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    Guitar Lick Factory: Building Great Blues, Rock & Jazz Lines
    Guitar Lick Factory: Building Great Blues, Rock & Jazz Lines
    Guitar Lick Factory: Building Great Blues, Rock & Jazz Lines
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    Guitar Lick Factory: Building Great Blues, Rock & Jazz Lines

    By Jesse Gress

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    There's nothing like the feeling you get when you add a new guitar lick to your musical vocabulary. An encyclopedia of hip lines, Guitar Lick Factory helps beginning and intermediate guitarists build their lick repertoires. In addition, it opens the door to jazz for blues and rock players of all levels, gives jazzers the key to authentic blues and rock, and shows the important connections among all three genres. It contains hundreds of ready-to-play licks presented as short melodic modules. Using Jesse Gress's ingenious grid system, players will learn how to extract dozens of melodic, harmonic and rhythmic variations from each module.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRowmanLittlefield
    Release dateMar 1, 2003
    ISBN9781617132353
    Guitar Lick Factory: Building Great Blues, Rock & Jazz Lines

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      The content of the book itself is great, but the images used for the guitar tablature/music notation is so low resolution it's almost unreadable.

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    Guitar Lick Factory - Jesse Gress

    Published by Backbeat Books

    600 Harrison Street, San Francisco, CA 94107

    www.backbeatbooks.com

    email: books@musicplayer.com

    An imprint of the Music Player Network

    Publishers of Guitar Player, Bass Player, Keyboard, and other magazines

    United Entertainment Media, Inc.

    A CMP Information company

    Copyright © 2003 by Jesse Gress.All rights reserved. No part of this book covered by copyrights hereon may be reproduced or copied in any manner whatsoever without written permission, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in articles and reviews. For information, contact the publishers.

    Distributed to the book trade in the US and Canada by

    Publishers Group West, 1700 Fourth Street, Berkeley, CA 94710

    Distributed to the music trade in the US and Canada by

    Hal Leonard Publishing, P.O. Box 13819, Milwaukee, WI 53213

    Text design and composition by Chris Ledgerwood

    Music engraving by Elizabeth Ledgerwood

    Cover design by Richard Leeds - bigwigdesign.com

    Front dover and interior illustration by Mitch O’Connell

    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

    Gress, Jesse

    Guitar lick factory: building great blues, rock & jazz lines/by Jesse Gress.

    p. cm.

    9781617132346

    I . Guitar—Instruction and study. 2. Blues (Music)—Instruction and study. 3. Rock music—Instruction and study. 4. Jazz—Instruction and study. I. Title.

    MT580.G723 2003

    787.87’193 164—dc21

    2003040425

    Printed in the United States of America

    06 07 08 5 4 3

    Table of Contents

    Chapter 1

    Chapter 2

    Chapter 3

    Chapter 4

    Chapter 5

    Chapter 6

    Chapter 7

    Chapter 8

    Chapter 9

    Chapter 10

    Chapter 11

    Chapter 12

    Chapter 13

    Chapter 14

    Chapter 15

    Chapter 16

    Chapter 17

    Chapter 18

    For Mary Lou, Deidre, Doc, and Ginnie.

    In memory of Ruth Arnold, Richard Taby, and Jay Kahn.

    Special thanks to Liz and Chris Ledgerwood, Richard Johnston, Matt Kelsey, Nancy Tabor, Nina Lesovitz, Amy Miller, Rich Leeds, Tom Hassett, and Rich Maloof, and to Tony Levin for suggesting the title!

    KEY TO NOTATIONAL SYMBOLS

    The following symbols are used in Guitar Lick Factory to notate fingerings, techniques, and effects commonly used in guitar music. Certain symbols are found in either the tablature or the standard notation only, not both. For clarity, consult both systems.

    HOW TABLATURE WORKS

    The horizontal lines represent the guitar’s strings, the top line standing for the high E. The numbers designate the frets to be played. For instance, a 2 positioned on the first line would mean play the 2nd fret on the first string (0 indicates an open string). Time values are indicated on the standard notation staff seen directly above the tablature. Special symbols and instructions appear between the standard and tablature

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