This innovative book and audio teaching system presents a clear path to learning the essential scale fingerings needed for playing lead guitar in the most popular guitar keys. As you travel along this path, you will learn to create musical phrases while simultaneously developing a large vocabulary of rhythms to improvise with. Over 400 demonstration and play-along audio tracks are included to assist you along the journey! Includes: pentatonic scale fingerings - major and minor scale fingerings - Dorian scale fingerings - phrasing development - Rhythmic vocabulary development - marrying melody to rhythm - clear, systematic practice routines - soloing in rock, blues, and pop styles - many backing tracks for play-along practice - hundreds of demonstration tracks. Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.