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This guitar tutor shows you how to learn more efficiently and includes guidance and comments from great guitarists such as Eric Clapton, Frank Zappa, David Glimour, Brian May and John Williams.
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Wonderful Book -- Short, Sweet, Practical.......2006-12-10
I bought my copy on the street, with the cover ripped off of it, for five bucks. By far the best guitar book I've ever seen. Invaluable as a reference tool, I would say.
Besides the writing itself, the book is designed, formatted, laid out really well. Even down to font and the line spacing, this book could not be easier to read or to use. At a total of 117 pages, it's the perfect size, too.
David Mead gives you very practical, immediately useful information about the guitar. He figures that the best way to impart this information to you is on a need-to-know basis, and he sticks to that policy pretty strictly. It's an excellent, very user-friendly approach, and you appreciate his brevity and conciseness.
Get the book.
Beginner book.......2006-02-06
This is an excellent book, my only problem with it is nowhere in the name does it say beginner, this book will teach you your major and minor scales, and all your pentatonic, hammers, pulls, vibrato, slides, and bends, so if you don't know that stuff you need to. Great excercises, how to read tab, chords all that good stuff you already know if you can play. I would'nt call these things tips so much as necessity, I had the impression from the title that it would teach me all these neat tips, and secrets but that's not the case.
Best Guitar Book I've Found.......2004-03-23
If you are tired of memorizing chords and tab and want to learn how to take that foundation into making sounds you want to hear, this is the best book I've found. Mead talks about the essential skills of training your ear (with practical exercises), about becoming a good rhythm player (even lead players play rhythm 80 percent of the time), the pieces that make up a guitar player's voice, and playing and using the pentatonic scales.
This book won't introduce you to the guitar and it won't transform you into Joe Satriani, but it will help you find your own unique voice.
Wonderful book.......2003-06-25
This is an absolute must have book for guitar players who have learned to play guitar without an instructor. This book is like sitting down with an instructor and learning alot of things like playing in gigs, playing by ear, what to learn, elc.. All the things you always wanted to know from somebody that knows and the book has the tips you really need to know. This isn't so much a book about learning techniques, except it has a super good layout on learning the pentitonic scales. I have read Lots and lots of guitar books and have been playing for twenty years. I rate this as the one book every student guitar player should read. This book is great whether you are a folk musican like me, or a heavy rock player. You will like this book, there aren't many others like it anywhere.
Book for people who want to play guitar, not learn about it.......2003-05-05
This book is really good if you have been frustrated by having to learn musical notation and the "proper" way of doing things..
There is nothing wrong with learning everything, but some of us want to learn to play just for fun and will probably never be a virtuouso... It also teaches you to make your own music rather than only becoming good at playing other peoples stuff.
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100 Tips for Acoustic Guitar is a handbook for all things acoustic. Broken down into a series of graduated exercises, spiced with words of wisdom from some of the names in the business, here at last is a handbook to developing your technique and learning theory painlessly. With a full audio CD supporting the exercises within, 100 Tips For Acoustic Guitar is an essential guide for every guitar enthusiast, whether you want to be a campfire accompanist or the next John Williams!
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Most intelligent design i've ever seen.......2006-05-10
David Mead has taken all the fat and left the meat in this guide for guitarists of all skill levels. These are the questions you should be asking but didn't know how or what to ask for.
Has missed out on a couple subjects of which I thought was important(like left hand technique). Over all however, this is the most intelligent book to motivate and inspire a guitarist who wants to enjoy the journey to mastering an instrument.I work in a music shop so I am subjected to a whole lot of useless literature on the subject of learning guitar.
i hope it works out for you as well as it did for me.
Not just for beginners.......2005-12-16
If you're a self taught guitarist and you feel like you haven't learned much in the past few months or years...buy this book.
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In 100 Tips For Blues Guitar You Should Have Been Told, David Mead focuses on the styles and techniques associated with one of the guitar's longest-surviving and most-played genres. In a series of illustrated exercises that work in combination with an accompanying CD, he tackles the problems associated with playing a form of music that stretches the harmonic boundaries of Western music tradition, covering subjects from choosing the right plectrum to executing the most accomplished finger roll this side of the Mississippi! With a thorough breakdown of the styles of the biggest names in the blues, 100 Tips For Blues Guitar is the ultimate guide for anyone with a guitar and a bottle of whiskey.
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100 tips for Blues guitar.......2006-11-10
Of all the books (guitar)I have reviewed, this book should be on your "must have" list. A beginer or a pro, both would find this book very usful.
An excellent book for beginner blues guitar.......2005-03-09
I didn't order this from Amazon because they showed only 64 pages and had no details about the book itself. When I actually saw the book, I was quite surprised at all the information it contained in its **168** pages. After the usual introduction and how to read notation sections, the other main areas are:
Timeline: A Little Blues History
Blues Harmony
Blues Melody
Blues Technique
Style Analysis (of Muddy Waters, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Elmore James, Howlin' Wolf and John Lee Hooker)
Survival Tips for Playing
The appendix has a good listing of chord charts and scales
Overall, it gives you a brief history of the blues and makes every effort to throw some of that history back at you in the larger instruction portions of the book. The book teaches you the basics in a well written thoughtful manner with good larger tablature and diagrams. There are pictures, but only when it seems to be needed for the novice to understand what is being talked about. It would have been nice for the book to be spiral bound, but unfortunately most instruction books aren't.
The cd that comes with it is also a nice addition. It goes over what's included in the book quite well.
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100 Tips For Bass Guitar You Should Have Been Told is a step-by-step guide to the bass. Via a series of graduated exercises supported by a free full-length audio CD, respected performer and tutor Stuart Clayton gives the lowdown on fingerstyle and plectrum technique and teaches you how to slap the strings like Mark King! Whether you're a beginner looking to buy your first guitar or a seasonned professionnal hoping to enhance your playing skills, 100 Tips For Bass Guitar You Should Have Been Told is all you need to become a master on the four-string powerhouse.
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History: Fiction or Science? is the most explosive tractate on history ever written - however, every theory it contains, no matter how unorthodox, is backed by solid scientific data. The book is well-illustrated, contains over 446 graphs and illustrations, copies of ancient manuscripts, and countless facts attesting to the falsity of the chronology used nowadays, which never cease to amaze the reader. Eminent mathematician proves that: Jesus Christ was born in 1153 and crucified in 1186 The Old Testament refers to mediaeval events. Apocalypse was written after 1486. Does this sound uncanny? This version of events is substantiated by hard facts and logic - validated by new astronomical research and statistical analysis of ancient sources - to a greater extent than everything you may have read and heard about history before. The dominating historical discourse in its current state was essentially crafted in the XVI century from a rather contradictory jumble of sources such as innumerable copies of ancient Latin and Greek manuscripts whose originals had vanished in the Dark Ages and the allegedly irrefutable proof offered by late mediaeval astronomers, resting upon the power of ecclesial authorities. Nearly all of its components are blatantly untrue! For some of us, it shall possibly be quite disturbing to see the magnificent edifice of classical history to turn into an ominous simulacrum brooding over the snake pit of mediaeval politics. Twice so, in fact: the first seeing the legendary millenarian dust on the ancient marble turn into a mere layer of dirt - one that meticulous unprejudiced research can eventually remove. The second, and greater, attack of unease comes with the awareness of just how many areas of human knowledge still trust the three elephants of the consensual chronology to support them. Nothing can remedy that except for an individual chronological revolution happening in the minds of a large enough number of people.
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Calculations are only as good as your numbers.......2007-08-03
Yes, we can all agree that mainstream history is nearly 100% BS due to politics, economics, ego, problems with dating techniques, and various conspiracies. Agreed. But, I've been researching the distinct possibility that human history (in terms of civilizations) are much more ancient than we've been told, so coming across this book was very interesting to me. I wondered how Fomenko could be wrong (if at all) because he is very persuasive in his presentations. Then it dawned on me. If at previous times in prehistory, due to the various catastrophies that are well documented (comets, asteroids, planetary disruptions, plasma discharge, pole reversals, etc) the Earth was in a different position in relation to the sun, different tilt on its axis, different orbit, different rotation (in terms of velocity and DIRECTION), and the continents were in different positions, then would this not cause the ancients to see the sky (constellations) differently? In other words, is Fomenko making erronious assumptions about the physics of the Earth in pre-history, which then corrupt his data with regards to dating the relevant astrology? The last event to seriously disrupt our planet occured roughly 3500 years ago, according to other good researchers, so is it possible Fomenko has been confused by this? The vastly different physics of our planet in the not so distant past may explain this confusion, which is not to say the "mainstream" version of history is correct; on the contrary. I am not an expert in these fields, but wanted to see if this idea could spark discussion.
Pants on fire?.......2007-07-19
Will people ever read before spamming? Yes, Jesuits could not rewrite world history alone, they had help. Anyway, Dr Prof Acad A.Fomenko does not point to jesuits as the driving force of world wide history manipulation in published volumes 1,2,3;, actually he barely mentions the poor devils. Check it with 'Search inside' feature, please. China is rarely mentioned either, in fact, Dr Fomenko is completely eurocentric. Right, his theory contradicts all mainstream schools of history, because in their actual state they are all built on blatantly erroneus chronology. You don't need a mysterious cabal (conspiracy) to falsify history, the falsification is its modus operandi. It is inherent to history(ians) to falsify (distort) events, as it is inherent to humans to boast as it is inherent to power (authority) to legimize itself by referrring to glorious past made to its own order. Dr Prof Fomenko and team have identified scores of instances of such manipulation in Russian, European, etc.. history, and delivered valid statistical proof thereof. His own 'reconstruction' is completely another story. Forget c14 as a valid method of dating. W.Libby has initially discovered a brilliant method of INDEPENDENT dating. Too bad, c14 method has become a joke after a forced marrige with dendrochronology with consensual chronological scale inbuilt. Radiocarbon method can't stand blind tests, but is so very productive as a rubberstamp.
Accepted History & Chronology Must Be Changed. .......2007-04-09
There is no doubt that history as most know it is a sham, & institution's version of History both University & Church is fradulent & inaccurate. Everything was established with an agenda, The real "Dark Ages" are now when we have access to incredible amounts of information past authorities & more important 'common folk' didn't have but our institutions & educators are slow to evolve because of what has ignorantly & arrogantly been taught for too long. This is on many subjects not just Chronology.
For anyone to question "Why would a Mathematician have anything credible to say of History?" The answer is from Dr. Fomenko's preface in the book: "It would be worthwhile to remind the reader that in the XVI-XVII century Chronology was considered to be a subdivision of Mathematics." These volumes could possibly be some of the most important works to date & should be read by everyone with an interest in History, especially professors & educators who have a duty to the public. I have read both books & must say that 'Chronology 1' has some very eye opening & revolutionary information. Even if these volumes are part true the implications are profound & opens the doors to further investigations & questions which must be done. I speak several different lanquages & must say the logic Dr. Fomenko uses with "inflection" of words & words being read from left to right in one region & right to left in another then written backwards, the removal of vowels & get down to basics of words, or different cities & locations having the same name etc. is correct. Vowel usage has always been optional & varied, actually complicating linquistics & study. The first thing one has to understand is that words never had a fixed spelling in history like we do now, the spelling of words was mutable & regional, as well as names & titles of people were vast, varied & changed, NOTHING WAS FIXED or understood linear. Matters of Life & Death as well as financial profiteering yesterday & today were & are made with ignorant, illogical & conspiratorial views of history & reality, it's time people get closer to the Truth & society collectively grow up.
Very Interesting.......2007-03-07
It is a good proposal and I believe it will mature into something even better in the future. I think it deserves to be read.
History as Science Fiction.......2007-01-10
Anatoly Fomenko has written a very intriguing book, full of pictures, charts, and computer 'proof' of his thesis: backwards of AD900 we don't really know what happened or when. Between AD900 and AD1600 there is more certainty, but there is still a lot of fuzzy ground, and things don't get reliable until we get past the 1600's where the printing press made it very difficult for the perpetrators of this timeline manipulation to change anything that had been committed to print. The Dark Ages did not happen. Books were burned for a reason. One organization has doubled the actual length of its existence by expanding the real chronology. Read why.
I had always wondered why Christ died about AD33 and yet men waited until the 11th century to form the Knights Templar, the Cathars, etc and go after the Holy Land by force. Why the 1000 year gap? Turns out there wasn't more than a 10-12 year gap and he proves it using astronomy. This also implies that the planet is not as old as we have been told, and current Christian and other creationist scientists are already championing that idea without being aware of Fomenko's book. The two groups, creationist scientists and the Russian mathematical analysts corroborate each other. Fascinating.
Of course, all this flies in the face of what we have been told traditionally is the 'proper' chronology of western civilization, and most readers will experience 'cognitive dissonance' in reading this book. It means that our history going backwards from AD1600 becomes progressively more incorrect and unreliable until it cannot be trusted at all... in the space of 700-800 years.
Naturally, the curious, open-minded reader will want to know WHO did this, WHY, and did any of the events we think of as really ancient ever happen?
Dr. Fomenko is a respected scientist/mathematician at Moscow State University who has already answered these questions to the satisfaction of his initially skeptical colleagues. Most of them are now believers, a few still refuse to believe (the usual diehards), and of course the western press has ignored Fomenko's work -- for obvious reasons when you read the book. The ones who perpetrated this chronology ruse have a lot to answer for. They are still with us. That's why this book is a well-kept secret.
I gave the book a 4-star rating because I was unable to check out some of his claims; those I checked were as he said. But if even 1/3 of his claims are true, this punches a big hole in what we think is our history, the meaning of western civilization, our educational process (for repeating the ruse as gospel), and the trustworthiness of the organization that perpetrated this ruse, well-intentioned or not.
This book relates to current research into a Young Earth paradigm, to John Keel's discoveries about our planet, and Fr Malachi Martin's insights (in his now out-of-print books). We are indeed sheep who are manipulated and kept ignorant -- for a reason. While knowing what these men have to say may be the "booby prize" (as in: 'what can you do with this knowledge?'), it will provide interesting reading. Didn't someone say: "...and the Truth will set you free."?? For you to judge if this book contains the truth.
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Culture, Organization, And Management in South Africa
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You're top-notch at crosswords and want to stimulate your mind with some that are different from the rest. Look no further than this gold mine of 72 puzzles taken from the best magazines published in the ´50s and ´60s. So, the clue for MOON is "One of NASA's goals," since it was written before Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon. And, the answer for "Actress Drew" would be ELLEN, not BARRYMORE. Your brain will get a good workout as you test your vocabulary and find out how much you know.
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This book contains hundreds of teasers for the ultimate, mind-challenge workout, with such features as number grids, scrostics, logic problems, arithmetic squares, and others.
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Completely updated, with 40 percent new material, this is an indispensable guide for people with disabilities who wish to improve their lives through computer technology. It lists what's available and how best to use it; provides names of organizations, vendors, and online resources; and tells the stories of real people of all ages who are using technology successfully.
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This is the ONE.......2006-01-20
If you are a person with disabilities or have some functional limitation, there are so many tools and resources available to help you achieve your potential. But where to start? Start with this book by the Alliance for Technology Access! From establishing a vision of how your life to be, to giving you step-by-step instructions for creating a plan, to educating you about technology tools that are available, to describing your legal rights, this book has it all. I know of dozens of people for whom this book has opened doors they barely had dreamed of.
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