Guitar Soloing: The Contemporary Guide to Improvisation (CD Included)

You shouldn't try to learn how to improvise before you can play basic guitar.Start with a Mel Bay or Hal Leonard method book and learn to read play a few tunes competently.Today there are beginner method books that are fun to play with cool tunes and everything.The art of improvising is about creating spontaneous melodies and that never going to be an easy skill to acquire .The only thing this book is lacking is a variety of interesting background tracks to practice the concepts with. Blue shuffles,Pop Ballads,Swing,Rock,Techno,Funk,Country Jazz, etc,etc...It all here the nuts and bolts the tracks would have made it not so academic because to get anything out of the book your going to have practice creating lines your own!Recording yourself against good track and being self critical is the road to improvement.The book is a toolbox your still going to have to transcribe and develop your ears.Bottom line don't begrudge the time!Best for the student who's been playing seriously for two or three years.

what I didn't like about the book was none of the examples were recorded so I didn't know how the examples are supposed to sound.the book is informative for major,minor and modes scales.thankyou

As is so for all of the MI instructional books, it's well written and chock full of useful information that will improve your writing and improvostional skills to the Nth degree

I love this book. I would not recommend it if you don't know any music theory, but if you are like me and you play another instrument and never took the time to learn guitar theory then get this book. This is a great book.

Got this for my hubby as he loves playing guitar. He says it contains great information!

Great book for practice in diverse guitar styles.

I bought these books for a guitarist friend and he absolutely finds them useful for his improvisation technique.

I was looking forward to using this book as a student resource but was extreme;y disappointing to discover after purchase that the Kindle edition does not link to example tracks as do Fundamental and Progressive Ebooks. It's shame as this could've been a useful resource.

This is an amazing book, all guitarists learning on their own should have this. It is a MUST!!1.Everything is explained in details, clearly and easy to understand2.There are hundreds of exercises and backtracks on the CD provided3.If you follow the practising guidelines given you will eventually learn to play amazing guitarWell done Musicians Institute

Bel volume completo e ricco. In lingua Inglese.

One of the best book for beginning to learn the theory , scale patterns and the applications of the scales , modes and arpeggios . I loved the concept of this book. Thank you Amazon for making it available.

this book is very informative for the beginner and advanced guitarist

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