Alfred The Complete Idiot's Guide to Guitar Exercises (Book and CD)

Exercises designed to build strength, endurance, dexterity, and technique 

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Guitar Exercises provides both new and experienced guitarists with the practice they need to take their playing to the next level.

A wide variety of exercises including:
Single note
String-to-string
Minor and major scales
Harmonic and melodic minor scales
Major and minor pentatonic and blues scales
Chord progression exercises
Melodic patterns

Bonus chapters include fingerpicking, fingerstyle blues and Travis picking exercises

Written using both standard notation and TAB

Accompanied by online audio featuring over 150 samples of the exercises in the book. Exercises are easily found at DK.com, locating the "Guitar Exercises" book, and clicking the "downloadable audio tracks" link in the description.

Praise for this book by:
Randy Bachman (The Guess Who, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, and Ringo Starr's All- Starr Band)
Jennifer Batten (Michael Jackson, Jeff Beck)
Peter Frampton
Steve Howe (Yes, Asia)
Albert Lee (Eric Clapton, Emmylou Harris, The Everly Brothers)
Alex Lifeson (Rush)
Mike Mushok (Staind)
Mike Stern (Jazz Guitarist Extraordinaire)