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The Online Guitar Store - The Advancing Guitarist
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Manufacturer: Hal Leonard Corporation
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 787
EAN: 9780881885897
ISBN: 0881885894
Label: Hal Leonard Corporation
Manufacturer: Hal Leonard Corporation
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 120
Publication Date: 1987-11-01
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Studio: Hal Leonard Corporation
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Veteran musician and educator Mick Goodrick presents practical information for guitarists who want to improve their playing technique and style and simply become better musicians. Rather than a step-by-step method book, the information is presented in a general essay format, discussing ways that the various techniques covered may be applied by the advancing guitarist to enhance his/her own style of playing, some of the areas discussed include: basic fingerboard mechanics * modes, scales and chords * contemporary harmony * harmonica and overtone influences * being self-critical * improvising short pieces * different playing situations.
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Summary: Guitar Method?
Comment: This book is not the usual method booklet that is abundantly out there. It suggests many ideas and approaches for developing your own methodology; taking you down the path of complete knowledge of the instrument. If you are like me and you're exploring more possibilities, then it's a must and a very good adjunct to all those other books.
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Summary: The Advancing Guitarist (or how to learn all those things you should have learned years ago!)
Comment: Mick Goodrick's book - The Advancing Guitarist opens the door to playing the guitar properely (whatever 'properly' means to you).
If, like me, you learned to play folk music and the good old 3-chord 12-bar blues rhythms by ear, without actually learning the guitar or without even learning to read music than this book will open your eyes and show you a whole new realm of guitar playing you probably never even thought existed. If you look at some of the great rock players (yes some of those guys REALLY do know how to play), like Carlos Santana, Brian May, Eddie Van Halen, Brian Setzer and see them tripping through scales and arpeggios at close to the speed of light and fingering chords which simply do not appear in the "Boy's Own book of Guitar Chords" or if you listen to the gentle finger-style of the likes of Eva Cassidy then these people are using techniques and abilities which can be learned from this book. If the thought of a BbM7#11 chord scares the life out of you then this book explains the simplicity of it. With the wild exuberance of youth, a teenager will absorb this book and go from strummer to musician (and probably no longer have time to go out and beat up little old ladies any more) but with many of us the 115 pages will take half a lifetime to learn.
If you are going to get one book on Guitar Techniques and Musical Theory with the intention of really getting to grips with this versatile instrument GET THIS BOOK!
If you want to learn to front the next generations rock band and play scintillating riffs to your enthralled audience GET THIS BOOK!
If you want to play your classical guitar like Segovia, reading from an orchestral score GET THIS BOOK!
If you can't tell the difference between a Dominant Seventh and an Augmented Seventh GET THIS BOOK!
If you are serious about wanting to play the guitar GET THIS BOOK!
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Summary: great book
Comment: This book is really good with giving tips, suggestions, and explanations. It really makes you think and figure it out on your own. But, if you don't have an elimentary knowledge of guitar or music theory in general you'll get lost really quick. Overall, I was really satisfied with it.
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Summary: Excellent, but not a technique or beginner's book
Comment: I purchased this book on the recommendation of a fellow guitarist, if we can call ourselves that. He noted that it was not a technique book and that it would probably take me a good course of the rest of my natural life to get through. He was right. This book is, as the title suggests for the "Advancing Guitarist." You need to have a solid foundation in a few things in order to a: understand what he discusses, b: practice what he suggests, and c: glean information to incorporate into your own playing. A short non-comprehensive list of the foundation elements you will probably need to have down before picking up this book are: 1) knowing how to read music (not tabs, real music (you do not need to be a master at sight-reading, but you should at least be comfortable with sheet music)); 2) Basic Music Theory (This is a bit ambiguous, I know. You should be familiar with scale formulas, chord formulas, intervals, and modes. Ideally you should have all the major scale formulas memorized, the circle of fifths is your friend.); and 3) Basic left and right hand techniques (You need to be able to grab almost any chord immediately, with no delay, you should also have most barre chord formulas memorized. With the right hand, if you are right handed, you need to be comfortable individuating the string, in other words, playing individuals strings rather than all the strings in a strum.)
If you are serious about learning your instrument, the guitar, buy this book regardless of your situation regarding my list of foundational elements. That list is merely my opinion. It may take you a while to get through, but this book will serve you well. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to seriously pursue the guitar.
If you are a weekend guitarist, or someone who is interested only insofar as knowing how to play a few popular songs by tab, this book is not for you. If you are that type of player, this book is a waste of money. This is not a denigration of those types of players, they are just not as obsessed as other are. But if you really want to know your instrument, this book can help you out...a lot.
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Summary: A GOOD BOOK FOR THE INTERMEDIATE TO ADVANCED PLAYER
Comment: This is a very fine effort by Mick Goodrick. The detailed logic in his approach is refreshing. The book is written pretty well, so discussions about 'all the fingering possibilities in this situation' aren't dull.
He also does these cool commentaries about specific musical subjects, but some of them are also subtle stories about life, too: having no regrets, how to approach your own inconsistency in playing, and things like that.
Fair warning: some readers and players will find this book TOO DETAILED, and TOO ADVANCED. Like any other technique/skill book, there are exercises to be slogged through, if that's how you choose to use the book.
I hate to admit it, but I have not done every exercise in the book. And playing his stuff gets intense!
If you stuck to this book, studied it intensely, page for page, and played *everything* in it, as instructed, you'd probably be a professional grade guitarist, by the time you closed the cover. But, it might take you three or four years, to do it competently.
-Jim
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