Rock Discipline
by John Petrucci · first published 1995
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If you're not an absolute beginner, you should check out all the REH/HotLicks videos. Some really amazing lessons there - Petrucci's Rock Discipline, Paul Gilbert's Intense Rock/Terrifying Guitar Trip etc.. lots of advanced jazz stuff too. (Scott Henderson, Joe Pass, John Scofield's videos come to mind) I doubt they're still available to buy online…
on “Introduction to Guitar” ↗…tapping, legato, slide, combination thereof), heck even within picking there's also "economy", "sweep", "downstroke", and "alternate" picking, so you'd need to narrow it down by a lot. For rock/prog I think Rock Discipline by John Petrucci is the best book available if you're prepared to put in a lot of work and, well, discipline. The name is not accidental: it's hard AF, so if someone is looking for a silver bullet, keep…
on “Fundamentals of Piano Practice” ↗