Product Description

This is an incredibly comprehensive book dealing with every harmonic and technical aspect of guitar improvising. Included are analyses of scales, arpeggios, picking technique, chord progressions, cadences and modulations. In addition, numerous studies and exercises are contained to help you play through the concepts of being taught. The goal is technical and mental mastery of the guitar fingerboard. Tablature is included.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #99946 in Books
• Published on: 1993-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 236 pages

About the Author
Vincent Bredice received his music education at Hartt College of Music in Hartford, Connecticut, earning a Bachelor of Music Theory in 1951 and a Master's in 1953. For seven years he was a student of Arnold Franchetti, who was himself a student of Richard Strauss.

Bredice is an associate professor and guitar instructor at Miami-Dade Junior College, Miami, Florida, and has taught guitar privately since 1946 from Maine to Florida. He has also taught at the Philadelphia Academy of Music and the Hartt College of Music of the University of Hartford, where he was awarded a Master's degree in theory and taught theory and guitar for ten years. He has played on radio, T.V., night clubs and recorded for Columbia Records.

Bredice's publications include several titles on improvisation and jazz playing. His "Sonata a Tre" for classic guitar, flute, and viola won first prize at the Internation Competition for Guitar in Modena, Italy, in 1953. He has also organized several seminars and lectures.

Customer Reviews

Mel Bay's: Complete Book of Guitar Improvisation
A great book only if you are serious about learning guitar and music. If you just want to play a few chords, this is not the book for you. I bought it as a study aid to use in my guitar lessons. My teacher uses it as the bible for serious students. There is no fluff in this book, it is all scales, excercises, licks, theory, reading music, understanding music.

It will be a grind to go through this book. I am only on page 30 something of 200+ pages but I know if I learn the material (and it will take years to really learn it) I will be a player. I will probably buy a second copy because this thing will be rags before I get through it.

Amazing!
As a guitarist I have sought out various books to help me in my endevour to learn the guitar. This book is astounding!

I have always wanted to just pick up a guitar and play, or play lead while another person is playing rhythem.

I highly recommend this book for anybody seeking to learn scales, chords, and just about anything else!

I love it!

I'm sure you will too!

Excellent
After studying with Mr. Bredice for a few years, I can say hands down this is one of the best methods out there for mastering the fretboard. In his words, "If you can do all the exerscises in this book you are literally a virtuoso."