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Play Electric Guitar From Beginner to Band in 3 Months

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ISBN-10: 0312244177

ISBN-13: 9780312244170

Edition: 1999 (Revised)

Authors: Terry Burrows, Laura Wickenden

List price: $24.99
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Book details

List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 11/22/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 128
Size: 11.75" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

Terry Burrows lives in London.

About this course
Equipment
How to hold your guitar
Hand positions
Preparing to switch on
Simple tuning
Tuning to a single pitch
Your first chords
Changing chords
Doubling the strokes
Picking single notes
More open string chords
This week's backing track
Using voicings
Time signatures
Minor chords
This week's backing track
Rests and ties
Note intervals and the major scale
Playing other major scales
Practising major scales
Breaking up the scales
Barre chords on the 6th string
Barre chords on the 5th string
Barre chords and rhythms
Emphasis with accents
Dominant sevenths
Major and minor sevenths
Fingerpicking
Playing extended chords
Suspended chords
Playing the chorus
Taking care of your guitar
Three minor scales
Diatonic and pentatonic scales
Transposing chords
Starting to play lead guitar
Playing the rest of the verse
Ninths, elevenths and thirteenths
Hammering
This week's backing track
Playing riffs
Bending techniques
Soul backing
Soloing with vibrato
Electronic effects
Chord relationships and songwriting
Adding your own melody
Bottleneck guitar
Sliding chords
Altered tunings
This week's backing track
Further effects
Performing
Fret-tapping
This week's backing track
Advanced soloing
Recording matters
Glossary
Guide to backing tracks
Index
Acknowledgements