Troy Stetina's Guitar Lessons: Hard Rock
Book/CD - $14.95
by Troy Stetina

at ModRock.com (homepage)
 

Songs:
"Firehouse"
"Walk This Way"
"You Really Got Me"

Summary:
The Troy Stetina's Guitar Lessons book/CDs each take 3 important songs by various artists and break them down into a number of detailed lessons. These lessons prepare you for every aspect of that song as well as teach the hidden principles at work in the music. Full staff-TAB notation and full transcriptions of the songs are included.

Troy's approach makes learning songs easier than ever. And you're also be learning more than just the songs. You're learning the theory behind the music as well as how to practice more efficiently, and how to approach difficult licks. The concepts are all cross-referenced with Troy's core guitar methods, so you will know just where to look should you want more information on any subject. This series offers essentially 'private' guitar lessons with one of the world's leading guitar educators!

Learn how to rock -- 70s hard rock, that is. Songs include "Firehouse," by Kiss, "Walk This Way," by Aerosmith, and "You Really Got Me," as recorded by Van Halen.Some of the concepts uncovered:

• Tone and effects
• Relevant chord types
• Song structures and charts
• Full lead guitar lessons for each song (with picking and fingering indications)
• Each lead phrase, slow and at tempo, and in context
• Using chord tones in lead lines
• Prepartion exercises for tough licks
• Comping 2 guitars to 1
• Hybrid scales for lead guitar: minor pentatonic plus major 3rds, blues plus Dorian
• Using a rhythm motive within an overall progression
• Lead fill riffs and artificial harmonics

Backing tracks feature full-band accompaniment, mixed twice: First with the featured guitar part, and then again, with only the backing instruments.