by Troy Stetina
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Product Description
Total Rock Guitar is a unique and comprehensive source for learning rock guitar, designed to develop both lead and rhythm playing. This book/CD pack covers: getting a tone that rocks; open chords, power chords and barre chords; riffs, scales and licks; string bending, strumming, palm muting, harmonics and alternate picking; all rock styles; and much more. The examples in the book are in standard notation with chord grids and tablature, and the CD includes full-band backing for all 22 songs.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
 A lot of killer riffs !!, 2008-06-16
I purchased this book about two years ago about the same time I started lessons. This book is not for beginners. You don't start out playing Steve Vai or John Petrucci tunes, but you do need to have at least a rudimentary understanding of basic guitar chords and an understanding of basic fundamentals such as power chords, palm muting, hammer-ons, pull-offs and bends. The author cleverly throws in some different techniques before each tune and then lets the player use what they have learned in the next tune.
Almost all of the tunes are really good and are not that out of place just to stick in your cd player with other music. Eight five percent of the riffs are hard rock with a few bordering on some pretty intense heavy metal.
I still enjoy playing these riffs along with my regular practice routine just to throw in different things. Even though I consider myself a intermediate player now, I still haven't mastered all the songs in this book.
Before you buy this book you will need an amp that can put out some distortion or a distortion pedal. I would also recommend a guitar with humbuckers as opposed to single coils to get the proper tone for playing these songs.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 Great for learning Rock, 2008-04-25
I love this book. After the first lesson you can play a song and feel like you are truly rocking out. Progressively gets harder but I love that they have a rock song with the back up instrumental for all the songs on the cd that comes with it. It is the most fun I have had learning to play the guitar. Feels like it is for older people to learn, like me, rather than toward kids, which is great for me. I have some books that start so slow and you get bored with the book before you ever learn anything. This book is great and fun.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
Good for beginners, 2007-05-31
This book was great for me to learn different types of music and timing. I really wouldn't recommend it to anyone above the intermediate level. It is great for beginners- as it helped me develop a few basic songs from the licks I learned.
Overall, its targeted for those who are new to the guitar. There are some complex solos, but that is in the very back. Don't waste your money if you're looking for heavy rock licks, either. All the songs I learned to play were fairly mellow.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
A great way to learn rock guitar!, 2007-03-19
I think this is a revolutionary approach to guitar teaching that is really fun and keeps you coming back to practice. The appeal is probably in the songs - they rock! There are NO exercises that you play along to, just the original music. The songs are so good, I'm tempted to pop them on my ipod to rock withOUT playing along on my guitar.
The book also does a great job of gradually increasing difficulty from song to song. Many have said that this book is for intermediate players, but it only starts out that way (don't buy this book if you are a beginner). The last few songs are rather difficult, and I would NOT call someone who could play them flawlessly an "intermediate guitar player". They're pretty tough.
By far, the most satisfying result of going through this course was accumulating many different guitar distortion/effect patches to match the particular genres in the book. Stetina gives good advice for building awesome guitar sounds, which is all too rare in instructional books.
If you want to get better at rockin' then this is probably one of the best buys you can make.
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
 Good to learn - as long as you're not a beginner, 2007-02-01
I bought this book as a beginner - which it is clearly not for. You have to have some knowledge of guitar to be able to even use the first pages of this book.
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