Pls. Tell me which book to learn

[oceancolour5]

Hi Guys!

I am a self taught guitarist, I have been strumming chords for years, and now I am moving on to lead solo. This is the third book that I am working on, basically, it covers lots of theory stuffs like the others, It's really bored me out. I just want to jam with the song and run my leads. Do you have any good book to suggest? and tell me the bad ones so I don't have to waste more time.

Cheers, :p

Oceancolour5.

[Kevin Taylor]

You probably won't find a whole lot of guitar instruction books without theory and scales in them. Your best bet is find a book of tabs or search the tabs out on the internet and develop your listening ability with the song on CD.
Unfortunately, there's quite a few innacurate tabs out there tho...especially on the net. Even some commercially available tabs are done wrong.

I was bored to death of scales and theory when I first started out too. Basically for about the first 5 years the only way I learned songs was to buy the album, go to the local store and copy down the chord charts (so I didn't have to buy the book), and then spending hours listening to the leads and trying to figure out how the guy originally played it.
It's actually an advantage to develop your ear that way because after awhile you can learn to figure out how leads are played by ear, just by the way the strings or chords sound. You can tell which chord it is and instinctively know which string is being used just by the timbre of the sound.

[Akira]

Basically for about the first 5 years the only way I learned songs was to buy the album, go to the local store and copy down the chord charts (so I didn't have to buy the book), and then spending hours listening to the leads and trying to figure out how the guy originally played it.

Didn't the store owners say anything about that? :p

[Kevin Taylor]

nah.. I hid it well and waited until his back was turned. I used to have the chord charts written out in pencil ahead of time on a piece of paper and opened the book to remember as many as I could. Then I'd put the book back and wander around looking at stuff and trying to appear casual as I was writing them down from memory. Then I'd wander over to my favorite Yamaha 12 string and try them out. That's how I learned all the standard chords.

[Dr_simon]

I learned a bunch of chords and just listened to songs, hummed them and tried to figure them out. This was mainly because I was more interested in spending my money on beer than song books (I wasn't clever enough to work out the Schmange plan).

It took me longer to get to where I wanted to be but did develop my ear !

[Akira]

nah.. I hid it well and waited until his back was turned. I used to have the chord charts written out in pencil ahead of time on a piece of paper and opened the book to remember as many as I could. Then I'd put the book back and wander around looking at stuff and trying to appear casual as I was writing them down from memory. Then I'd wander over to my favorite Yamaha 12 string and try them out. That's how I learned all the standard chords.

Wow, that'll be a good story to tell when you're rich and famous. :p How many sales of your cd do you have now? (Off topic I know, sorry.)

[Polera]

I ordered a subscription to guitar one, and every month they have a new 1 hour workout on new things with a video cd. So for 1 month i practice for 1 hour a day on those things which is good, then after that i just play music i want.

[lightning_licks]

I don't know if you play rock or not, but Total Rock Guitar is the best book I've ever bought.

Written by the master Troy Stetina, it has a good portion of solos and riffs from all kinds of rock. From heavy to alternative to swing type, it has it all. It comes with a CD and a few of the songs already have solos, but it makes the perfect jam track library. Songs are fun to improvise solos over. :D