Creative Guitar: Advanced Techniques Volume 2: Advanced Techniques

by Guthrie Govan

Creative Guitar 2 studies in depth the various techniques used by todays guitar stars in their playing, including eight-finger tapping, playing harmonics and the undiscovered world of emulating other instruments. With an accompanying CD full of riffs and examples to illustrate the exercises and techniques presented, this book aims to provide guitarists with a lexicon of new musical ideas and a performance style that sounds both easy and professional.

Genres: Music, Nonfiction

126 pages, Paperback

First published February 3, 2003

Reviews

[gekko100 · Rating 4 out of 5]

picks up where the first volume leaves off. The sections on alernate picking, legato contain an excellent collection of exercises of steadily increasing difficulty.

[Teemu · Rating 4 out of 5]

Short but very enjoyable, it projected Guthrie's approach we can see on his video lessons. I twould be great to see more narration from him around the harmonic concepts.

[Michael Reid · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good series. I'd recommend it to many guitarists.

[Joe Wilson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Book 1

I enjoyed the first book more overall as far as reading goes. In terms of music theory, etc etc. it didn't really cast much light on anything because i already knew most of it, but it was still great with quite a few surprises. I remember thinking "God, i really wish i had this book when i was first learning to play". There are so many things to take in when you're teaching yourself how to play guitar and this book answers almost any questions someone new to the instrument would have. It explains the basics of music theory, what scales/chords are and what makes them work, it has an aside on how to sight-read music, and is easily one of the greatest books out there for the advancing guitarist. There are also plenty of long tangents about things not related to music in the beginning which i enjoyed, lots of funny stories and inspriational advice.

Book 2
The second book however is pretty much basic shred primer. Its geared mainly at advanced-intermediate players. This book will teach you how to turn people's heads. Again, it is very much technique-driven. There were actually quite a few things in this book that i never tried, and it was very fun going through the exercises Guthrie presents. The companion CD with Guth playing all the examples was very handy too. I would really reccomend this to any player who's reached a point where they feel like they just can't break out of their regular practice routine and need a good "kick in the arse", so to speak.

[Marcel Monpatron · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book _will_ keep you busy should you decide to get involved in it. As always, Guthrie Govan's sense of detail in a musical perspective opens tons of possibilities.

I for one suddenly discovered I had been doing legato wrong my whole life.