Progressive Funk and R&B Guitar Method contains all you need to know to start learning to be a great funk and R&B guitar player - in one easy-to-follow, lesson-by-lesson funk and R&B guitar tutorial.

Suitable for all ages and all types of guitars including electric guitars and hollow body electric guitars. Basic knowledge of how to read music and playing the guitar is required to teach yourself to learn to play guitar from this book. Comes with 1 CD containing guitar audio demonstrating all examples. Hear how each one is played by a teacher, then play along.

Teach yourself:

• How to play electric guitar and hollow body electric guitar
• How to make classic funk sounds, using both rhythm and lead playing
• How to play funk guitar notes and R&B guitar scales used in funk lead guitar solos, riffs and licks
• All the important chords and scales used in funk playing introduced in a framework that allows the student to play confidently over the entire fretboard
• How to use phrasing and timing with imaginative use of rhythms
• All the fundamental techniques of funk and R&B guitar playing including hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, bends, slight bends, release bends, vibrato, staccato, muting, trail-offs
• How to tune a guitar
• Funk and R&B guitar tips and guitar tricks that every player should know when learning guitar
• Shortcuts for how to learn guitar fast by getting the most from guitar practice sessions
• Contains everything you need to know to learn to play the guitar today.

Features

• Progressive step-by-step easy guitar lessons written by a professional funk guitar teacher
• An innovative approach to learning rhythms & applying them to riffs & grooves
• Full color photos and diagrams
• A well structured easy to read theory section which covers summaries of keys and key signatures
• Easy-to-read funk guitar music for beginners, funk guitar chords and easy funk guitar tabs
• Guitar chord diagrams for all important funk guitar chords
• 149 funk and R&B guitar exercises, funk guitar chord progressions, funk guitar riffs, funk guitar licks, funk guitar solos and popular easy funk guitar music in funk and R&B styles