(Guitar Recorded Versions). A dozen guitar transcriptions with notes and tab are included in this collection matching the 16th studio album released by Satch. This 2018 album also features Deep Purple bassist Glenn Hughes and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith. Includes: Catbot * Cherry Blossoms * Energy * Forever and Ever * Headrush * Invisible * Looper * Righteous * Smooth Soul * Super Funky Badass * Thunder High on the Mountain * What Happens Next.

(Guitar Recorded Versions). A dozen guitar transcriptions with notes and tab are included in this collection matching the 16th studio album released by Satch. This 2018 album also features Deep Purple bassist Glenn Hughes and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith. Includes: Catbot * Cherry Blossoms * Energy * Forever and Ever * Headrush * Invisible * Looper * Righteous * Smooth Soul * Super Funky Badass * Thunder High on the Mountain * What Happens Next.

Go behind the scenes with the musician The New York Times called "a guitar God!" Oft-hailed as the Jimi Hendrix of his generation, living guitar legend Joe Satriani has long transcended stylistic boundaries with a sound that raises the bar like a new horizon for the broader genre of instrumental guitar rock. Joe's 6-string secrets have astounded listeners around the world for nearly 30 years. In Strange Beautiful Music: A Musical Memoir, Satriani and coauthor, music biographer Jake Brown, take fans on their first authorized tour of the story behind his climb to stardom and the creative odyssey involved in writing and recording a storied catalog of classics including "Surfing with the Alien," "Summer Song," "Satch Boogie," "Always With Me, Always With You," "The Extremist," "Flying in a Blue Dream," "Crowd Chant," and more. Featuring previously unpublished photos and hours of exclusive, firsthand interviews with Satriani, Strange Beautiful Music offers a unique look inside the studio with Joe, giving fans a chance to get up close and personal like never before. With insider details about his collaboration with multi-platinum supergroup Chickenfoot, exclusive interviews with Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony of Van Halen and Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, commentary from fellow guitar legends such as Steve Vai, Metallica's Kirk Hammett, Primus's Larry LaLonde, and legendary music producers including Glynn Johns and the late Andy Johns, this memoir offers a rare inside look for die-hard Satriani fans, guitar enthusiasts, and anyone who loves to rock.

Experience a vivid space odyssey where Satchel Walker, a man out of time, finds himself caught between desperate factions as they battle for resources in the perilous orbit of a dying star. In a bold and brutal saga of sentient storms and Wingsuit armies, it's music, and more importantly, the power and emotion that music can conjure, which could bring an end to the conflict, restore harmony to the timestream, and reveal Walker's true place in the universe. [Issue 1 of 5]

(Play It Like It Is). Artist-approved transcriptions in notes & tab for 15 searing Satch classics: Always with Me, Always with You * Andalusia * Crowd Chant * Cryin' * Flying in a Blue Dream * God Is Crying * If I Could Fly * Is There Love in Space? * Littleworth Lane * Oh Yeah * Revelation * Satch Boogie * Summer Song * Super Colossal * Surfing with the Alien. Includes a cool "About the Songs" section, with photos.

(Guitar Educational). Learn guitar tips, tricks and secrets with this collection of articles and tips from Satriani's famous columns that have appeared in Guitar for the Practicing Musician magazine. Who better to learn guitar from than the master himself?

(Guitar Educational). The Legendary Licks series presents the music of a band or artist in a comprehensive play-along package. Each book contains note-for-note transcriptions and detailed performance notes on how to play a multitude of classic licks, fills, riffs, and solos complete with recorded demonstrations of each exercise and gear setup tips. This edition includes instruction on playing 12 Satriani classics: Always with Me, Always with You * Andalusia * Crowd Chant * Cryin' * Flying in a Blue Dream * Friends * Littleworth Lane * The Mystical Potato Head Groove Thing * Satch Boogie * Summer Song * Super Colossal * Surfing with the Alien.

(Guitar Educational). Experience must-know music knowledge and wisdom through the highly focused lens of legendary guitar virtuoso Steve Vai. This full-color instructional book written by Vai himself features in-depth discussions of the music theory fundamentals that every aspiring (and veteran) guitar player should know, packed with practical exercises, diagrams, tips, inspiring ideas and concepts, practice methods, and ways of looking at music that you may have never considered. Topics covered include: academic vs. experiential learning * reading and writing music * key signatures * chord scales * rhythm basics * guitar harmonics * modes * and much more.

(Guitar Educational). Steve Vai reveals his path to virtuoso enlightenment with two challenging guitar workouts, which include scale and chord exercises, ear training, sight-reading, music theory and much more. These comprehensive workouts are reprinted by permission from Guitar World magazine.

Whether it is a beautiful and classic model or an unglamorous and inexpensive starter instrument, a musician's first guitar can be the catalyst that motivates a lifelong passion. The pages of this book contain interviews with 70 of the world's most well-known guitarists across musical genres and playing styles to discover how their love of the instrument compelled them to pursue music as a career. These guitar icons reveal how they got their first instrument, the music they loved, and their heroes and inspirations. With an impressive list of subjectsincluding Dick Dale, Melissa Etheridge, Jimmy Page, Les Paul, and Carlos Santanaas well as childhood photos from such guitar legends as Alex Lifeson, Joe Satriani, and Jimmie Vaughan, this book has appeal for guitar heroes and nonmusicians alike.