Metal Guitar Tricks
Book/CD - $17.95
by Troy Stetina

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Soundclips:
"The Music Beast"  hi-fi mp3  lo-fi mp3
"To Valhalla"  hi-fi mp3  lo-fi mp3

Summary:
Metal Guitar Tricks examines a variety of cool tricks, techniques, and manually produced sound effects. It is written for the self-taught guitarist and uses tablature without rhythm notation. Timing is meant to be learned by ear, from listening to the examples on the accompanying CD. This book is is older -- published in 1988 -- so, it doesn't cover all the cool sound tricks originated by Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine. (For that, check out the RATM Signature Licks book/CD.)

Guitar Tricks is arranged in five chapters: Left Hand Tricks, Sound Effects, Tapping Tricks, Whammy Bar Tricks, and Special Techniques. Each chapter culminates with a short, stand-alone guitar solo that incorporates the ideas covered in that chapter.