Presents instructional material on playing blues and rock music on the guitar.

This addition to the Guitar Bible series features 35 edgy metal masterpieces, including: Between Angels and Insects * Black * Chop Suey * Click Click Boom * Control * Deny * Down * Edgecrusher * Judith * Last Resort * Linchpin * Nice to Know You * People of the Sun * Sleep Now in the Fire * Southtown * Sugar * Take a Look Around (Theme from M: I-2) * Toxicity * Wish You Were Here * Your Disease * Youth of the Nation * and more.

Three Best-selling Heavy Metal Guitar books in one complete volume! - Heavy Metal Rhythm Guitar - Heavy Metal Lead Guitar - Progressive Metal Guitar

(Guitar Recorded Versions). Notes, tab, lyrics and chords for 30 get-down-and-funky hits: Bad Girls * Boogie Nights * Boogie Oogie Oogie * Brick House * Da Ya Think I'm Sexy * Dance with Me * Dancing Machine * December 1963 (Oh, What a Night) * Disco Inferno * Funkytown * Get down Tonight * Get Off * Good Times * I Love the Night Life * Kung Fu Fighting * Le Freak * Love Rollercoaster * Macho Man * Native New Yorker * Never Can Say Goodbye * Pick up the Pieces * Shadow Dancing * Shining Star * Stayin' Alive * Super Freak * Superstition * That's the Way (I like It) * We Are Family * Y.M.C.A. * You Should Be Dancing.

Over 500 illustrated chords are covered for Rock, Blues, Soul, Country, Jazz and Classical music. This compact dictionary is designed to fit in your bag and is completed with fingering diagrams for each chord and photographs showing how each one is played. Over 360,000 copies sold worldwide. This compact dictionary of over 500 popular chords in their most common voicings feature clare photographs and easy-to-follow diagrams and instructions. The spiral binding allows you to lay the book flat for easy reference while playing. Fingering diagrams for each chord are clearly indicated on a fretboard, and tips on technique are given together with relevant chord sequences. Whether your musical style favors rock, pop, blues, soul, jazz, funk, counry, or classical, this handy take-anywhere volume puts the techniques for making great guitar music at your fingertips, and sets you on the road to becoming a true chordmaster.

(Guitar Recorded Versions). Shred your axe and thrash your big hair through the air with this jam-packed collection of metal favs in note-for-note guitar trancriptions with tab. Songs include: Ace of Spades * Bark at the Moon * Breaking the Law * Crazy Train * Dying in Your Arms * Enter Sandman * Hail to the King * Iron Man * Master of Puppets * No More Tears * Painkiller * Redneck * Symphony of Destruction * Toxicity * War Pigs (Interpolating Luke's Wall) * Your Betrayal * and more.

Master shredder Dave Martone brings exciting heavy metal shred guitar techniques to the blues in this book and DVD. Tap into the soulful, emotion-filled heart of the blues while you put the pedal to the metal and SHRED! Dave covers all of the most important techniques, including sweep picking, tapping, hybrid picking, and string skipping, and provides lots of fun licks to play in standard music notation and TAB. Easy-to-read neck diagrams make learning chords, scales, and arpeggios effortless. The included DVD is hosted by Dave and features his unique, entertaining, and clear approach to expressing technical and musical ideas. Shredding the Blues is a must have for any serious shredder and will lead you to shredding the blues in a way that will impress musicians and audiences alike.

Revered former Metal Maniacs editor Jeff Wagner analyses the heady side of metal in this exhaustive narrative history of a relentlessly ambitious musical subculture. Beginning with the hugely influential mid-1970s efforts of progressive rock acts Rush and King Crimson, Wagner unfurls a vast colourful tapestry of sounds and styles, from the 'Big 3' of Queensryche, Fates Warning and Dream Theater to the extreme prog pioneers Voivod, Watchtower, Celtic Frost and others.

"Features: Techniques, scales, modes, patterns and sequences for death metal guitarists ; Sample riffs in the styles of Death, Opeth, Meshuggah, and more! ; Covers classic, melodic, and progressive death metal ; Detailed breakdown of picking styles, including alternate, tremolo, sweep, economy, and cross picking ; Lessons in bending, tapping, pick harmonics, string crossing, rhythm, and odd time signatures. Includes CD with over 50 minutes of authentic and powerful demonstrations." -- front cover.