The Best Book to Buy to get better at the guitar...???

[pisces7378]

I made a post a few weeks back about which book I could buy to get better at soloing on the guitar. And almost everyone gave me great advice about not worrying about a book, and just woodsheding it in my bed room, practice practice practice...

Well, although I do appreciate that advice a lot... I still want a damn book. Not just "a" book... I want "THE BOOK" on playing guitar. I hear people all the time talking about modes, scales, blues scales, penatonic scales, rudamentary exercises, blah blah blah. And I have no clue what any of that is. I know the Minor Penotonic Scale sort of, I think. But I don't know where on the neck to play in it for which song. etc. I just need a book damn it. So please don't tell me to not get a book. But there are 50,000 books out there on beginner guitar. Well I have been playing guitar for over 18 years. I know OOODELS about chords, rhythm, and despit how this thread might sound, I am not a bad guitar player at all. I can play a pretty mean guitar solo. I just don't really know exactly what I am doing. I need something to take me to the lext level of music/guitar information.

Please help me... tell me what books you got that were able to take you to the next level.

I want theory, sample music/solos, and exercises. And I am especially talking about blues based country/rock (alla Rolling Stones, Neil Young, Black Crows, The Band).

Thanks!

 

[Purge]

The Guitar Grimoire.

There are 3 books in the series and all of them have a retarded amount of information. To actually play everything in between the covers of one of these books would take a lifetime. Start with the black-covered one (Scales and Modes, I believe).

 

[ez_willis]

You have an internet connection, you don't really need a book. The link below is to a site that focuses on scales, but if you explore the whole site, it gives great info on technique and theory, and keeps it simple. By learning scales you will not only GREATLY improve your solo's, you will learn what notes work together, which will help with songwriting in particular, and your knowledge of music as a whole. Also, if you know your scales, it makes it much easier to take on new instruments in the future.

http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~desmith/guitar/scales/index.html

 

[pdadda]

I agree with Purge completely. Get the Guitar Grimoire Scales and Modes book.

 

[Light]

"The Advancing Guitarist," by Mick Goodrick, is the best book on guitar I have ever read. It will, without question, improve your playing, if you work on it. It does not really teach you techniques, but it teaches you to come up with your own technique. It teaches you to play your own style.


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[ozraves]

Get the three in one version of the Berklee Modern Method for Guitar (has volumes one through three). If you can make it through that then you can hang with just about anyone.