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Summary: Buy this book. It will help your playing. Really.
Review: This is an inspiring book. Jon Damian was one of Bill Frisell's teachers at Berklee and his elegant but fun principles and techniques of composition, improvisation and "comprovisation" are must-reads for intermediate and advanced guitarists. The examples are mainly on the jazz side of the fence, but the principles apply equally well to other genres as well.The section on 3-note structures alone is well worth the price of the book. If you've ever wondered about Bill Frisell's chord voicings here is the place to look. I'm a gigging guitarist and this is the book on my stand in my rehearsal studio. Buy it!
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Summary: Buy this book. It will help your playing. Really.
Review: This is an inspiring book. Jon Damian was one of Bill Frisell's teachers at Berklee and his elegant but fun principles and techniques of composition, improvisation and "comprovisation" are must-reads for intermediate and advanced guitarists. The examples are mainly on the jazz side of the fence, but the principles apply equally well to other genres as well. The section on 3-note structures alone is well worth the price of the book. If you've ever wondered about Bill Frisell's chord voicings here is the place to look. I'm a gigging guitarist and this is the book on my stand in my rehearsal studio. Buy it!
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Summary: Guitar Trek (or how to tap your musical ESP)
Review: This one book, in the two weeks I have owned it, has tapped me into my musical intuition faster than anything I have ever tried before. As a semi-pro player who's been playing 11 years I have often negleted using pure theory instruction for my instrument because I thought I had a fairly decent ear and playablility. Boy was I wrong, the first lessons shattered boundaries for me and I can finally understand how music can be seen as a volume of sound in 3 dimensions. I had no clue beforehand how incredible the experience would be!
I urge any serious guitarists to pick up this book and fly with it. Its amazing the things you never notice until Jon makes them easily decernable. YOU WILL NOT BE DISSAPPOINTED. If there is any one book I couldn't live without, it would this one. Thanks Jon!
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Summary: If you can't read music you might want to hold off...
Review: When I bought this book, I didn't know that I would have to be able to read music fluently in order to use it. I would NOT have bought it. I am working on reading music, but in the mean time, I still want to grow as a player from the books that I buy and read. I believe that the author should have included TAB. Not only would he have reached a larger audience, but it would help players to learn how to read notation! The book does include a CD and the tracks sound nice.
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Summary: Jon is a Genius
Review: WOW! you would never belive the creative tecnique's used to work your creative mind, that jon has created. I got to work with him recently at a Berekely summer camp, and learned so many ways to bring out my creative self through my guitar. A MUST BUY!
Dan
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