Average Reviews:
(More customer reviews)Jean Marc presents some cliched triad lines to get you started in the first chapter, so the initial impression was that I wasted my money, but things start to get more interesting by the second chapter, some scale concepts, string skipping and the usual arpeggios are explored, some licks are tricky and difficult so it was cool to learn some new tricks, the ideas presented here have helped me get that fluidity going and come up with new stuff as well, some of the ideas work great using legato instead of tapping too, so I tried lots of the ideas here using simple hammer ons and pull offs with the left hand, the stretches helped my technique too so I ended up liking this book, most of the ideas presented are short so if you're looking for long licks look elsewhere, there are some cool satriani type chord tapping ideas and Jean Marc comes up with some interesting applications of this technique ...
On the downside most of the tracks sound awful, I'm aware it's not a production showcase but more careful engineering and production would result in more inspiring material, in a couple of tracks the guitar sound is just plain horrible, i'm not asking for super pro production, dude just buy a POD, use some plug ins, get a decent sound and call it a day, we'll appreciate it ... oh and fire yor engineer, he's terrible !
note to begineers : this book won't baby sit you thru the material, it starts easy but it picks up quickly with almost zero explanations and no photographs, you get the idea, it's more of a "play me if you can" affair, I'm an experienced player so that didn't bother me at all, if you get past that I think you'll welcome the challenge and benefit from this book, I'd like to add that this book is not the tapping holy grail, as some people expect too much from such books, go thru the licks, learn them, assimilate them, and then expand on them by applying them in different ways scales and keys to develop your own ideas, 3 and a 1/2 stars
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Product Description:
Tackle tapping one-on-one in this Private Lesson with MI instructor Jean Marc Belkadi! He covers: blues and classic tapping licks; scalar tapping licks; triads and arpeggios; advanced tapping licks; string skipping, multi-finger tapping, tapped bends, pedal points, open strings and other devices; and so much more. The book is in standard notation and tab, and the accompanying CD contains 75 demo tracks for listening. Each example is played at full tempo, and most are repeated at half speed.
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