Suggested books that teach music on the guitar.
Published: Feb 23, 2022 | Category: Uncategorized
While personal attention and coaching are invaluable, those books might help adding structure to our Zoom sessions.
And help create a daily, sturdy study routine, that can addresses the various aspects of growing musicianship on the guitar.
-Basics:
-Hal Leonard Guitar volume 1 2 3: Ideal for total beginners: learn sight reading with easy pieces, and play all kinds of styes with a full back band. ( online or CDmp3s)
-Sight reading, chords and scales;
Berklee College series by William Leavitt: Designed primarily for pick-style with Jazz esthetic, these books will turbo charge your technique, sight reading and scale
with clearly defined positions.
-Guitar Modes encyclopedia: The best book ever on a scale study based on modes.
-Mickey Baker Complete course on Jazz Guitar: Old-style 1950's guitar method. ( The one Robben Ford learned from as a kid): Learning by doing, understand later.
-Ted Greene: Chord chemistry: More modern-style chord study. Pretty heady but inspiring!
-Thinking big and beyond:
-The advancing Guitarist by Mick Goodrick. For the deep thinker, an incredibly complete book. You'll need decent sight reading skills.It functions as a reference book of mind opening practices and exercises.
-Finger-style:
Jazz/Pop
-Concepts: Arranging for Fingerstyle Guitar by Howard Morgan: Self explanatory. Will provide much applied Jazz harmony basics, as well as fineger-style techniques
to create your own instrumental arrangements of any melodies, or your own compositions.
-Classical:
Guitar Music from the Student repertoire by John Miller : A truly wonderful treasure of a book. Starts very easy and simple. Contains many absolutely gorgeous pieces that can be played on steel string guitar,
though written for "cat-gut" guitar. You can experience some of the very first music ever written for the guitar. Those compositions offers wonderful insights on chords progressions that have stood the test of time.
-Acoustic Blues/ Folk/Ragtime.
Stephan Grossman has been a steady provider of great TAB and music in the country blues and ragtime genre. His books on Blind Blake ( fantastic CD comes with this particular book) and Mississippi John Hurt
will provide a lifetime supply of groovy learning and playing. Physically, earning those style can provide strength and mobility. For more complex, fun melodies, go for the Merle Travis Style, a dazzling swinging melting
pot of Country, old-timey songs, Pop, Swing and Broadway all in one-guitar solo finger-style arrangements.
-Folk and various styles:
Mark Hanson 's books are very good. He is an excellent instructor and the example are all fun to play.
And help create a daily, sturdy study routine, that can addresses the various aspects of growing musicianship on the guitar.
-Basics:
-Hal Leonard Guitar volume 1 2 3: Ideal for total beginners: learn sight reading with easy pieces, and play all kinds of styes with a full back band. ( online or CDmp3s)
-Sight reading, chords and scales;
Berklee College series by William Leavitt: Designed primarily for pick-style with Jazz esthetic, these books will turbo charge your technique, sight reading and scale
with clearly defined positions.
-Guitar Modes encyclopedia: The best book ever on a scale study based on modes.
-Mickey Baker Complete course on Jazz Guitar: Old-style 1950's guitar method. ( The one Robben Ford learned from as a kid): Learning by doing, understand later.
-Ted Greene: Chord chemistry: More modern-style chord study. Pretty heady but inspiring!
-Thinking big and beyond:
-The advancing Guitarist by Mick Goodrick. For the deep thinker, an incredibly complete book. You'll need decent sight reading skills.It functions as a reference book of mind opening practices and exercises.
-Finger-style:
Jazz/Pop
-Concepts: Arranging for Fingerstyle Guitar by Howard Morgan: Self explanatory. Will provide much applied Jazz harmony basics, as well as fineger-style techniques
to create your own instrumental arrangements of any melodies, or your own compositions.
-Classical:
Guitar Music from the Student repertoire by John Miller : A truly wonderful treasure of a book. Starts very easy and simple. Contains many absolutely gorgeous pieces that can be played on steel string guitar,
though written for "cat-gut" guitar. You can experience some of the very first music ever written for the guitar. Those compositions offers wonderful insights on chords progressions that have stood the test of time.
-Acoustic Blues/ Folk/Ragtime.
Stephan Grossman has been a steady provider of great TAB and music in the country blues and ragtime genre. His books on Blind Blake ( fantastic CD comes with this particular book) and Mississippi John Hurt
will provide a lifetime supply of groovy learning and playing. Physically, earning those style can provide strength and mobility. For more complex, fun melodies, go for the Merle Travis Style, a dazzling swinging melting
pot of Country, old-timey songs, Pop, Swing and Broadway all in one-guitar solo finger-style arrangements.
-Folk and various styles:
Mark Hanson 's books are very good. He is an excellent instructor and the example are all fun to play.