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Summary: Best book for learning!
Review: I have about 400 guitar books and magazines and this is one of my very favourites. It has a fantastic range of stuff to get you going on the guitar. There are lessons to help your technical prowess, creativity, and knowledge. I found that all of these lessons led to other ideas of my own. I don't agree with those who have said that this book is only for more advanced players. I gave guitar lessons professionally and often used stuff from this book as a basis for my lessons with beginning students.
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Summary: Good book for beginners, but certainly no "secrets"
Review: I was disappointed by this book. He covers some scales, modes and exercises which may be beneficial for beginners who are learning to play some solos, but there's really no "guitar secrets" in this book. I would not recommend this for an intermediate or advanced player.
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Summary: Satch's guitar secrets made clear!
Review: Joe's Guitar Secrets book is a collection of the Guitar Secrets (GS) column he did for Guitar for the practicing musician in the early nineties. This book shows you many useful exercises for developing dexterity, a broader scalar vocabulary, and some very hip chords. This book is of use to any beginner through advanced player and is a "must-have" for any seriuous satch fan!
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Summary: great book on various advanced concepts that few know.
Review: Let me first say that I'm not a big Satch fan. Not that he's bad, he's just not my cup of tea. Still, as a guitar teacher as well as a musician, I found this book to be incredible. It goes beyond the "Here's some scales and arpeggios now just go for broke" approach that most instruction books on soloing seem to take. There alot of great concepts that most would deam "advanced" and yet, they're broken down into basic intructions that anyone with a little theory knowledge can understand right away. Its a collection of his articles from Guitar For The Practicing Musician so the appraoch I would suggest in learning from it is to find a chapter and practice from there as opposed to start at the beginning and work to the end. And the price is very awesome for the knowledge it presents. Let me also say that this is not a "how to play like satch" book. Its more like "use these concepts to find your own voice" book.
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Summary: Not for the weak
Review: 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.
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Summary: Not for the faint-hearted
Review: 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.
I love this book because 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 12 keys
till you can do it in your sleep"... gosh!
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Summary: not what i expected
Review: when i looked over this book i was dissapointed. it is too short and i found most everything to be confusing and boring. there were no examples to help you understand and the explainations were not clear. I do not reccommend this book, instead check out Metal Lead Guitar by Troy Stetina, that book is alot better
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