Voice Leading for Guitar : Moving Through the Changes

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Summary: The best of its kind
Review: And you thought you knew some chords! Hah! This book is intended for the intermediate to advanced guitarist. It assumes a basic knowledge of harmony. The extensive, carefully graded exercises will increase your chord vocabulary and understanding of voice leading immensely. Doing this book justice requires a lot of work over a long period of time, but it is worth it.

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Summary: Good book for a particular style of learning
Review: If you're the kind of guitarist who likes books full of scales and chords to study, this is definitely for you. It consists mostly of page after page of carefully voice-led chord sequences, following the important ii-V-I variations and explaining other types of changes as well. It's great for drills. However, as a theory book it's not particularly deep. If you're familiar with Mick Goodrick's "The Advancing Guitarist", this book is almost the exact opposite. Goodrick forces you to think to get anything at all from his lessons. This book invites you to turn off thinking and start memorizing. Both are valid, useful approaches.