Total Rock Guitar
Book/CD - $17.95
by Troy Stetina
at ModRock.com (homepage)
Soundclips:
"Strummer"
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"Knives & Tulips"
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"Deathmatch"
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"Desolation Jam"
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Summary:
Total Rock Guitar is a comprehensive source for learning rock guitar, designed to develop both your lead and rhythm playing simultaneously. It starts at a simple beginner level with "one-finger" chord shapes (check out "Hair Rock", the first song-clip above) and progresses gradually to advanced playing, covering all rock styles with a special emphasis on today's current trends.
The 74 minute CD includes 22 songs with full backing band. That's right twenty-two songs! (See below.) This method is unlike any other. Instead of simply incorporating the music within the method, here, the music IS the method. Author Troy Stetina has gone to great lengths to slip all the hallmarks of an effective course right into the songs themselves, so you just learn the music as presented and all areas of your playing will gradually improve. In addition, you will gain a broader understanding as to what makes the different styles stand apart from one another. Music theory is explained as needed. Includes standard notation with tablature, plus chord grids and scale diagrams. In addition, picking and fingering indications are included throughout.
Songs:
- Hair Rock - 80s hard rock
- Liquified - hip/hop rock
- Alt./Grrl/Power Pop - girl rock
- Disturbed - alternative rock
- Atlantis - bluesy pop rock
- Rockabillity - 50s rockabilly
- Upstanding Young Punks - happy punk rock
- Strummer - college rock
- Hard Rocker - late 70s hard rock
- Good Time Rock - early 70s bluesy rock
- Southern Comfort - southern rock
- Rebellion Riff - a la RATM
- Toasterhead - modern rock guitar harmony lesson
- Crank It! - retro rock
- Mindjammer - alternative rock
- Knives & Tulips - a la Guns N Roses
- The Machinist - bluesy metal
- Too Happy - reggae/ska pop rock
- Death Match - Ozzy style metal
- Da Funky Groove - modern funk rock
- Meangroove - Pantera-inspired modern metal
- Desolation Jam - industrial modern metal
Covers: Getting a Tone, Open chords, Power chords, Riffs, Scales & Modes, Licks, String Bending, Strumming, Palm Muting, Harmonics, Alternate Picking, Accent Picking, Keys and Tonalities, Blues progressions, Rock Comping Patterns, Shuffle and Sixteenth-Shuffle Grooves, and more.