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Beginning Rock Rhythm Guitar - Troy Stetina Page Two

Be that as it may he does reference briefly many of the concepts you need to know. Scales, triads, chords, chord progressions, 8 note triplets shuffle rhythms and much more. This is the kind of overview guitar lesson that is perfect for a beginner. If you have been playing for a year or three you probably have made or attempted to make a lot of these riffs and changes already perhaps. Only you can judge. I would err on the side of caution however. But if you are brand new then absolutely buy it! I wish I had this back when! Will it leave you wanting more? Yes it will and guess what? There happen to be other books in the series: follow on books! You get what pay for.

Troy gives us a great overview and even a tour of his Washburn electric guitar itself and also explains his amp settings and how he sets the gain and pre-amp on his Marshal head. I have say that I wish every lesson banger did similarly but most don't!
A glass with you Sir!!

Then Mr. Stetina explains the fingerings for your basic E, A and D chords up at the headstock and these incidentally are the I iv V chords of the E scale. Since you have set your distortion pedal or amp or both and are strapped in to your electric guitar and if you press down properly with those Nancy girl fingers you will get the HUGE sound- the over driven sound so many of us love as it hides the mistakes we make. Its a start love! Its a place to go. Its a place to know and love to grow from and revisit often. Please kill me with all this nonsense about tone. These days digitally you can make a Tiesco del Rey sound like Jack White's Montgomery Ward guitar with a bit of tweaking. Or even Dan Auerbach from the Black Keys. Still a little amplification or head phone magic is what you'll want in order to emulate these riffs more satisfactorily.

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