Metal Lead Guitar Primer Book/Online Audio (Troy Stetina)

Actually, this is a book for beginners. Exercises are written in TAB notation so it's easy to read.It covers basic techniques (hammer-on & pull-off, slide, bend, vibrato, staccato, palm muting, and more) with special emphasis on avoiding unwanted noise from other strings: playing clean. These techniques are also included in Metal Lead Guitar/Book and Cd (Vol. 1) but I'd better start with 'Metal Lead Guitar Primer'.It also introduces you into rhythm sense covering up to sixteenth notes, eighteenth & quarter note triplets, rests and rhythmic patterns.CD includes two songs to solo over (very nice).If you don't play clean when soloing with distortion or you're starting from the beginning as lead player, try this book, take a metronome and master the included techniques before going into Volume 1 & 2 (I highly recommend them) or other instructional book in lead guitar.If you really are an intermediate player, this book will be very basic.

It said it in the Title " Primer " - Basic Still a Good Book.

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Really basic. The next book also goes over everything here in the first 3 chapters.

Love it!! Great for any level of guitar player wanting to improve their skills! I would recommend any of Stetina's books !

I remember getting this book and struggling so much, I am not a natural guitar player by any means. This book taught me the essentials of legato, muting and string bending to hit the pitch you want. The improvisation part was hardest for me but I managed to get through the book in a few months. I finished all of Troy's books except for fretboard mastery (currently working on it) and his methodology is by far the best. Even if you are not exactly into metal these books are far and away the best on the market for learning guitar.

I played guitar some in college, but I never developed into a serious player. Much of the problem was that I didn't take the time to learn proper technique. I decided to take up guitar again and this time I decided to take a more serious approach to playing. I ordered Troy Stetina's book since it teaches metal guitar techniques, which is the style I'm interested in. Needless to say, it was money well spent.I've been praticing an hour or two a day for two weeks and I've seen significant improvement in my playing skills. This book introduces the techniques necessary to play lead guitar, such as hammer-ons, pull-offs, vibrato, string bending, and palm muting. It also introduces basic guitar techniques such as how to hold a guitar, picking, and most importantly, how to mute strings which is essential to playing clean. Troy also introduces some basic music theory and does so in a way that is accessible to everyone. The sections that cover technique are also every accessible and include pictures which are a big help.The exercises in the book are fun to play and gradually build on each other. There are two solos in this book that puts all these exercises together. The exercises and solos are written in tab so you don't have to know music theory to play them. Later exercises combine tab and some musical notation, but it's nothing a beginning musician can't handle.If you're a beginning lead guitarist, get this book! It's easliy one of the most accessible guitar books I have read. This book doesn't cover everything but it will provide you with a solid foundation to build on.

Did not come with the CD.