Koala Music Publications has a large variety of music instruction books including a whole series of Guitar Methods and comprehensive Guitar Manuals. While you are studying this book, you will find Progressive Guitar Method: Theory particularly useful. On completion of this book, you will be ready to study specific types of guitar playing such as Rhythm, Lead, and Fingerpicking.
Here are some of the other titles published by Koala Music Publications.
An indispensable self-teaching, learning and reference manual for the beginning Guitarist. Hardcover, Glossy Full Color, 332-page manual with 90 lessons covering Lead, Rhythm and Fingerpicking styles. Contains 5 DVDs, and DVD-ROM with over 570 audio and 350 video files to download to PC, Mac, iPod or MP3 player.
52 Full color, step-by-step lessons to learn to play any style of guitar. Covers both melody and chord playing including both open position and movable shapes along with all the essential techniques for both rhythm and lead guitar playing. Also covers understanding rhythms, scales and keys and how to write your own music. All examples sound great and are fun to play.
Covers scales and patterns over the entire fretboard so that you can improvise against major, minor, and Blues progressions in any key. Learn the licks and techniques used by all lead guitarists such as hammer-ons, slides, bending, vibrato, and more.
Introduces right hand fingerpicking patterns that can be used as an accompaniment to any chord, chord progression or song. Covers alternate thumb, arpeggio and constant bass styles as used in Rock, Pop, Folk, Country, Blues Ragtime and Classical music.
Contains the most useful open, Bar and Jazz chord shapes of the most used chord types with chord progressions to practice and play along with. Includes sections on tuning, how to read sheet music, transposing, as well as an easy chord table, formula and symbol chart.
Introduces the most useful Bar, Rock and Jazz chord shapes used by all Rock/Pop/Country and Blues guitarists. Includes major, minor, seventh, sixth, major seventh, etc. Suggested rhythm patterns including percussive strums, dampening and others are also covered.
A comprehensive, lesson by lesson method covering the most important keys and scales for guitar, with special emphasis on bass note picking, bass note runs, hammer-ons etc. Featuring chordal arrangements of well known Rock, Blues, Folk and Traditional songs.
A comprehensive introduction to music theory as it applies to the guitar. Covers reading traditional music, rhythm notation and tablature, along with learning the notes on the fretboard, how to construct chords and scales, transposition, musical terms and playing in all keys.