Scales over Chords: How to Improvise and Never Play Bad Notes

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Summary: A good tool for the beginning guitarist.
Review: A good tool for the beginning guitarist, however fails to go into more complex scale formations. Also, it includes very little music theory as to why the scales are formed how they are. If your just starting out, and can't read music, this is a great book for you.

Rating:
Summary: A good tool for the beginning guitarist.
Review: A good tool for the beginning guitarist, however fails to go into more complex scale formations. Also, it includes very little music theory as to why the scales are formed how they are. If your just starting out, and can't read music, this is a great book for you.

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Summary: Great music theory book for beginning or intermediate guitar
Review: Even if you don't read music, this book will be very helpful. Easy to understand. Explains relationships of scales and chords. Presents a logical way to learn these relationships for all scales and has many good practice studies in the last half of the book. The first few chapters may seem tedious to some but are the building blocks for the later chapters where things begin to really fit together. If you are looking for more than just a book on chord forms, get this book first

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Summary: Excellent
Review: Excellent book. Not a beginners' book. Must have dexterority to play scales. I've been playing for 10 years, and this is helping to fill in gaps in my knowledge of scales and music theory. For me, this book is just what the doctor ordered. It will take me a few months to master this book, practicing/reading/studying approximately 1 hour per day.

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Summary: savidge, vradenburg book
Review: I don't like the book or the CD, the playing is too programmed and the choice of scales is very limited.

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Summary: Excellent Book...But
Review: I have been playing guitar for almost 2 years...after hearing Tim Reynolds play with Dave Matthews I decided I wanted to be able to do what Tim does...so I sought out to learn to improv and get a basis on some theory. So I was recommended this book by my local music store. I found the book really helpful...some of the excercises dont really go with the lesson so I just got my scale dictionary and did my own lessons but used the book as a background for theory. Pieces of the long puzzle started fitting in but this book fails to bring in enough of what it says to do...basically it doesnt go deep enough just skims the surface.

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Summary: Very good to Excellent
Review: Not a true beginners book. Quickly takes you to some advanced topics. Lots of good exercises and a complete treatment of scales. Worth buying.

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Summary: Good choice
Review: This book gives you what you expect, the knowledge to run
riffs and play in key, as well as understand how to create
your own lead runs based on a particular scale. the layout is easy to absorb it is not busy, a problem a lot of tutorials have.

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Summary: Awesome Book!
Review: This book is good, and it does what it sets out to teach - improvise. If you want to learn, get this book and learn the CAGED sequence..

Rating:
Summary: Awesome Book!
Review: This book is good, and it does what it sets out to teach - improvise. If you want to learn, get this book and learn the CAGED sequence..