TWO MUST READS FOR THE ASTUTE VIRTUOSO/SERIOUS STUDENT

[N E Y]

A webcam consultation student who came last year for a personal consultation asked me about some more books on how to inform oneself about maximizing one's potential in learning and blowing minds with the guitar....He just finished reading one of the same books that Steve Vai read when he was in his 20's... So here are two more from my library.

I keep telling you guys to read real books; books of real substance and real value like you heroes did . Learn from them to be like them as far as their state of being and relationship with the guitar. You will learn to think like that and to live in this other world I keep writing about, where genius insights and extreme versatility of skills are a way of life after a while . I garantee you ...Once you are there, it is tons of fun!

Books like these expand your awareness process so you can benefit 100 times more or 1000 times more from educational materials and personal lessons.


http://www.amazon.com/Play-Consciousness-Autobiography-Swami-Muktananda/dp/0911307818


http://www.amazon.com/Nature-Personal-Reality-Practical-Techniques/dp/1878424068


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[RichardL]

Thank you very much Ney.

I'd been meaning to ask you what you've read but I thought the list might be too long!

I've put these two on my amazon wish list, along with recommendations by Byron.

[N E Y]

[quote="RichardL"]Thank you very much Ney.

I'd been meaning to ask you what you've read but I thought the list might be too long!

..It actually IS ..I have a library. Once upon a time,when I was a little boy and played in a church during mass in a Fransican monastery, an Irish franciscan priest who lived in Brazil, advised me to constitute a library with books about my profession. My profession goes beyond the technically repetitive into the realm of pure innovation , so my library had to accomodate many other subjets to expand my levels of awareness. This, I later found out, is very common among all the great players I know such as Byron and many others. Most of the ones I know read a lot and have libraries but the public is not aware of this...

ALL MY BEST TO YOU.
To inquire easily about guitar technique consultations at all levels in person with NEY MELLO, or live by skype webcam service : visit:
http://www.neymello.com
http://www.myspace.com/neymello

[RichardL]

I've been putting up a support system around me, so that I may do the same and flourish. I've been very frugal because "my" art(it's not really mine) needs lots of support and attention to flourish. I do this happily, and if I did not did not involve myself in this "how" then I would be unhappy.

I'm collecting a library...one book at a time and hopefully soon more.

[Guillaume]

This, I later found out, is very common among all the great players I know such as Byron and many others. Most of the ones I know read a lot and have libraries but the public is not aware of this...

This I found from an interview with Jonas Hellborg and Barry Bays (who both played with Shawn Lane) :

Bays: He was genius, and I’ve never known another genius in my life. Shawn was as strong a musical personality as Hendrix or Jaco or Coltrane. A lot of people would see him play and go, “Wow, he’s really fast,” and I’d just think, “Man, that’s not it at all.” I mean, Shawn could have been the world’s greatest brain surgeon if he had decided to go in that direction. You could talk to him about politics, Beethoven’s life, or whatever, and he would know more about it than anybody. Shawn read tons of books and he retained everything. The first time I went over to his house, he had like a hundred books on butterflies that he’d checked out from the library. When I asked him if his daughter was doing a school project on butterflies, he said, “No, they’re for me.”]

Link to the interview : http://www.eqmag.com/article/shawn-lane/jan-04/930

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Guillaume

[RichardL]

Bought the two books Ney, thanks for the suggestions!