AMA Verlag Progressive Rock Guitar

Progressive rock offers countless opportunities to expand one’s skills and push the boundaries of guitar playing. This book demonstrates, for example, how chords are used in progressive rock, how new timbres are created and how new playing techniques are incorporated. Short introductory exercises on the various topics are demonstrated on the accompanying CD.

Contents:

• Foreword
• I. Chords
• I.1 Power Chords in Progressive Rock
• I.2 Power Chords: Short Exercises and Riffs
• I.3 Triads
• I.4 Triads: Simple exercises and riffs
• I.5 add9 chords
• I.6 add11 chords
• I.7 add#11 chords
• I.8 Sus-chords
• II. Metrics and Rhythm
• II.1 Even time signatures
• II.2 Triplets
• II.3 Odd time signatures
• II.3.1 3/4 time
• II.3.2 5-beat measures
• II.3.3 7/8 time
• II.3.4 9/8 time
• II.3.5 11-beat measures and above
• II.4 Metric modulation
• III. Concepts | Ideas | Playing Technique
• III.1 Intervals as motivic ideas: The Sea
• III.2 Hybrid picking | Fingerpicking
• III.3 Dissonances
• III.4 Chord Progressions
• III.5 Alternative Tunings
• III.6 Riffs with changes in time signature & metrical modulation
• III.7 Prog meets Classical Music
• III.8 Quintuplets
• III.9 Lead sequences as riffs
• List of chord symbols and abbreviations used
• CD list