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Speed MEchanics does have the CD.
I've got that book, and the whole Troy Stetina series is good.
I just need more time to work on them.........
Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)
I've also got Danny Gill's Rock Lead Techniques who's first chapter focuses on picking. For me it breaks things down a bit more then the other two by looking at tremolo picking, then hand synchronisation on a single string and finally moving across strings. I also like that it's more rock centric than speed mechanics (a bit too shred for me). All examples come on a CD.
All of them are good though if you put the time in. I'll probably be returning to Guthrie's book for the legato section soon.
Are/were you starting from nothing, if so have a work through his Lead Guitar series first/with Speed Mechanics.
Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)
I think it's designed to be used in conjunction with the rest of his series.
Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)
Creative Guitar is what monquixote said: more about doing interesting things
Both really good, but different
http://www.musicroom.com/se/id_no/01056616/details.html
I also have this, it's quite thin, but still has good examples.
Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)
Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)
Tbh those sort of exercises you should be inventing yourself, that's how you find your unique voice as a musician
@Teetonetal The Progressive series has a few books which work in that way. Also the MI have Lead guitar basics, and techniques books, again very good, and also a backing/jam tracks book, which is for improvising over backing tracks. The last has the chord charts with suggested scales/modes to use and the backing tracks on CD.
The Troy Stetina series (Metal lead primer/1/2) covers a lot of the speedier parts of playing, and would work well with the Speed Mechanics book.
Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)
It's basically 365 exercises across a range of genres that build each week and work in a variety of techniques. The last exercise is a Paul Gilbert sweep-string skip-tap arpeggio that is, frankly, bonkers.
It also has some fingerstyle, hybrid, chordal work etc.
@Teetonetal if you can find them John Petrucci's "Rock Discipline" if good for getting fingers flexible and (Not seen this one) Dimebag Darrell's "Riffer Madness*" might cover a lot of what you want/need.
*again the complete book of his magazine column.
Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)