Review (PDF) Ultimate Play-Along Guitar Trax Rock (Book & CD)
The Ultimate Play-Along series provides the aspiring guitarist with the opportunity to play along with some of the finest musicians in the world. Ultimate Play-Along Guitar Trax: Rock includes ten screaming rock play-along trax, a live rhythm section featuring Musicians Institute staff artists, demo solos by monster guitarists, complete rhythm charts, and solo transcriptions with tab.
Series: Ultimate Play-Along
Sheet music: 76 pages
Publisher: Alfred Music (October 1, 1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1576235807
ISBN-13: 978-1576235805
Product Dimensions: 0.2 x 9.2 x 12 inches
Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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I'm a strong intermediate player and I bought this book mainly for the backing tracks, not knowing what they were. The book provides music score and some narrative for each of the backing tracks on the CD. The tracks are best described as classic hard rock jams using many different progressions other than I, IV, VI which I appreciate. It opened my mind to other chord progressions.Each track has a lead intro followed by about 2-3 minutes backing w/o lead guitar. The idea is that you can study the style of the lead and then improvise on your own. The narrative gives you some suggestions, presents some tabs of the scales that should be used and other hints to the soloist approach. I believe there about 10 tracks in total.This is not for begginers, as you need to have a good understanding of theory, scales, arps and chords to get any pleasure out of this process. I found that I gravitated to about 3 of the songs and spent some time learning some of the riffs and chord progressions. There where a couple that I really like, edited out the solo and ripped them into MP3 and put them on my Tascam guitar trainer. That way, I can play them through my PA and jam along at full strength.The tracks are of good quality. The book allows you to play along, understand some of the techniques that the soloist used in their version and then just do your own thing. I wish there where more books like this that had more tracks. Since it is a matter of individual preference how many tracks you will enjoy , more would be better. I find it a great way of learning better soloing technique without having the pressure of learning to play a particular riff perfectly for a cover song. I would gladly pay more for a complete volume of say 50 tacks with the same treatment.
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