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Title: 100 Guitar Tips You Should Have Been Told by David Mead ISBN: 1-86074-295-5 Publisher: Sanctuary Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.43 (14 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Best Guitar Book I've Found
Comment: If you are tired of memorizing chords and tab and want to learn how to take that foundation into making sounds you want to hear, this is the best book I've found. Mead talks about the essential skills of training your ear (with practical exercises), about becoming a good rhythm player (even lead players play rhythm 80 percent of the time), the pieces that make up a guitar player's voice, and playing and using the pentatonic scales.
This book won't introduce you to the guitar and it won't transform you into Joe Satriani, but it will help you find your own unique voice.
Rating: 5
Summary: Don't miss this book, trust me.
Comment: 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 musical equivalent 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.
Rating: 2
Summary: For Beginner to Early Intermediate
Comment: I really found little that can be discovered on your own or in most other guitar books. If you have been seriously playing for more than 2 years I'd forget it. Otherwise it might be useful.
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Title: Fretboard Logic SE: The Reasoning Behind the Guitar's Unique Tuning + Chords Scales and Arpeggios Complete (The Fretboard Logic Guitar Method Parts I and II) by Bill Edwards ISBN: 0962477060 Publisher: Bill Edwards Publishing Pub. Date: January, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: How to Write Songs on Guitar: A Guitar-Playing and Songwriting Course by Rikky Rooksby ISBN: 0879306114 Publisher: Backbeat Books Pub. Date: July, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Ten Minute Guitar Workout by David Mead ISBN: 1860742394 Publisher: Sanctuary Publishing Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: The Guitar Handbook by Ralph Denyer ISBN: 0679742751 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 20 October, 1992 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: How to Make Your Electric Guitar Play Great!: The Electric Guitar Owner's Manual (Guitar Player Book) by Dan Erlewine ISBN: 0879306017 Publisher: Backbeat Books Pub. Date: November, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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