Chord Tone Soloing: A Guitarist's Guide to Melodic Improvising in Any Style – Dolby Author: Visit Amazon's Barrett Tagliarino Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0634083651 | Format: PDF
Chord Tone Soloing: A Guitarist's Guide to Melodic Improvising in Any Style – Dolby Description
- Series: Musicians Institute: Private Lessons
- Paperback: 112 pages
- Publisher: Musicians Institute Press (June 1, 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0634083651
- ISBN-13: 978-0634083655
- Product Dimensions: 11.7 x 8.9 x 0.4 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
I'm a beginner/intermediate guitar player for over a decade now, and I never really improved beyond reading tabs to songs. I never got the feel for how music worked, or really understood much theory at all. This doesn't mean that I didn't try. I certainly tried to pick up theory. I bought a handful of books on theory (some big ones), like a book on classical guitar playing because I thought it would help me learn to read music and understand notes and scales and how to improvise.
I was wrong. At least, for me, the books didn't seem to "click" in my head. All of them seemed to require massive amounts of straight up memorization. There didn't seem to be a lot of rhyme or reason to why I was memorizing what I was.
Then I picked up The Ultimate Scale Book and Guitar Aerobics: A 52-Week, One-lick-per-day Workout Program for Developing, Improving and Maintaining Guitar Technique after an extended absence from guitar playing. I still remembered the basic chord shapes (and my fingers would sometimes cooperate), some riffs, but zero theory. At one point I had tried to mark my guitar to memorize the notes, but I failed. These two books got me back into the habit of learning, and I finally memorized the pentatonic minor scale after a stubborn hour of repetition.
Enter this book. I've always wanted to really play guitar, not just strum through power chords or play somebody else's tabbed songs. The intro portions of this book opened my eyes right away.
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