Product Description

An incredibly useful reference for guitarists, this book presents a wide variety of exercises designed to enhance not only technical ability, but also fretboard visualization skills. Unlike other giant books that cover only the most common exercises, this book presents every exercise type with numerous fingering options. Ideal for both beginners and pros, it includes: over 150 exercises, standard notation and tab, scales and arpeggios in all positions, diatonic and linear sequences, and much more.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #310100 in Books
• Published on: 2001-07-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 242 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781575604022
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Customer Reviews

Excellent book for self-disciplined guitarists
This book is pushing the limits of my guitar playing, helping me to learn what I've avoided for years. Not only am I learning the fret board, I have memorized four scales across the entire instrument. My dexterity improves steadily with daily practice. Just as promised in the book, I memorized the scales without having to think about it. By teaching my hands through doing these exercises, it is now a natural part of my playing, opening up new horizons. It is a challenging book. Just as I finished learning the the warm-up exercises, the scales and the first two fingering exercises, Charupakom presented a new fingering that my fingers had never attempted - the first two took me a day or two to memorize all the fingerings (each fingering is repeated for each scale), but this one took several days just to master one position of one scale. This is the best investment in my playing I have made yet. Just remember that you need to play these flawlessly, not for speed. Speed comes with self-disciplined effort over time.

Only 3 scale modes. For classical training.
This book only gives scales and exercises in C major, C minor harmonic, and C minor melodic. There are a zillion exercises as well as multiple fingerings shown for each scale. All of the fingering are uncommon and complex compared to what I already knew. Common, easy patterns are not there. I was disappointed there are no pentatonic, blues, or other more popular scales.

Thorough workout for guitarists
Excellent workout book for serious guitarists and should be approached with patience and discipline. If you're only interested in imitating flashy shred heroes then look elsewhere. Comes with tab and standard notation (but it's great if you practice your sightreading too). An excellent tool by Charupakorn, comes with tons of exercises.