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What level of knowledge and music style Is this book aimed at?
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It's not something I'd read cover to cover I find it a very useful reference and tend to dip into it for areas of interest.
For example, I'm currently interested in chord progressions that depart form the standard diatonic and am looking at the Chords for Songwriters tables (page 24 & 25).
Chapter one is comprehensive...after that, things get a lot drier / less talkative and you are presented with pages of study material: chord boxes, scales and arps, linear studies (short passages over changes). It's a reference...it's up to you to make something of it...it won't hold your hand along the way.
I'm great at buying books but crap at actually working through them. However, I'm sure I can open it at page 367 right now and find an idea to explore As a PDF, it's very convenient.
Here's a recent tFB thread: https://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/170338/recommended-theory-books
Amongst the recommendations, there's:
- Eric Taylor's 'The AB guide to music theory' (parts i & ii) - solid, non-guitar based, cold, hard, theory...these should be on your bookshelf next to the dictionary and thesaurus
- Mick Goodrick's 'The Advancing Guitarist' - one of the standard books...no tab...I didn't enjoy it much
- I'd add Jon Damian's 'The Guitarist's Guide...' - I remember enjoying this one because it feels more modern and is written with a bit of humour...no tab
The last two are more applied and jazz-oriented...but that's where theory takes you if you turn it to 11. It doesn't mean you have to ruin all your rock/blues jams with whole-tone scales and maj7#5 arps I like that, every now and then, I can use some of this material to get me out of a rut and start thinking broadly again.To be honest, I bought The Beato Book a few years back as I was enjoying the YouTube channel and wanted to give something back.
Apologies: strong coffee this morning!
I play occasionally in a covers band and don't write as much these days. So I wing it or Google it.
I don't do jazz, most of what I've written is solely fifth chords but occasionally I like to strum five or six strings and just let it ring using major or minor chords. Hell, I even use seventh chords now and then!
If I get stuck, or think I need more on an occasion, I fill in gaps using Google or Youtube. Sometimes I even remember what I was shown.
I am a subscriber to Rick Beato's channel, but I choose to watch or not watch depending on the title and whether I think the content is relevant or interesting on the day. I'm like that with a few channels I subscribe to.
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I like his YT stuff too.
Although short, the explantions are sufficient for me. I like the way the information is presented. I use it mainly as a reference book.
I've just bought it. Haven't looked yet as I'm helping Mrs Pintspiller with her tax return.
Ive already got the fully unlocked Earmaster app on my phone and I'm wondering if there's much different in the beato one.
Edit: Googled a review of the ear training and I can only really find people saying it's full of errors so that's a no.
Are there errors in it? Errrmmm no. I got it the first day it was released and I don't think there are errors. I did think there were a couple in the first 2-3 weeks after I bought it but either there were a few small ones and they got fixed or my ear improved and I was more accurate with my identification. Either way no errors now, and hundreds of exercises to work with, most extremely useful identification tools. You will need to put in 20 mins a day for at least a year to really nail the benefits of this so ask yourself if you can fit that in.
Just bought it, it’s currently $99 with the discount code july4. I’ll check back in a year and tell you how I’ve got on.