Learn to read standard music notation on the guitar with this easy step-by-step book! Great for beginners or more-experienced "by ear" players who want to start reading, it explains notation reading in detail, relating notes on the staff to guitar fingerboard diagrams and tablature. Practice routines and over 100 written exercises (with a complete answer key included) help you steadily and painlessly develop from an absolute beginner into a real reading and writing musician. You'll learn to recognize larger patterns as you progress, working with scales, chords, arpeggios, key and time signatures, chart directions, and complete rhythmic vocabulary from dotted whole notes down to tied sixteenths. From the author of The Guitar Fretboard Workbook and Chord Tone Soloing.
Barrett Tagliarino's newest book is the MP3 Edition of the ground-breaking "Rhythmic Lead Guitar: Solo Phrasing, Groove and Timing for all Styles." With this book you progress from beginner to master of the rhythmic aspect of soloing and riff creation, learning to count beat divisions and subdivisions at every level to contribute the right feel to songs in any style. You'll apply exact timing to bends, slides, legato articulations and grace notes to get your soloing under your complete rhythmic control. No prior music reading knowledge is required, but you will learn a bit about correct rhythmic notation as you go. Over 150 examples are tabbed and notated, and demonstrated at slow tempos in 192 kB MP3s. Later chapters cover motific development; setting up audience expectations with form signaling; odd meters; creating syncopation with displacements, additive rhythms, pedal tones, polyrhythms, and metric modulation.
Barrett has been a full-time instructor at Musicians Institute in Hollywood since 1989. His "Guitar Reading Workbook" and "Guitar Fretboard Workbook" are based on MI's curriculum requirements. These and his other books are also popular choices for course syllabi at other universities, vocational, and high schools. Barrett's books are designed to get you playing the music you want with a clear understanding and no time wasted.
The same engaging and lucid teaching style that Barrett uses in his books makes his classes at MI often fill to capacity with a waiting list. His current schedule includes Blues Level II, Guitar Heroes of the 60s and 70s, and Reading Level I. Barrett was Rock department head at Hohner MusikSchule in Vienna in 1995. His traveling work as a performer and clinician has taken him around the world.
Barrett has two CDs showcasing his rock guitar style with blues and jazz influences: "Throttle Twister" and "Moe's Art," both available here on amazon.com, and has made numerous guest recording contributions as an LA session guitarist.
Guitar magazines such as Guitar Edge, Guitar Player, and Guitar World have featured Barrett's full-length article contributions on technique, styles, and phrasing. He also works as an editor for the Hal Leonard Corporation, adding his knowledge and insight to books like "Jazzology: The Encyclopedia of Jazz Theory," and Tom Kolb's "Music Theory for Guitarists: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know but Were Afraid to Ask."
You can find his latest works, video clips, free lessons, and blog posts at his website, www.monsterguitars.com, which he started in 1996.
