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Improvisation for Blues and Rock Guitar is a step by step instruction manual with an accompanying audio CD designed to take you from beginning to advanced lead guitar soloing. This book and accompanying CD is a "must have" for anyone desiring to further their understanding of lead guitar techniques and how to improvise with pentatonics and modes, along with learning modal theory.

This 45 page book and CD combines elements that many other books do not offer; individual licks, detailed music theory as it applies to blues and rock lead guitar soloing, and great backing tracks to practice with. This book and CD is great for self study or for guitar instructors to use with their students.

  • 16 classic licks written in tab and notation.

  • All 16 licks played individually on the enclosed CD, first at slow tempo, then at a faster tempo.

  • 9 full band backing tracks with explanations of what modes work best with them, scale form diagrams and chord charts of each song.

  • Full explanation of the seven tone and five tone (pentatonic) scale shapes.

  • Detailed information on how and when to use the seven basic modes and pentatonics

You can download the entire version of Improvisation for blues and rock guitar in a .pdf format right here, along with the mp3 files of the audio tracks that accompany the book Absolutely FREE!

If you are interested in buying a hard copy of the book and CD, please contact Greg at the email address below for ordering information.