Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #672513 in Books
• Published on: 1996-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 84 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781576234747
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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From the Publisher
This powerful and all-encompassing book/audio package is an epic vision on the art of modern rock guitar. John Petrucci offers detailed lessons on speed and accuracy, chromatic exercises, playing with dynamics, connecting scale fragments to form long solo lines and much, much more. One of the most complete courses on rock guitar.

Customer Reviews

Great Book for Advanced/Serious Players
This instructional media is an awesome one. Starting with physical excercises that would make you comfortable while playing for hours, and it even touches on several church modes. Even if you're just looking for playing backing, vamps, rhythms, and etc, this media will teach you about chord formations and theories which will add your piece of art more colors. However, I wouldn't recommend it for NOT serious players, because one would need ample amount of time/effort to accomplish Petrucci's lessons. Otherwise, a fabulous book every guitarists must have.

Lots of great speed drills
The lessons are OK. Some of them are pretty elementary, some of them only scratch the surface. The organization of the lessons could use a little work: there is no clear indication as to what "area" each exercise should go into. However, if you just used the examples in the book as speed drills, it would be well worth the money for that! There are many examples and the are varied enough to provide a well rounded repository of technique exercises.

the BIBLE of guitar books
A couple of years ago I was a guitar shredder, I could play fast, tap and whatever else and I got bragged on and admired so much I decided I didnt need to practice any more...BIG MISTAKE!! after about a year of hardly practicing any technicality (I was still writing and playing but it was all grunge type music)my hands were weak, I couldnt remember how to do the things I used to do and well...I sucked! so I got this book about 6 months ago and now Im shredding better then ever. THIS IS THE BOOK TO GET!!!! you will be playing 13 notes a second in no time! The technical side of music is not the most important( songwritng is) but your song writing can be much more creative when you learn to do more then just play power chords. This book teaches you how to be accurate, clean, and faster then the speed of light. GET THIS, AND PRACTICE,PRACTICE,PRACTICE!!!!!!!!!!