A user-friendly CD + book package, packed with riffs, licks & tricks you can learn now...and easily incorporate into your own playing style. This unique book and audio will inspire you to rebel against mainstream rock and experience a whole range of rock styles and unorthodox playing ideas developed over the last 40 years. From the beginnings of alternative rock in the 60s and punk and new-wave bands of the 70s, the illustrated text takes you through each decade, highlighting the changing styles and sounds which influenced generations of rock guitarists.

Contents

GUITAR TABLATURE EXPLAINED
INTRODUCTION
ALTERNATIVE ROCK GUITAR
WHAT IS ALTERNATIVE ROCK GUITAR?
THE SIXTIES: PLUG IN, TUNE UP, DROP OUT
THE SEVENTIES: PUNK AND NEW-WAVE
THE EIGHTIES: THE NEW FRONTIER
THE NINETIES: GRUNGE AND BEYOND
A WHOLE SONG
CONCLUSION
DISCOGRAPHY
FURTHER READING