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(More customer reviews)ok.. i'm not a big fan of this book, but I do feel the other reviews have missed the purpose of the book.as to the guy who said that Speed Mechanics was a better book -- Maybe, butyou'recomparing apples and oranges.his book isn't meant to be a course in shred guitar.The author states that once you have masterd it, you will have dramtically improved the strength and independence of your fretting hand; and speed and coordination of your picking hand.I cannot verify the accuracy of that statement, since I have not mastered the book.
My complaint is that there is no instruction on how to use the lessons in the book.Yes one does need to have some basic sight reading skills.But come on people!MG! You are trying to become musicians, right?If you need help here, get Music Reading for the Guitar by david oakes.while I could not be a session player from using it, it did give me the ability to read the simple "melody" lines in this book and figure out transcriptions to songs.You can't rely on tabs for the rest of your life!Plus they completely suck for giving the rhythm of a piece.
OK , back to this boook.When I first got it I could not figure out how to use it. OK... I'm an idiot maybe.But it has page after page of melody lines you are to work on.each line has Roman numerals above the first barand a series of numbers 1 -4 unedr each note beneath the staff.I've finally figured out (I think) that the Romannumerals are the position(fret numbers) you are to play the piece in, and the arabic numbers 1-4 are the fingers to use for that particular note. It seems obvious now, but a simple explanation would have helped and also given me assurance that I am correct. I haven't startd using it yet since I have so many other freaking books to work through, but it does appear to require a good deal of disipline to get through (or apparently to even get started).I do plan to use it though since it's supposed to help with finger independence and the 3rd and 4th fingers on my left hand seem to be glued together.Hope that helps!
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This book by MI faculty instructor Peter Deneff is intended as a sort of guitar sequel to Hanon's piano classic The Virtuoso Pianist in Sixty Exercises. He teaches beginning to professional guitarists 51 exercises, covering: diatonic and chromatic scales; major, minor, dominant and half-diminished seventh arpeggios; whole tones; diminished arpeggios; and more.
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