Customer Reviews

The Guitarist's Survival Kit: Everything You Need to Know to Be a Working Musician

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This book is pure fluff, there is nothing really usefull in here.

There are a few examples of different blues licks etc.

One decent section is the "colorful chords" that you can use to replace normal chrods in an arrangement to give somehting a little more flavor, without interfering with other insturments in the group

This book got 5 stars from me for pages 20 and 21.
Considering the size of the book, this is not bad. (I have a lot of books that give me nothing)
It is called Root-Position Jazz chords in 2-5-1 progressions
If you get a chance to play these chords, you will love this book; these chords are movable which means you can just hold your fret position and run up or down the neck for most of them and come out with a great sounding progression, and almost sound like you know what you are doing.

Every once and a while you just run into a chord progression that you connect with.

This book is not meant to do much more than give you an example of different play styles and it does that well.
I have not gotten into all of the book, but there is a lot that looks promising.

With two out of two reviewers that liked parts of the book (even though for the life of me I cannot find any section that is called COLORFUL CHORDS and makes me wonder if he was reviewing the correct book), I don't see how you could pass it up.

Also, I have found that if you are in to blues, then the books written by Dave Rubin are some of the best.