I'm getting Advancing Guitarist and Effortless Mastery. I bought Chord Chemistry years ago when I was just starting out and I was quickly overwhelmed as a beginner. Now I need to go find it and look at it with a new perspective.
Advancing Guitarist is such a deep well that I doubt I will ever get through it in my lifetime. Many of the exercises have turned my head inside out (in a good way) in terms of how I see the guitar or more broadly music. I also have effortless mastery as an audiobook and it too is filled with so many good ideas I doubt I will ever master all its concepts. I have heard of the other books and I am sure they are all well worth the money and time. Tyvm
Please, does anyone know if the Modern Method book starts easy? Meaning, can a fairly sucky, lacking fundamentals kind of guy get on board, or is it designed for players who are already decent with chords, notes, and basic scales?
The Advancing Guitarist is excellent. The others are just OK. Greene‘s Chord Chemistry is outdated as it shows things in grid form rather than standard notation. George Van Epp‘s Harmonic Mechanisms for guitar is much more advisable. Most books involving pick style guitar are not very good because there’s not an accepted and unified technique yet. There are scores of other excellent books in the classical and flamenco realm. Guitarists should read other music books involving other instruments, such as horn, violin, cello, and snare drum. Nicolas Slonimsky’s Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns is epic. Patterns for Jazz is also very important.
I’ve been studying these types of books my entire playing career, which includes music school, where I studied classical guitar and some jazz. There is a wealth of information out there, but the problem with guitar sometimes is that guitarists spend too much time with idiosyncratic stuff instead of studying more general stuff that applies to all instruments. Books on guitar are wonderful if they solve guitar-specific problems. But when things involve general music, there are usually far better alternatives out there. Such a general book is from the Berkeley library: McGrain‘s Music Notation: Theory and Practice, etc. It’s not just for learning how to hand, write music, which may or may not be necessary in these days and times, but just the understanding of musical notation is so important.
I was about to email you about which books you suggest. Thank you for sharing and all the amazing content you provide. Best videos on TH-cam.
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Found this video after watching your practice video! MM123 is on the way! Thanks Korey!
I'm getting Advancing Guitarist and Effortless Mastery. I bought Chord Chemistry years ago when I was just starting out and I was quickly overwhelmed as a beginner. Now I need to go find it and look at it with a new perspective.
@@JRW66 excellent!
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Advancing Guitarist is such a deep well that I doubt I will ever get through it in my lifetime. Many of the exercises have turned my head inside out (in a good way) in terms of how I see the guitar or more broadly music. I also have effortless mastery as an audiobook and it too is filled with so many good ideas I doubt I will ever master all its concepts. I have heard of the other books and I am sure they are all well worth the money and time. Tyvm
I've bought three of these books since you recommended it in an earlier video. Great stuff!
Cool.
Solid information and ways in to these awesome books.
Thank you John!
Pretty guitar. Is that a Scofield model?
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Please, does anyone know if the Modern Method book starts easy? Meaning, can a fairly sucky, lacking fundamentals kind of guy get on board, or is it designed for players who are already decent with chords, notes, and basic scales?
@@YaoEspirito it starts very very easy with the open position and quarter notes! Any beginner can do it! Give it a try it’s totally worth it!
The goal of that method is to focus the student on reading. There is really no technique involved. It’s very well fought out for that purpose.
The Advancing Guitarist is excellent. The others are just OK. Greene‘s Chord Chemistry is outdated as it shows things in grid form rather than standard notation. George Van Epp‘s Harmonic Mechanisms for guitar is much more advisable.
Most books involving pick style guitar are not very good because there’s not an accepted and unified technique yet. There are scores of other excellent books in the classical and flamenco realm. Guitarists should read other music books involving other instruments, such as horn, violin, cello, and snare drum. Nicolas Slonimsky’s Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns is epic. Patterns for Jazz is also very important.
@@ZRJZZZZZ I almost included Patterns for Jazz and the Lateef book. Unfortunately the current crop of guitarists are so far behind 😔
I’ve been studying these types of books my entire playing career, which includes music school, where I studied classical guitar and some jazz. There is a wealth of information out there, but the problem with guitar sometimes is that guitarists spend too much time with idiosyncratic stuff instead of studying more general stuff that applies to all instruments. Books on guitar are wonderful if they solve guitar-specific problems. But when things involve general music, there are usually far better alternatives out there. Such a general book is from the Berkeley library: McGrain‘s Music Notation: Theory and Practice, etc. It’s not just for learning how to hand, write music, which may or may not be necessary in these days and times, but just the understanding of musical notation is so important.
Hey Corey, what is your lesson fee? Thank you.
@@Panjaz $75/hr Venmo, or PayPal, and I am running a special on my Patreon right now for members!