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Guitar Songs and Styles For Dummies®, Enhanced Edition

Table of Contents

Introduction
About This Book
Playing the guitar
Looking and listening to the e-book
Foolish Assumptions
Conventions We Use in This Book
Count-offs
Stereo separation
How This Book Is Organized
Icons Used in This Book
Where to Go from Here
Chapter 1: Gearing Up for Songs and Styles
Taking Note of Notation
Getting to the Playing Part
Strumming chords
Picking single notes
Chapter 2: Special Articulation Techniques
Getting the Hang of Hammer-Ons
Getting Playful with Pull-Offs
Playing pull-offs
Doing a double pull-off
Getting Slippery with Slides
Connecting two notes
Working with indefinite pitch
Getting the Bends
Playing bends
Getting idiomatic with bends
Varying Your Sound with Vibrato
Getting Mellow with Muting
Creating a thick, chunky sound
Preventing string noise
Playing a Song with Varied Articulation
Chapter 3: Rock
Channeling Classic Rock Rhythm Guitar
Open-position accompaniment and the 5-to-6
The 12-bar blues pattern
Singling Out Lead Guitar
Box and the pentatonic minor scale
Boxes II and III
One solo from three boxes
Modern Rock
Sus and add chords
Slash chords
Country-rock and Southern-rock lead
Playing Songs in the Rock Style
Chapter 4: Blues
Electric Blues
Blues rhythm guitar
Blues lead guitar
Improvising in the boxes
Acoustic Blues
General concepts
Specific techniques
Turnarounds
Playing Blues Songs
Chapter 5: Folk
Playing Fingerstyle
Fingerstyle technique
Right-hand position
Using the Capo
Arpeggio Style
Playing Thumb-Brush
Simple thumb-brush
Thumb-brush-up
Brushing Up on Carter Style
Picking Up Travis Picking
Playing the pattern
Accompanying
Going solo style
Playing Folk Songs
Chapter 6: Classical
Getting Ready to Play
How to sit
The right hand
Left-hand position
Free Strokes and Rest Strokes
Playing free strokes
Playing rest strokes
Playing arpeggios
Point/counterpoint
Playing Classical Pieces
Chapter 7: Ten Great Guitarists
More Dummies Products
Cheat Sheet

Media at a Glance

Video

Strumming (0:45)
Picking (0:35)
Hammer-ons (1:13)
Pull-offs (1:12)
Slides (0:37)
Bends (1:10)
Vibrato (0:48)
Bends and pull-offs (0:35)
5th position solo (0:37)
Full-length solo (0:36)
Southern rock solo (0:23)
Blues lead with triplet (0:19)
Blues scale (0:31)
Alternation (0:21)
Arpeggio (0:30)
Thumb-brush (0:42)
Carter style (0:37)
Travis style (1:17)
Free strokes (0:44)
Rest strokes (0:50)
Contrapuntal (0:57)

Audio

The Articulate Blues (0:23)
Chuck’s Duck (0:25)
Southern Hospitality (0:36)
Turnarounds (0:11)
Chicago Shuffle (0:31)
Mississippi Mud (0:33)
House of the Rising Sun (0:30)
Freight Train (0:25)
Romanza (0:36)
Bourrée in E minor (0:22)

Guitar Songs & Styles For Dummies®,

Enhanced Edition

by Mark Phillips

Director of Music, Cherry Lane Music

Jon Chappell

Award-winning guitarist and author

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