Guitar Lessons: 3 Manuscripts - How to Read Music, A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners, How to Play and Improvise Blues and Rock Solos (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781985123656)

Does sheet music scare you? Reading music is not that difficult.

"How to read music: The 6 easy steps to meet your reading goals on any instrument" is a book for beginners that want to learn to sight-read and instrumentalists who never achieved to learn basic theory. It comprises a simple and comprehensive way of studying the fundamentals in a six-step process and one can easily note progress using it as an ebook or textbook, enhancing their learning experience alone or under a teacher's guidance.

The broached music aspects are:

1-Pitch

2-Time

3-Symbols

4-Intervals

5-Complex Rhythmic Elements

6-Scales and Chords

This excellent guide deconstructs the guitar and guitar method into bite-size chunks so that you feel like you're quickly gaining a lot of skill with little effort. By the end of this book, you're going to feel extremely informed on everything to do with guitars, as well go from a novice player to a very able one in no time flat.

Over the course of this book, you're going to learn:

• All of the different parts of the guitar
• How to play the most important chords on a guitar
• Various exercises specifically designed to increase your finger dexterity
• How to strum and pick a guitar
• A few different hit songs so that you can get started right away
• And much more

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.