The chapters of this book cover music theory and scales which are essential parts of any professional guitarists' arsenal. Each chapter presents a new concept or expands upon a previously mentioned idea and then applies this information directly to the guitar. There is a companion volume "New York Guitar Method Ensemble Book 1" covering sight reading and rhythm. Equipped with the musical foundation of these two books, the guitarist will be ready to face the most competitive music scene.
Bruce Arnold is an English journalist and author who has lived in Ireland since 1957. His main expertise is in the fields of literary criticism and art criticism. In 1983 it emerged that his telephone had been bugged by Charles J. Haughey in the Irish phone tapping scandal. He and the other bugged journalists were considered to have "anti-national" views.