Total Rock Guitar: A Complete Guide to Learning Rock Guitar (Guitar Educational)
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Total Rock Guitar is a unique and comprehensive source for learning rock guitar, designed to develop both lead and rhythm playing. This book/CD pack covers: getting a tone that rocks; open chords, power chords and barre chords; riffs, scales and licks; string bending, strumming, palm muting, harmonics and alternate picking; all rock styles; and much more. The examples in the book are in standard notation with chord grids and tablature, and the CD includes full-band backing for all 22 songs.
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I purchased this book after trying out a few lessons in “Speed Mechanics for Lead Guitar”, and I’m a very satisfied customer! I find Troy Stetina’s teaching style to be very informative and effective. His lessons are comprehensive, challenging, and not to mention fun! I could see improvement in my playing ability very quickly. Stetina’s explanations are easy to follow and engaging; his personality and passion is evident in his writing.
Structure-wise, this book is divided up into lessons, with each culminating in a song incorporating skills taught in that particular lesson and building on those taught in previous lessons. Each lesson focuses on a specific musical genre, such as punk, jazz, blues, metal, etc. A nice surprise is that I now have a new appreciation of these genres. Being primarily an alt/emo rock fan, I previously wouldn’t have given much thought to blues, but now that I know a few concepts behind it, I have a newfound interest in it.
This is a great book to learn various styles of rock, full of technical exercises and some music theory. I wouldn’t say this is an appropriate beginners book to learn music theory from though; there are some concepts explained that might be confusing if you don’t know the basics. But if you’re interested in learning chords and trying your hand at some soloing (and just want to play a song!) I definitely recommend this book, Total Rock Guitar, and other books by Troy Stetina.
Review by M. Schaller for Total Rock Guitar: A Complete Guide to Learning Rock Guitar (Guitar Educational)
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Ive Been playing for almost a year and recently just got out of that dreaded beginner stage and found myself unsure on what direction i want to persue, Troy’s book is incredibly comprehensive in its various rock styles. I found his lessons to be very fun and fulfulling, at the end of eah lesson i felt that i learned a whole ‘nother style of rock guitar. This book is perfect for any player who is looking to expand from basic notes to a full catalog of musical options. Worth every penny!
Review by Matthew Faulkerson for Total Rock Guitar: A Complete Guide to Learning Rock Guitar (Guitar Educational)
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This book contains the basics of rock’s power chords and the blues scale and progressions. It also has several songs printed in the book and a cd with the songs recorded with full accompanient also the channels are split up in a way that if you just want to hear the drums and bass turn the balance one way if you just want to hear the guitar turn it the other way. The info on the power chords and rock progressions and soloing is worth the price alone.
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I’ve tried teaching with different methods, but this one is the most comprehensive and interesting. While it introduces the student to different styles of rock, it differs from many courses that start with a bluesier approach. Strong rhythm with power chords, rhythm riffs, and arpeggios are taught early. Lead playing is gradually worked in and not overemphasized (it isn’t under-emphasized, for that matter). All in all, this is one heckuva balanced and entertaining course.
Review by Guillermo Ortiz-coln for Total Rock Guitar: A Complete Guide to Learning Rock Guitar (Guitar Educational)
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Total Rock Guitar: Great book, offering a nice overview of a variety of rock styles. The songs are great and follow a nice progression in difficulty. My only suggestion is that I would have preferred that the whole solos would have been included at a slower tempo, not only the main licks. I also feel that the theory discussions before the songs are to brief, and I feel that Troy Stetina assumes that you have some understanding of music theory and many music concepts are presume to be understood. For example, in the first lesson a Fourth is define as “the music interval or distance, of four scales steps”, so you better know already about music intervals within a scale. In other words, if a have not read “Music Principles for the Skeptical Guitarist” by Bruce Emery before buying Total Rock Guitar I would have been somewhat lost in various lessons. However, this is the best rock guitar book I have ever used, and you will be playing great rhythm parts and solos in just a few lessons. I highly recommended this book.