Glenn Riley

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.