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    Learn to Play the Guitar: How to Play and Improvise Blues and Rock Solos
    Learn to Play the Guitar: How to Play and Improvise Blues and Rock Solos
    Learn to Play the Guitar: How to Play and Improvise Blues and Rock Solos
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    Learn to Play the Guitar: How to Play and Improvise Blues and Rock Solos

    By Trevor Beck

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    Want to figure out how guitar legends can play amazing solos?

    This is your essential guide on how to play and improvise Blues and Rock solos.

    This practical guide is packed with decades of professional experience, personal advice and performance philosophy designed to give the aspiring guitarist all of the information necessary to begin a journey into the world of blues and rock soloing.

    Topics covered:

        •      Introduction to the Blues Style and     Blues Song Forms

        •      Chords and Progressions

        •      Three Types of Blues Rhythms

        •      Blues Song Forms and Variations

        •      The Major Scale

        •      The Pentatonic Scale and 5 Pentatonic Patterns

        •      Essential Lead Guitar Techniques

        •      5 Soloing Strategies

        •      4 Approaches to Learning Solos

        •      10 Classic Rock Solos Analyzed

        •      Advice for Reaching Your Goals

        •      And Much More

    This method is loaded with music examples in standard notation and tablature with chord diagrams.

    A must for every guitarist that's interested in playing blues and rock solos.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrevor Beck
    Release dateFeb 27, 2018
    ISBN9781386220893
    Learn to Play the Guitar: How to Play and Improvise Blues and Rock Solos
    Author

    Trevor Beck

    Trevor Beck was born in Detroit in 1982 and started playing music at age 6. Coming from a family of musicians where music was everywhere, he immediately became interested in the guitar. He never stopped playing since and went studying the guitar at various schools like the Berklee College of Music (Boston) and the prestigious Manhattan School of Music in New York city.

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      Learn to Play the Guitar - Trevor Beck

      Learn to Play the Guitar

      How to Play and Improvise Blues and Rock Solos

      by

      Trevor Beck

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      Table of contents

      Chapter 1: Getting Started

      Chapter 2: Chords You Should Know

      Chapter 3: The Blues Form

      Chapter 4: Scales You Should Know

      Chapter 5: From Scales to Solos

      Chapter 6: Playing Solos

      Chapter 7: Learning from the Pros

      Chapter 8: Where to Go From Here

      Conclusion: Keeping the Tradition Alive

      Chapter 1

      Getting Started

      This simple guide is designed to get you started with playing solos in the blues and rock styles. This method is filled with decades of lessons that I’ve learned:

      Some the hard way: That is, on the bandstand, in the studio or through my frustration. Many mistakes that I’ve made were due to the arrogance of youth and ignorance of ego.

      Some the easy way: I listened to my teachers, mentors, fellow musicians, and, yes,   my students. The last group has taught me more than the aforementioned groups put together.

      The rest, through experience: Many insights were revealed to me as I continued my journey. I needed to learn A before understanding B.

      Many of us learn how to play the guitar in the same way. That is, we learned how to play a couple of power chords, open chords and then some riffs. A few lessons later, we added the pentatonic box pattern and... Formed a band!

      A Shaky Foundation

      Although this method of learning is fun; eventually, you want to take it a little more seriously. And, maybe you’re not a fan of classical and jazz (two styles that offer a more formal training path). You’re an electric guitarist and want to play play cool tunes that are fun. But, you realize that there are many holes in your foundation. Quite simply, you don't know what you don't know...

      Solidifying that Foundation

      This is where learning, understanding, and playing the blues can help. There are tons of chords, chord progressions and song forms with rules that will offer you some guidelines with what, where and how to improve. Also, the blues is packed with scales, riffs, licks and lead guitar techniques that every player should know. This provides you with an encyclopedia of things that you need to learn, work on and play.

      The blues is a jamming culture. Blues jams are common places for players to congregate, share ideas, play together and put into practice what they’ve been working on.

      Learn From Your Heroes

      Blues is

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