Recommend me a book

ThePrettyDamned

I want to learn something different.  

I like rock, metal, funk, but my chord vocabulary is small. 

I've got Hot Country, and it's an excellent book - actually, I've let that lapse a bit, so I'll get it out again tomorrow after work and see how that goes.  

I've heard some Gypsy swing stuff recently and really wouldn't mind learning a bit about it. Also quite like the idea of learning more funk - but I've found that funk is more about rhythm than note choice, and a simple single note line (literally just funking on one note) can be very effective, so maybe not a funk book. 

Maybe even some blues.  Seriously. 

I have half decent technique and know where the notes are on the fretboard, sort of... 

Just something that will give me a broader palette of ideas to draw from. 

GO!

monquixote

Guthrie's creative guitar volume 1 and 2 are really good for expanding your horizons. 

Not a book, but I recently bought this and it's really very good:

http://www.andytimmons.com/electric_expression.php

ThePrettyDamned

monquixote said:

Guthrie's creative guitar volume 1 and 2 are really good for expanding your horizons. 

Not a book, but I recently bought this and it's really very good:

http://www.andytimmons.com/electric_expression.php

I'll look into them. 

Is there any theory explanations in any of them? I could use a bit of theory. 

monquixote

Guthries book isn't too theory heavy it's more about breaking out of a rut and playing new things. 

Andy T's isn't theory heavy, but it has quite a bit about note choice in soloing and writing in terms of creating and releasing tension etc.

ThePrettyDamned

monquixote said:

Guthries book isn't too theory heavy it's more about breaking out of a rut and playing new things. 

Andy T's isn't theory heavy, but it has quite a bit about note choice in soloing and writing in terms of creating and releasing tension etc.

Andy T's is winning for me so far, then. 

Any other suggestions folks? 

monquixote

I am affiliated with the site (I write on there), but Easy Ear Training has loads of good free resources including some good theory stuff.

http://www.easyeartraining.com/

pickerg

monquixote said:

Guthrie's creative guitar volume 1 and 2 are really good for expanding your horizons. 

 

 

Are these just mainly for rock players are would they benefit other styles too?

frankus

Interestingly my mate who's the head sound engineer at Guildhall and he heard an intern playing some of Guthrie's stuff on a desk and commented how it blended so many styles so effortlessly.

Some people say Guthrie can't do jazz... but having watched his Jazz Funk band every week from 2003 till around 2009 I kinda disagree.

ThePrettyDamned

frankus;404251" said:

Interestingly my mate who's the head sound engineer at Guildhall and he heard an intern playing some of Guthrie's stuff on a desk and commented how it blended so many styles so effortlessly.



Some people say Guthrie can't do jazz... but having watched his Jazz Funk band every week from 2003 till around 2009 I kinda disagree.

I always thought he was a jazzer more than anything else.

Excellent player, and sounds like a lovely bloke, someone I'd very much like to meet.

Actually, same for Joe B except there is something about him I'm not keen on... But it might just be mega stardom.

Ho hum. I've started reworking through hot country again, and I'm learning BSSM start to finish now, which has interesting chords and progressions - often based around melody and chromatics.

carlos

Goodrick's The Advancing Guitarist.

Not beginner level and not Tabs either. But it will last you a lifetime. Every page has enough material for a month's practice (or more).

monquixote

pickerg said:

monquixote said:

Guthrie's creative guitar volume 1 and 2 are really good for expanding your horizons. 

 

 

Are these just mainly for rock players are would they benefit other styles too?

I think anyone could benefit. 

Guthrie plays as much jazz as he does rock.

frankus

Advancing Guitarist is a beautiful book.

pickerg

frankus said:

Advancing Guitarist is a beautiful book.

+1.  Yes, not a method book as such but as said above - a lifetime's worth of work if you are willing to put the time and effort in.

 

Cheers for the comments re the Guthrie books, I think I might check them out.

Megii

Creative Chord Substitution for Jazz Guitar, by Eddie Arkin is a very good book, although you really need to be a music reader to get full value from it.

bingefeller

Ted Greene's Chord Chemistry book is one of the best chord books around and there is a section on substitutions too.  I'd recommend it, even if you're a rock or blues player only.

If you want jazz ideas then check out The Music of Kurt Rosenwinkel blog.  It has lots of exercises and transcriptions from Kurt's music.  There is also some nice transcriptions from his 2012 Gdansk clinic, which you can see on Youtube.  The 1+7 and 3+5 chord melody part is amazing.  

cbilly22

I'd heartily recommend the Dave Grissom book and CD...well I would if I could remember the title....anyway, it's a good book and great for breaking you out of a rut and approaching things differently, without being too technically daunting.

cbilly22

cbilly22 said:

I'd heartily recommend the Dave Grissom book and CD...well I would if I could remember the title....anyway, it's a good book and great for breaking you out of a rut and approaching things differently, without being to technically daunting.

found it

http://www.amazon.co.uk/David-Grissom-Guide-Guitar-Soloing/dp/1575604825/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1416860437&sr=8-1-fkmr1&keywords=dave+grissom+book