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(I don't consider the following as book reviews - however, you might still find it useful for your own playing).


The Praxis System - Guitar Compendium

by Howard Roberts & Garry Hagberg, three volumes.
ISBN 3-89221-019-5
ISBN 3-89221-020-9
ISBN 3-89221-021-7
e.g. Advance Music

Did you ever feel your playing has somehow come to a dead spot? Then this series of instruction books might be of interest to you. Each of the three volumes contains about a hundred exercises and examples which can give you fresh inspiration, open up new realms of playing and practising, and new perspectives in theory, and I do recommend that you check it out. It contains sections such as Essential Theory For Guitarists, Troubleshooting (The Guitarists Guide To Solving Problems), and The Fingerboard Map: Intervals.

Personally, I must say it's not really appropriate for beginners or as your sole learning material, since it requires that you read notes, and is not arranged as a tutorial in the manner of Lesson 1, Lesson 2 etc.
Rather I view this as a reference, the series addresses intermediate to advanced players of blues, jazz and rock, and improvisation, and if you look for new inspiration or the way to go next now you begin to feel comfortable on your instrument, I can recommend it.


The Jazz Guitar Study Series: Guitar Comping

by Barry Galbraith.
(Three volumes, I only have volume three)
Book and CD set, JA
Jamey Aebersold Jazz.

This is tough stuff! A very thin booklet, but in it a wealth of various exercises on guitar comping, vocings, chord substitution, bass lines etc. Definitely not for beginners. And it's not a simple to use tutorial, you must pick out what you think useful, there's only notes, and almost no accompanying text. Still, once you accept this, here you have a wealth of condensed, compressed information that can keep you busy for years.


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