The Better Guitar series of method books are designed to give you a complete foundation for playing guitar. Lead Guitar is a visual, key-based approach to learning to play lead guitar (also called... More > improvising or soloing). By learning five easy to memorize patterns for the Major, Minor, Pentatonic, and Blues scales, you will be able to improvise in any key at any position on the fretboard. Lead Guitar also teaches the techniques that make your improvising more interesting, such as bending, hammer-ons, pull-offs, vibrato, octaves, tapping, and more. If you’ve ever wanted to be able to play solos on the guitar this book will take you there. A link to Lead Guitar audio files (mp3) is contained in the book.< Less
How many times you find yourself trying to play amazing chord progression moving smoothly one chord after another as professional jazz guitar players do? How many times you'd like to be able to... More > reharmonize a progression extending or changing chords to get a more personal sound? If you're interested in learning amazing diatonic chord progression, extending you chord vocabulary including advanced jazz chords then this book is for you. This book is organized to allows you to concentrate only in playing. No specific knowledge is needed to use this material: only you and your guitar. You'll be introduced in complex diatonic progression by examples and you'll acquire the ability to move smoothly from one chord to another. Using this book you'll be naturally get skill on advanced harmony techniques as extended and altered chords, complex progressions, comping, chord melody, chordal improvisation. This book will enable you to gradually start playing like professional jazz players do.< Less
How many times you find yourself trying to play amazing chord progression moving smoothly one chord after another as professional jazz guitar players do? How many times you'd like to be able to... More > reharmonize a progression extending or changing chords to get a more personal sound? If you're interested in learning amazing diatonic chord progression, extending you chord vocabulary including advanced jazz chords then this book is for you. This book is organized to allows you to concentrate only in playing. No specific knowledge is needed to use this material: only you and your guitar. You'll be introduced in complex diatonic progression by examples and you'll acquire the ability to move smoothly from one chord to another. Using this book you'll be naturally get skill on advanced harmony techniques as extended and altered chords, complex progressions, comping, chord melody, chordal improvisation. This book will enable you to gradually start playing like professional jazz players do.< Less
An instructional book about contemporary lead guitar techniques (such as picking, sweeping, tapping amo.) and practicing them. The book is based on the many instructional articles Vandenberg has... More > written throughout the years, and features completely revised versions of some of them, in addition to completely new chapters. This is the actual printed book-version.< Less
An instructional method for guitar-players. This book focusses on contemporary lead guitar techniques (such as picking, legato, sweeping, tapping...) and practicing them.
The book is based on the... More > many instructional articles Eric Vandenberg has written throughout the years, and features completely revised versions of some of them, plus entirely new sections
This is the download-version of the book. It comes as a pdf-file for Adobe Acrobat Reader!< Less
Dickenson's Lead Guitar and Improvisation Skills Vol. 2 is a dynamic follow up to Vol. 1. Including further information about pentatonic scales, Dickenson shows aspiring guitarists how to utilize the... More > entire fretboard to play lead guitar and improvise. Recommended for students who have completed the Guitar Fundamentals method book as well as Lead Guitar and Improvisation Skills Vol. 1. In addition, the Fretboard Mastery book is an excellent accompaniment to these books.< Less
Dickenson shows the foundations of playing lead guitar with an innovative introduction the pentatonic scales. While most books rely on the student memorizing complicated patterns, Dickenson shows you... More > how you can use 5 basic forms to play in all 15 major keys and all 15 minor keys. A unique aspect of this book is the use of lead-guitar musical examples, allowing to student to immediately apply the material they have learned to actual music. Recommended for students who have successfully completed the Guitar Fundamentals method book or have been playing for at least a year. In addition, this book works well in conjunction with Dickenson's Fretboard Mastery book.< Less
Ein Lehrbuch für Gitarristen. Besprochen werden moderne Solotechniken (z.B. Picking, Legato, Sweep-Picking, Tapping uvm.) und wie man diese erlernt und übt. Das Buch basiert auf den... More > zahlreichen Lehrartikeln, die Eric Vandenberg verfasst hat und beinhaltet komplett überarbeitete Versionen sowie komplett neue Kapitel. DEUTSCHE VERSION/GERMAN VERSION< Less
Improvisation for Blues and Rock Guitar is a step by step instruction manual with an accompanying audio mp3 designed to take you from beginning to advanced lead guitar soloing. This book and... More > accompanying audio mp3 is a "must have" for anyone desiring to further their understanding of lead guitar techniques and how to improvise with pentatonics and modes, along with learning modal theory.
This 45 page book and audio mp3 combines elements that many other books do not offer; individual licks, detailed music theory as it applies to blues and rock lead guitar soloing, and great backing tracks to practice with. This book and audio mp3 is great for self study or for guitar instructors to use with their students.< Less
These lessons come from my own experience the fruit of many years of teaching.
Starting from the reality of the student and leaving me to drive from his musical needs I tried to understand what we... More > needed to start playing the guitar.
Structured in such a way that it can be used by anyone, effectively, to overcome the classic beginner's obstacles and to develop the foundations of musical language and instrumental technique, is a gradual trail, fun and easy at the same time.
The study alternate melodies and chords in accompanying the same function will lead to the execution of the first solos (also guitar literature of nineteenth-century Masters) thus offering the student an insight of the guitar as a musical instrument. Finally I have completed the method arranging a series of pieces for ensemble music to two, three, four and five parts that can also be played by other melodic instruments in order to entertain and help students in their musical growth.< Less
