Fast Forward Alternative Rock
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Fast Forward Alternative Rock by Rikky Rooksby
(Music Sales America). This exciting series of instrumental instruction books includes complete music plus easy-to-follow instructions, tips and advice. The accompanying CDs allow you to listen and play along to the matching audio tracks. These user-friendly book/CD packs provide riffs, licks, chords & tricks you can learn now, and easily incorporate into your own playing style This unique book and CD will inspire you to rebel against mainstream rock and experience a whole range of rock styles and unorthodox playing ideas developed over the last 40 years. From the beginnings of alternative rock in the '60s and punk and new-wave bands of the '70s, the illustrated text takes you through each decade, highlighting the changing styles and sounds which influenced generations of rock guitarists.
Rooksby, Rikky: - Rikky Rooksby is a guitar teacher, songwriter/composer, and writer on popular music. He is the author of How to Write Songs on Guitar (2000, revised edition 2009), Inside Classic Rock Tracks (2001), Riffs (2002, revised edition 2010), The Songwriting Sourcebook (2003, revised edition 2011), Chord Master (2004, revised edition 2016), Melody (2004), Songwriting Secrets: Bruce Springsteen (2005), How to Write Songs on Keyboards (2005), Lyrics (2006), Arranging Songs (2007), How to Write Songs in Altered Guitar Tunings (2010), and Songs and Solos (2014). He has also written fourteen Fastforward guitar tutors and arranged over three dozen chord songbooks, including The Complete Beatles. He has written entries on rock musicians for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and published interviews, reviews, and transcriptions in many UK music magazines. He is a member of the Society of Authors, Sibelius One, and the Vaughan Williams Society
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780711982116 |
| ISBN 10 | 0711982112 |
| Title | Fast Forward Alternative Rock |
| Author | Rikky Rooksby |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Book |
| Publisher | Music Sales Ltd |
| Year published | 2000-12-28 |
| Number of pages | 64 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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