound effects, to make your guitar sound like a marimba, Theremin, banjo, and more!
For beginner country guitarists. Teaches all the important basic chords and rhythms used in country guitar. Includes country chord progressions, bass note picking and basic country licks.
In Advanced Jazz Guitar Techniques jazz guitar virtuoso Jens Larsen provides more deep insights into the techniques and theory of contemporary jazz guitar. You'll discover a practical, no-nonsense guide to jazz guitar topics that have mystified even experienced jazz musicians - such as effective soloing with triad pairs, applying quartal harmony, how and when to use altered scales, and much more! Master the advanced guitar techniques and melodic concepts you've heard in the music of everyone from Charlie Parker and Wes Montgomery, to Kurt Rosenwinkel, Michael Brecker and Mike Moreno. Jens Larsen gets to the heart of modern jazz guitar playing to focus on the techniques and theory that will set your playing apart from the crowd. His new jazz guitar book teaches how to create quartal arpeggio licks that combine the old-school cool jazz vocabulary of McCoy Tyner and John Coltrane with the modern sounds of Gilad Hekselman, Jonathan Kriesberg and Mike Moreno.
Master modern hybrid picking technique. It may have started as a Country thing, but combining the pick and fingers has spread like wildfire across genres.
Chris Brooks provides a complete approach to improvising with arpeggios, which builds into a cohesive strategy for advanced rock guitarists. Advanced Arpeggio Soloing for Guitar goes way beyond any other rock guitar arpeggio book by drawing inspiration from advanced jazz theory to teach you the sounds you won't learn anywhere else.
For beginner country guitarists. Continuing on from Country Guitar, this course introduces triplet rhythms, rhythm rests, staccato strumming, bar chords, lead guitar patterns and techniques.