Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #182773 in Books
• Published on: 2001-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 40 pages

Customer Reviews

Excellent area of study, questionable execution
This book deals with a very important and specific aspect of composition and improvisation. However, its brevity is painful in parts. It's objectives are confused: the first twenty pages provide a hand-holding softly-softly approach to the basics of music theory, which I'd assume you'd have already studied before seeking out and diving into scale-chord relationships in any sort of detail. The remaining twenty pages deal with the actual subject matter of the text in a dense and in places poorly written manner. The number of errors in terms of spelling, grammer, one of the chord charts and even in the answer section is, frankly, disgraceful. Having already studied music and the guitar for some years now it is immensely frustrating to see what should be a brillantly useful text, a penetrating study of the said title, actually be little more than an introduction to a few areas where there are golden nuggets of useful knowledge and conceptual musical analysis to be found. Moreover there are in many sections far too few example with which to study. I want to give this book 5 stars simply because somewhere beneath the poor execution is very worthwhile subject matter, but as I am reviewing the book and not the subject matter itself I'm afraid it must get merely 3. If you already have a good knowledge of music theory and want to rehearse and perhaps discover a few new possibilites then do buy this book. It is a can of worms to be opened with caution by those who know what they are doing and perhaps best not by the enquiring novice.

It does what it claims!
This is the book I've needed and waited to understand the Scale chord relationships!
It does what it claims!
If you take the time to study it, you're there.

Jorge Costa

It does what it says.......almost!
Having used this book for a few days my understanding of signature keys, scales, chord progressions etc has increased hugely. I have tried several times in the past to understand the importance of these things without much success so I have been impressed with how clear the book made them. My one criticism is that there are no major/minor/pentatonic scales tabbed out; so when it says "try jamming alomg with the progression, using the notes from the G major scale for your solo", I could have done with some tab or a fret board map of that scale. But I suppose this sort of thing is relatively easy to find or work out.

Overall - I think this book is an excellent first step in understanding the music you listen to and making your own music on guitar.