Description
The JustinGuitar series of books are excellent resources for learning to play the guitar. Whether you’re a complete beginner, becoming an intermediate player, or you just want to learn some songs, JustinGuitar has a book to help.
With over 20 years of experience as a professional guitarist and educator, Justin Sandercoe has become one of the most popular and trusted guitar teachers online. Justin has built up an impressive learning resource on his websitejustinguitar.comand has amassed over 1,650,000 subscribers across his two YouTube channels, JustinGuitar and JustinGuitar Songs.
Here’s What JustinGuitar Says About the Rock Songbook
This is the perfect songbook for rock guitarists! It features 50 great songs by artists such as AC/DC, Nirvana, Dire Straits, Foo Fighters, Pearl Jam, Oasis and ZZ Top, all presented with playing tips and tutorials. These awesome rock songs sound best on electric guitar – but most will work OK on acoustic as well.
Designed to accompany the JustinGuitar Intermediate Method, this book gives you loads of songs which youll love to learn and play, and which will improve your playing as you work through them.
The books unique progressive structure divides the songs into four sections:
15 Beginner Songs which mainly use chords covered in the JustinGuitar Beginners Course; ideal for players who have been studying on the course or who want to consolidate their knowledge of open chords, power chords and strumming, e.g., Highway To Hell by AC/DC.
15 Intermediate Songs introducing barre chords and more complex strumming, e.g., Smoke On The Water by Deep Purple. Perfect for the improving player.
15 Intermediate Plus Songs which include more difficult chords, strumming, riffs and fingerpicking techniques, e.g., Alive by Pearl Jam. The next level!
5 fully tabbed out note-for-note transcriptions including Lynyrd Skynyrds Sweet Home Alabama and Sultans Of Swing by Dire Straits. Pro-level songs to work your way up to!
All the songs feature full lyrics and chords, with a written lesson and playing advice. Chord boxes, strumming/fingerpicking patterns and sections of TAB are used as necessary to show specific detail. Theres even a handy chord library to show basic open chords and barre chord grips.
Many songs in the book are supported by a free-to-access video tutorials on JustinGuitar.com, so theres everything you need to learn the songs and develop your skills. This might just be the greatest rock songbook ever published!
Complete Song List:
Beginner Songs:
Every Rose Has Its Thorn – Poison
Highway To Hell – AC/DC
I Remember You – Skid Row
If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next – Manic Street Preachers
In Bloom – Nirvana
La Grange – ZZ Top
Rock And Roll All Nite – Kiss
Self Esteem – The Offspring
Should I Stay Or Should I Go – The Clash
Smells Like Teen Spirit – Nirvana
Sunshine Of Your Love – Cream
Song 2 – Blur
Teenage Kicks – The Undertones
The Ballad of Jayne – L.A. Guns
There She Goes – The Las
Intermediate Songs:
Alison – Elvis Costello
Behind Blue Eyes – The Who
Better Man – Pearl Jam
Born To Be Wild – Steppenwolf
Creep – Radiohead
Dont Fear The Reaper – Blue yster Cult
Dont Look Back In Anger – Oasis
Don’t Stop Believin – Journey
Handbags And Gladrags – Stereophonics
Hells Bells – AC/DC
I Love Rock n Roll – Joan Jett
Smoke On The Water – Deep Purple
So Far Away – Dire Straits
White Wedding – Billy Idol
You Do Something To Me – Paul Weller
Intermediate Plus Songs:
Alive – Pearl Jam
All My Life – Foo Fighters
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