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Guitar Instruction Books with Audio CD's


This page contains the best of the newest format: Guitar books with audio CD's! If you know someone getting a first guitar for Christmas, or if you know an accomplished player and want to get him/her a gift they will enjoy -- check out the variety of collections on this page. These are all songbooks with CD's (not computer CD-ROM), and are all excellent!
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Hal Leonard Guitar Method Bks. 1,2,3
Easy Pop Melodies
More Easy Pop Melodies
Pop Melodies Plus

Basics 1 and Power Studies 1
Basics 2 and Power Studies 2
Basics 3 and Power Studies 3

Alternate Tunings
Bluegrass Guitar Tony Rice
Blues Guitar - Happy Traum
Blues You Can Use
Blues - Art Of The Shuffle
Blues - Classics Of Country Blues
 
Blues - Power Trio Blues
Blues - Total Blues For Guitar Jam Session
Blues - Ultimate Blues Jam Session

Dictionary Of Strums And Picking Patterns
Jazz Guitar Classics
Jazz Guitar Favorites
Metal Lead Guitar Vol. 2
Punk Guitar Method Book
Scales And Modes
Scales - Chuck Wayne
Technique - Terrifying For Guitar
Traditional Guitar Instrumentals


Hal Leonard Guitar Method
Book 1 (with CD)
Book 2
Book 3

Beginning Guitar Instruction
Guitar Books with CD (1)
$25.85 total set

 
Book 1 provides beginning instruction which includes tuning, 1st position melody playing (strings 1-6) the C, G, G7, D7 and Em chords, rhythms through eighth notes, solos and ensembles and strumming. Added features are a chord chart and a selection of traditional songs, including Amazing Grace, Greensleeves, and When the Saints Go Marching In. The audio accompaniment features demos of several exercises with various accompaniments. Tracks include acoustic and electric examples and some played at two different speeds.

Book 2 includes studies and songs in the keys of C, G, D, Em, and F, syncopations and dotted rhythms, more advanced strums, the most common 1st position chords, solos, bass runs and a variety of styles from bluegrass to blues-rock. A great selection of traditional songs including Simple Gifts, Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms, Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, and many more.

Book 3 includes the chromatic scale, 16th notes, playing in positions II - III, moving chords up the neck (bar chords), finger picking, ensembles and solos, a wide variety of style studies and many excellent songs for playing and/or singing.


Easy Pop Melodies
Easy Guitar
Guitar Book with CD
$14.95

 
A unique supplement to any guitar method book 1. Cross-referenced with Hal Leonard Guitar Method Book 1 (see above) pages for easy student and teacher use. 20 songs, including: All My Loving / Imagine / Low Rider / Maggie May / and more!


More Easy Pop Melodies
Easy Guitar
Guitar Book with CD
$14.95

 
Cross-referenced with Hal Leonard Guitar Method Book 2, but suitable as a supplement to any level 2 guitar method. 18 songs, including: All Shook Up / Jailhouse Rock / Ticket To Ride / King Of Pain / and more.


Pop Melodies Plus
Easy Guitar
Guitar Book with CD
$14.95

 
Pop supplement to guitar books level 2-3. Includes: Badge / Daniel / Eight Days A Week / Every Breath You Take / and more.


Basics 1
Power Studies 1

Wolf Marshall Guitar Method
2 Guitar Books with 2 CDs
$34.90

 
Basics One launches you straight into a hands-on contemporary approach to learning the basics of both guitar and music. You'll learn exciting power chords, strum patterns, riffs, guitar techniques like muting and string bending, and 12 bar blues progression. All presented with contemporary music examples and figures (from rockabilly to hard rock). In addition, you'll gain essential musical knowledge from the basics of notation (including tablature and grids), rhythm and meter and intervals transposition. Special Playing Tips and Music Builders sections further enhance your guitar and music chops! CD of Basics One is 41 minute audio accompaniment.

Power Studies One is a book/CD that correlates to each chapter in Basics 1. The songbook includes 12 songs, including: Bang A Gong / Crossroads / Sweet Emotion / and more. 52-minute audio CD.


Basics 2
Wolf Marshall Guitar Method
Guitar with CD
$14.95

 
Basics Two gives you a more detailed look into chord shapes and single note patterns that were introduced in Basics 1. You will learn how to move shapes and patterns to create exciting leads and melodies. Learn more playing techniques such as alternate picking, finger picking and arpeggiation used by all of today's top rock and pop guitarists. You'll get shuffle and swing rhythm playing techniques essential to contemporary rhythm playing. Audio CD for Basics 2 is 44 minutes.


Basics 3
Wolf Marshall Guitar Method
Guitar Book with CDs
$16.95

 
Basics Three gives you a full exploration of expanded scale and riffs patterns. More in-depth essential guitar articulations revealed. A complete treatment of open chords and scales are covered. These are essential in every type of playing from pop to country. Chapters include: Open G, A, D, E and Em chord and scale forms essential to all styles of playing; Connecting chord and scale forms used to build all types of melodies and guitar riffs.


Alternate Tunings
Matt Smith
Guitar Book with CD
$17.95

 
Alternate tunings are an important part of today's guitar playing for any style. This book introduces you to more than 50 essential tunings needed for rock, acoustic, blues, alternative and metal styles, and features tunings accompanied by typical progressions and grooves of each, as well as performance notes.


Bluegrass Guitar
Tony Rice
Guitar Book with CD
$19.95

 
Tony Rice is known world-wide for his spectacular technique, brilliant improvisation and powerful soloing. In this lesson, he personally passes on to you the style he has developed during the two decades as the top bluegrass flatpicker of his generation. In careful detail, Tony analyzes licks, runs, solos and rhythm parts to hot bluegrass songs and fiddle tunes that will challenge and delight all flatpickers. Before long you'll be picking solos to the following essential bluegrass tunes: The Red Haired Boy / Little Sadie / Your Love Is Like A Flower / Blue Railroad Train / Home From the Forest / Wildwood Flower / Old Train / Wild Horse / Jerusalem's Ridge.


Blues Guitar
Happy Traum
Guitar Book with CD
$19.95

 
Take a lesson in fingerstyle blues guitar from one of the world's most respected teacher / performers. All you need to know is how to play a few basic chords to get started playing along with this user-friendly book-audio CD package. Beginning with the most basic strumming of a 12-bar blues pattern, Happy Traum gradually starts adding fills, runs, turnarounds, bass rhythms and "boogie woogie" walking bass patterns that make the basic blues progression come alive. All of these elements are notated in both notes and tab.


Blues You Can Use
John Ganapes
Guitar Book with CD
$19.95

 
A comprehensive source for learning blues guitar, designed to develop both your lead and rhythm playing. Covers all styles of blues, including Texas, Delta, R & B, early rock and roll, gospel, blues-rock and more. Includes 21 complete solos; blues chords, progressions and riffs; turnarounds; moveable scales and soloing techniques; string bending; audio with leads and full band backing; and more!


Blues - Art Of The Shuffle
Dave Rubin
Guitar Book with CD
$19.95

 
This method book explores shuffle, boogie and swing rhythms for guitar. Includes tab and notation, and covers Delta, country, Chicago, Kansas City, Texas, New Orleans, West Coast, and bebop blues. Included audio CD is for demonstration of each style and to jam along with!


Classics Of Country Blues Guitar
Rory Block
Guitar Book with CD
$19.95

 
Here are some of the greatest country blues solos of all time, taught in phrase-by-phrase detail. Rory Block, one of the most knowledgeable and talented exponents of this style performs and breaks down these fingerstyle pieces by Willie Moore, Blind Willie McTell, Tommy Johnson, Mississippi John Hurt, Skip James and others.


Power Trio Blues
Dave Rubin
Guitar Book with CD
$19.95

 
This book/CD pack details how to play electric guitar in a trio with bass and drums. Boogie, shuffle, and slow blues rhythms, licks, double stops, chords, and bass patterns are presented for full and exciting blues. A CD with the music examples performed by a power trio is included for play-along instruction and jamming. The music styles of Chicago and Texas bluesmen are presented along with rare photos of them with their favorite axes.


Total Blues For Guitar
Jam Session

Guitar Book with CD
$17.95

 
Play lead guitar "live" with a pro-session band on 10 tracks in the style of Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eric Clapton, Robben Ford, Jimi Hendrix, B.B. King, and more! Tips on solo construction, phrasing, scales, string bending, and vibrato. CD includes over 60 minutes with full band backing tracks. Standard notation and tablature.


Ultimate Blues
Jam Session

Guitar Book with CD
$18.95

 
Play lead guitar "live" with a pro-session band on 10 tracks in the style of Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eric Clapton, Robben Ford, Jimi Hendrix, B.B. King, and more! Tips on solo construction, phrasing, scales, string bending, and vibrato. CD includes over 60 minutes with full band backing tracks. Standard notation and tablature.


Dictionary Of Strums And Picking Patterns
Fred Sokolow
Guitar Book with CD
$14.95

 
If you play rock, blues, country, pop, soul-funk, heavy metal, jazz, or folk, here are all the strumming and picking patterns you need. Over 150 patterns and nearly 100 rhythmic grooves help you cover any musical situation. Styles are cross-referenced. The book includes tablature, music, and a recording of every pattern, plus tips on equipment and effects.


Jazz Guitar Classics
Guitar Book with CD
$19.95

 
Includes note-for-note legendary jazz performances transcribed and performed by Jack Grassel. The CD includes two versions of each song at different tempos with the rhythm section on a different channel. Includes: Satin Doll - Kenny Burrell / Tangerine - Jimmy Raney / Honeysuckle Rose - Django Reinhardt / Billie's Bounce - George Benson / Stella By Starlight - Tal Farlow / Easy Living - Johnny Smith.


Jazz Guitar Favorites
Guitar Book with CD
$19.95

 
Includes note-for-note legendary jazz performances transcribed and performed by Jack Grassel. The CD includes two versions of each song at different tempos with the rhythm section on a different channel. Includes: All The Things You Are - Hank Garland / I Hear A Rhapsody - Howard Roberts / Oleo - Pat Martino / Speak Low - Barney Kessel / When Sunny Gets Blue - George Barnes / Yesterdays - Wes Montgomery.


Metal Lead Guitar Vol. 2
Troy Stetina
Guitar Book with CD
$19.95

 
As above: This intense metal method teaches you the elements of lead guitar technique with an easy to understand approach. The heavy metal concepts, theory, and musical principals are all applied to real metal licks, runs and full compositions.


Punk Guitar Method
John Tapella
Guitar Book with CD
$17.95

 
"This volume contains all the blistering moves, scales, chords, and rhythm charts you'll ever need..." -- Guitar School. Take an inside look at the guitar styles of bands like the Sex Pistols, The Ramones, Green Day and The Offspring. This new method teaches: common chords, progressions, solo scales and techniques, rhythms and more. The CD features 32 musical examples played out and two complete songs. Includes background info on the British, New York, and L.A. punk scenes, with rare photos.


Scales And Modes
Jon Chappell
Guitar Book with CD
$17.95

 
42 movable scales and modes arranged over rock, shuffle, and funk grooves. Includes: the 7 fundamental modes / major, minor and pentatonic scales / diminished and whole-tone scales / the blues scale / exotic scales.


Scales - The School Of Chuck Wayne
Second Floor Music
Guitar Book with CD
$12.95

 
Here at last is the long awaited, definitive jazz guitar scale method by music legend Chuck Wayne. With a career that includes recordings with Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Woody Herman, George Shearing, and Tony Bennett, Chuck Wayne's approach to the guitar and improvisation has paved the way for a generation of guitarists. This book presents an in-depth analysis of his own highly influential developments in technique and jazz theory. Dozens of examples and exercises are featured that Chuck Wayne has found invaluable in his own teaching.


Terrifying Technique For Guitar
Carl Culpepper
Guitar Book with CD
$14.95

 
The ultimate source for building chops while improving your technical facility and overcoming physical barriers. Covers: alternate, economy, hybrid, and sweep picking; symetrical, chromatic, and scale exercises; arpeggios, tapping, legato, and bending sequences -- over 200 exercises in all. CD includes full demonstrations of the exercises.


Traditional Guitar Instrumentals
Richard Thompson
Guitar Book with CD
$19.95

 
By legendary guitarist Richard Thompson. Learn the techniques and style of traditional Irish, English and Scottish jigs, reels, hornpipes and other tunes arranged for fingerstyle guitar. On the CD, Richard explains how he uses altered tunings, string bends, vibrato as well as other techniques to give these tunes added "flavor." The book contains all of the songs and techniques written in notation and tab.


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