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Title: Blues Lead Guitar Technique: With CD by Peter Gelling ISBN: 1-875726-46-2 Publisher: Koala Publications Pub. Date: April, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: My favorite book/value purchase so far.
Comment: As someone who is trying to learn guitar at the age of 37, I want to just have some fun. This book does that, as it has you building a 12 bar blues solo for each pattern. HINT: Just practice going up and down each pattern very well before tackling each set of licks. Highly recommend! Oh yeah the included CD to hear everything is priceless.
Rating: 5
Summary: Deep Intermediate Blues (and Rock) Instruction
Comment: Peter Gelling continues on from "Blues Lead Guitar Method". He gives you the basic blues scales with the blue notes added. He teaches a song with each scale (which helps to commit the scale to memory). He also covers arpeggios, and various rhythms. The book introduces a few new techniques along with some really good signiture licks from blues masters. The book takes a little work, but it is fun an will improve your style.
Rating: 4
Summary: Superb starting point
Comment: If you have some knowledge of the guitar, you can play the chords, you're learning your scales, but you don't know where to get started with playing lead--this book is probably the best place to start I know of. You start out learning some very simple little licks, and then after you've learned a few, you find them strung together into a 12-bar blues--and suddenly, miraculously, for maybe 20 seconds, you find that you can actually play lead guitar! How cool is that? (All examples are played fast, then slow, like REALLY slow.)
As the book progresses, the leads get more complex, and therefore more difficult to learn. But there is nothing here that is of the advanced caliber. I don't mean that as a criticism--this stuff SHOULD be aimed at the beginner to intermediate. But the stuff isn't all wimpy, straight pentatonic stuff either. It isn't boring. You will learn some really cool-sounding music from the book, played all over the fretboard. And there is PLENTY to learn.
At the same time, the book won't take you very far beyond the introductory lead playing stage. So don't expect this book to make you the next BB King. And the coverage of theory is minimal at best, as it is in all such books that promise to teach you everything there is to know about lead guitar.
About the biggest complaint I can come up with is that I found the guy's English (or Australian?) accent (a rural accent, I believe?) vaguely annoying after a while. But if that's the most you can complain about, you know you've gotten a good value. In fact, this book would be worth at least twice what they're charging for it.
As a final note, raw beginners could probably make use of this book, but it would be very slow going. Advanced players would be bored by it. It is targeted directly at players who have taken the time to learn pentatonic scales fairly well, understand basic chord progressions, but don't have a clue how to make interesting solos.
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Title: Blues Rhythm Guitar Method with CD (Audio) by Peter Gelling ISBN: 187569059X Publisher: KOALA PUBLICATIONS Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Blues Guitar Licks W/CD with CD (Audio) by Peter Gelling ISBN: 1875690573 Publisher: KOALA PUBLICATIONS Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Fretboard Logic Se: The Reasoning Behind the Guitar's Unique Tuning Plus Chords Scales and Arpeggios Complete (Fretboard Logic Guitar Method Ser) by Bill Edwards ISBN: 0962477060 Publisher: Bill Edwards Publishing Pub. Date: January, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Beginning Fingerstyle Blues Guitar (Book and Audio CD) by Arnie Berle, M. Galbo ISBN: 0825625564 Publisher: Music Sales Corp Pub. Date: January, 1997 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Speed Mechanics For Lead Guitar by Troy Stetina ISBN: 0793509629 Publisher: Hal Leonard Pub. Date: 01 June, 1992 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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