[DOC] Hal Leonard Rockabilly Guitar Method (Hal Leonard Guitar Method) by Fred Sokolow in Arts-Photography

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful. Go Cat. Go!By E.Paul ColellaEarly rockabilly guitar players honed their skills from a number of diverse sources such as jazz and country. They did not have a wealth of rock players to listen to as guitar players do today. Not limited to pentatonic shapes. these guys knew and played some deceptively sophisticated stuff. In this book. Fred Sokolow offers a fine cross section of rockabilly guitar classics and dissects them as models of the style. Rhythm strums. back up options. fills and soloing are all covered. as are the predominant chord shapes they you need to know and the Travis finger style as well. Every section is illustrated on the accompanying CD. You can study the parts that Fred gives you and then take them apart yourself to learn their internal logic which will allow you to apply them to other songs than the ones contained in the book. This is much better than most of the instructional books available that are dedicated to this style. Highly recommended.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A good overview and a lot of fun. tooBy StumbleFingersIf youve read other Fred Sokolow books. youll know what to expect here: Clear. easy-to-understand lessons presented in bite size chunks. This book is aimed at intermediate players who already have a good grasp of the instrument but want to learn the rockabilly style. This is all meat and no filler. There are a TON of musical examples here. all from well-known songs. Any given page is about 90% tablature. It covers a lot of techniques and moves quickly so it never gets boring.The music on the CD is only played at a single speed. The material is pretty easy to grasp. though. so you dont really miss having a slowed down version. Some of the examples are deliberately played at a slower tempo. including a very approachable take on the Revs "Psychobilly Freakout".One quirk is that Sokolow never mentions a key element in rockabilly: the Bigsby. Some of the songs even indicate "amp tremolo" at spots where youd normally shake the bar. Get a Bigsby. Fred!Overall this is an easy recommendation for would-be rockabilly players. Coming from a rock background. Ive had a blast with this book. Experienced rockabilly players might opt for something that digs deeper into the style.2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Another Winner from Hal LeonardBy Bill the CatFind a good guitar instructional book. and youve got maybe a years worth of private lessons at a fraction of the cost. This book. by the staff at Hal Leonard. fits that bill and is top flight. I must own thirty books on guitar published by Hal Leonard. and the quality and organization blows me away. Theres an obligatory CD included (I havent listened to it because I read music pretty well) that will surely speed you along. All the licks contained are those I recognize from my misspent youth listening to early rock n roll and rockabilly while avoiding my math homework. Authentic. meaty. and convincing. Lets rock.So. whaddaya get? Cool bass string patterns to start. moving to double stops (two-string stuff). and Scotty Mooore Chet Atkins style. Then. chord chops. single note riffs. riffs with double stops. and dynamite single note solos. Finally. chord-based soloing. All you need to rock this town.