Saturday, March 3, 2007

The Complete Guitar Course

The Complete Guitar Course is a Reader's Digest book I checked out of the local library. It has a nice explanation of power chords, barre chords, "rocking" between the fifth and sixth (the shuffle AKA Chuck Berry boogie), and funk playing: all stuff I've been meaning to work on adding to my repertoire.
Typical of those kinds of guitar books that give a little bit of all kinds of stuff: it has twenty-lessons, including rock lead playing, and fingerstyle, along with the stuff above. It has two-page profiles of some innovative players, and some history of the development of the guitar. I give it **** as exemplary of its type, but if you aren't an absolute beginner, much of it would be redundant.

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