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I can bet that many people remember that very moment in their life when it happened that some “ugly freak” who played guitar not that good, but better than others around, has stolen “their” girl right in front of their eyes, that “special” night from the party. Well, for sure, sometimes I was that “ugly freak”, sometimes I was frustrated geek. But despite the fact that I didn’t learn to play guitar to impress the chicks in the first place, chicks for some reason adore men with skilled fingers, if you know what I mean. So, I present you: The Rock Guitar Secrets… Is there really such thing? The cult that has allways been built around every important rock guitarist seems to lend them a mystical quality. Of course, any thing unknown always has an aura of mystery about it until one takes a closer look at it. And that’s exactly what author intend with this book; to finally lift the veil from around so-called “secrets” of rock guitar playing, if such thing really exist. In the course of this book you’ll find that most of so-called secrets are relatively simple concepts or tricks which can easily be learned by anyone. Combining them skilfully and developing a sensible, individually-geared practice plan while working with this book will work the real “magic”. Rock gitar secrets is put together modularly, meaning that you can pick out sections at will. If you’ve allways wanted to learn something about two-hand tapping or the melodic minor scale, no problem. As it’s not necessary to follow a set order of modules, each chapter is complete in itself, you can jump in spontaneusly wherever you want. I will never forget the times when I was struggling myself to play a simple song, in a too complicated fingerings, just because nobody was there to show me how it’s done properly. Ok, I’ve learned much from instructional videos, and by figuring out songs just by listening, but this book is what put me in the right track big time. It’ all in there. *Warm Ups: Fast learn note location, chromatics, “the spider” *Pentatonic Scales Stretch pentatonics, sequences, jam tracks *The Blues Scale Blue notes, scale positions, licks *String Bending/Vibrato Smear, release and unison bends, circle, rock and jack-off vibrato *The Major Scale Scale positions, licks, projects *Alternate Picking 3-note-per-string scales, modes, tonal colors, pitch axis system *Legato Technique Hammer ons, pull offs, slides, shapes *Triadic Arpeggios / Triads Welcome to the land of arpeggios! *Economy Picking Sweeping, scales, arpeggios *Four – Note – Arpeggios Standard)long fingerings – the Jan Hammer scale – chord substitutions*String Skipping Technique Scales, arpeggios, sequences, repating patterns, licks*Two Hand Tapping Tapping scales and arps, eight-finger tapping, harmonics tapping*The Harmonic Minor Scale Modes, jam tracks, projects*The Melodic Minor Scale Positions, modes, altered scales, licks*Exotic Scales Whole tone scale, diminished scale, the enigmatic scale*The Vibrato Arm The whammy bar, the dive bomb, wang bar dips, legato phrasing*Effective Learning – Practice Planning *Improvisation – Building Solos Warning: This is not another one of that “Learn to play guitar in one day” crap. And yet, it’s not a tipical “shred” book. For those who love having a huge chord library just to show off with their enormous collection of chords of songs etc, this is not book for them. If you wanna play guitar, play it right. This book will show you the right steps.