Start playing rock guitar today with the ultimate DVD guide.
With more than two hours of lessons, Play Rock Guitar gives you everything you need to play in all styles of rock, including classic rock, metal, blues, thrash, alt-rock, punk and more.
Designed for players of all skill level, Play Rock Guitar shows you everything from tuning to playing rock scales and techniques for soloing. You'll learn to rock like AC/DC, solo like Slash, shred like Slayer and play guitar like many other of your favorite guitarists.
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Includes:
Beginner Section
- Strum Patterns
- Major/Minor Barre Chords
- Power Chords
- Scale Exercises and String Bending
- Vibrato
Intermediate Section
- Picking Exercises
- Combining Arpeggiated Picking and Strumming
- Dominant/Major/Minor 7th chords
- How to Write Single-Note Riffs
- Pedal Tones
- Soloing/Riffs/Scales
- Soloing Building Blocks
- 3-Note Groups in A minor Pentatonic
Advanced Section
- Power Chords: Putting the Fifth in the Bass
- Octaves
- Suspended Chords
- Chord Embellishment with Thumbed Chords
- Detuning
- Articulations Exercises: Pull-Offs/Hammer-Ons
- Blues Scale Exercises
- Essential Licks
- Harmonics
- Fretboard Tapping
- Sweep Picking
Model No.GWD-2008-01
A longtime contributor to Guitar World magazine, and the author and producer of literally hundreds of artist transcriptions, books, and instructional DVDs, Andy Aledort has influenced and inspired guitarists around the world for many years. During his long tenure at Guitar World, Aledort has written lesson features on such metal artists as Dimebag Darrell, Zakk Wylde, Avenged Sevenfold, Slipknot, Alexi Laiho, Yngwie Malmsteen, Trivium, Killswitch Engage, Nevermore and many others. He has also created many of Guitar World's best-selling instructional DVDs, including How to Play Hard Rock and Heavy Metal and Guitar World's best-selling DVD, How to Play the Jimi Hendrix Experience's Axis: Bold as Love. A brilliant guitarist in his own right, he has worked with Experience drummer Mitch Mitchell and the Band of Gypsys rhythm section of bassist Billy Cox and drummer Buddy Miles.
