Guitar Rhythm and Techniques For Dummies Paperback - 2015 - 1st Edition

From the rear cover

Learn to:

• Understand the basics of reading, counting, strumming, fingering, and picking
• Improve your timing and sharpen your rhythm-playing skills
• Develop techniques for styles such as pop, rock, blues, folk, and funk

Lack of rhythm getting you down? Improve your rhythm and timing and develop your guitar-playing skills!

The guitar greats make it look effortless--but mastering rhythm and technique takes tons of practice. Luckily, this friendly guide makes your aspirations to play uitar like the pros attainable with loads of helpful step-by-step instruction on everything from mastering the art of strumming to sharpening your fingering and picking skills.

• Find your rhythm -- learn to read and play essential rhythms, develop your strumming style, and enhance your groove
• Pick and choose -- take a look at the ups and downs of picking, get to know alternate, tremolo, sweep, economy, and crosspicking, and develop your own picking proficiency
• Put a finger on it -- play popular fingerpicking patterns and chord melody fingerstyle arrangements and get confident with hybrid picking and percussive slaps
• Hone your chops -- work with hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, and bends, plus improve your hand dexterity and synchronization
• Tools of the trade -- get a grip on using a pick, playing slide guitar, and operating a whammy bar

Open the book and find:

• The lowdown on keeping time
• Popular strumming patterns
• Groove-enhancing techniques
• Ways to add articulation and expression
• The mechanics of picking
• Exercises to improve your reading and playing
• Songs and guitarists to inspire your rhythm and technique
• Access to video demonstrations and audio tracks online