PROGRESSIVE ROCK GUITAR. By GLENN RILEY. SHEET MUSIC BOOK with CD & GUITAR TABLATURE .
LIBRO METODO PER CHITARRA, DI MUSICA ROCK CON CD .
SPARTITI, PENTAGRAMMA, TABLATURE .
CATEGORY: GUITAR METHOD OR SUPPLEMENT
FORMAT: BOOK & CD
FROM THE SECOND HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY INTO THE NEW MILLENIUM, SOME BANDS HAVE STRETCHED THE LIMITS OF ROCK. THE GREAT PROGRESSIVE ROCK ARTISTS OF THE WORLD SUCH AS YES, KIM CRIMSON, QUEENSRYCHE, DREAM THEATER, AND SYMPHONY X HAVE EXPANDED THE POSSIBILITIES, EXPLORING ELEMENTS OF CLASSICAL, JAZZ AND OTHER STYLES WHILE MAINTAINING THE EXCITEMENT AND EDGE OF ROCK. THIS BOOK PROVIDES A LOOK AT THE INNER WORKINGS OF THIS MUSIC, PROVIDING THE TOOLS AND INSPIRATION YOU NEED TO CREATE YOUR OWN PROGRESSIVE ROCK SOUND. YOU'LL LEARN FASCINATING CHORDS, ODD TIME SIGNATURES, METRIC AND HARMONIC MODULATIONS, EXOTIC SCALES AND ADVANCED GUITAR SOLOING CONCEPTS.
FINALLY, HERE IS GUIDANCE FOR THE GUITARIST WHO'S READY TO RISE ABOVE AND BEYOND THE CONFINES OF SIMPLE ROCK 'N' ROLL AND PUSH THE BOUNDARIES WHERE FEW DARE TO GO. THE CD DEMONSTRATES THE EXAMPLES IN THE BOOK. 96 PAGES.
Welcome to Progressive Rock Guitar. This book is designed to open up a world of music and guitar technique that goes beyond the normal boundaries of rock. It covers a variety of areas in progressive rock guitar playing including chords and chord progressions, odd meter and syncopated rhythm, scales and soloing strategies and how to put it all together. This book assumes you have a solid knowledge of music notation and! or tablature, major and minor pentatonic scales, modes of the major scale, basic theory such as diatonic harmony and chord construction, lead guitar techniques such as sweep picking, legato and so on. Books such as The Guitar Technique Encyclopedia and Theory for the Contemporary Guitarist would be good companions to this one. Many prog rock guitarists use an assortment of guitar tones. To perform many of the examples in this book, either (or both) a clean or a distorted guitar tone is required. Use an amplifier that can provide both clean and distorted tones with a footswitch, or set your amp to a clean sound and use a distortion effect pedal. Most of the etudes require you switch from one sound to the other while playing. Having the right amp set-up will help you do so. Most progressive rock music is composed, then memorized and performed by the artists. While being able to read the examples is important, you will need to memorize most of the etudes to play them fluently. The CD that accompanies this book has all the examples along with backing tracks for jamming. Progressive rock (often called "art rock") is based on experimentation. It borrows heavily from other styles of music-such as classical, jazz, blues and fusion-to make a "musical goulash." Progressive rock emerged in the late 1960s with acts such as King Crimson, Yes, Iron Butterfly and Jethro Tull, who paved the way for many prog rockers to come. These groups composed epic-length pieces of music with themed lyrical concepts and extended solos, while experimenting (and breaking rules) in the areas of harmony and rhythm. These extensive, artistic musical sculptures found little radio play, but developed a cult-like following. Prog rock groups such as Rush, Kansas and Genesis moved forward in the 1970s and '80s and found more commercial success than their predecessors. The music of many heavy metal bands, such as Queensryche and Fates Warning, had a progressive edge. Progressive solo artists such as Joe Satriani and Yngwie Malmsteen, all with unique voices, also emerged in the 1980s. The 1990s and the new millennium found bands such as Dream Theater and Spock's Beard spearheading a "neo progressive" movement. These bands go about finding new ways to go beyond the old limits and progress along musical pathways that have no boundaries. I hope you do the same.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
About the Author .
Introduction
Chapter 1-Prog Chords
Inverted Power Chords
Power Chords with Open Strings
Power Chords with Extensions
Triads
Suspended Chords
Add9 Chords
Add #11 Chords
Add 11 Chords
7sus4 Chords
Chapter 2- 4/4 Rhythms
Eighth-Note Rhythms
Sixteenth-Note Rhythms
Eighth-Note Triplet Rhythms
Combining Rhythms
The 4/4 Etude
Chapter 3-0dd Time Signatures
3/4 Rhythms
5/4 Rhythms
7/4 Rhythms
7/8 Rhythms
5/4 Rhythms
11/8 Rhythms
Chapter 4-Metric Modulation
Unstructured Chaos in Arpeggio Land
Math Metal Etude
Chapter 5-Chord Progressions .
Progressions Over Static Bass Lines .
Progressions With Moving Bass Lines
Single-Note Riffing
Single-Note Riffing Etude
Other Harmonic Concepts
The Chord Prog Etude
Chapter 6-Exploring Scales
The Harmonic Minor Scale
Te Phyrgian Dominant Mode
The Jazz Minor Scale
The Lydian b7Mode
The Whole-Tone Scale
The Diminished Whole/Half Scale
The Diminished Half/Whole Scale
The Chromatic Scale
Chapter 7-Prog Rock Soloing
Phrasing Concepts
Phrase Daze Etude
Octave Displacement
Gotta Get Outta Dis Place Blues
Soloing Over Odd Time Signatures
Lucky 7
Five on the Half Shell
Odd Time For a Solo
Soloing Over Static Chords and Bass Notes
Static Groove
Soloing Over Non-Diatonic Chords
See the Light
Out to Lunch
New Horizon
Painting an Invisible Picture
Progressive Pentatonic Concepts
ii-iii-vi Etude
Colors and Resolving/Outside and Inside
A Spectrum of Color
Chapter 8-Monster Etude
The Prog Monster Etude
Final Thoughts/ Suggested Listening
A compact disc is included with this book. The symbol shown at the left appears next to every example that is on the CD. Use the CD to help ensure that you're capturing the feel of the examples and interpreting the rhythms correctly. The numeral below the symbol corresponds directly to the CD track number. Track 1 will help ou tune our guitar to the CD.
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