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Math Rock Guitar Essentials eBook

Math Rock Guitar Essentials eBook

Learn the dreamy chords, and intricate playing techniques behind math rock and Midwest emo with a clear, step-by-step guide built on over 20 years of guitar playing experience. Through practical exercises and musical examples, you'll develop your skills, explore beautiful chord progressions, and find your way around popular alternate tunings. More importantly, you'll understand how it all works together, so you can move beyond copying exercises and start creating your own mathy ideas. No more random tutorials or guessing what to practise next, just a clear, no-fluff path to playing and creating the music you love.  

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If you love the dreamy chords, intricate riffs, and melodic guitar playing of math rock and Midwest emo, but aren't sure what to learn or how to get started, this guide is for you.

Math Rock Essentials gives you a clear, practical path to learning the sounds and techniques that define the style.

Through step-by-step lessons, practical exercises, and musical examples, you'll develop the essential techniques, discover beautiful new chords and progressions, and learn how to find your way around popular alternate tunings like FACGCE and DAEAC#E.

But more importantly, you'll learn how these elements work together, so you can move beyond simply copying exercises and start coming up with your own mathy style riffs and ideas.

No more jumping between random tutorials or wondering what to practise next. I’ve put everything I’ve learned for the past two decades into a clear, no-fluff guide to develop your skills, understand what’s going on in the music you love, and put what you'll learn into practice.

What you'll learn

Discover the chords math rock and midwest emo guitarists use and create progressions that sound like the songs you love:  Go beyond the same familiar chord shapes and discover the dreamy, bittersweet, and colourful progressions that give math rock and Midwest emo their distinctive sound.

Learn to play Intricate Tapping Riffs: Build your finger tapping technique from the ground up with focused exercises that develop finger strength, control, coordination, and accuracy. Then put your skills to the test with musical examples that show how tapping is used in actual math rock-style riffs.

Add More Melody, Movement, and Expression to Your Riffs: Learn the picking approaches that help give math rock its flowing, intricate sound, and explore how to use them to bring your own guitar parts to life.

Explore the Beautiful Sounds of FACGCE and DAEAC#E Without Feeling Lost: Learn how to find your way around the fretboard, discover beautiful chord shapes, and start putting together progressions without blindly guessing where to put your fingers.

Stop Guessing Which Chords to Play Next: Make sense of how chords and progressions work, so you can make more confident musical choices instead of hoping the next chord sounds good.

Know What to Practise and Start Hearing the Difference in Your Playing: Follow focused exercises that help develop essential skills, then put what you've learned into actual riffs, progressions, and musical ideas.

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 Everything You Need to Start Building Your Math Rock Guitar Skills  

Inside Math Rock Essentials, you'll get:

  • 40+ practical exercises to develop your techniques and apply them musically.
  • 100+ essential chord shapes to expand your musical vocabulary.
  • 30 chord progressions to help you explore different sounds and chord movements.
  • FACGCE and DAEAC#E sections to get you started with two beautiful alternative tunings.
  • Rhythm and strumming exercises to help you explore different rhythmic feels.
  • Supplementary video examples so you can see and hear how the exercises should sound.

All in one practical guitar guide that you can work through at your own pace.