100 Tips For Guitar You Should Have Been Told (includes CD) Review

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(More customer reviews)I found this book to be a real jewel. Basically, it teaches you how to effectively play the guitar by "feeling" and ear rather than by memorized tablature licks. (The book makes an emphasis on lead-guitar playing, altough it has a neat rhythm-playing section). The author states that unfortunately, tablature has become a mainstream method for guitar teaching, and while tablature certainly has its own merits, the author views tablature as a musicalequivalent of a "paint-by-number" painting; I couldn't agree more with this particular point of view. The book is rock solid and contains just the right amount of music theory to get the point in question through; it also contains numerous quotes by extremely talented guitarists (Satriani, Vai, Edward Van Halen, etc.) that support the author's point of views.Is the method effective? I have a cousin I consider to be a very talented guitar player (he has been learning guitar for two years aprox.). As an example on his playing ability, he learned to play perfectly Eric Johnson's "Cliffs of Dover" from tab in about a week. I have had this book for around three months (I have been self-learning for about 8 months), and last time he saw me play & improvise, he just screamed in awe "how the hell did you learn to do that???". I found out his guitar teacher regarded improvisation as an "extremely difficult" and "only for the gifted" stuff. This book shows it's certainly not.
After you digest this book, I highly recommend Troy Stetina's Speed Techniques for Lead Guitar. I believe it's the perfect complement for this book.

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This guitar tutor shows you how to learn more efficiently and includes guidance and comments from great guitarists such as Eric Clapton, Frank Zappa, David Glimour, Brian May and John Williams.

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