Guitar World How To Play Acoustic Rock Guitar

The How to Play Acoustic Rock Guitar DVD will teach you:

* Basic Strumming Patterns: First-position “cowboy chords,” how to add rhythmic drive to a rhythm part and how to create interesting chord progressions…

— in the style of Creedence Clearwater Revival, Bruce Springsteen, the Beatles,
the Rolling Stones, Jackson Browne and the Eagles

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Basic Soloing: The essential scales—G major and G major pentatonic with open strings—and how to solo over simple and complex chord progressions…

— in the style of the Grateful Dead, the Allman Brothers Band, the Rolling Stones,
the Beatles and Eric Clapton
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Using a Capo: Blending capoed and uncapoed guitar and “transposing” chord names relative to capo position…

— as heard on “Hotel California” and “Here Comes the Sun”

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Embellishing Rhythm Parts with Melodic Riffs, Added Tones and Super-Imposed Chord Voicings: Adding upper tensions/chordal extensions, basic elements of chord/melody and playing extended positions of C major pentatonic…

— in the style of Neil Young, Eric Clapton, David Gilmour/Pink Floyd, Steve Cropper,
Nuno Bettencourt and Green Day
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Suspended Chords: How to create suspended forth and suspended second chords and using the A natural minor scale and the D major and minor pentatonic…

— in the style of Allman Brothers Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Guns N’ Roses,
Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin, Rush, Johnny Winter and Alvin Lee
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Voice Leading with “Third in the Bass”: Moving through chord progressions using voice leading; alternative bass notes; transposing to different keys…

— in the style of Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan and Leslie West
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Moveable Chord Forms Against Open-String Pedal Tones: Creating effective rhythm parts with pedal tones and two- and three-note chord voicing’s, and playing chordal arpeggios, alternative bass-note figures and the A Mixolydian mode…

— in the style of Pete Townshend/the Who, Jimmy Page/Led Zeppelin, the Beatles,
the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Tom Petty and James Taylor
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Acoustic Blues: Essential blues rhythm patterns, E shuffle, incorporating walking-bass patterns and how to expand on basic blues rhythm guitar ideas…

- in the style of Freddie King, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Johnny Winter,
Robert Johnson, Jimmy Reed and Lonnie Johnson
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Fingerpicking: Basic approach to developing pick-hand independence and how to elaborate on basic patterns utilizing alternating-bass notes to add rhythmic power…

— in the style of Merle Travis, Paul Simon, James Taylor, Steven Stills, Neil Young,
Kansas and Paul McCartney/the Beatles
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Alternative Tunings: A complete guide to popular alternative tunings:

— Drop-D (Led Zeppelin’s “Ten Years Gone”)
— Double Drop-D (Neil Young’s “Harvest Moon”)
— Open D (Derek Trucks, Duane Allman)
— DADGAD (Jimmy Page, Bert Jansch, Alex de Grassi)
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The “New Breed” (Dave Matthews and John Mayer)

DVD Video - Complete. PowerISO.
Tab Booklet scanned and included.