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Unlock your potential with my practical music theory books for modern guitarists. Designed for rock and blues players, each title connects theory directly to your fretboard with clear explanations, riffs and solos that make learning musical concepts fun and useful.

Explore Practical Music Theory for the Rock Guitarist, The Blues Guitar Bible and How To Play Melodic Rock Lead Guitar. From soulful blues bends to expressive melodic rock leads, you’ll gain the skills to create, improvise, and play with real confidence.

Practical Music Theory For The Rock Guitarist

THis PDF book is a practical guide to all the music theory you're likely to need as a rock guitar player. The following topics are all explained in a clear and concise manner:
  • The Chromatic Scale
  • The Cycle of 5ths
  • The Pentatonic Scale
  • The Major Scale and Key
  • How Chords are Built
  • Understanding & Using Modes
  • The Blues
  • Understanding Chord Progressions
  • How to Create Melodic Solos
  • How to Learn the Fretboard
And much more too. There are multiple video examples and jam tracks which accompany the text of the book as well as TABs (in Guitar Pro and PDF formats) of all the examples I demonstrate in the video content.

I try to keep the jargon to a minimum, and strive to explain everything in plain English and, where appropriate, show you what something means as well as telling you what it means.

The Blues Guitar Bible

The Blues Guitar Bible
The ultimate guide to playing blues electric guitar!

This eBook takes you through everything you need to know if you want to play killer blues rhythm and lead guitar. In these pages you will learn:
  • The 12 Bar Blues Chord Sequence
  • The Minor Blues Chord Sequence
  • The Gospel Blues Chord Sequence
  • The Freddie King 16 Bar Blues
  • The Basics of Slide Guitar
  • How to Add Exotic, Sophisticated Jazzy Touches to your Blues Lead Guitar
  • All of the Scales to Play Over These Types of Blues Backings
  • Hundres of Licks in over 150 Pages of TAB
You also get 55 video demonstrations/tutorials and 17 backing tracks to play over. Everything is demonstrated clearly and explained in plain English with the minimum of jargon.

How To Play Melodic Rock Lead Guitar

How To Play Melodic Rock Lead Guitar is an eBook containing all the information you need to be able to play melodic rock lead guitar. Taking inspiration from players such as Mark Knopfler, David Gilmour, Peter Frampton, and Gary Moore (in his more melodic guise), this book shows you the techniques and scales you'll need to play memorable, hummable rock guitar solos. All of the concepts are explained in clear, plain English with a minimum of jargon. Everything is demonstrated in video clips linked in the PDF document. There is a multitude of jam tracks for you to play along with and try the ideas out for yourself, as well as over 100 pages of TAB (in both Guitar Pro & PDF formats) for you to cherry pick licks and ideas from.

Among the subjects covered are:
  • How to Bend Strings & Do Hammer-Ons, Pull-Offs etc
  • Everything You Need to Know About the Pentatonic Scale
  • The CAGED System and its Alternatives
  • Modes - Ever Struggled With These? I Guarantee You'll Get It This Time!
  • Note Targeting
  • How to Create Great Sounding Licks
  • How to Harmonise Any Guitar Part Easily
  • "Fancy" Scales for those Exotic Sounding Licks
  • Fretboard Knowledge
  • Creating and Using Arpeggios
  • All of the Shapes, Patterns and Fingerings You'll Need

This book contains all the knowledge I've accumulated over decades of playing and teaching people to play rock lead guitar. It's presented in a clear and concise manner without any requirement for music theory knowledge. It's the book I wish I'd had when I was learning to play rock lead guitar.

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