Rock Guitar

The late 1960s saw the perfect fusion of blues and rock, giving birth to modern rock guitar and a generation of groundbreaking players. Real Blues-Rock Guitar focuses on these amazing guitar players and shows you their chord progressions, licks, styles, and techniques. This revised edition, now with companion DVDs and all-new engravings, guides you through the styles of blues-rock guitar masters like Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Billy Gibbons, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, The Allman Brothers, Joe Walsh, and many others with insight that has been carefully researched and documented to help you understand their unique styles.

Music theory is a powerful tool for mastering rock guitar, but learning it can seem difficult, boring and frustrating. This three-volume course is a fun and simple approach to learning scales, modes and intervals and applying them to rock guitar, blues guitar and metal guitar.

This superb DVD includes a selection of easy to absorb lessons that are designed to teach the beginner guitarist some of the essential basics of ROCK guitar playing. Over the course of this DVD you will learn some essential guitar techniques such as string bending, hammer on and pull off, sliding, and vibrato that can also be other styles of guitar playing from jazz to metal. This DVD includes: Essential rock techniques including Rock rhythm patterns, Power chords Chord inversions, Lead guitar licks and sequences, The pentatonic, blues and natural minor scales, Dynamics, Accenting, String bending, Getting a rock sound, clean sound and distortion sound, Palm muting, Hammer on and Pull Offs, Tremolo bar effects.

In our How to Play Acoustic Rock Guitar DVD, Guitar World's own esteemed associate editor Andy Aledort teaches you the acoustic rock secrets of Led Zeppelin, Neil Young, Dave Matthews, the Beatles, John Mayer and any others!. You'll learn basic strumming patterns, fingerpicking, alternate tunings, basic and intermediate soloing and arpeggiated patterns. With more than two hours of lessons, How to Play Acoustic Rock Guitar DVD will help you play like an acoustic god in no time!

Designed to motivate and inspire students, Guitar Sherpa's innovative learning systems employ a hands-on, contextual format. Students play their way through Guitar Sherpa curriculum rather than working through tedious examples and exercises. This DVD guides your development of the essential skills needed to succeed in today's modern rock arena. You'll learn fretboard navigation concepts and a variety of right and left hand techniques to facilitate easy movement both vertically and horizontally across the neck. Trey also drills down on a wide range of improvisational skills that will help you develop strong melodic statements and distinctive rhythmic grooves. It covers a broad range of modern rock concepts, including Trey's award-winning Modern Equivalent.