The first complete method for combining pick and fingers.
Topics include: -Step-by-step exercises -Standard Notation and Tablature -CD with examples and compositions included -Learn how to combine Legato, Alternate, and Sweep with Hybrid Picking -Chapters include: Hybrid Picking Lines, Melodic Pairs, 12 Tone Lines, Harmonic Exercises, Permutation Chart, Compositions (Next Week, Study 1, Study 2, Study 3, among others), and much more! Endorsed and used by guitar greats such as Tosin Abasi (Animals as Leaders), Brett Garsed, Carl Verheyen, Steve Trovato, Ben Monder, Alex Machacek, Scott McGill, Guthrie Govan, and many more.
With Hybrid Picking For Guitar, Gustavo Assis-Brasil has created a hugely valuable resource, in terms of expanding both one's technique and vocabulary. Also, the studies at the end of the book are beautiful pieces in their own right. I highly recommend it. --BEN MONDER, jazz guitarist
(...) Gustavo Assis-Brasil has a unique way of demystifying hybrid picking (...) he introduces musical examples that would have seemed impossible to play before starting to work with the book. (...) Hybrid Picking For Guitar is engaging, informative and great fun to use. (...) After only a short amount of time working with Hybrid Picking For Guitar one gains the desire to keep practicing and develop this incredibly useful technique. The study periods will be well rewarded, because learning hybrid picking inspires creativity and offers new opportunities for discovery and self-expression. --ALL ABOUT JAZZ.COM, By Ben McDonnell
I am very impressed! The compositions are very deep and the technical tips for playing with pick and fingers are very practical and creative. The book is a much-needed text on the topic. It is exhaustive without being pedantic. Congratulations! It's excellent! --SCOTT McGILL (McGill/Manring/Stevens) --BackCover
(...) Gustavo Assis-Brasil has a unique way of demystifying hybrid picking (...) he introduces musical examples that would have seemed impossible to play before starting to work with the book. (...) Hybrid Picking For Guitar is engaging, informative and great fun to use. (...) After only a short amount of time working with Hybrid Picking For Guitar one gains the desire to keep practicing and develop this incredibly useful technique. The study periods will be well rewarded, because learning hybrid picking inspires creativity and offers new opportunities for discovery and self-expression. ALL ABOUT JAZZ.COM, By Ben McDonnell --ALL ABOUT JAZZ.COM, By Ben McDonnell
I am very impressed! The compositions are very deep and the technical tips for playing with pick and fingers are very practical and creative. The book is a much-needed text on the topic. It is exhaustive without being pedantic. Congratulations! It's excellent! SCOTT McGILL (McGill/Manring/Stevens) --SCOTT McGILL (McGill/Manring/Stevens)
About the Author
Based in Boston, USA, Gustavo Assis-Brasil began playing the guitar at the age of 13. He attended the Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil, to get his bachelor in classical guitar in 1995. During those years, he worked as a studio musician, private teacher and played with some important bands and projects (Nocet, Bichofolha duo with Guilherme Barros). In 1995 he was featured in Guitar Player Magazine - USA (Spotlight session). In 1999 he got a full scholarship to get his Master Degree In Jazz at Berklee College of Music and The Boston Conservatory. His main teachers were Mick Goodrick (Gary Burton Quartet, Pat Metheny), Wayne Krantz (Leni Stern, Steely Dan, Michael Brecker), Hal Crook (duo w/Joe Diorio), Ed Tomassi, Dave Fiucsynski (Screaming Headless Torsos), Rick Peckham, Larry Baione, and currently Charlie Banacos and the South Indian 'guru' Prasanna. Gustavo also had master-classes/lessons with Pat Metheny, Frank Gambale, Mike Stern, Dave Liebman and John Scofield. He is also the director of the Jazz and Contemporary Music Department of the Cambridge School of Weston and teaches at Berklee College of Music's Guitar Sessions. Also as a teacher, Gustavo taught clinics at GIT, Guitar Institute of Technology, Los Angeles, CA; University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA; Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA; UFRGS, Brazil; Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil; University of Passo Fundo, Brazil. In 2005, Gustavo released the book Hybrid Picking for Guitar. This book is the first method entirely dedicated to the art of combining pick and fingers to play the guitar. The book is in its 3rd edition and it has been receiving praise worldwide. Gustavo performed/recorded with John Stowell, Dig Trio, Frank Potenza, Richard Smith, Sandro Albert, Hiromi, Tony Grey (John Mclaughlin), Prasanna, Greg Hopkins, Brett Wilmott, Garo Saraydarian, Tony Gaboury, Matthew Nicholl, Tim Ries (Rolling Stone
Product Details
Paperback: 128 pages
Publisher: Gustavo Assis Brasil Music; 3rd edition (November 16, 2005)
Based in Boston, USA, Gustavo Assis-Brasil began playing the guitar at the age of 13. He attended the Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil, to get his bachelor in classical guitar in 1995. During those years, he worked as a studio musician, private teacher and played with some important bands and projects (Nocet, Bichofolha duo w/Guilherme Barros). In 1995 he was featured in Guitar Player Magazine - USA (Spotlight session). In 1999 he got a full scholarship to get his Master Degree In Jazz at Berklee College of Music and The Boston Conservatory. His main teachers were Mick Goodrick (Gary Burton Quartet, Pat Metheny), Wayne Krantz (Leni Stern, Steely Dan, Michael Brecker), Hal Crook, Ed Tomassi, Dave Fiucsynski (Screaming Headless Torsos), Rick Peckham, Larry Baione, and the South Indian 'guru' Prasanna. Gustavo also had master-classes/lessons with Pat Metheny, Frank Gambale, Mike Stern, Dave Liebman and John Scofield. Gustavo also studied improvisation and composition privately with the late jazz-guru Charlie Banacos. From 2001 until 2006, Gustavo played/toured with the renowned group the Dig Trio. Gustavo is the director of the Jazz and Contemporary Music Ensembles and is a faculty member of the Cambridge School of Weston. He also teaches at Berklee College of Music's Guitar Sessions since 2006. Also as a teacher, Gustavo taught clinics at GIT, Guitar Institute of Technology, Los Angeles, CA; University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA; Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA; UFRGS, Brazil; Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil; University of Passo Fundo, Brazil. In 2005, Gustavo released the book "Hybrid Picking for Guitar". This book is the first method entirely dedicated to the art of combining pick and fingers to play the guitar. The book is in its 3rd edition and it has been receiving praise worldwide. In 2008, he released the follow up book "Hybrid Picking Exercises: Single Note Permutations", with more than 1,400 different exercises based entirely on math permutations. Also in 2008, Gustavo released a live DVD/CD combo called "In Concert" where he features original compositions. On that same year, he was invited by ESC Records (Germany) to write and record an arrangement of Steely Dan's "Aja", to be part of a tribute CD called "Maestros of Cool". The CD was released in USA and Europe. In 2009, Gustavo was invited to participate in the project "Mahavishnu Re-Defined - a Tribute to John Mclaughlin & the Mahavishnu Orchestra" along with other important jazz artists. In 2010 was featured as the soundtrack composer for the feature Brazilian movie "Manhã Tranfigurada". The movie is also available on DVD with his full soundtrack, which is also being released at the same time. In this same year, Gustavo started a Solo Guitar Project. With this project, he performs original compositions as well as Jazz standards and Brazilian arrangements on acoustic and electric guitar without any accompaniment. In 2011, Gustavo released his third book, "Hybrid Picking Lines and Licks". Guthrie Govan wrote the foreword for it. Gustavo performed/recorded with John Stowell, Esperanza Spaulding, Frank Potenza, Richard Smith, Hiromi, Tony Grey (John Mclaughlin), Prasanna, Julio "Chumbinho Herrlein, Greg Hopkins, Brett Wilmott, Mauricio Zottarelli, Tim Ries (Rolling Stones, Paul Simon, Steve Wonder), Nelson Faria (João Bosco), Jose Pienasola (Elis Regina, Romero Lubambo, Leny Andrade), Marina Elali, Hiroaki Honshuku, Dough Johnson, Zuzo Moussauer, Frank Solari among others.
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I really like Assis-Brasil's method for hybrid picking. I'm not
classical trained, but I sincerely think this book could be a short
cut for people who want to combine fingers and pick to play the
guitar. The book is really well organized and has tons of exercises and lines using that technique. At the end of the book, Gustavo Assis Brasil demonstrates his incredible composition skills using the technique.This book is a must for any serious guitar player of any style!
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I'm a professional guitarist and guitar teacher and am submiting the below review based on many years experience performing and teaching the guitar in a variety of styles.
Many guitarists' right hand technique is limited to the use a pick only. Others favor the use of their individual right hand fingers exclusively. The technical exercises required to excel at each approach vary somewhat and the strengths of each approach also vary. For example the pick is a wonderful tool for creating a consistent sound while performing complex, linear single note lines while the use of individual fingers allows for a more contrapuntal approach and excels when wide intervals are required.
Since both techniques are strong at bringing out different types of musical material the obvious question is; why not use both approaches at the same time and get the best of both worlds? In fact a number of great players have been doing just that with what has come to be called Hybrid Picking technique for quite some time but, up to now, no one as knowledgeable as author/guitarist Assis-Brasil has taken the time to really address the technical challenges that a person encounters when trying to get a significant level of mastery in this area.
Hybrid Picking For Guitar is a well organized book that finally addresses this neglected area of guitar technique: the art of using a guitar pick held between thumb and forefinger combinded with the remaining available right hand fingers together as a powerful and well integrated 'team' which then allows the player to optimize the strengths of both approaches. The beauty of the approach is that the player doesn't have to sacrifice anything; if an idea sounds better with a pick it can still be performed with one whale a phrase that can only be played using individual fingers can also be executed with ease and each phrase could be part of one longer integrated line.
The book explains the technique extremely clearly and lays out a series of well thought out exercises that are designed to help the student gain strength, independence and control. The curriculum then progresses to examples which both help the student extend facility while also showcasing some of the musical ways in which the technique can be used. Perhaps the highlight of the book is the section at the end which features a series of wonderful and varied compositions by the author. The pieces are both very instructive and very musical which is not always the case in instructional books.
Most essentially author Assis-Brasil does a great job of giving a sense of how Hybrid Picking technique can be used both to transcend the limitations of existing guitar technique and the confines of traditional guitar vocabulary and/or play traditional guitar phrases with more ease and speed. It soon becomes obvious that, as a guitarist, one may be able to play musical ideas that have previously seemed only possible to execute on piano or saxophone for example.
Assis-Brazil has made a great contribution to guitarists by writing this excellent book because it lays out a methodical approach to mastering the technique and gives inspiring examples of it's application in real music. I strongly recommend Hybrid Picking For Guitar to any student of the guitar especially those who want to expand their technique and musical vocabulary in line with their imagination not limited by traditional guitar technique.
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This book is one of the most important and innovative books ever written on the subject of guitar playing. It is required for guitarists seeking to broaden their technical and musical language. I have benefited so much from the material in this book and saw improvements in my technique immediatly. There are no other sources for education on this technique that are close to approaching the insight and detail in this book. Gustavo Assis Brasil is an amazing musician, guitarist, and teacher. I can't recommend this book highly enough.
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