50 Guitar Hacks: for the Thinking Man's Guitarist

By Graham Tippett

50 Guitar Hacks for the Thinking Man's Guitarist has just received an extensive update and now features more detailed explanations, plus new hacks, diagrams and insight. Thank you for your invaluable feedback!Guitar Hacks can be clever ways to do things on guitar, priceless nuggets of information, or new perspectives on vital concepts for learning and understanding guitar, out-of-the-box thinking and much more besides. These hacks are based on 20+ years of hindsight so that you can get to where you want to be with your playing quicker and more efficiently. whatever your current level, or provide an excellent reference for guitar teachers looking for lesson ideas that can be easily expanded upon. Here's exactly what you'll get an insight in the updated version of this bestselling eBook:1. How to Remember Chords in the Beginning2. How to Learn 3NPS Scales in order to Improvise3. How to Learn More Chords without Learning More Shapes4. Modes: What to do first5. How to Make Music from Scales6. How to Learn any Technique to Perfection7. How to Write Using the Modes8. Don't Be Scared Off by Long Chord Names9. How to Make Your Solos Sound Better Overnight10. Modes: The Thing That's Stopping You from Understanding Them11. How to Play Outside the Key and Sound Cool12. How to Play like Your Idols without Learning their Licks13. How to Get Better: The Four Levels of Awareness14. How to Write Great Stuff15. How to Get a Great Tone16. How to Write a Great Guitar Riff17. 3 Essential Ingredients for a Productive Practice Session18. How to Choose a Guitar Book19. How to Design an Effective Practice Routine20. How to Break Out of Scale Patterns21. When to Use Alternate and Economy Picking22. Find Your Path of Least Resistance23. How to Make the Most of Altered Tunings24. How Long Does It Take to Get Good?25. How to Make Your Own Songbook26. How to Start Improvising on Jazz Tunes27. Make Sure You Know What You're Learning28. The Absolute Fastest Way to Improve Your Guitar Playing29. Avoid the CAGED System... Or Hack it!30. Are You Really a Visual Learner?31. Learn How to Build a Solo32. How to Instantly Improve Your Blues Guitar Soloing33. How to Invent Your Own Guitar Chords34. How to Learn the Notes on the Neck without Dying of Boredom35. How to Hack Scale Patterns for the Melodic and Harmonic Minor Modes36. Blues Guitar: You're Trying Way Too Hard37. How to Hack a Guitar Solo and Make It Yours38. How to Use YouTube to Actually Learn Something39. Why How It Sounds is Always More Important than How It's Done40. Use Your Pinky Right from the Start41. How to Bend a String Properly42. Use Your Guitar's Volume Control43. The Heavy Gauge Strings Fatter Tone Myth44. The One Thing You Should Fatten Up45. Throw Away Your Metronome46. Songwriting: Don't Try to Reinvent the Wheel47. The Quick and Dirty Way to Learn Arpeggios48. The Best Kind of Warm-up Exercises49. Work on One Thing50. How to Learn Music TheoryPutting this eBook together was enjoyable, cathartic and insightful experience. I hope you find it as enjoyable as I did.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1519017553
• ISBN13: 9781519017550
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 49 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 0.1" x 8.0"