Books

The New Best of Green Day for Guitar

All of Green Day's greatest pop/punk hits, arranged in Easy Tab Deluxe. The titles are: All by Myself * Basket Case * Brat * Burnout * Chump * Geek Stink Breath * Longview * Panic Song * She * Stuart and the Ave. * Stuck with Me * When I Come Around.

The New Best of Sheryl Crow for Guitar

Titles are: All I Wanna Do * Can't Cry Anymore * A Change Would Do You Good * Everyday Is a Winding Road * Hard to Make a Stand * If It Makes You Happy * Leaving Las Vegas * Love Is a Good Thing * Maybe Angels * The Na-Na Song * Run, Baby, Run * Strong Enough.

The New Best of Led Zeppelin for Guitar

These ten songs are an essential addition to every guitarist's library. The titles are: Black Dog * Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You * Communication Breakdown * Dancing Days * Dazed and Confused * Heartbreaker * Immigrant Song * Rock & Roll * Stairway to Heaven * Whole Lotta Love.

Number Ones

This album-matching folio features stunning color photos of Michael and P/V/C arrangements of all 18 songs from his new album. Titles are: Bad * Beat It * Ben * Billie Jean * Black or White * Break of Dawn * Dirty Diana * Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough * Earth Song * I Just Can't Stop Loving You * Man in the Mirror * One More Chance * Rock with You * Smooth Criminal * Thriller * The Way You Make Me Feel * You Are Not Alone * You Rock My World.

Evanescence

Fallen

Evanescence's multi-platinum® album is now available in easy guitar TAB format. Includes four pages of color photos. Titles are: Bring Me to Life * Everybody's Fool * Going Under * Haunted * Hello * Imaginary * My Immortal * My Last Breath * Taking Over Me * Tourniquet * Whisper.

Acoustic Soul

The album-matching folio to this singer/songwriter/guitarist's debut album. Titles are: Video * Promises * Brown Skin * Strength, Courage & Wisdom * Nature * Back to the Middle * Ready for Love * Always in My Head * I See God in You * Simple * Part of My Life * Beautiful * Wonderful. Features beautiful, full-color photos!

All the Right Reasons

All the Right Reasons is Nickelback's fourth release, containing 11 new songs crafted in the band's well-known post-grunge/heavy rock style. The first single from the record, "Photograph," reached the No. 1 spot on Billboard's Pop 100 Charts (2006) and the album's second single, "Animals," has already reached the No. 1 spot on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Charts (2006). The album also includes "Side of a Bullet," written about the murder of guitarist Dimebag Darrell (featuring a Dimebag guitar solo overdubbed posthumously). Titles are: Follow You Home * Fight for All the Wrong Reasons * Photograph * Animals * Savin' Me * Far Away * Next Contestant * Side of a Bullet * If Everyone Cared * Someone That You're With * Rockstar.

The Rock Songs Big Book

Each songbook in the Big Book series provides musicians of all ability levels with a big list—usually 40 or more titles per book—of the very best songs from a favorite musical genre. This Big Book title includes a total of 46 of the best rock songs of our time. Songs include After Midnight (Eric Clapton) * Chasing Cars (Snow Patrol) * Have a Nice Day (Bon Jovi) * Hotel California (Eagles) * It’s Been Awhile (Staind) * Losing My Religion (R.E.M.) * Owner of a Lonely Heart (Yes) * Soak Up the Sun (Sheryl Crow) * Talk (Coldplay) * Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd) * and many more.

The Alternative Guitar Big Book

Alfred's Guitar Big Book series presents the best songs of each decade and each genre in complete note-for-note guitar tab transcriptions. Most books in the series are well over 250 pages and contain 30 to 40 or more songs each. With over 20 books in the series, the Big Books are a great way to build a complete reference library of all your favorite songs. Thirty-five hit songs in 256 pages. Transcribed in standard notation and tablature. Contents include: Tonight, Tonight (Smashing Pumpkins) * One Headlight (The Wallflowers) * Stupid Girl (Garbage) * Santa Monica (Everclear) * The World I Know (Collective Soul) * If It Makes You Happy (Sheryl Crow) and more.

Scales and Theory

Alfred's Basic Guitar Chord Dictionary

Recognized for over 50 years as the best-paced and most comprehensive guitar method available, Alfred's Basic Guitar Method has introduced over 3 million beginners to the joy of playing guitar. This updated and expanded edition features a new layout, making it easier to read and quicker to learn. Now included are blues, country, folk, jazz, and rock music styles, plus more pop songs! Learning to play has never been easier or more fun than with Alfred’s Basic Guitar Method—the first and best choice for today’s beginning guitar students. The most commonly used fingerings, selected for easy reference. Let’s face it, practice makes perfect. Finally, guitarists can find a quick way to reference fingerings so they can continue to play their favorite songs. With this easy reference guide, they’ll be playing like a pro in no time.

Guitar Mode Encyclopedia

This remarkably thorough text covers all the modes of the major, melodic minor and harmonic minor scales. Twenty-one different modes are explained in detail and examined from five different perspectives. In addition, open position fingerings, closed position fingerings, harmonies, chord voicings, tips for improvisation, practice progressions, melodic patterns and sample solos are provided.

Alfred's Teach Yourself Guitar Theory

Practical music theory for all guitarists! Includes all the music theory fundamentals needed by guitar players. It also explains the different guitar types, provides a step-by-step description of how to build scales and chords and offers entertaining puzzles, riddles and quizzes to test your progress. Topics covered include rhythm, meter, rests, major and minor scales, chords, intervals and more.

Pentatonic Improvisation

This unique and creative approach to improvising with the pentatonic scale will take guitar players' soloing skills to a new level. Designed to spark a modern, dynamic fire under improvising chops, Pentatonic Improvisation may change your definition of "pentatonic" forever! A CD demonstrating all the examples in the book is included.

TAB Licks: Scales & Modes for Guitar

This book is a fast and fun way to learn how to use scales and modes from day one and will provide a strong foundation from which to build upon. This book contains: * 14 essential scales and modes * 28 licks in the styles of famous guitarists * Guitar TAB, neck position and standard music notation

Styles

Guitar Technique Builders Series: Tapping

This book gives you detailed descriptions of the most effective tapping techniques. Music examples, shown in both standard music notation and TAB, are large and easy-to-read. Includes plenty of fun technique-building exercises. The recording demonstrates each example.

Jazz Guitar Lines

This book gets straight to the point -- learn jazz by playing jazz, not scales and arpeggios. Contains over 40 lines, licks and phrases. You will learn how to build your own lines, connect lines to create phrases, and use them over chord changes. Written in standard notation and tab.

Acoustic Masterclass Series: DADGAD Guitar Solos

Each book in the Acoustic Solo Series contains complete transcriptions from the artists themselves in full standard notation and tablature. Performance notes are also included. The full original recording of each song is featured on the included CD. Learn 12 amazing arrangements in DADGAD tuning. These songs from Laurence Juber, Al Petteway, and Doug Smith provide a complete overview of how DADGAD tuning can open any guitarist up to incredible new solo guitar arrangements. From amazing funky jazz to new acoustic and Celtic styles, each piece will make a terrific addition to any solo guitar concert repertoire. Titles are: Breaking Point * Buffalo Nickel * Catch! * She Moved Through the Faire * Cobalt Blue * Order of Magnitude * Out of the Darkness * Renewal * Smoky Mountain Morning * Spindrift * The White Pass Trail * The West Wind.

The Ellington Collection for Solo Guitar

Twelve of the "Duke's" most memorable compositions arranged in standard notation and tablature. Includes: Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me * Don't Get Around Much Anymore * In a Sentimental Mood * It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) * Mood Indigo * Satin Doll * Sophisticated Lady * Take the "A" Train.

Basic Blues Guitar Method, Book 2

A thorough course, paced for beginners. Become a great blues guitarist by starting with the fundamentals-like holding the guitar, tuning up, and playing simple chords and notes-and continue to grow with more advanced topics explored later, like slides, tritone patterns and double stops. All the music in each 48-page book is shown in TAB as well as standard music notation and demonstrated on the accompanying CD

Basic Blues Guitar Method, Book 1

A thorough course, paced for beginners. Become a great blues guitarist by starting with the fundamentals-like holding the guitar, tuning up, and playing simple chords and notes-and continue to grow with more advanced topics explored later, like slides, tritone patterns and double stops. All the music in each 48-page book is shown in TAB as well as standard music notation and demonstrated on the accompanying CD

Beyond Basics: Electric Slide Guitar

The unmistakably gutsy and soulful sound of slide guitar can be a valuable addition for any electric guitarist. Keith Wyatt demonstrates various glass and metal slides and shows which ones are best. He then takes you step by step through all the slide techniques including vibrato, right- and left-hand muting, intonation, useful fingerboard positions, and open tunings. Then it's play-along time as Keith demonstrates tons of blues and rock-style licks in the special "call and response" section.

Beyond Basics: Acoustic Slide Guitar

Covers choosing the right slide, open "blues" tuning, stylistic licks and patterns, using a capo, and the blues styles of Muddy Waters and Elmore James. Written in standard notation and tablature, this book includes 57 music examples.

Beyond Basics: Electric Slide Guitar

Topics covered include choosing the right slide, open "blues" tunings, stylistic licks and patterns, standard tuning techniques and more. The book contains a full-color photo section showing all types of slides, and it includes 32 music examples in standard notation and tablature.

Guitar Atlas: India

The Guitar Atlas series is your passport to a new world of music. Learn the characteristic rhythms and techniques of some of the world's most remarkable guitar music, discovering the history, origins, and pioneering artists of distinctive styles from around the globe. Whether you play jazz, rock, blues, or any other style, the beautiful musical language of India will infuse your playing with a new, unique flavor. Explore ornamentation, modes, and rhythms of folk music from Darjeeling, Assam, Bengal and other regions. Learn how ragas are structured, and discover the subtle, graceful improvisational art form of Hindustani music. The examples and compositions throughout all 48 pages are presented in standard notation and TAB and demonstrated on an enclosed CD. In November 2006, Guitar Atlas: India and its author Sanjay Mishra were featured on NPR radio's "Sanjay Mishra: A Cross-Cultural Exploration in Music."

Guitar Atlas: Africa

Banning Eyre, a nationally recognized expert in African guitar music, guides you through a variety of important styles, including congolese, mbira, Malian blues and juju. Explore the history and origin of each style including the pioneering musicians that developed them, and learn the dominant characteristics and techniques necessary to play this remarkable music. All material and examples are presented in standard notation and TAB for both lead and rhythm parts. A CD demonstrating all examples and compositions in the book makes learning easy and trouble-free for all players.

Guitar Atlas: Middle East

The Guitar Atlas series is your passport to a new world of music. Learn the characteristic rhythms and techniques of some of the world's most remarkable guitar music, discovering the history, origins, and pioneering artists of distinctive styles from around the globe. This introduction to the exotic music of Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Kuwait, Morocco, Nubia, and neighboring regions includes insights into cultural and religious influences and the major musicians of each locality. Discover unique plucked instruments, the Arabic tone system and exotic scales, and open your mind to new forms of improvisation that will forever alter your approach to soloing. The examples and compositions throughout all 48 pages are presented in standard notation and TAB and demonstrated on an enclosed CD.

Classic Jazz Guitar Styles

This is the guitarist's guide to music of the masters of classic jazz. Examples are shown in standard music notation and TAB. Licks are given in every important substyle including early jazz, gypsy jazz, bebop, hard bop, soul jazz, cool jazz and latin jazz. Technical and theoretical information is given as well as detailed information about important artists. The recording includes examples as well as three play-along tunes for you to jam with.

Basix Guitar TAB Classics: J.S. Bach

17 well-known pieces by one of the world's greatest composers arranged for guitar in standard music notation and TAB. The accompanying CD offers outstanding performances of each piece.

The Funkmasters: The Great James Brown Rhythm Sections 1960-1973

In this unique rhythm section workbook, 23 James Brown classics have been transcribed, broken down into individual lessons, and meticulously recreated on two one-hour CDs. Featuring legendary grooves from the guitarists, bassists, and drummers who ignited the Godfather of Soul for over three decades (including Jabo Starks, Bernard Odum, Clyde Stubblefield, Bootsy Collins, Jimmy Nolen, Country Kellum, and more), this book will enlighten and challenge your soul.

Bass

Basix®: Bass Method

Basix® Bass Method supplies you with everything you need to get started! It includes tips on buying and maintaining your instrument, teaches how to read TAB and standard music notation and includes instruction in a wide range of popular styles including rock, blues, country, jazz and more! There are essential licks and bass lines from different eras. The CD includes accompaniments for songs and exercises.

Bass Guitar For Dummies (with CD)

Shake the earth with deep, sonorous vibrations. Be the force that relentlessly drives the music. Rumble like the ominous thunder of an approaching storm. For you, it's not enough just to be heard; you need to be felt, too. You need to play bass guitar.

• Exploring the anatomy of a bass guitar
• Getting started: Holding your bass, positioning your hands, and striking notes
• Getting started: Holding your bass, positioning your hands, and striking notes
• Creating a groove and playing solos and fills
• Examining different bass-playing styles, from rock and funk to blues and reggae
• Caring for your bass: Cleaning, changing strings, and so on
• Buying your own bass and accessories
• Top Ten lists on bassists you should know about

Blues Guitar For Dummies (with CD)

Start playing the blues and jam like the all-time greats! This addition to the bestselling 'For Dummies' series lets you recreate the sounds of the blues masters - without reading music! Covering a variety of blues styles–from acoustic to electric, from Mississippi Delta and Chicago to blues rock–it shows step by step how to play blues scales, chords, riffs, progressions, and solos. Filled with charts, photos, musical examples from blues masters, and tips on equipment selection and care, the book also features a companion CD with play-along exercises, songs, riffs, chords, and MP3 files. Discover how to:

• Select the right guitar and accessories
• Develop correct hand position and posture
• Explore acoustic and electric styles
• Tune your axe
• Play like a pro and improvise leads.

Guitar For Dummies

Have you always wanted to play guitar? Who wouldn't? Think of Jimi Hendrix wailing away on his Stratocaster. . . Chuck Berry duck-walking across the stage to "Johnny B. Goode". . .B.B. King making his "Lucille" cry the blues. No doubt about it—guitars are cool. Guitar For Dummies 2nd Edition tells you everything a beginning or intermediate guitarist needs to know: from buying a guitar to tuning it, playing it, and caring for it, this book has it all—and you don't even need to know how to read music. Full of photo-illustrated exercises and songs you can play to practice the techniques discussed in each section, this step-by-step guide will take you through the basics and beyond before you can say "Eric Clapton." You'll learn how to:

• Match yourself with the guitar and equipment that fits your needs and budget
• Select the right accessories: amps, picks, pedals, capos, cases, and other goodies
• Pick and strum to produce a clean, clear, buzz-free tone
• Know whether you're really in tune
• Play melodies without reading music
• Perform basic guitar maintenance and repairs
• Build strength and dexterity while playing
• Play in different styles, including rock, blues, folk, jazz, and classical
• Make your guitar talk with bends and slides!

Funk Bass and Beyond

Bill "The Buddha" Dickens is a phenomenal bass talent whose reputation has reached legendary cult status as one of the top session bassists in the world. Bill Dickens teaches all of his amazing funk grooves and patented slap, pop, and percussive techniques in this must-have book. Everything is demonstrated slowly on the included CD and all the music is written in standard notation and TAB.

Bass Extremes

Eight complete album tracks featuring Steve, Victor and Greg Bissonette, followed by eight instructional tracks, paired with a book of complete transcriptions in standard notation and tablature. In styles ranging from bebop to new age to heavy metal, each piece highlights different aspects of their amazing techniques.

Slap & Pop Bass

Learn to serve up funk-a-licious grooves and extract the vibrant percussive sounds hidden in the electric bass. Renowned expert, David Overthrow teaches everything you need to know to get started playing hot slap & pop bass lines. Following a clear and logical progression, each essential technique is covered individually, from hammer-ons and pull-offs to double pops and double stops. Your skills build gradually so learning is easy! Over 100 licks and grooves are provided, plus a special library of bass lines for additional fun. The CD demonstrates all the music featured in the book. A great book for any serious bass player, from beginner to advanced.

Beginners

Kid's Guitar Course 1

The easiest guitar method ever for kids ages 5 and up. Both 48-page books explain lessons using plain language that's easy for kids to understand. Three irresistible guitar experts guide students along-a clever classical dog, one cool jazz cat, and a friendly alligator who loves the blues. They focus attention by pointing out what's important on each page and make learning music fun!

Kid's Guitar Course 2

The easiest guitar method ever for kids ages 5 and up. Both 48-page books explain lessons using plain language that's easy for kids to understand. Three irresistible guitar experts guide students along-a clever classical dog, one cool jazz cat, and a friendly alligator who loves the blues. They focus attention by pointing out what's important on each page and make learning music fun!

Basix®: Guitar Method, Book 1

This is the first book of a fun and easy method to learn to play the guitar. In addition to how to hold the guitar, how to tune the guitar and the parts of the guitar, you will learn the primary notes on all six strings, chords, tempo signs dynamics and more. Concepts are reinforced by playing fun songs including "Down In the Valley" and "When the Saints Go Marching In." Styles include blues, rock, jazz, classical, folk and country. The CD includes all songs and examples. This is an enhanced CD which offers two methods of supplementing the accompanying book.

Audio CD - You may listen and play along with this same CD using any standard audio CD Player. The stereo recording will allow you to hear each piece exactly as it should be played, with or without an instrumental accompaniment.

Media Song Player - Using the CD in a windows compatable PC allows you to play along with the same songs as the audio CD with several additional features. Using the Multimedia Song Player you may:

1) Follow along with the music on the screen.

2) Adjust the tempo of the accompaniment using the tempo slider. Slow the play back down as you are learning each song and gradually increase the speed until you reach the performance tempo.

3) See how each piece is played. The Multimedia song Player shows you graphically how each song should be played on your instrument.

4) Mix the volumes of the lead part, the accompaniment, the rhythm and the click track separately to to customize the accompainment to your liking.

5) Record your performance! By plugging your electric instrument or a microphone into your sound card to listen and critique your progress.

Basix®: Guitar Method, Book 2

Solid guitar instruction at a great value. Each book in this series comes with a CD so you can listen and play along with every song and example—all for the same price as the book alone! Learn by playing familiar blues, rock, jazz, classical, folk and country songs, from the fundamentals of level 1 to the more advanced techniques of level 4. 48 pages.