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Details on each book below
Guide To Tapping (60 Unique Exercises covering all styles of tapping)
• Warm Ups & Exercises for Independence
• Tapping in Scale Form
• Tapping with Slides
• Tapping with Legato
• Tapping in Odd Meter
• Tapping Arpeggios
• String Skipping with Tapping
• Outlining Chords
• Tapping Chords
• Tapping Harmonics
• Using Open Strings
• Moving Bass Lines
• Layering & Natural Delay
Chris also breaks down the theory, keys, and instruction on how to practice and use each exercise!
All exercises are not only great for improving your tapping technique but are also musical and useful to real world guitar playing, like songs "Atlas Novus", "Oort Cloud", "The Levitated", and "The Great Plains".
Guitar Technique 360 (60 Unique Technique Exercises)
All written for 6 string guitar, with proper fingering, pick strokes, and goal tempos.
This is not your typical technique book with a bunch of non melodic, unusable ideas. They are all melodic, which can be applied for song writing, improv, and everyday day guitar use. It's a perfect book for building your chops and mastering the fingerboard! Great for all styles of music, from classical to metal, rock, latin, jazz, and country.
• Warm Ups
• Hammer-on & Pull-offs
• Bending
• Legato
• Hybrid Picking
• String Skipping
• Sweep Picking
• Chord Exercises
• Arpeggiating Chords
• Position Shifts Using Slides
• Rolling Bars
• Economy Picking
• Odd Meter
• Double Picking Exercises
• Harmonics
• Speed Bursts
• Grace Notes
• Arpeggios
• Tapping
Chris Letchford's Guitar Technique Book
This is not your typical technique book with a bunch of non melodic, unusable ideas. They are all melodic, which can be applied for song writing, improv, and everyday day guitar use. It's a perfect book for building your chops and mastering the fingerboard! Great for all styles of music, from classical to metal, rock, latin, jazz, and country. They are also spiral bound, which makes it stay open when laying flat or on a music stand! Why all music books aren't made this way is beyond me!
This book focuses on:
• left hand and right hand technique
• string skipping
• scales
• modes
• alternate picking
• chord stretching
• chord arpeggiating
• odd meter
• metric modulation
• sweep picking
• sweep picking in odd meter
• hybrid picking
• sliding
• legato
• bending
• grace notes
• hammer on / pull offs
• economy picking
• arpeggios
• rolling bar technique
• tapping
• tapping with multiple fingers
• tapping with slides
• visualizing the neck exercises
• chromatic
• combing multiple techniques
• using octaves
• melodic exercises
• applying all 4 fingers
• using tritones
• right hand picking exercises and warmups
• harmonic minor exercise
Setup Book
"Chris Letchford's Pocket Guide To 6, 7, 8 string Guitar & Bass SETUPS & MAINTENANCE"
Instruments can not be setup by "feel" or by "eye", there are too many optical illusions created and inconsistencies using those methods. Instruments are best set up using math, hence the ruler. This book has all measurements listed for each part of your instrument. You can use this book to get every guitar or bass you own to play at its full potential!
Covers:
• Setups for 6, 7 and 8 string Guitar, 4, 5, and 6 string Bass.
• Covers all styles of bridges (Floyd, Tune-a-matic, Hardtail, etc...) • Removing old strings and proper cleaning
• Proper re-stringing techniques (including a trick for turning none locking tuners into locking with just a string winding technique)
• Setting truss rod
• Action height
• Intonation and pickup height
• Polishing frets
• Problem solving steps to help get rid of unwanted string and fret buzz. • Comes with authors string gauge recommendations for different tunings, styles, genres, and more.
• General guitar care and maintenance