Develop the skills and techniques to play any style of music with master instructor John McCarthy. With a huge resource of tips and tricks, easy to follow close-ups and a step-by-step approach.

Covers scales both up the neck and across the strings, how to find and identify intervals, and how melodies can be revealed out of chord shapes. Using these techniques, simple tunes like Fre?re Jacques and Will the Circle Be Unbroken? can be easily played. By adding passing tones, slides, hammer-ons and other ornaments, you'll soon be improvising blues, swing (Lady Be Good), a fiddle tune (Chicken Reel) and a pop song (Tennessee waltz).

Teaches essential blues techniques such as bending, vibrato, raking, and sweeping. Also covers the most important blues forms and styles, including 12-bar blues, 8-bar blues, slow blues, jazz blues, and minor blues.

En este libro encontrarás un método que te guiará y ayudará en tu camino para aprender a tocar la guitarra, quizá no rápido o en corto tiempo, pero sí de una manera eficiente. La intención de este libro es darte los fundamentos básicos de la muísica, principalmente contemporánea, que se pueden aplicar a cualquier estilo musical y al mismo tiempo irlos llevando a la práctica a través de ejercicios relacionados al tema.

A combination package includes a fifteen-track CD and backup text to demonstrate sounds of instruments and musical examples as well as timelines that chart the lives of composers and performers and pinpoint important musical developments.