Product Description

Rhythm Guitar Workout by Andrew D. Gordon gives guitarists the opportunity to practice rhythm guitar techniques over common chord progressions while playing along to rhythm tracks of keyboards, bass and drums in various different contemporary styles including Blues, Rock, Funk and Latin. The examples in the book (music notation & tablature) range from advanced/beginner through to intermediate and advanced levels, There are 70 different examples consisting of a variety of tempos and keys. The audio CD that comes with the book has each example recorded three times, the first time. is the guitar rhythm part playing along with the rhythm backing tracks, the second time has just the rhythm backing tracks playing so that the guitarist can play the rhythm part along with the backing tracks and the third time has just the rhythm guitar part played at a slowed down tempo along with a metronome click. The CD also contains 70, one minute play-a-long tracks in mp3 format.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #609873 in Books
• Published on: 2005-02
• Binding: Paperback
• 41 pages

Customer Reviews

Ok, but a little tuff to follow... better book available
This book does include a lot of rhythms (70) but for me was not as well organized and pressented as the "Chord Progressions for Guitar" by Tom Kolb also sold on Amazon.

Fall short examples:
- In this book, the chords are not shown as regular diagrams but instead written out on the staff with tab underneath to show the string and fret. Under this model, there is no space left to show helpful things like suggested fingerings and it's slow going to read this notation to figure out what voicing they want you to use.
- The cd - as promised - does play each sample in 3 ways: 1. rhythm with a band backing, 2. just the band alone so you can do the rhythm, 3. just the guitar rhythm slowed down. But it plays these 3 variations in that exact order on a single track for each sample. This makes it hard to work with. It would have helped if at least the "slow" samples had been isolated, as the strum directions are not notated and it's hard to follow what the expected result should be at full speed on many of these.

Bottom line: To be honest, I put this book aside after dealing with the more tedious notation for a couple of days and finding the voicings and rhythms provided didn't seem worth the higher overhead of effort. I switched to the Tom Kolb book I listed above, as it was much better organized and provided narratives about each style sample (another thing this book does not do).

Rythm Guitar Workout
I am returning to the guitar after a 25 year absence due to a heart attack and stroke. These medical maladies took their toll on both my body and my memory. Things I learned years ago were forgotten and my coordination was lacking as well. The subject book has been and is a great boone in my returning to my once proficient hobby. Thank yous to Amazon for providing the book and the author for writing it.