Greg Studley has authored many guitar and bass instruction books, including A Guitarist's Guide to Improvising With Knowledge (2013), Speed, Accuracy, & Technique for Guitar (2013), Speed, Accuracy, & Technique for Bass (2015), and Essentials of Rhythm Guitar (2016). Here are a few excerpts from these books to help you on your musical journey!
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Essentials of Rhythm Guitar is a highly organized approach to gaining a solid understanding of guitar chords, the best fingerings to be used, how to seamlessly switch between them, and different strumming patterns that may be used. This book series starts at the most common chords of the guitar (major chords, minor chords, dominant seventh chords, suspended chords), progresses through numerous barre chord shapes, and concludes with complex jazz chords.
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Speed, Accuracy, & Technique for Guitar is designed to gradually enhance these three essential components of the modern guitarist. Regardless of the musical genre that you are exploring, whether it be jazz, blues, rock, metal, country or otherwise, these three categories should all be in harmony to allow you to play your best. The exercises contained within this series will not only train the fingers of your fretting hand, but will also enhance your picking techniques and create synonymous movement between the two.
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A Guitarist’s Guide to Improvising with Knowledge includes over 200 pages of exercises, examples and solos that will transform your lead guitar playing. You will learn major and minor pentatonic scale shapes, how to move these scale shapes across the neck, and how to improvise solos by following the chord changes. Focus is also placed on incorporating rhythmic and melodic patterns in your solos, using arpeggios, and specific guitar techniques including slides, hammer-ons, pull-offs, and bends.
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