Play Electric Guitar : From Beginner to Band in 3 Months

by Burrows, Terry

• ISBN13: 9780312244170
• ISBN10: 0312244177
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-11-22
• Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books

Summary

This interactive package (complete with a book, an instructional CD, a wall chart poster, a guitar pick and three sheets of fretboard stickers) equips the novice with everything he or she needs--short of an electric guitar and an amplifier--to become competent to play in a band within three months. The course is divided into twelve weekly lessons. Each lesson outlines the objectives of the week ahead and concludes with one of twelve specially commissioned backing tracks over which the novice can use the newly learned techniques. The book concludes with tips how to get the right sound from a guitar, amplifier and effects, as well as tips on forming a band, playing live and recording. If you've ever wanted to play in the band instead of just watching it, now you can!

Author Biography

Terry Burrows has written or contributed to books and CD-ROMs on subjects as diverse as popular psychology, business and management, general history, the Internet, computer software, pop culture and music. He plays a variety of instruments and has been responsible for nearly forty commercial releases.

Table of Contents

About this course	p. 6
Equipment	p. 8
How to hold your guitar	p. 10
Hand positions	p. 12
Preparing to switch on	p. 14
Simple tuning	p. 16
Tuning to a single pitch	p. 18
Your first chords	p. 20
Changing chords	p. 22
Doubling the strokes	p. 24
Picking single notes	p. 26
More open string chords	p. 28
This week's backing track	p. 30
Using voicings	p. 32
Time signatures	p. 34
Minor chords	p. 36
This week's backing track	p. 38
Rests and ties	p. 40
Note intervals and the major scale	p. 42
Playing other major scales	p. 44
Practising major scales	p. 46
Breaking up the scales	p. 48
Barre chords on the 6th string	p. 50
Barre chords on the 5th string	p. 52
Barre chords and rhythms	p. 54
Emphasis with accents	p. 56
Dominant sevenths	p. 58
Major and minor sevenths	p. 60
Fingerpicking	p. 62
Playing extended chords	p. 64
Suspended chords	p. 66
Playing the chorus	p. 68
Taking care of your guitar	p. 70
Three minor scales	p. 72
Diatonic and pentatonic scales	p. 74
Transposing chords	p. 76
Starting to play lead guitar	p. 78
Playing the rest of the verse	p. 80
Ninths, elevenths and thirteenths	p. 82
Hammering	p. 84
This week's backing track	p. 86
Playing riffs	p. 88
Bending techniques	p. 90
Soul backing	p. 92
Soloing with vibrato	p. 94
Electronic effects	p. 96
Chord relationships and songwriting	p. 98
Adding your own melody	p. 100
Bottleneck guitar	p. 102
Sliding chords	p. 104
Altered tunings	p. 106
This week's backing track	p. 108
Further effects	p. 110
Performing	p. 112
Fret-tapping	p. 114
This week's backing track	p. 116
Advanced soloing	p. 118
Recording matters	p. 120
Glossary	p. 122
Guide to backing tracks	p. 124
Index	p. 126
Acknowledgements	p. 128
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