Guitar Clues: Operation Pentatonic
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Guitar Clues: Operation Pentatonic Details
(Guitar Educational). Join renowned guitar master Greg Koch as he clues you in to a wide variety of fun and valuable pentatonic scale applications. Whether you're new to improvising or have been doing it for a while, this book will provide loads of delicious licks and tricks that you can use right away, from volume swells and chicken pickin' to intervallic and chordal ideas. Includes 65 demo and play-along tracks. The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
Reviews
Greg Koch is a great teacher and an amazing player. If you're unfamiliar, he's also an unrepentant goofball, which I can deal with.This book is a series of lessons on various techniques that most guitar players of all levels could probably use practice on. Each chapter focuses on things like slides, bends, vibrato, bends with vibrato, double stops, etc. You get an exercise to practice, then a solo over a backing track. What I really like is that while the exercises are useful, the solo (transcribed) and rhythm guitar part (also transcribed) give you a lot to work with, as far as applying the techniques (the solos) over some really good rhythm parts. These aren't your basic one-finger shuffles and the like, they're fleshed out, useful, usable guitar parts. To me that's very helpful. So often lesson books just sort of "throw away" the backing track - Greg gives you a lot to review and work on with every chapter, using interesting chord voicings, for example, for the rhythm parts. He's not just banging away on bar chords. This is the kind of stuff I wish I'd learned when I was just starting out many, many years ago.A great lesson book given in small, digestible chunks. Very useful stuff. I've been playing a long time and I'm finding plenty to work on.
