able of Contents bout the uthor... Introduction... Part : Getting Started... Holding the Guitar... humb Position... Wrist Position... Picking Grip... 8 Strumming Grip... 8 Stretching and Warming Up... uning Up... Using an Electronic uner... Comparative uning... uning with Harmonics... Word on empering... Chucking, Damping and Palm Muting... he rt of the Power Chord... he rt of the arre Chord... he Full arre... E-Form arre Chord... Nine Movable Chords... he CGED Sequence of arre Chords... Chord Fragmentation...8 Funkin with Fragments... Funkin for the hrill... Exit the Zone of Zero Funkativity... Chord Ornamentation (Hendrix Style)... Fingerstyle... Part : Chords and Rhythm Guitar... Easy Chords for the eginner... Left-Hand echnique... Right-Hand echnique... nd Now for Some Real Chords!... Real Chord Progressions...8 dding or Subtracting Fingers... Slash Chords... Eighth-Note Strumming Logic... Sixteenth-Note Strumming Logic... he lues... he Standard -ar lues Form... Variations on the Standard -ar lues Form... Shuffle Riffs... Playing Shuffle lues...8 Struttin Your Stuff... Chord Scales...8 Part : Melody and Lead Guitar... Five Major Scale Forms... Five Minor Pentatonic Scale Forms... Five lues Scale Forms... Five Major Pentatonic Scale Forms... he CGED Sequence pplied to Scales... Exotic Scales... Harmonic Minor Scale... Phrygian Dominant Scale... Chromatic Scale... Whole one Scale... Diminished Half-Whole Scale... Diminished Whole-Half Scale... Melodic Minor Scale... Vibrato...8 Rock Vibrato...8 Classical Vibrato...8 ending Rock Vibrato... Circular Vibrato... he otal Rock Guitarist
Other Left-Hand echniques... Five-Note Patterns and the lbert King ox... Pentatonic/lues Lick Index... Melodic Patterns... Modes... Modal Progressions... Modal Interchange... Introduction to Slide Guitar...8 Harmonics...8 Midnight Wind Song...8 rtificial Harmonics...8 Dude Etudes and Lilith Licks...88 Lilith Lick...8 Lilith Lick... Dude Etude... Dude Etude... Improv (Phrasing)... rading Licks with Yourself... he nd Ending... acking racks... Minor Jam... allad in D Major... lues in E... Minor Jam... Part : ppendix... n Introduction to Music heory... he Major Scale and Key... Minor Key... Key Signatures... Cycle of ths... How Chords re Derived from the Major Scale... Generating the Diatonic riads of ny Key... Diatonic th Chords... etrachords...8 Inversions... Minor Scales... he Guitar Fretboard and Reading Diagrams... Reading Music... Standard Music Notation... Rhythmic Notation... Reading ablature... Final Note from the uthor... Single-String Licks... he rt of Finger apping... apping the Canon... he rt of the Sweep rpeggio... Sweeping the Hotel... he rt of Speed Picking... he otal Rock Guitarist
he otal Rock Guitarist his -bar blues song includes several types of shuffl e riffs, a walk-up and a turnaround. It rolls all of the he otal Rock Guitarist Struttin Your Stuff rack Swing Eighths etc. D D 8 E etc. D n D Dmin E w w n Walk-up urnaround concepts we ve been exploring in this chapter into one cool blues example.
his short, meditative etude, or study, is entirely composed of natural harmonics formed on the th, th and th frets. It s important to let each note ring as long as possible to get the most musical effect. Midnight Wind Song rack Let ring throughout j Harm. throughout ( ) ( ) J j. J J. J J j ( ) ( ) j J O ( ) 8 he otal Rock Guitarist
his etude shows you how to sweep arpeggios over a popular chord progression. Sweeping the Hotel rack 8 min F etc. () 8 8 n n n () E () Continued on page 8 he otal Rock Guitarist