The Complete Idiot's Guide to Guitar Exercises (Complete Idiot's Guides (Lifestyle Paperback)) - Softcover

Luttjeboer, Hemme

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1592579728 ISBN 13: 9781592579723

Publisher: Alpha Books, 2010

Synopsis

Exercises designed to build strength, endurance, dexterity, and technique

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Guitar Exercises provides both new and experienced guitarists with the practice they need to take their playing to the next level.

A wide variety of exercises including:
Single note
String-to-string
Minor and major scales
Harmonic and melodic minor scales
Major and minor pentatonic and blues scales
Chord progression exercises
Melodic patterns

Bonus chapters include fingerpicking, fingerstyle blues and Travis picking exercises

Written using both standard notation and TAB

Accompanied by online audio featuring over 150 samples of the exercises in the book. Exercises are easily found at DK.com, locating the "Guitar Exercises" book, and clicking the "downloadable audio tracks" link in the description.

Praise for this book by:
Randy Bachman (The Guess Who, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, and Ringo Starr's All- Starr Band)
Jennifer Batten (Michael Jackson, Jeff Beck)
Peter Frampton
Steve Howe (Yes, Asia)
Albert Lee (Eric Clapton, Emmylou Harris, The Everly Brothers)
Alex Lifeson (Rush)
Mike Mushok (Staind)
Mike Stern (Jazz Guitarist Extraordinaire)

About this title

About the Author

Hemme Luttjeboer is a musician and transcriber who has worked for musical legends such as Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Alanis Morissette, and Joni Mitchell, among others. His transcriptions appear regularly in magazines such as Guitar Player, Guitar World, Play Guitar, Finger Style, and Acoustic Guitar. He's transcribed more than 250 books in his career, and is the author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Guitar Exercises.

Edition details

• Publisher: Alpha Books
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1592579728
• ISBN 13: 9781592579723
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264