The ultimate guitarist's reference book with playing techniques, solo and improvisation concepts, exercises and jam tracks. The purpose of this book is to demystify the relatively simple concepts or tricks around which much of rock guitar is built. The book is designed modularly, allowing the reader to choose any topic at any time, but is can also be sequentially as a method. Topics includes warm-ups, pentatonic scales, bending and vibrato techniques, blues scales, string skipping, major scales, alternate picking,modes, economy picking (sweeping), arpeggios, two-hand tapping, minor scales, legato techniques, exotic scales, whammy bar, how to build a solo, practice planning, and improvisation. Each concept is discussed in a thorough and easily understandable manner. The accompanying CD includes over 80 licks and exercises plus more than 20 jam tracks, helping the student put the concepts directly into practice. In notation and tablature.

Playing techniques, solo and improvisation concepts, exercises, licks and jam tracks for: warm ups, pentatonic scales, bending and vibrato techniques, blues scales, string skipping, major scales, alternate picking, modes, economy picking (sweeping), arpeggios, two-hand tapping, minor scales, legato techniques, exotic scales, whammy bar, how to build a solo, improvisation.

About the Author
Peter Fischer was born in 1966 and is Germany's most prominent author of instructional books and videos such as Masters of Rock Guitar, Rock Guitar Secrets, Total Guitar Technique, Blues Guitar Rules, and the instructional video Modern Rock Concepts, of which a few have also been translated into English. He is a contributing columnist for various European music magazines. A graduate of the Guitar Institute of Technology (GIT) in Los Angeles, he is also very active as a performer both on stage and in the studio. He was also a featured new talent in Mike Varney's Spotlight column in the November 1989 issue of Guitar Player Magazine.

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