The Guitar Cookbook: The Complete Guide to Rhythm, Melody, Harmony, Technique & Improvisation (Softcover)/Tab Review

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(More customer reviews)There's an awful lot of information sqeezed into this book- scales, chords, arpeggios, modes, theory. What's missing, in large part, is a narrative to tie it all together. The guitarist approaching this book swithout much pre-existing thoery knowledge might find him or herself lost in the details.

Still, it's a fine collection of information that's still better organized than a lot of similar texts. Scales, modes and chords are presented in the "CAGED" system- a good way to organize knowledge- and simply following the text and practicing all the excercises will give the intermediate guitarist a lot of knowledge and technique to apply to further learning.

I'd recommend this book to the guitarist who's gotten comfortablewith playing rock or other styles, but who is looking to explain his or her matsery of the instrument- maybe with the thought towards playing Jazz, or perhaps progressive rock. This isn't for shredders looking to master playing exotic scales at neck breaking speeds, but for the guitarist looking for a command of melody and harmony.

Despite the "Cookbook" title, this is not a collection of riffs that can be immediately applied to one's playing. A lot of study and practice will be required to master what's here. But the player who master's what's here will have all the tools they need to play anything he or she might hear in their head.

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Spice up your playing with The Guitar Cookbook! Written by Guitar Player magazine music editor Jesse Gress, this collection of "recipes" for satisfying a wide variety of musical appetites is for beginning to advanced guitarists. It covers all the ingredients for cooking up great music on the guitar: music notation, tuning, intonation, rhythm, melody, scales, motifs, harmony, ear-training, technique, improvisation and much more. Players will develop a personalized musical vocabulary; learn how to apply it to many different styles; master basic guitar techniques; and let the musical ideas sizzle!

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