Beginning Fingerstyle Arranging & Technique for Guitar (Book & CD) Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is a very good book - BUT for music theory NOT for arranging.

I thought that with this book I would be able to listen to a song I liked and then have the tools to figure out how to arrange it to be played on the guitar.That the book would show me how to listen to a song and then figure out what key it is in, whether I needed to add a baseline and what type, what kind of finger picking I should do, how I should play the chords or just appregiate them, and so on.

Instead, this book is about fingerpicking -in general-.Its about keys -in general-.Its about I-IV-V chords -in general-.

I have no more ability to arrange anything after reading this book than I did before.

Now if somebody had no idea about music theory AT ALL I would say this is a fine book, great even.But there are lots of fine books on music theory.

And if you like what it says about finger picking and Travis picking I would ask "Why is this listed as accompanying their fingerpicking series of books 1 through 3 then, don't they cover fingerpicking?"Yes they do obviously, so its a rehash in this book.

Soooo, if you want to become a composer of music and able to take a song you like and make a version of it for the guitar then forget it, this book is not for you.

Unless you're the type that can take a book of grammar and from it know how to become a writer.

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Product Description:
This supplement to Beginning Fingerstyle Guitar is a perfect companion to any starter method and can also stand alone as a fingerstyle instruction manual for anyone wanting to arrange for solo guitar. Topics include monotonic bass, walking bass, block chords, changing keys, changing time signatures, chord substitutions, secondary dominants, a variety of picking patterns, and techniques like harmonics, slides, hammer‑ons and pull‑offs, all covered in a friendly, easy‑to‑understand manner. The music is shown in standard notation and TAB and demonstrated on the CD.

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