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There’s nothing more important when learning guitar than having a proper, structured, step by step learning pathway to guide to you to success. Master your Lead Guitar, Rhythm Guitar & Fingerstyle with the MGT Everything Bundle: You’ll never get stuck on a learning plateau thinking, “What do I learn next?” ever again.

After helping hundreds of students over the last 20 years at the MGT studio, here it is available as one massive bundle: Every single one of our much loved guitar books, for a whopping 25% discount!

What’s Included?

  • Electric Guitar Solo Style 1: Learn lead guitar - bending, blues, and the basics. Learn all the guitar soloing tips and tricks you never knew you needed!

  • Electric Guitar Solo Style 2: Take your soloing skills to the next level, master scales across the fretboard, and play guitar solos across genres, including Blues, Jazz, Funk, Surf Guitar, Rock Shuffle and much more.

  • Modern Guitar Chord Styles 1: Learn to effortlessly change between all the most important guitar chords & learn basic strumming, arpeggio, and fingerstyle patterns. It’ll have you ready to play the songs you love in 10 pages or so!

  • Modern Guitar Chord Styles 2: Master your bar chords, memorise your root notes across the 5th and 6th strings, and learn about the development of electric guitar styles, from Rock, Blues, Punk, Reggae, Fusion and more from across the decades!

  • Modern Guitar Chord Styles 3: Get funky, learn jazz, bossa nova, gypsy jazz, walking basslines, and more! Get to know complex chord harmony and test your rhythm skills with this advanced level book.

  • Modern Guitar Fingerstyle: Ever wanted to accompany yourself? Learn to play chords and a melody at the same time with exercises and songs designed to develop fingerpicking mastery.

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There’s nothing more important when learning guitar than having a proper, structured, step by step learning pathway to guide to you to success. Master your Lead Guitar, Rhythm Guitar & Fingerstyle with the MGT Everything Bundle: You’ll never get stuck on a learning plateau thinking, “What do I learn next?” ever again.

After helping hundreds of students over the last 20 years at the MGT studio, here it is available as one massive bundle: Every single one of our much loved guitar books, for a whopping 25% discount!

What’s Included?

  • Electric Guitar Solo Style 1: Learn lead guitar - bending, blues, and the basics. Learn all the guitar soloing tips and tricks you never knew you needed!

  • Electric Guitar Solo Style 2: Take your soloing skills to the next level, master scales across the fretboard, and play guitar solos across genres, including Blues, Jazz, Funk, Surf Guitar, Rock Shuffle and much more.

  • Modern Guitar Chord Styles 1: Learn to effortlessly change between all the most important guitar chords & learn basic strumming, arpeggio, and fingerstyle patterns. It’ll have you ready to play the songs you love in 10 pages or so!

  • Modern Guitar Chord Styles 2: Master your bar chords, memorise your root notes across the 5th and 6th strings, and learn about the development of electric guitar styles, from Rock, Blues, Punk, Reggae, Fusion and more from across the decades!

  • Modern Guitar Chord Styles 3: Get funky, learn jazz, bossa nova, gypsy jazz, walking basslines, and more! Get to know complex chord harmony and test your rhythm skills with this advanced level book.

  • Modern Guitar Fingerstyle: Ever wanted to accompany yourself? Learn to play chords and a melody at the same time with exercises and songs designed to develop fingerpicking mastery.

There’s nothing more important when learning guitar than having a proper, structured, step by step learning pathway to guide to you to success. Master your Lead Guitar, Rhythm Guitar & Fingerstyle with the MGT Everything Bundle: You’ll never get stuck on a learning plateau thinking, “What do I learn next?” ever again.

After helping hundreds of students over the last 20 years at the MGT studio, here it is available as one massive bundle: Every single one of our much loved guitar books, for a whopping 25% discount!

What’s Included?

  • Electric Guitar Solo Style 1: Learn lead guitar - bending, blues, and the basics. Learn all the guitar soloing tips and tricks you never knew you needed!

  • Electric Guitar Solo Style 2: Take your soloing skills to the next level, master scales across the fretboard, and play guitar solos across genres, including Blues, Jazz, Funk, Surf Guitar, Rock Shuffle and much more.

  • Modern Guitar Chord Styles 1: Learn to effortlessly change between all the most important guitar chords & learn basic strumming, arpeggio, and fingerstyle patterns. It’ll have you ready to play the songs you love in 10 pages or so!

  • Modern Guitar Chord Styles 2: Master your bar chords, memorise your root notes across the 5th and 6th strings, and learn about the development of electric guitar styles, from Rock, Blues, Punk, Reggae, Fusion and more from across the decades!

  • Modern Guitar Chord Styles 3: Get funky, learn jazz, bossa nova, gypsy jazz, walking basslines, and more! Get to know complex chord harmony and test your rhythm skills with this advanced level book.

  • Modern Guitar Fingerstyle: Ever wanted to accompany yourself? Learn to play chords and a melody at the same time with exercises and songs designed to develop fingerpicking mastery.


 

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Basics, Bending & the Blues: Electric Guitar Solo Style 1

*Brand new!* This is a must-have primer for Electric guitarists to develop their solo playing skills. A carefully graded course that builds technique step-by-step, Electric Guitar Solo Style 1 is perfect for electric guitar beginners 12 and over.  

Via a logical series of scale patterns and exercises, slides, hammer-on, pull-off and bending exercises, this course develops both your fretboard ability and picking security. The pinnacle of EGSS1 is it’s clear, step-by-step approach to the unique electric guitar skill of string bending. This is clearly explained with a series of exercises that teach the actions that create secure bending and the cliche styles they create. 

And, most important of all, EGSS1 contains lots of realistic solos that are perfect for developing players. These are all based on familiar blues progressions and have accompanying MP3 audio recordings as part of the digital download.

What’s inside?

  • Pentatonic minor + blues scales

  • Lead guitar techniques: Hammer ons, pull offs, slides and grace notes

  • How to get pitch perfect bends

  • How to combine techniques into easily repeatable licks, and how to speed them up

  • How to put it all together to play full blues solos

  • …and much more!

 
 
 
“I’m really excited to see the Electric Guitar Solo Style series come to fruition. Book One is an excellent starter for new Electric guitarists; I’ve taught many students over the years and seen them get fantastic results using these techniques. I can’t wait to share them with everyone. ”
— Michelle Nelson, Author
 
 

 
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Master the entire fretboard and build speed: Electric Guitar Solo Style 2

Continue building the technique skills introduced in Book 1 with advanced string-bending techniques, complete coverage of the fretboard and lots of satisfying solos across heaps of genres. Electric Guitar Solo Style 2 streams you towards advanced soloing, step by step with loads of techniques, tips, & tricks to help you develop your lead guitar skills.  By the end of this book you are well and truly starting to sound like a professional!

What Topics Are Covered?

  • Linking pentatonic minor, major, major blues and straight major scale patterns that cover the whole fretboard

  • Lead guitar advanced techniques: Double-stop bends, bend-release-snap clichés, tone-and-a-half bending

  • Harmonic bending: creating major and minor bend clichés

  • Mixolydian & Dorian modes

  • Funk style syncopation & single-note staccato techniques

  • Tremolo picking & developing speed

  • Combine techniques to play heaps of full guitar solos across genres, including Funk, Country, Blues, Jazz, Surf Guitar and heaps more!

 
 

 
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Effortless Chord Changes: Modern Guitar Chord Styles 1

The perfect book for hobby guitarists and young students aged 12 and up: a gently-graded course that builds technique naturally via harmonic exercises and song-like progressions. This book covers essential chord forms, rhythm and arpeggio techniques (including finger-picking), and includes a CD containing 55 progressions.

A clear step-by-step method introduces chords in a logical order of physical comfort and the progression exercises are written around changes linked by a common finger. Even a complete beginner is starting to play familiar sounding chord progressions within the first ten pages. From there on the progressions become gradually more detailed as one new chord is added at a time.

What’s Inside?

  • Basic guitar chords & how to get changes easy & smooth

  • How to read rhythms

  • Common pop/rock strumming patterns & example progressions

  • Arpeggio picking & fingerpicking

  • Basic bar chords

  • and much more!

 
 
 
“Modern Guitar Chord Styles 1 is my absolute must use book. Nothing gets a new student playing songs they enjoy quicker. Every single one of my students over 10 starts with this book, and it always gets great results! Cannot recommend it highly enough!”
— Matt Raw, MGT Teacher
 
 

 
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Level Up Your Bar Chord & Genre Knowledge: Modern Guitar Chord Styles 2

Dedicated exclusively to electric guitar chord and rhythm styles, this book is a must-have for Electric players. It presents all the essential bar-chord forms and electric-guitar rhythm techniques from the classic Rock/R’n’B styles to the current era. It develops the stamina needed for bar-chord playing through a graduated series of exercises and stylistic examples. Features all the classic rhythm styles as well as melody-chord work and Electric arpeggio style. Download includes mp3 files of 45 recorded samples to aid the development of rhythmic control and stylistic awareness.

What topics are covered?

  • Power chords

  • Major, minor, dom7, min7, & maj7 bar chord shapes

  • 50s/60s rock, punk, country, 70s rock, disco, reggae, & fusion progressions

  • Hendrix style bar chord embellishments

  • Advanced triad and arpeggio picking

 
 
 
“The Modern Guitar Chord Styles 2 book has been a great learning aid, not only to really develop my bar chord knowledge but also playing techniques and styles. It has helped me to progress from power chords through to much more complex chord variations”
— Ben, Adult Student
 
 

 
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Get Funky, Learn Jazz & Test Your Rhythm Skills: Modern Guitar Chord Styles 3

This advanced/tertiary-level text deals with the exciting but musically challenging area of Jazz and Funk styles for modern guitar. It features detailed information about the important Jazz and Funk chord forms, rhythm styles, harmony theory and styles of chord use. Presented in notation with chord boxes and some TAB to assist realization, the download comes with a MP3 recordings of 39 stylized progressions that provide excellent examples of advanced chord and rhythm techniques.

What topics are covered?

  • Jazz chords

  • Advanced strumming techniques

  • Funk chords & 16th note muting techniques

  • Ragtime, Latin Jazz, Big Band, Bebop, Gypsy Jazz, Bossa Nova and more!

  • Fingerstyle Jazz & walking bass line techniques

  • And much more!

 
 
 
“With this series of books, learning Rock chord progressions become a breeze and learning pop songs become very straight forward and effortless! Highly recommended!”
— DARRYL BARRON - COORDINATOR OF FRETTED STRINGS, CAREY BAPTIST GRAMMAR SCHOOL
 
 

 
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Master Your Fingerpicking: Modern Guitar Fingerstyle 1

Accompanying the acclaimed Modern Guitar Chord Styles series, this brand new book from Michelle Nelson explores modern acoustic fingerstyle playing.

Intended for intermediate players, teens to adults, who have already consolidated common chords, general Pop rhythms and elementary single-note ability. It is an excellent source for plectrum (pick) players wanting to develop their finger picking technique. Includes plenty of graduated exercises for developing tone and independent action in the picking hand, arpeggio patterns, chord accompaniment patterns, hammer-on and pull-off slur effects, basic alternate tunings, and finger-picking solo styles.

Please note: No audio recordings are included with this book

 

 
 
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