Joe Satriani - Guitar Secrets [Paperback]

Joe Satriani (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1, 1993

Learn guitar tips, tricks and secrets with this collection of articles and tips from Satriani's famous columns that have appeared in Guitar For The Practicing Musician magazine. Who better to learn guitar from than the master himself?

Product Details

• Paperback: 40 pages
• Publisher: Cherry Lane Music; First edition. edition (February 1, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0895247380
• ISBN-13: 978-0895247384
• Product Dimensions: 11.6 x 8.9 x 0.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #141,793 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not for the weak, May 27, 2001

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"rojowal" (Yakima, WA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Joe Satriani - Guitar Secrets (Paperback)

This book offers many excellent excercises that reveal the foundation of Joe's guitar prowess. The excercises are not fun and most of them are not easy, so you have been warned. The book is a complilation of articles that Joe wrote for the magazine "Guitar For The Practicing Musician". It consist of 41 lessons that cover everything from chords and scales to theory and whammy bar technique. If you have the time and dedication this book will help you develop some great guitar playing techniques.

19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A definite must for any Satch fan, January 27, 2000

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Gary Scott (Just outside of Glasgow, Scotland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Joe Satriani - Guitar Secrets (Paperback)

I found this book so useful, from the background on Satriani's life as an up and coming guitarist, providing infinite inspiration...It gives exercises and much needed information, from three-note-per-string scales up to very rarely found information on natural harmonics. This book is a must have for any guitarist.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not for the faint-hearted, March 4, 2005

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Chandra G (Mountain View, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Joe Satriani - Guitar Secrets (Paperback)

This books is a collection of half-to-one page lessons by the
Satch God himself. So you will be disappointed if you are
looking for something that explains everything in detail.
Satch assumes that you have already developed some technique and
have some(ok maybe a lot) background of music theory.
The concepts are laid out in a very
very concise manner all across the book. Each of the one pager
lesson tackles a very specific thing and the lessons are pretty
much independent of each other, except a few lessons that came
in group of 2s over couple of months in guitar magazine.
The book is obviously not the complete encyclopedia of guitar
techniques and theory but it does cover a lot of ground for less
than 10 bucks. Its got awesome lessons on ear training, scale
patterns, improvising, arpeggios. The book gets into lot of
uncommon and melodic patterns and chords. So it opens up
the whole new palette of sounds.
As mentioned before, all lessons are short & snippy, but most
lessons can be practised for weeks or months or years. You
will know that when Satch says "go and do this for all keys
till you can do it in your sleep"...