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Alfred and the National Guitar Workshop Introduce Play Rock Guitar: Beginning Chords, Strums, and Riffs

August 21, 2008

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Guitarists everywhere will be thrilled with the latest guide to rock guitar. Alfred and the National Guitar Workshop team up to release the essential guide to playing rock guitar with Play Rock Guitar: Beginning Chords, Strums, and Riffs.

This is a new installment in the popular WorkshopLive series. The exciting new way to learn music combines the best features of DVD, book, and Internet education. Each installment is a complete book and DVD package that can stand on its own, with lessons selected from workshoplive.com curriculum.

Play Rock Guitar: Beginning Chords, Strums, and Riffs is the ideal book and DVD set for beginning rock guitarists. Learn the proper picking technique for downstrokes and alternate picking, rhythmic strumming patterns using a mix of quarter, eighth and sixteenth notes, and the open chords, barre chords, and power chords that are the heart of rock rhythm guitar. The book explains how to combine movable chords into chord progressions in any key, how to mix chords and open string pedal tones, how to use chord hits and stabs to create exciting riffs, damping and muting for a tight, punchy sound, and much more! Plus, anyone with high-speed internet can continue the lessons free at http://www.workshoplive.com/.

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Play Rock Guitar: Beginning Chords, Strums, and Riffs is now available as a book and DVD set for $19.95.

For more information, visit their web site at www.alfred.com.

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