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click the title to read review.... Metal Lead Guitar (Troy Stetina): find out why this is one of the best books for acquiring the basics of this style. Bob Dylan Made Easy For Guitar: some of the greatest songs by one of the greatest American songwriters. Great for horizontal growth in players at the "strumming/singing" stage, or those learning how to apply more sophisticated accompaniment techniques. Position Studies For Guitar: there is no entrance to the higher mysteries of the guitar without a knowledge of the fingerboard. For those who have gotten a handle on notes in the first position, guess what, it's time to get to work! This book is a great introduction to the neck, moving fret by fret, teaching you the relevant scales and keys for each position on the neck. It will go a long way toward making you a literate and educated musician. 100 Graded Classical Pieces (Fred Noad): an excellent collection of classical material suited to the intermediate player, or those approaching the intermediate stage. Metal Rhythm Guitar (Troy Stetina): Troy takes you step by step through all the basic rhythms and techniques used in your favorite metal music. Voice Technology: A State of the Art Studio: an incredible study of the mechanics of singing, including much work on vowel and consonant production, and insight into the science of phonetics, which underlies the study of speech and singing. Best of all, the book comes with a COMPUTER PROGRAM you can use to SEE your voice, how it is producing sound, and how to change it for the better. A must for those wishing to improve their singing! Kitharlogos: The Path To Virtuosity: This book is for classical guitarists what Troy Stetina's "Speed Mechanics" is for metal heads! Lots of well thought out exercises that help you progressively develop classical technique. If you know how to do Principled Practice, you will go far with this book. Guitar Melody Chord Playing System by Mel Bay: For the intermediate player who wants to learn the mysteries of playing the chords AND the melody at the same time! A perfect book for those using the "Position Studies" book. Speed Mechanics For Lead Guitar: This is an excellent book for the serious rock/metal guitarist. Troy Stetina has put together a series of exercises designed to develop all the essential techniques used by the virtuoso electric guitarist. If you want to be blazing like Kirk, Eddie, Steve & Joe, this is the book for you! There are a number of lessons on songs from this book at GuitarPrinciples, as part of the Mel Bay Study Group (FREE!)
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Guitar players are so in love with scales, and there are thousands of books full of them to satisfy this inborn hunger. The problem is they rarely show you what to do with them after you have got them in your fingers! This is especially true when it comes to the style of guitar that, more than any other, relies heavily on a great number of complex scales: jazz guitar. Most books of scales are merely like dictionaries: they give you all the words, but after you finish reading it, don't expect to be able to speak the language! This book is different, and that is why I like it, and use it! Arnie Berle, a teacher of vast experience, has put together the fruits of his many years of teaching jazz guitar, as well as a lifetime of devotion to his chosen style. He not only gives you a systematic way of learning the most important scales (all the forms of the major scale), but then he walks you through these very important things:
As you systematically learn the scales, you also systematically work them through the keys, and learn important concepts like the use of neighboring tones for tension. You also pick up the "feel" of creating interesting jazz lines by playing the many examples and patterns given. Players often make the mistake of learning lots of isolated licks without having a framework of harmonic understanding on the fingerboard to place them in. When it comes to Major scales, that framework is vast. It includes all the major scales, the 7 arpeggios derived from each one, as well as the seven modes. And then you have to know what to do with them when playing real music! Unless you already have your improvising chops together, learning scales without hearing them and using them against the chords they work with, is useless. Scales are only one part of the total picture called "improvising". The beauty of this book is that as you learn the scales, you learn how to use them against various chord progressions, most importantly, the primary progression of jazz: the II-V-I. It is also important realize that this book is not just for jazz players, but for anyone wishing to have a complete understanding of fingerboard harmony. Such an understanding is essential to have if you wish to exploit the guitar to its fullest, regardless of which style you play. Of course, this, or any other single book, is not enough to turn you into a jazz improviser, as the author states throughout. But, some books are about as good an introduction and foundation to an aspect of guitar as you will find, and this book is one of them.
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