The Roots of Rock Guitar (book & CD)

Hal Leonard Publications
With notes and TAB

This comprehensive collection is a great overview of rock guitar. Includes: instruction on the essential playing styles, using six note-for-note transcriptions as examples; notes on the history and development of rock guitar; biographies of the pioneering artists and more.
The CD features all of the songs, exercises and licks.


Songs include:

• Blue Suede Shoes (Carl Perkins)
• Bluejean Bop (Cliff Gallup with Gene Vincent)
• No Particular Place to Go (Chuck Berry)
• Not Fade Away (Buddy Holly)
• Susie Q (James Burton with Dale Hawkins)
• Walk Don't Run (The Ventures)