If you want to know how to play rhythm guitar techniques and guitar strumming patterns that the best guitarists use,
this book is for you.
"Rhythm Guitar Secrets" provides detailed rhythm guitar lessons and exercises, showing you the essential techniques that great players use to play complex rhythms and shape their sound.
Let veteran guitarist and teacher Richard Middleton show you how to take your playing to the next level.
"Rhythm Guitar Secrets" provides detailed rhythm guitar lessons and exercises, showing you the essential techniques that great players use to play complex rhythms and shape their sound.
Let veteran guitarist and teacher Richard Middleton show you how to take your playing to the next level.
Rhythm Guitar Secrets will help you...
- Learn how to keep time, how to keep your hand moving in the right direction at all times, and how to play even the most challenging strumming patterns.
- Learn the basic "vocabulary" that all pop, rock and R&B guitar strumming patterns are based on, and how to sound out the parts you hear on your favorite recordings.
- Learn how to create complex chords with simple fingerings, how to control which strings ring and when, how to mimic drum grooves on the guitar...
It's all here, in 96 pages of clear, easy-to-follow instructions and exercises,
and over 100 illustrations:
and over 100 illustrations:
46 in-depth lessons covering basic, intermediate,
and advanced rhythm guitar techniques that will
help you be the best player you can be.
64 detailed strum patterns, 46 from songs by
well-known artists in every style... from AC/DC to
James Brown, Joni Mitchell to White Stripes.
Every strumming pattern is written both
in standard notation, and in a
unique graphic system showing when
to hit the strings and what direction
your hand should be going in — you
don't need to read music.
Plus, dozens of chords, TABS, diagrams, and photos
illustrating cool chord voicings, fingerings, rhythm
analysis, and playing tips and techniques.
Teachers: Rhythm Guitar Secrets is an ideal textbook for your
students who are working on their strumming skills.
Discounts are available to private teachers, music schools and programs, and
homeschool groups who purchase in volume. Contact us for more information.
students who are working on their strumming skills.
Discounts are available to private teachers, music schools and programs, and
homeschool groups who purchase in volume. Contact us for more information.
From the Introduction by author Richard Middleton...
"When I was a beginning guitarist, I knew several very good players in my neighborhood. The power of their grooves and their wide tonal and dynamic range were qualities I longed to achieve in my own playing.
But as I watched them and tried to pick up their techniques, I was often frustrated. The physical aspects of what they were doing were so unfamiliar to me and so subtle as to be almost invisible. My eyes simply couldn't see what was so clear to my ears.
When I asked these players to show me what they knew, what they said was often very vague. Whether they couldn't explain it, or wouldn't explain it, or didn't even understand it themselves, the result for me was the same: more frustration.
Over time, I learned on my own, and gradually mastered these techniques, and many more besides. And when I started teaching guitar students in 1988, I began the process of revealing and explaining these techniques to others, as I had once wished someone would explain them to me.
Over the years, I've helped hundreds of students become better rhythm guitar players. This book is a distillation of that teaching. I hope it serves you well... Enjoy!"
"When I was a beginning guitarist, I knew several very good players in my neighborhood. The power of their grooves and their wide tonal and dynamic range were qualities I longed to achieve in my own playing.
But as I watched them and tried to pick up their techniques, I was often frustrated. The physical aspects of what they were doing were so unfamiliar to me and so subtle as to be almost invisible. My eyes simply couldn't see what was so clear to my ears.
When I asked these players to show me what they knew, what they said was often very vague. Whether they couldn't explain it, or wouldn't explain it, or didn't even understand it themselves, the result for me was the same: more frustration.
Over time, I learned on my own, and gradually mastered these techniques, and many more besides. And when I started teaching guitar students in 1988, I began the process of revealing and explaining these techniques to others, as I had once wished someone would explain them to me.
Over the years, I've helped hundreds of students become better rhythm guitar players. This book is a distillation of that teaching. I hope it serves you well... Enjoy!"
30-day money-back guarantee: If you feel Rhythm Guitar Secrets
doesn't provide the information you need to become a better
rhythm guitarist, just let us know within 30 days and we'll refund
the full purchase price to you (not including shipping, if any), no
questions asked.
Discounts are available to private teachers, music schools and programs, and homeschool groups who purchase in volume. Contact us for more information.
Discounts are available to private teachers, music schools and programs, and homeschool groups who purchase in volume. Contact us for more information.