Product Description

Have you ever dreamed of playing lead guitar like John Lee Hooker, Carlos Santana, Jimmy Page, Slash, and Eric Clapton? Perhaps you took a few lessons, but became frustrated and gave up. If so, The Everything® Rock & Blues Guitar Book with CD is for you.

With easy-to-understand text and audio instruction, The Everything® Rock & Blues Guitar Book with CD provides you with everything you need to play all your favorite songs. You will learn the scales and chords found in all rock and blues songs, and achieve the unique techniques that define them. Frequent practice exercises allow you to put your knowledge to work, while the audio examples help train your ear.

The Everything® Rock and Blues Guitar Book with CD also includes professional tips on:

·Inflection and phrasing
·Chord progression
·Alternate tuning, harmonics, and slide playing
·Transcription and ear training
·Equipment, such as electric guitars, straps, amplifiers, strings, and pedals

Written in plain English by longtime professional guitarist and instructor Marc Schonbrun, The Everything® Rock & Blues Guitar Book with CD shows you how to play with your head as well as your hands.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #341948 in Books
• Published on: 2003-08-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

About the Author
Marc Schonbrun graduated magna cum laude from the Crane School of Music. Mr. Schonbrun is an active educator who has taught at the National Guitar Workshop. As a performer in the New York area, he plays everything from classical to jazz and rock. In 2000, Mr. Schonbrun played the opening ceremonies of the Goodwill Games with Edwin McCain and Bruce Hornsby. He currently lives in Great Neck, NY.

Customer Reviews

This book is weak
This is a very weak book. It contains nothing but disjoint, pointless tidbits of info. There is little logical flow. Because of this it isn't suitable for beginners. Because of its basic nature, it isn't suited for non-beginners.

If you're a beginner looking to learn to play, look elsewhere. If your an advanced beginner and you want something to doink with, this may be ok for you.

"Blues You Can Use" is a *far* better guide for the advanced beginner who wants to be able to play something.

Great book for someone looking for a tour of...
If you're just getting into guitar and want an insightful tour of the instrument's popular sounds and styles, this is the book to get. Author Schonbrun introduces the reader to the concept of phrasing and inflection with hands-on exercises and demonstrations. He prepares the beginner for many of the common chord progressions the fledgling player will encounter in popular music. The author also presents enough information about gear to enable the reader to feel confident while acquiring everything they need to develop their sound.

For the advancing players he introduces the idea of alternate tunings and harmonics, ear training, and transcription along with exercises and demonstrations.

Actually, this book is terrible
I just picked up the guitar again -- I played guitar briefly, and very badly, years ago -- and was hoping for a quick refresher course and a little more. This book, alas, is just terrible. The organization is illogical and confusing, important topics are given very short shrift while unimportant stuff fills page after page. Most of the book could charitably be called filler. The book is terrible as a reference book as well; useful stuff like scales and chord diagrams are scattered about the book, and many of the diagrams are hard to make sense of. (He doesn't even explain the correct tuning for the guitar until page 170, in a section on how to play slide guitar -- I had to look it up on the internet.) I chucked the CD into the trash. For scales, I found "The Ultimate Scale Book" to be about a zillion times better.