Scales and Modes for Guitar (Handy Guide) Review

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(More customer reviews)I have used this book, primarily when I am in a hurry to find a scale to blow over some changes, and have found that the suggestions are accurate, usable, and some are interesting.I think that this book is verycomprehensive and will take your playing to the next level if you spendsome time with it.

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This Handy Guide is a fast and fun way to learn how to use scales and modes from day one and will provide a strong foundation from which to build upon. This Handy Guide contains: 14 essential scales and modes Guitar TAB, neck position and standard music notation.

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Chord Orbits (The Progressive Guitarist Series) Review

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(More customer reviews)If you want to be Guitar George, this is the book for you.

This book was my bible when learning to play Jazz guitar.Any time I saw a chord I just didn't know or understand, I turned to Chord Orbits to look it up.Or if I wanted a different voicing, this was the place to go.It is the thesaurus of guitar chords.

While it touches on the chord theory a little bit, this is not the book to learn the subject in depth.Theory is not book's strength.But if you are unsure how to form a Dom7#9 or any of 40 different chords, this book will show you 8 different ways to play each.

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Explores the sound and shape of a chord's progression up and down the fingerboard. Each chord type is presented in eight fingerings using a cyclic diagram that shows that after the eighth fingering you will have arrived back at the starting point -- one octave higher.

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Matt Smith's Chop Shop for Guitar Review

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(More customer reviews)I have had the oppertunity to meet, study, and play with Matt at the National Guitar Workshop at the Nashville site and was blown away by his knowledge of the art of music. I came home and as soon as i sat down, i forgot almost half of the information he gave me and i would try to understand the scribbles written on the sheets of paper that was given to me during my week in Nashville. I took the course again this last summer and i still needed more guidence. Thankfully, his book is out and it's like having him here in my own home! He covers everything you could imagine! I thank him for writting this excellent book and for the publishers who let him do it his way. Good luck to you Matt!

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Comes with an audio CD.
In this book, New York-based studio musician and in-demandclinician Matt Smith opens his bag of tricks and tells all.Mattdemystifies topics such as chord progressions, "cool notes" in solos,harp scales, harmonics, improvisation, alternate tunings and muchmore.His unique and creative approaches to composition, soloing andmastering the fretboard will inspire and motivate you to reach newlevels of musicianship and self-confidence in your playing.MattSmith gives you the tools you need to improve your guitar chops inthis fun-to-read and easy-to-use book-a must for all guitarists.

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The Art of Playing Rock Guitar (Guitar Book) Review

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(More customer reviews)If you have several books already, and are looking for something interesting and unusual -- this could be what you are looking for. Written, illustrated and published by the author this book has more character than any I have previously encountered in a book (and that's a good thing). The book is looking a little dated now: funny clothes and hair styles in the black and white photographs. The author is rightly very proud of his work (and his playing), but the self-admiration becomes a little insufferable at times. There is some really good coverage of pick-ups configurations and various technical day-to-day aspects of guitar that are not well covered in other books. There is a lot of theory, and the author seems to have spent a lot of time thinking about this and refining his ideas. I haven't found it particularly useful so far, the amount of information (and fairy crude presentation) make it tough going -- but to be fair I did not buy this book to work through -I have other books for that. I bought this book as something to dip into from time to time when I get tired of the other books and magazines, when I need to look at something different. If you are starting out, buy a simpler more straight forward book to start off with -- this could be intimidating. Certainly check this one out later though.

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This comprehensive book focuses on intermediate and advanced concepts for rock guitar. Topics include: assimilation of classical elements into blues/rock genres * scalar and modal theory * guitar electronics and construction * and much more. 190 information-packed pages.

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