Barrett Tagliarino: Chord-Tone Soloing [Lingua inglese]: A Guitarist's Guide to Melodic Improvising in Any Style

Un libro fantastico, tutti i chitarristi dovrebbero averne una copia

I wish I had discovered this book a long time ago as it is the real starting point for anyone after learning open and barre chords.I am now actually learning chords, scales, keys, and how to improvise - I’m learning to play the guitar. I now know all the fretboard notes and can transpose from one key to another.The system is so easy after you’ve learnt the key fretboard notes of the 6th, 5th and 4th strings and on only the 3rd, 5th, 7th and 10th frets, as then you can navigate the whole fretboard which is an essential skill.David Mead's system starts with dropping CAGED system letters for the numbers 1,2,3,4&5 and then the scale notes for 1(root), 2,3,4,5,6&7. Then things actually start to happen because it is now simple patterns and everything is put in such an excellently simple way and with a common reference; instead of learning the notes for each scale, one learns the number of each note within the scale and their intervals. Now you can immediate count out all five scale patterns on the fretboard. The website for the session tracks is also great, with the ability to loop the session where you want the drums and rhythm and then pan the lead out so you can play over it.This book is only 118 pages and cost me £12.00 but it is a complete teaching system, even outlining how to practice, what to practice and a little psychology on why to stick within your practice session each day and why not to go over it.I began guitar by trying to learn, on the cheap. I would try very hard to learn my favourite songs from tab; pink floyd, Metallica, smashing pumpkins, white stripes.Firstly, I was only ever able to play parts of songs. Also, even what I could play made no sense and was difficult. I did not ‘feel’ the notes and I had no idea how to improvise. I could not even strum over any random song.I was really thinking I would give up because it was not fun and if this was learning, I could not see where the ‘freedom’ of expression was - I was beginning to hate guitar.Luckily, I found the Justin Guitar theory course which introduced the CAGED system. I investigated this and, through another excellent theory site cagedguitarsystem dot net, a recommendation for this book was made and I am so excited now that I’ve made so much progress but more that I’m learning how to express myself with a guitar. I’m not playing my favourite songs yet but I’ve got a fantastic hobby now that is rewarding, truly creative and is starting to sound like I know what I’m doing - I can actually rock out too.I know we're not all the same. I can only share my experience of this book from what I want to get our of it, which is to understand music and be able to play it on guitar. I do not want to study classical or read music. I just want to rock to a backing track and now I understand the time involved to develop the skills and have a real achievable plan for getting there and it is because of David Mead and this book.Thank you David Mead. Because of you, I've stopped watching impossible guitar how-to YouTube videos and have made more progress in 1 week than in the entire year.

Good . does the job.

E' un libro molto ben scritto che comincia dalle base dell'improvvisazione spiegando con molta semplicità il concetto di target tone, dopodiché passa con la bravura e metodicità tipica di un didatta navigato a esplorare tutte le possibilità dell'improvvisazione.Ho tuttavia che non sia un libro per neofiti, ma per chitarristi di livello medio/avanzato

I am a professional educator and have always been on the hunt for the best guitar instruction books. Altho' this book is dated, it is still one of the very best for combining music and song theory. If you are interested in melody development, arranging and composing, this book is a must. I highly recommend it.

I'm a beginner/intermediate guitar player for over a decade now, and I never really improved beyond reading tabs to songs. I never got the feel for how music worked, or really understood much theory at all. This doesn't mean that I didn't try. I certainly tried to pick up theory. I bought a handful of books on theory (some big ones), like a book on classical guitar playing because I thought it would help me learn to read music and understand notes and scales and how to improvise.I was wrong. At least, for me, the books didn't seem to "click" in my head. All of them seemed to require massive amounts of straight up memorization. There didn't seem to be a lot of rhyme or reason to why I was memorizing what I was.Then I picked up and after an extended absence from guitar playing. I still remembered the basic chord shapes (and my fingers would sometimes cooperate), some riffs, but zero theory. At one point I had tried to mark my guitar to memorize the notes, but I failed. These two books got me back into the habit of learning, and I finally memorized the pentatonic minor scale after a stubborn hour of repetition.Enter this book. I've always wanted to really play guitar, not just strum through power chords or play somebody else's tabbed songs. The intro portions of this book opened my eyes right away. They enabled me to see the end-goal, and not start out bogged in the details. This was a good kick in the pants for my motivation. Then, I got to the second part of the book, where an epiphany occurred. The other books I had told me something about scales and notes, but there's something in the simplicity of the patterns that this book shows (like the CAGED method and the pattern of notes on the fretboard) that finally clicked for me. The accompanying cd is sparse in the beginning but effective. I had forgotten how to swing the beats, but quickly got back up to speed with it.Overall, this book already has given me valuable insight, and I'm gradually progressing to make the most of it to get to the third part, which is the heart of the book. For someone like me, who has some basic mechanics down but is lacking in theory, it is excellent. Someone who is fresh to guitar playing may find it to be useful, but without the basic chops it will be difficult to pick up the fundamentals in the beginning. Or maybe it won't. But, so far the bits that I have learned from this book are invaluable.Update: I've progressed some more in this book, and it's kept bringing me insight, and has probably the clearest, essential introduction to arpeggiated triads that I've come across. The diagrams that this book provides are all essential, and the exercises are very helpful. The patterns that they teach can be applied anywhere. If you can't think of how to extend the exercise to practice the entire fretboard and the multitude of other patterns, you don't understand the material yet. Go look at the diagrams again. This lack of hand-holding, while giving the very fundamentals and explanations of what direction to take everything keeps me interested. Other books I have either don't really explain the fundamentals or are so verbose that it's difficult to concentrate on what is truly essential.

コードトーンを使ったソロをとるための方法論です。アドリブ初心者には「まずコードアルペジオで」と教える本や人が多いですが、意外にそれを真面目に教える本や人は少ないと思います。これは割と薄い本なのであまり多くは載っていませんが、手引書としてお勧めです。ロック・ブルースがターゲットのようですが、ジャズ初心者にもお勧め。サンプル音源もJAZZというより、ロック、ブルース調です。