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Dr_simon
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03/30/2003 7:02 pm
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1893884058/ref=cm_wl_ovu-pg.1-pos.1/104-6149874-4060732?v=glance&coliid=I2QNO2VHRPM6CF&me=ATVPDKIKX0DER#product-details


Has any one used these books?

Amazon is offering a package of all of them for about 90 UDS (with DVD) and I’m wondering if they are any good !

I have had several guitar books over the years and whilst some have been really good some have been dreadful. So, if any one has used these books, I'd love to know if they are worth getting.

I am an intermediate / advanced player (of 20 years or so) and really don't want another book listing every chord known to man kind (as played at the nut) and extensive diagrams showing every conservable position of the pentatonic scale!

Cheers
S

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Dr_simon
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04/05/2003 7:37 pm
I guess that is a resounding no then !
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zepp_rules
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zepp_rules
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04/05/2003 8:17 pm
sorry doc, logic in any of its forms has no place in this forum
To improve technique and of course trying to keep all as clean as possible. I know my own limits and speed limits and so on I never play anything I'm not capable of. That wouldn't make any sense. After three years of playing I tried to play everything as fast as possible and that sounded, I would say, like shit, and I didn't realize that if I'd play bit slower things than I was capable of playing then everything would sound much better.

--Aleksi Laiho - Advice to Play By
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Dr_simon
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Dr_simon
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04/05/2003 9:04 pm
LOL !!!!! And everywhere else by the looks of things!
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Dr_simon
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Dr_simon
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04/06/2003 8:33 pm
Well I have gone ahead and ordered it, I will post my thoughts on it regardless of who is interested !
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flash2ace
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flash2ace
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04/07/2003 2:06 am
im interested doc let me know what you think and if it helps you it might help me so let me know and thanks.
play music unto the lord in a manner of praise.
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Dr_simon
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04/13/2003 1:32 pm
Well I got the boxed set and they appear to be brilliant. There is not much that is fundamentally new but their is a new way to look at the fret board.

Book 1 (of three): Center round getting you to play everything using the five different positions up and down neck and treat these five positions as contiguous. Example, you can play a C chord using the C shape at the nut, the A shape on fret 3 , a G shape, and E shape and D shape (Hence the name the CAGED system). Book 1 then apply this to the pentatonic boxes and sliding scales. This is good as it gets a player out of one box and into all of them, forcing lazy players (like my self) to cover new ground.

Book two starts doing the same thing to modes and other tonal derivations of the diatonic scale as well as expanding chord vocabulary. and this is as far as I have got so far. Their is a third book which covers application and that I think will be very cool however Im going to take my time getting through the first two to make sure I have covered everything completely!

These books are not really for beginners. I have found them interesting and am pleased with my $90 bucks worth thus far. There is an address for teachers (who want to use these books) to order them at a discount.

Cool Beans
S

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