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bmar
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 Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 4:19 pm Post subject: Guitar book/s for your guitar student |
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I am a guitar teacher myself and have over the years made up a collection of photocopied material from books I have and use that as a source for studies for the students...
I was wondering if anyone could recommend a good book I could have my students buy which would cover the basic stuff, such as reading, basic scales/chords, improvisation and preferably some sort of play-a-long to help them progress at their own pace away from the classroom.
I know this book probably don't exist but I decided to as you guys anyway, what books do you use with your students / for your own studies ?
I had been looking for a good book on notation reading book for my students and I have used this book with great success, Music Reading for Guitar (MI publications)
Hope to get some discussion going on this topic....  thanks! |
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roadwarriorfortheblues
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| Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 6:45 am Post subject: Guitar books |
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Bmar,
Do you use the same teaching materials for adults and children?
I own a lot of guitar books geared for adult learners. The one I open the most is titled "Guitar Works: A comprehensive guide to playing the guitar" by Thorsten Kober (a '97 GIT grad).
From a student's point of view, the lessons are easy to understand... but the knowledge is hard to retain. Unless I put the scale or new chord to use and play it frequently, it's gone. I feel like there's way too much stuff to learn and practice on a daily basis. Do I really have to learn ALL this stuff to become a better player? Uhgggg!
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bmar
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| Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 5:47 pm Post subject: Re: Guitar books |
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Hi! thanks for your post.
| roadwarriorfortheblues wrote: | Bmar,
Do you use the same teaching materials for adults and children?
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No, that's the hard part (i feel) about my teaching, is I have around 30 students and I have more or less a seperate material for each one based on what I feel they need to work on. Still it would be good to have *A BOOK* to have as a reference guide along with the seperate books I've been using.
| roadwarriorfortheblues wrote: |
I own a lot of guitar books geared for adult learners. The one I open the most is titled "Guitar Works: A comprehensive guide to playing the guitar" by Thorsten Kober (a '97 GIT grad).
From a student's point of view, the lessons are easy to understand... but the knowledge is hard to retain. Unless I put the scale or new chord to use and play it frequently, it's gone. I feel like there's way too much stuff to learn and practice on a daily basis. Do I really have to learn ALL this stuff to become a better player? Uhgggg!
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I must check out this book, I saw from the review on Amazon.com that the book covers sight-reading aswell... does it starts off in the 5th position (like the MI's music reading for guitar book) or in the 1st pos ? I've only understood the need for starting teaching sight-reading in the 1st position with students who are very young, but with older students I go right into the 5th pos as it sounds way better for melodies and it's more practical to use.
There are TONS of stuff to learn and practice, one just needs to realize that he can't possible learn *everything*... start with the basics and move on upwards with the things that interest you. Theory is a must I believe, take Larry Carlton for example... he's great in chord theory, he can play zillion voicings of the same chord. That comes from *understanding* theory and they way it works. That works much better in my opinion than to learn things like a parrot. Like licks for example, if you learn a great lick... you will have to have the ability to analyze it to be able to use it (or fractions of it) in the right context or else you'll just sound silly. Makes sense ? |
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roadwarriorfortheblues
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| Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 3:40 pm Post subject: Re: Guitar books |
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| bmar wrote: | | I saw from the review on Amazon.com that the book covers sight-reading aswell... does it starts off in the 5th position (like the MI's music reading for guitar book) or in the 1st pos ? I've only understood the need for starting teaching sight-reading in the 1st position with students who are very young, but with older students I go right into the 5th pos as it sounds way better for melodies and it's more practical to use. |
The Guitar Works book explains sight-reading starting with the Open position (using the C major scale as an example).
| bmar wrote: | | ... but with older students I go right into the 5th pos as it sounds way better for melodies and it's more practical to use. |
That might be true for electric guitar, but I still prefer the sound of an acoustic guitar in Open position.
I didn't know about this new forum. Thanks, I'll check it out.
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roadwarriorfortheblues
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| Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 5:30 am Post subject: Guitar books |
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Here's a spin on today's "Pearls Before Swine" comic strip:
Rat: What are you reading?
Pig: "Modern Guitar: A Step-by-Step Guide to Playing the Guitar"
Rat: You stupid fat-head. Do you really think you can learn to play guitar from a book?
Pig: Well... not from Chapter One... It's just an introduction.
Pig: But Chapter Two rocks.
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