Styles For The Studio - 40th Anniversary Edition : Amazon Digital Services LLC - KDP Print US : 9780997559507 : 0997559500 : 29 Jan 2019 : This legendary book has celebrated its 40th anniversary. It teaches guitarists how to improvise in rock, blues, pop, country, and more. It includes a completely integrated explanation of scales and their arpeggios. The necessary harmony is available to help you see how to improvise, and the author uses popular scale sounds including pentatonics, blues, major, mixolydian and more. But the scales are used to highlight a particular sound. You do not need to become a "scale master" to use the book. In fact, the author advises against it! Included are various techniques needed to play the sounds: - the "roll," - double stop, - hammer-on, - pull-off, - harmonized scales, - string bends (of all kinds) and - double string bends. The minimum requirement for using the book is that the player be comfortable with barre chords - that's all! The book presents