Authors: Danny Gill & Nick Nolan
I don’t own this one yet but looks like it’ll be interesting for the intermediate to advanced guitarist. It covers soloing over chord changes, modulation, diminished, harmonic minor scales, blues and more with over 70 full demo tracks on CD. There are only two reviews to date but both very much thumbs up and they’ve got me sold. All I need is another two life times to get through all of these books!
Author: Barrett Tagliarino
There are enough reviews on Amazon for this book to get a reasonable idea of what it’s about without seeing it first. Judging by the reviews there seems no doubt that it’s well written and contains valuable content, the only problem seems to be who it might be good for, beginner, intermediate or advanced as their are conflicting opinions here. What do I think? Read more…
By Jon Chappell
This is almost one of those “if you’ve got one, you’ve got them all” books. Why almost? Well, the problem with this book is that it has tried far too hard to pack too much info into it so even though it’s like all the other “if you’ve got one” books that just goes over the same old stuff, it actually doesn’t do a very good job of it, the simple reason (as I’m always harping on about,) you can’t cover this much scope all in one book. The journey from beginner to professional guitarist is long, very long and takes a hell of a lot of work and experience. Putting the entire journey into one single paperback will never be possible, no matter how good the teacher. Read more…
Music Theory for Guitarists: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know But Were Afraid to Ask
By Tom Kolb
I’ve not read this book and I probably won’t buy it because I’m done with theory and I don’t think there’s anything new I could learn from this book, but I’ll put a link to it here because if you’re a guitarist looking to learn theory (and you should be) then you might prefer something like this over The Idiot’s Guide for the fact it’s directly related to the guitar.
Music theory is music theory and to be honest it doesn’t matter what method you use to learn it but if guitar is your instrument then you might find it that little bit easier to make sense of when it’s related to the guitar fretboard layout.
This has got some great reviews on amazon but the main reason I mention it here is because it’s one of those books I see crop up a lot in guitar forums and it’s very often recommended.
As the title suggests this is a follow on from the first book in the series. This version focuses on more advanced techniques such as double stops, playing the pentatonic’s across the neck, intervals and arpeggios to name but a few and is not aimed at the beginner. If you own the first book “Blues You Can Use” then you will already be familiar with the theme which is based around solo examples, each introducing you to new concepts and techniques with explanations that aren’t overdone so the text isn’t too much.
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