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Recognized for over 50 years as the best-paced and most-thorough guitar method available, Alfred´s Basic Guitar Method has introduced over 5 million beginners to playing guitar. Now, Alfred´s Basic Rock Guitar Method provides a new approach to learning guitar for beginners who want to play rock. Book 2 features new techniques like hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, and teaches you barre chords, new scales, and how to improvise with pentatonic scales. There are many more licks and melodies in the styles of many of the greatest rock artists, and an authentic arrangement of the opening from Led Zeppelin´s "Stairway to Heaven." The CD and DVD include video lessons, live performances of all the examples, and MP3 play-along tracks for practice. Learning to play has never been easier or more fun than with Alfred´s Basic Guitar Method---the best choice for beginning guitarists.

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