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!
Comments
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.
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.
+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.