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Books That Help You Play It Like It Is
It can save a lot of time to learn the exact notes to your favorite riffs and solos from a guitar tabulature book, and you won't have to put wear and tear on your CDs and cassettes. There are some excellent books out there with dead-accurate transcriptions of some of the most popular guitar-based music. Check out some of my personal favorites below. Good luck!
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Guns 'N' Roses Anthology for Guitar
By: Cherry Lane Books
A comprehensive collection of 21 classic hard rock selections from Guns N' Roses first four albums. Includes greats like November Rain, Paradise City, Patience, Sweet Child O' Mine, Welcome To The Jungle, Don't Cry, Yesterdays, Used To Love Her, The Garden, Bad Apples, Dead Horse, Civil War, Pretty Tied Up, Locomotive, Estranged, You Could Be Mine, Mr. Brownstone, My Michelle, Nightrain, Rocket Queen and You're Crazy. Cherry Lane Books, ©1994, 199 pp.
Metallica Riff by Riff
By: Mark Phillips
Every ferocious, head-banging riff from every song written and recorded by Metallica from Ride The Lightning, Kill 'Em All, Master Of Puppets, ...And Justice For All, and Metallica. Includes notes and commentary for each riff. Riffs are featured from Metallica favorites such as Enter Sandman,
Master Of Puppets, Fight Fire With Fire, Ride The Lightning, For Whom The Bell Tolls, Escape, Trapped Under Ice, The Call Of Ktulu, Hit The Lights, The Four Horsemen, Motorbreath, Jump In The Fire, Whiplash, Phantom Lord, No Remorse, Metal Militia, Creeping Death, Fade To Black, Seek & Destroy, Battery, The Thing That Should Not Be, Welcome Home, Disposable Heroes, Leper Messiah, Orion, Damage, Inc, Sad But True, Holier Than Thou, The Unforgiven, Wherever I May Roam, Don't Tread On Me, Through The Never, Nothing Else Matters, Of Wolf And Man, The God That Failed, My Friend Of Misery, The Struggle Within, Blackened, ..And Justice For All, Eye Of The Beholder, One, The Shortest Straw, Harvester Of Sorrow, Frayed Ends Of Sanity, To Live Is To Die and Dyers Eve. Cherry Lane Books, ©1994, 180 pp.
Heavy Metal Ballads
By: Mark Phillips
A definitive collection of heavy metal ballads from hard rock and heavy metal bands such as Guns N' Roses, Van Halen and Tesla. Features the songs Close My Eyes Forever, No Substitute, Patience, Sweet Child O' Mine, Broken Dreams, Ecstasy, Time, Follow The Night, Love Walks In, When It's Love, We're No Good Together, Changes. Cherry Lane Books, ©1993, 170 pp.
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