Bluegrass Guitar, from in the Fretmaster series, combines a history and playing guide, with brief biographies of key artists, and transcriptions, original recordings and style demonstrations. Players will learn the history and special styles of players such as Mother Maybelle Carter, Doc Watson, Clarence White, Norman Blake, Tony Rice and Bryan Sutton. The CD offers specially recorded backing tracks, allowing readers to play along and hone their technique.

The exercises in this book teach you new scales, new fingerings, new patterns and new ideas – helping you master phrases that seemed impossible on the bass. Bunny's unique approach will get your fingers “thinking” in new ways on the fretboard, and you'll explore different modes and arpeggios in new patterns and positions. As you work through the lessons, you'll find your “finger intelligence” expanding.

Crafted by an expert guitarist, this unique approach to fingerstyle guitar does away with useless jargon and overly technical explanations, encouraging players to tap into their natural playing instincts and find their own voice. Covering topics ranging from technique to visualization, this is an indispensable guide aimed at teaching effective articulation, altered tunings, composition and structure, accompaniment patterns, and idea development. Lessons exploring motor memory, body awareness, concentration development, and anxiety control will maximize your growth, as will the many exercises that lead to original compositions. In interviews with guitarists such as Pierre Bensusan, Laurence Juber, Peter Finger, Don Ross and Dale Miller, the author explores such essential topics as tone, posture, hand position, and composition. And on the accompanying CD, Gore performs many of the book's exercises and etudes in his own captivating style.

Details the history of funk, then teaches guitarists and bassists lessons and exercises in the styles of the pros. All of the greats get their due, including James Brown, Sly Stone, Parliament/Funkadelic, Kool & the Gang, the Isley Brothers, Average White Band, Prince, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and others. The accompanying CD contains all of the musical examples, and a funk glossary lays out the lingo. Hardcover, with spiral binding.

Whether you want to rock out like Jimmy Page or wail the blues like B.B. King, The Guitar Chord Composer makes playing the guitar as easy as humming the ABCs. This mix-and-match instructional guide puts amped-up composing power in your hands. Each split page has a chord illustration for major, minor, dominant, diminished, and suspended chords and lets you piece them together to come up with an original score. With 490 individual chords, you have thousands of possible combinations! Complete with useful information on reading chord patterns, advice on transitions, and varying degrees of chord difficulty, this book is perfect whether you're a novice or advanced guitarist. It will provide you with hours and hours of flipping, strumming, and composing fun!