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Learn to Play 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 Book 1: Supplement andProgressive 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 available in this range.
Beginner Basics Guitar Bible
An indispensable self-teaching, learning and reference manual for the beginning guitarist. Hardcover, glossy full colour, 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.
Progressive Guitar for Adults
52 Full colour, step-by-step lessons to learn to play any style of guitar. Covers melody and chord playing, including open position and moveable shapes along with all the techniques essential for playing rhythm and lead guitar. Also covers understanding rhythms, scales and keys, and how to write your own music. All examples sound great and are fun to play.
Progressive Guitar Method: Book 1: Supplement
A collection of over 70 well known songs with chord symbols which can be used alone or in conjunction with Progressive Guitar Method Book 1. Contains 8 more lessons on major scales, keys, triplets, 6/8 time, 16th notes, syncopation and swing rhythms.
Progressive Guitar Method: Rhythm
Introduces all the important open chord shapes for major, minor, seventh, sixth, major seventh, minor seventh, suspended, diminished and augmented chords. Learn to play over 50 chord progressions, including 12 Bar Blues and Turnaround progressions.
Progressive Guitar Method: Lead
Covers scales and patterns across the entire fretboard so that you can improvise over major, minor, and Blues progressions in any key. Learn the licks and techniques used by the worlds’ best lead guitarists such as hammer-ons, slides, bends, vibrato, and more.
Progressive Guitar Method: Fingerpicking
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.
Progressive Guitar Method: Chords
Contains the most useful bar, Jazz and open chord shapes of the most commonly used chord types, with chord progressions to practice and play along with. Includes sections on tuning, how to read sheet music and transposing, as well as an easy chord table, formula and symbol chart.
Progressive Guitar Method: Bar Chords
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 many other techniques are also covered.
Progressive Guitar Method: Book 2
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 and hammer-ons. Also features chordal arrangements of well known Rock, Blues, Folk and Traditional songs.
Progressive Guitar Method: Theory Book 1
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.
