Sheets of Sound

[ND31]

anybody using these books ?

I'll be looking for new books soon. Right now I'm working with Guthrie Govan's Creative Guitar 2 so I'd like to know if they tackle the same subects or if they're different.

[guitarjazz]

Andrew Green's Jazz Guitar Technique

[gennation]

anybody using these books ?

I'll be looking for new books soon. Right now I'm working with Guthrie Govan's Creative Guitar 2 so I'd like to know if they tackle the same subects or if they're different.

Mr Zucker hangs out at TGP. He's in discussion right now in the Theory forum.

http://thegearpage.net/board/showthread.php?t=279682

There's always a lot of side discussions about his books. All good too.

[bluenote82]

Books what are those?

I go by sound. You can learn all you want to out of a book, but that doesn't mean someone's a good player.

I've got a good many books like "The Advancing Guitarist" by Mick Goodrick, "Chord Chemistry" by Ted Greene, and "Modern Jazz Guitar Styles" by Andre Bush. All of these books are highly rated, and granted they have some great stuff in them, but they can only take you so far. It's up to you and your imagination to take you to that next level.

[guitarjazz]

Books what are those?

I go by sound. You can learn all you want to out of a book, but that doesn't mean someone's a good player.




True, but growing up in a small town in the middle of nowhere and getting hold( 35 years ago) of the Joe Pass Guitar Style book and the Howard Roberts guitar book was like a swift kick to the rear…in a good way. Wore the needle off the turntable too.
The number of books and instructional DVD available now seems overwhelming.

[thedwork]

Books what are those?

I go by sound. You can learn all you want to out of a book, but that doesn't mean someone's a good player.


reading books can give you ideas about sound.

and you can learn all you want and never read a book, but that doesn't mean someone's a good player either.

[guitarjazz]

I go by sound.
Then read The Listening Book: Discovering Your Own Music by W.A. Mathieu.

[WorldB3]

Andrew Green's Jazz Guitar Technique

That book has helped me a lot with my sight reading and fingering. Even though I can sight read for the Piano I got lazy with reading tabs (and other bad habbits) when it came to the Guitar.

[guitarjazz]

That book has helped me a lot with my sight reading and fingering. Even though I can sight read for the Piano I got lazy with reading tabs (and other bad habbits) when it came to the Guitar.
His fingering concepts have been very helpful. Have you checked out Guitar Lore by Dennis Sandole( Martino's teacher)?

[Sly_R]

I find Zucker's "Sheets of Sound" book very helpful -- enough that I recommend it to my students.

Many of the exercises focus on sweep-picking, so I usually suggest another reference for alternate picking exercises. Of course, any musical phrase is an alternate picking exercise anyway. Often, I refer students to Oliver Nelson's book or the Charlie Parker omnibook.

You also want to be on the lookout for a few typos. Easy to spot if you get the gist of the patterns.

Some exercises actually use inefficient fingerings, and thus wouldn't be source material for actual licks, but the workout will help develop dexterity. Plus, I find that when I warm up with the exercises in Sheets of Sound, I am frequently inspired to devise similar exercises of my own.

Overall, a worthwhile investment for warmup material, and a good springboard for further ideas.