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Summary: 100 Guitar tips
Review: If you are new to guitar or an intermeditae player who just wants to get better, this is a great book. David has a style of writing that takes you in hand as if he were sitting with you and explaining all the inevitable questions you'll have about playing. From buying that first guitar to getting through that audition. He knows, and you know, you wanna look good playing in front of friends. He explains what you should do and why you should do it. Not just your average collection of musical facts!
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Summary: Best Guitar Book I've Found
Review: If you are tired of memorizing chords and tab and want to learn how to take that foundation into making sounds you want to hear, this is the best book I've found. Mead talks about the essential skills of training your ear (with practical exercises), about becoming a good rhythm player (even lead players play rhythm 80 percent of the time), the pieces that make up a guitar player's voice, and playing and using the pentatonic scales. This book won't introduce you to the guitar and it won't transform you into Joe Satriani, but it will help you find your own unique voice.
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Summary: Excellent Guitar and Music Tips From the Pro.
Review: It is an excellent tips on how to know, play, enjoy, and appreciate "Music" from inside of you. Great tips for hearing and know the music that you would like to play. All this time I alway play my guitar from the theorical view - that is I alway need a music sheet infront of view (that how I had been taught). This book tell to put all those knownledge aside then learn to know and play the music by ear. Highly recommended for any musician, not just for guitar player. That is LEARN, KNOW, then PLAY "your" version the of music/melody/piece.
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Summary: Great beginner and intermediate book.
Review: This book covers many of the basics such as chords, chord structure, major and minor pentatonics, equipment, and performing. There are many quotes from professionals. Most of the material in the book I picked up on my own, but the book has great emphisis on playing your own style, being yourself, and being confident about it. It has a topic about improvisation, and he doesn't leave you hanging like most books. The book covers how to build an ear for the song, and being sensitive to the melody. The book is a good pointer to self (inner) musical development. Knowing just scales isn't really good enough to being a good player - its like being more interested in the alphabet than the poem you a writing. This book may not have much to offer to advanced players, but is an absolute for beginners and self taught players, and can fill in alot of gaps for intermediate players.
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Summary: Book for people who want to play guitar, not learn about it
Review: This book is really good if you have been frustrated by having to learn musical notation and the "proper" way of doing things.. There is nothing wrong with learning everything, but some of us want to learn to play just for fun and will probably never be a virtuouso... It also teaches you to make your own music rather than only becoming good at playing other peoples stuff.
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Summary: Good advice--silly book title
Review: This book made sense to me. I'm a beginner who's been fooling around with my guitar without a paddle in the ocean. I like David Mead's style of writing. Straight to the point without leaving me hanging. It got me curious about musicians I wasn't familiar with and helped me appreciate music even more. More advanced players may find this boring, but not for people like me. My 2 cents to his great tips: grab a pencil and scribble in abc notes to chord variations and see some patterns develop while experimenting and developing the ear for it, then just do what sounds good.
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Summary: Great for beginner
Review: This book made sense to me. I'm a beginner who's been fooling around with my guitar without a paddle in the ocean. I like David Mead's style of writing. Straight to the point without leaving me hanging. It got me curious about musicians I wasn't familiar with and helped me appreciate music even more. More advanced players may find this boring, but not for people like me. My 2 cents to his great tips: grab a pencil and scribble in abc notes to chord variations and see some patterns develop while experimenting and developing the ear for it, then just do what sounds good.
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Summary: For Beginner to Early Intermediate
Review: This is an absolute must have book for guitar players who have learned to play guitar without an instructor. This book is like sitting down with an instructor and learning alot of things like playing in gigs, playing by ear, what to learn, elc.. All the things you always wanted to know from somebody that knows and the book has the tips you really need to know. This isn't so much a book about learning techniques, except it has a super good layout on learning the pentitonic scales. I have read Lots and lots of guitar books and have been playing for twenty years. I rate this as the one book every student guitar player should read. This book is great whether you are a folk musican like me, or a heavy rock player. You will like this book, there aren't many others like it anywhere.
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Summary: Wonderful book
Review: This is an absolute must have book for guitar players who have learned to play guitar without an instructor. This book is like sitting down with an instructor and learning alot of things like playing in gigs, playing by ear, what to learn, elc.. All the things you always wanted to know from somebody that knows and the book has the tips you really need to know. This isn't so much a book about learning techniques, except it has a super good layout on learning the pentitonic scales. I have read Lots and lots of guitar books and have been playing for twenty years. I rate this as the one book every student guitar player should read. This book is great whether you are a folk musican like me, or a heavy rock player. You will like this book, there aren't many others like it anywhere.
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