Sound Innovations for Guitar

Sound Innovations for Guitar, written by Aaron Stang (author and Grammy® Award-winning guitarist) and Bill Purse (Guitar Chair at Duquesne University) is a revolutionary new method that utilizes solid pedagogy and ground-breaking technology to provide students and teachers with the skills needed to play modern guitar — with a focus on real-world guitar skills.

Built with feedback from guitar teachers across the country, Sound Innovations for Guitar is the first guitar method to fully address the skills, techniques and knowledge required by all guitarists in a solid, linear teaching method. Lessons focus on learning all skills in the context of great repertoire ranging in style from folk to blues, flamenco, rock, and classical music. Lessons focus on core guitar skills like strumming and fingerpicking, chords, playing pivotal rock and blues riffs, improvising, reading music, and applying music theory. Focused goals and benchmarks are included, organized into six levels with clean page layouts for quick identification of concepts.

In addition, students can practice with the included DVD, which has three and a half hours of video lessons to explain and demonstrate all the concepts and techniques covered in the book. And, MP3 recordings of every example and song in the book, with play-along accompaniments, and specialized instructional tracks featuring concise explanations and demonstrations of all new concepts and techniques are embedded on the DVD. The built-in SI Player software allows tracks to be slowed down and sections looped for continuous practice. The book and DVD is designed so that even band, orchestra, and choral directors, with little experience on the guitar can easily teach a guitar class that really focuses on the skills and music young guitarists want and need.

Sound Innovations for Guitar
Book, CD & DVD
item#: 00-37177

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• real-world
• acoustic
• electric
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