BOOKS & DVDs The Playmusic guide to the best in music tuition books and DVDs…
This month, a mouthwatering fully illustrated AC/DC biography and a shred-mungous instructional DVD.
AC/DC HIGH VOLTAGE ROCK ‘N’ ROLL: THE ULTIMATE
ISBN: 978 0 7603 3832 2 Contact: Voyageur Press
www.voyageurpress.com
LEARN 50 KILLER METAL GUITAR LICKS
ILLUSTRATED HISTORY Author: Phil Sutcliffe SRP: £20.00
VOL. 2 SRP: £19.99
Skill Level: Intermediate to Advanced Artist: Andy James Catalogue No: RDR0382
Contact: Lick Library 01708 757 337
www.licklibrary.com
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he career of the iconic Aussie rock and roll band is celebrated and chronicled in this lavishly detailed tome by renowned UK music journalist and author Phil Sutcliffe. The book also includes over 400 photos of the band in action and various stages of undress by some of the best photographers in business including Phillip Morris, Bob King, Jenny Lens and more. If you are a die-hard AC/DC fanatic – and let’s face it, you probably wouldn’t be interested in this book if you weren’t – this is everything that you could wish for: a fully illustrated band biography is even complemented by a detailed examination of Malcolm and Angus Young’s equipment (including their preferred guitar string gauges, for all you serious AC/DC train spotters). The sense of carefully calculated outrage cultivated by the band from the beginning is evident in contemporary interviews where Angus and co. big up their growing reputation as hard drinking hell raising lunatics, with copies of damages claims from various local civic authorities serving as a testament to the typically riotous nature of those early tours. Behind the scenes, with the exception of doomed lead singer Bon Scott, AC/DC were actually a pretty abstemious bunch whose steely focus on the music and the music alone enabled them to weather many heavy storms (record company politics, Scott’s death, the occasional lapses of quality control etc.). The legendary status AC/DC enjoy today was hard earned and this great book shows every gritty, sweat soaked step on their journey to glory. There is even a spinning Angus inserted into the front cover for good measure. Bonzer! PM
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k, so you want to learn some fret scorching heavy metal lead guitar licks. Trouble is, where exactly do you start? This latest DVD from Lick Library tackles
the issue by demonstrating a veritable arsenal of 50 blazing HM licks based on the playing of 25 legendary shredders including Zakk Wylde, Eddie Van Halen, Dimebag Darrell, Steve Vai, Yngwie Malmsteen and Alexi Laih. This formidable line up of fi nger mangling fi nery is ably dissected and explained by Andy James – a man whose unassuming demeanour is the very antithesis of the aggressive guitar work unleashed from his smokin’ fretboard – and as one would hope, there is some seriously amazing guitar work on display. Andy’s clinical dissection of essential HM basics like minor pentatonic positions allied to more advanced techniques including alternate picking, legato slides and two-handed tapping forms a very solid foundation that the student can use to develop their own individual lead style. There is a lot of music here but each sequence is split into bite sized chunks and played at a snail’s pace before gradually speeding up. The sheer amount of licks on tap (no pun intended) also means that you can easily spend a few days learning to play each one before sneaking it into your own lead work and amazing your friends and audiences alike with your sudden transformation into a top fl ight shred monster. Seriously, if you’ve got it in you, 50 Killer Metal Licks Vol.2 will bring it out. PM
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