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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
An excellent introduction to playing lead guitar,
By Kieran (Brisbane, Australia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Progressive Lead Guitar: With Cd ( for beginner to advanced students) (Perfect Paperback)
Progressive Lead Guitar by Turner & White is an excellent way to get started on playing rock and blues lead guitar. Those familiar with basic open chords, root 6 and root 5 bar chords as well as basic music theory should have little difficulty understanding the material presented (if not, check out Progressive Rhythm Guitar by the same authors). The lessons are carefully planned, with all of the exercises on CD so you can hone your playing. There are three main sections to the book - the first deals with 12-bar blues riffs, the major scale and alternate picking. This section provides you with plenty of tricky fingerings, so you get chance to build up your dexterity. I frequently use this section as a basis for my own warm-up exercises before practicing. Section two deals with improvisation, introducing the "Blues" scale (otherwise known as the minor-pentatonic, five-tone, scale), the "Country" or major-pentatonic scale, slurring techniques (hammer-on's, pull-off's, slides, bends, vibrato), major & minor key progressions, as well as several fingering patterns for the major/blues/country scales. This section allows you to get to grips with the basics of all rock & blues improvisation, and the tricks-of-the-trade. The last section expands upon second, with a focus on using additional notes, passing notes and harmony notes with the scales already presented. There is also a short but sweet introduction to modes. What makes this book true value for money is the excellent appendices that cover music theory as it relates to the scales covered in previous sections, tips for soloing, chord formula charts, modulation, ear training, harmonics, as well as 21 full-backing tracks in a variety of rock & blues styles for you to practice improvisation. For the price, quality and depth of the material presented, no beginning lead guitarist should be without Progressive Lead Guitar.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Progressive Lead,
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This review is from: Progressive Lead Guitar: With Cd ( for beginner to advanced students) (Perfect Paperback)
The book is excellent in the fact it goes into great detail in music theory, scales, patterns, and so forth, but the problem comes with the included CD. The CD lessons do not correspond with the lessons in the book. Mostly the error comes from mistitling the first 6 lessons on the cd which puts the whole thing off. The only way I saw to correct it, is to download the cd into a program like iTunes and spend an hour renaming all the lesson titles, then either playing back on your iPod or burning it onto a new CD.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Very thorough,
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This review is from: Progressive Lead Guitar: With Cd ( for beginner to advanced students) (Perfect Paperback)
I've bought a number of entry level guitar instruction books, and this is tops. Learning to play someone else's music is a waste of time - create your own music, your own style. This book is one of the few that really steers you in that direction.
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The lead guitarist is generally considered to be the most important instrumentalist in a rock/pop group. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
minor bar chord, major bar chord, pick tremolo, major key progressions, pick motion, minor key progressions, scale tone chords, riff number, following lick, fret location, bar riff, major pentatonic scale, lead solo, alternate picking, fretted note, major scale, artificial harmonics, harmony notes, root note Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bar Blues Riff Number, Riff One New!
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The lead guitarist is generally considered to be the most important instrumentalist in a rock/pop group. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
minor bar chord, major bar chord, pick tremolo, major key progressions, pick motion, minor key progressions, scale tone chords, riff number, following lick, fret location, bar riff, major pentatonic scale, lead solo, alternate picking, fretted note, major scale, artificial harmonics, harmony notes, root note Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bar Blues Riff Number, Riff One New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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