Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #326998 in Books
• Published on: 1992-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 80 pages

Customer Reviews

Spot on
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No long review - this item is superb.

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Good book as a primer
This book consists of one page of text explaining the exercises and the rest is tab of 4 finger chromatic exercises. If this is the sort of thing you are after then this book is for you. However, there is no mention of technique, hand positions, posture etc which if you were practicing incorrectly would mean reinforcing bad habits rather than making improvements. I would suggest that this book would be a good book to work through as a companion to something like Troy Stetina's Speed Mechanics. However, if you can only purchase one then Speed Mechanics is the better book.

Exactly what it says but nothing more
Let me start by saying that it's a very useful book which does exactly what it says. Although, and this is where the criticism comes in, it does so in an extremely dry way. What do I mean? Well, it's a book filled with page after page of tablature (2 versions, musical notation AND simpler guitar tab with 6 strings and fret numbers) in black and white. There isn't an illustration in sight and nothing to break the monotony of the dry tablature on every single page.

This book will however, if adhered to, definitely improve dexterity, accuracy, finger independence and speed, something that is a tremendous help for any budding guitarist irregardless of what style you may want to play and whether it's acoustic or electric guitar that you prefer.

Another note: with some ingenuity in the self-development area and a bit of research online, you could actually find a few of the first basic exercises that this book presents and with a bit of adaptation you could actually come up with your own, quite similar, exercises. In other words, you could find and gain the skills that this book helps you with, on your own. On the other hand, to have all of this collected into one book is a great time-saver and just a very comfortable solution.