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The Online Guitar Store - The Guitarist's Guide to Composing and Improvising Book/CD Pack
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Manufacturer: Berklee Press Publications
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 787
EAN: 9780634016356
ISBN: 0634016350
Label: Berklee Press Publications
Manufacturer: Berklee Press Publications
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 168
Publication Date: 2001-08-01
Publisher: Berklee Press Publications
Studio: Berklee Press Publications
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Unleash the creative potential of your guitar, and express your imagination through your music! This inspiring, practical and fun approach to composing and improvising will develop your sense of dynamics, articulation, rhythm, melodic direction and musical E.S.P. A truly unique collection of creative resources for the curious guitarist.
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Summary: A Different Approach
Comment: This book and chord factory are both very creative in their approach. You are not spoon fed. You are given creative exercises for discovering the subject matter. There is no be all and end all instructional book for guitar. But these two books belong in any serious collection.
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Summary: A Work of Genius
Comment: I have been active as a student at Berklee College of Music for over fifteen years. Over that time I have come to know that one of Berklee's most highly regarded teacher's is Jon Damian. His many students never fail to refer to him as a Genius and his gift as a teacher in apparent in their many successes. Finally his unique and progressive teaching approach is available to all through this wonderful book. The Guitarist's Guide to Composing and Improvising with its brilliant fresh approach to the guitar in particular and music in general reinvigorated my love and fascination with the guitar and composition. I recommend this book to all who wish to rise above the laborious trench of continually repeating the same old musical ideas and truly intend to unlock the secrets of the entire instrument and ascend from the world to craft to the universe of true art. This is definitely the most exiting guitar work I have come across since Mickey Baker's Complete Course in Jazz Guitar (from the 1950's).
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Summary: A reference guide
Comment: Breakthrough guide, one of the best I read/played so far. I am self studying jazz music and practice different types, read many books and instructional methods over last few years. My creativity have been taken to another level, just think differently experience new ways of practicing, be aware of tools you need to enhance your playing. This book helped me a lot to inter- connect materials I have studied in the past in a musical way. Experienced or beginners can take advantage of this book, I will use it as a reference.
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Summary: Unique Book
Comment: I really tried to like this book but in the end I felt mixed. It would be so easy to take potshots at some of the suggestions in this book so I won't. But I will mention the 'Jaws Study', 'The One Note Guitar Solo', 'The Try Playing Guitar W/Your Other Hand','The Alphabet Anthem of Pick Strokes', and 'The Cycle of 4ths Study of Scale Modes'(which is not clearly enough explained I think). Is the intention for you to play Mixolydian scales over all of these secondary, tertiary, 4th,5th, 6th generation removed from the root scale, scales and why ? Wouldn't it be just as instructive to play all the modes of every scale you know from a common root ? Perhaps the answer will become apparant to me at a later time. I think making a recording of random chords for ear training is a good idea and I hope to get the time to do that,(good use for the IPOD too if you can transfer the mp3.) The musical examples are on the accompanying CD and most written in the key of C and notes on or close to the staff. In other words, you don't have to be a sight reading wiz to play them. You just need some basic reading skills. I give this book 3.5 stars but may upgrade that score at a later time. This is a unique book. I've not read one like it. It requires work on your end. Some technical rhetoric could/should have been simplified. It's almost as if it were written in a steady stream of consciousness. It may grow on me yet !
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Summary: An exhaustive resource for the serious student
Comment: Densely packed with exercises, concepts and clear examples of the key elements of composition. This book encourages you to reexamine the most basic elements of your playing and carefully rebuild your compositional and improvisational vocabulary from the ground up. There are tons of gimmicky ideas, which may feel stupid or pointless at first, but the goals that underly these gimmicks involve a removing guitarists from the compositional box that naturally encloses our instrument.
Pick any idea in this book, meditate on it for a few days, and watch your musical horizons expand exponentially.
Note to the music illiterate - this is a book that is largely about COMPOSING. (i.e. sharing your ideas with other literate musicians.) If you aren't serious enough about sharing your ideas in the common language of music to learn that language, well you are probably not motivated enough to use a book such as this anyway.
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