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

at ModRock.com (homepage)
 

Songs:
"I Alone"
"Tomorrow"
"This is a Call"

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!

New Rock teaches "I Alone," by Live, "Tomorrow," by Silverchair, and "This is a Call," by the Foo Fighters. Some of the concepts uncovered include:

• Tone and clean/distortion switching tricks
• "Brush"-type strumming
• All relevent chords, of course
• Twisting a Minor Key toward Major
• The V-I Cadence as a Pivot Chord
• Large Scale Song Structure and Form Charting
• Arpeggiation picking formats
• Using open string transitions
• Downstroke sixteenths and palm muting
• Hammers, pulls, slides in A minor pentatonic
• Second inversion and sus2 chords
• A minor pentatonic lead cliches
• Low-mid-high strumming approach
• Mixed phrasing (3 against 2)
• Comping 2 guitars to 1
• Harmony in 3rds
• And more!

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