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Rock Guitar for Dummies 4/08/04
Jon Chappell Bk & CD
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Whether you're contemplating a career as a heavy metal superstar or you just want to jam with friends, this friendly book/CD package makes it easy to master the fundamentals of rock guitar. From simple chord progression to smokin' rock riffs, Rock Guitar for Dummies delivers just what you need to get down and groove! Learn to strum power chords and rhythm figures, improve solos and play lead guitar, play licks, from rockabilly to rap rock, explore the mechanics of guitars, amps, and effects, care and maintain all your gear. Play-along companion CD includes blues and early rock-based lead passages, a variety of rock styles, including classic rock, heavy metal, southern rock, and progressive rock, rock licks using techniques such as hammer-ons, pull-offs, bends, slides and more!
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Foreward
Introduction
About This Book
Not-So-Foolish Assumptions
Conventions Used in This Book
How This Book Is Organized
Part I: So You Wanna Be a Rock-and-Roll Star
Part II: Basic Playing Techniques
Part III: Beyond the Basics: Sounding Like a Rock and Roller
Part IV: Master Different Rock Styles
Part V: Becoming a Gearhead
Part VI: The Part of Tens
Appendix
Bonus Web Chapter
Icons Used in This Book
Where to Go from Here
Part I: So You Wanna Be a Rock-and-Roll Star
Chapter 1: It's Only Rock Guitar. . . But I Like It
Differentiating Between Rock and Acoustic Guitar. . .It
Ain't Just Volume
Sound quality, or timbre
Signal
Distortion and sustain
Oh yes, and volume
Listening examples
Knowing the Essentials: The Power Trio
The electric guitar
The amplifier
Effects
Getting a Grasp on How Electric Guitars Work
String vibration and pitch
Tension vs. length
Your hands
Pickups and amplification
Accessorizing Your Guitar
Picks
Straps
Cords
Tuners
Chapter 2: Holding Your Own
Getting a Hold of the Guitar
Sitting position
Standing position
Forming a Left-Hand Position
Fretting
Getting some action
Striking a Right-Hand Position
Playing with a pick
Using your fingers
Gearing Up to Tune Up: Electric Tuners
What they are
How they work
Looking at Music Notation: Not Enough to Hurt
Reading chord diagrams
Reading rhythm slashes
Reading tablature
Making Music: How to Play a Chord
Fingering a chord
Strumming a chord
Chapter 3: The Other Half: The Guitar Amp
Discovering How Amps Work
Following the Signal Chain
Preamp
Tone controls
Effects
Power amp
Taking a Guided Tour of the Amp
Boxing It In: The Cabinet
Taking Control: The Control Panel
Channel inputs
Preamp and power amp controls
Tone controls
Amp effects
Making a Graceful Exit
Speaker out
Headphone out
Direct out
Effects loop
Power amp in
Various other "holes"
Sounding Out: The Speaker
Plugging In and Turning On
Safety first
The six-step program
Getting a Sound
Setting the controls
Channel switching
Making Do If You Don't Have an Amp
Plugging into a home stereo or boom box
Headphone amps
Demystifying the Gizmology
Part II: Basic Playing Techniques
Chapter 4: What the Left Hand Is Doing: Chords
You Gotta Have Chords
Playing Open-position Chords
Putting Power Chords into Play
Moving power chords
Pulling the power together
Getting Behind the Barre
Getting a grip on barre chords
Playing E-based barre chords
Moving the E-form barre chord around the neck
Other E forms: Minor, dominant 7, minor 7, and 7sus
Playing A-based barre chords
Moving the A-form barre chord
A forms: Minor, dominant 7, minor 7, 7sus, and
Major 7
Chapter 5: The Right Stuff: Right-Hand Rhythm Guitar
Techniques
Strumming Along
Downstrokes
Upstrokes
Combining downstrokes and upstrokes
Mixing Single Notes and Strums
The pick-strum
Boom-chick
Moving bass line
Disrupting Your Sound: Syncopated Strumming
Syncopated notation: Dots and ties
Playing syncopated figures
Giving Your Left Hand a Break
Left-hand muting
Implying syncopation
Suppressing the Right Hand
Right-hand muting
Breaking Out of the Chord Box: Left-hand Movement within a
Right-hand Strum
Giving Your Fingers Some Style
Getting Into Rhythm Styles
Straight-four feel
Two-beat feel
16-feel
Heavy metal gallop
Three feel
Chapter 6: The Leading Edge: Introduction to Lead Rock
Guitar
Taking the Lead
Holding the Pick
Attacking the Problem
Striking the Downs and Ups of Lead Playing
Playing Single Notes
Single-note technique
Alternate picking in downstrokes and upstrokes
Playing melodies across strings
Scales
Skips
Combining steps and skips
Starting at the Bottom: Low-Note Melodies
Going to the Top: High-Note Melodies
Playing in Position
Open position
Moveable, or closed, position
Getting in Tune with Lower Register Riffs
Making It Easy: The Pentatonic Scale
Playing the Pentatonic Scale: Three Ways to Solo
Pentatonics over a Major key
Pentatonics over a minor key
Pentatonices over a blues progression
Improvising Leads
A Final Note
Chapter 7: Groovin' on Riffs
Getting Your Groove On: Basic Riffs
Half- and whole-note riffs
Eighth- and quarter-note riffs
16th-note riffs
Eighth-note syncopation
Playing Two Notes Can be Better than One: Double-Stops
Combining Single-Note Riffs and Chords
Discovering Your Own Style
Part III: Beyond the Basics: Sounding Like a Rock and Roller
Chapter 8: Playing Up the Neck
Beyond Open Position: Going Up the Neck
Choking up on the neck
Playing double-stops on the move
Playing Closed-position Lead Patterns
Playing in Position
Positions defined
A firm position
Using the Moveable Pentatonic Scale
Staying at home position
Going above home position
Dropping below home position
Moving between positions
Seeking Out the Five Positions of the Pentatonic Scale
Changing Your Position
Licks the transport
From the depths to the heights
Knowing Where to Play
Associating keys with positions
Placing positions
Putting the five positions into play
Chapter 9: Playing Expressively: Making the Guitar Sing
Bringing Down the Hammer-ons
Having Pull with Pull-offs
Slippin' into Slides
Bending to Your Will
Bend and release
Pre-bend
Sounding a Vibrato That Makes You Quiver
Adding Spice Through Harmonics
Passing the Bar Exam
Putting It All Together
Part IV: Mastering Different Rock Styles
Chapter 10: Rock and Roll: The Early Years
It Don't Mean a Thang If It Ain't Got That Twang
Sending R&B Mainstream: Bo Diddley
Giving Rock a Texas Twang: Buddy Holly
Bringing Doo-Wop Up Front
I-vi-ii-V: 12/8
I-vi-IV-V: Straight-eighth feel
I-vi-ii-V: Shuffle
Combining Country and Blues: Rockabilly Rhythm
Creating Rock and Roll Guitar Style: Chuck Berry
Surf's Up
The British Are Coming, The British Are Coming
The Beatles' "I Saw Her Standing There"
Melodic riffing a la the Beatles
Low- and high-note riffing
Chapter 11: The Golden Age of Classic Rock
Playing Advanced Riffs and Rhythm Figures
Riff-based rhythm figure
Chord-based rhythm figure
Studying the Classics: Classic Rock
The British Invasion
The Blues break through
Latin rock: Carlos Santana
Southern rock
Later blues influence: Stevie Ray Vaughan
Neo-classic rock: Aerosmith
Fusing Country and Rock Lead Styles: The Eagles
Going to the Edge: U2's Guitarist Brings Epic Textures
Chapter 12: Heavy Metal
Bring on the Metal
Black Sabbath's skull-crushing riffs
Ritchie Blackmore's baroque blast
Making Rock Stars: The Arena-Rock Era
KISS my axe!
Boston's FM-friendly riffs
Van Halen's sonic revolution
Angus Young's bar-room crunch
Introducing the Euro-Metal Invasion
Putting Fans in the Stands: Heavy Metal Hits the '80s
Randy Rhoads's metal attack
Yngwie Mamsteen, the Swedish speed demon
Metallica's thrashing riffs
Raging into the New Millennium
Dimebag Darrell's speed-metal frenzy
Alice in Chains
Korn-ography
Chapter 13: Progressive Rock and Jazz-Rock Fusion
Welcoming the First Wave of Progressive Rock
Just say Yes: Steve Howe's eclectic mastery
The spectral guitar of Genesis
Fripp's trip
Pink Floyd's space blues
Acoustic art-rock: Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Joining Two Rock Styles: Progressive Meets Heavy Metal
Into the limelight with Alex Lifeson of Rush
Songs from the wood: The riffs of Jethro Tull
Hitting the Charts with Jazz Rock
Steely Dan's elegant jazz-pop
The soulful jazz of George Benson
Pat Metheny's sophisticated jazz-pop
Toto's Steve Lukather: Rock monster
Looking at the Legends of Jazz-Rock Fusion
Pure virtuosity: John McLaughlin and Al Di Meola
Jeff Beck's jazz comeback
Part V: Becoming a Gearhead
Chapter 14: Gear Lust: Assembling Your Dream Rig
Getting What You Want Out of a Guitar
Checking out the body
Testing the neck and fingerboard
Tuning into the hardware
Trying out the pickups and electronics
Deciding among guitar variations
Choosing the Perfect Amp to Give Your Guitar Life
Configurations and features
Key features
Putting It All Together
Chapter 15: Wild and Crazy Sounds: Effects
Identifying Effects
Choosing an Effects Format
Stompboxes
Floor-mounted multi-effects
Rack-mounted effects
Built-in effects
Coming to Terms
Processing Gain-based Effects: Overdrive, Distortion, and
Fuzz
Overdrive
Distortion
Fuzz
Tuning It Up, or Down: Dynamic Effects
Compressors
Gates
Playing by Ear: Tone-based Effects
EQ
Filters
Getting Volume under Control: Other Volume Effects
Volume pedal
Tremolo
Making a Change: Modulation Effects
Chorus
Flanger
Phase shifter/phaser
Rotating speaker or Leslie
Pitch shifters and octave dividers
Putting Your Sound in Context: Ambient Effects
Delay or echo
Reverb
Designing a Signal Path
Organizing Your Effects: Pedalboards
Chapter 16: The Care and Feeding of Your Electric Guitar
Using the Tools of the Trade
The basics
Power user tools
Changing Strings
Choosing the right strings
Removing the old strings
Putting on the new strings
Cleaning the Part of Your Guitar
The strings
The body, fingerboard, and hardware
The frets
The electronics
Optimizing Your Guitar's Performance: The Setup
Warning signs
Bridge spring tension
Fixing minor wiring problems
Repairing Amps and Effects
Replacing the fuse
Cleaning and replacing the tubes
Speakers
Troubleshooting Guide
Storing Your Guitar
Part VI: The Part of Tens
Chapter 17: Ten Rock Guitarists Who Changed History
Chuck Berry
Eric Clapton
Jimi Hendrix
Jeff Beck
Jimmy Page
Eddie van Halen
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Eric Johnson
Steve Vai
Kurt Cobain
Chapter 18: Ten Must-Have Rock Guitar Albums
The Beatles, Rubber Soul (1965)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Are You Experienced? (1967)
Led Zeppelin, Led Zepellin II (1969)
The Who, Who's Next? (1971)
The Rolling Stones, Exile on Main Street (1972)
Jeff Beck, Blow by Blow (1975)
Van Halen, Van Halen (1978)
Joe Satriani, Surfing with the Alien (1987)
Metallica, Metallica (The Black Album) (1991)
Korn, Issues (1999)
Chapter 19: Ten Classic Guitars
Fender Telecaster
Gibson Les Paul
Fender Stratocaster
Gibson ES Series
Gibson Flying V
Mosrite Ventures Model
Rickenbacker 360/12
Ibanez Iceman
"Super Strats"
Paul Reed Smith
Appendix
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