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Intermediate Songs I learnt a lot from books over the years (growing up in Tasmania does that to you...) and I am often asked to
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This is a book about a most important subject, but one that is often neglected. It tells you
Songwriting HOW TO PRACTISE. How to make the most of your practice time, how to become more
aware of your mistakes and how to keep your focus when you are practicing. It talks about
All Levels dealing with stage fright and nerves, and psychology for musicians. It will make you a
better player and make your practice time more productive. There are some, but not many,
All Songs List musical examples that require reading. They are not essential, and are pretty easy if you
Practice Better want to have a go. Everyone I know that has read the book thinks it is brilliant and it really
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Transcribing Modern Reading Text In 4:4 by Louis Belson
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I used this book to learn rhythms, and people still do... but...
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 The problem with the Belson book is that it contains no instruction. So I worked for a year
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with drum guru Justin Scott and together we wrote Understanding Rhtyhm Notation, a
Arpeggios 200 page ebook which teaches you all the skills you get from the Belson book, but we
Chords explain each step and put in a much better organised system. Check it out!!
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These 3 volumes are the basic music course textbooks for Berklee College of music in the
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US. I learnt to read using Book 1 and went pretty much right through. It covers many
topics such as reading music, rhythms, scales, keys, arpeggios, duets, key changes, chord
Forum Community voicings, chord leading etc., etc. It is really well laid out and is great for "wood shedding"
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Customer Services These 3 books will keep you busy for at least a year, if not more. They are quite good for
"revising" too, I use them to brush up on my reading if it's getting too sloppy. I have 3
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Guitar Secrets - Joe Satriani

Well they are not secrets any more Joe, but they are great great exercises and some really
clever thinking. I got lots of my concepts and technical ideas from this book. A really good
read no matter what style you play. The guy is a guitar genius, and remeber he taught
Steve Vai, Kirk Hammet and many more other great players! Now he can teach you!

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Harmony and Theory: A Comprehensive Source for All Musicians by Keith Wyatt

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 This book is great for people that want to learn to read music as well as learn music theory.
It functions well as a follow up to my Practical Music Theory book, in which I explain all
the basic concepts without having to read notation. This book starts with the basics and
covers many topics up to and including modes. I recommend this book to all my students
that want a thorough theory book that uses notation.

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In my humble opinion this is the best guitar book ever written. It has very few musical
examples and is mostly about exploring music, improvising and getting the most from your
time on the guitar. There is NO TAB only notes. No serious guitarist should be without this
book. It is for your head more than your hands. It is NOT FOR BEGINNERS. To understand
the concepts you need to be able to play, read music and understand theory already.

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125 Classical Studies For Flute

Why a flute book? because most sight reading books for guitar are written for guitarists and
are either in position or are mind numbing boring random notes and scales. This book is full
of short beautiful melodies by the greatest composers so the reading is actually fun! As
well
as that the melodies are real, not exercises so you get "real" experience of reading real
melodies. They are also not n position so you get used to choosing a position to read in.
There are many time signatures covered too - so you can develop that skill.

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The Real Book Vol. 1 in C

This is the "real" real book. The original one. There is a better printed one called The New
Real Book. I use both but this one is cooler ;) The earlier editions are somewhat better with
some cooler chord substitutions, but this will do just fine. If you wanna get into jazz then
this is for you. You need this book. It contains all the great standard jazz tunes, both the
chords and the melody and is the way that most people start getting afmiliar with the
tunes. If you transcribe jazz it can be helpful to know what the original chords were before
they got substituted... Wanna play jazz. Buy this now!

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The New Real Book

And here is the new edition as described above. This one is a lot better printed, clearer
more accurate and has the writers permissions. Lots of more modern jazz classics and
fusion tunes - compliaments the above real book, both are recomended.

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Guitar Style by Joe Pass and Bill Thrasher

This is a fantastic book about playing the guitar. There is NO TAB so you have to read dots
to get the full benefit from the book. Joe has a fantastically simple approach to harmony,
linking many different areas in to one. He is a great educator and here he presents advise
on harmony, chord substitutions, single line studies for blues and rhythm changes, chord
melody ideas and chord and scale relationships. Very well written and clear. A great book
full to the brim of ideas for the jazz student.

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 Jazz Guitar- Single Note Soloing by Ted Greene

This guy is amazing. Most famous for the very dodgy picture on the front of his book
"Chord Chemistry" (highly recommended but not found at Amazon). This guy is a rocket
scientist who went berserk in a guitarists head. I have never heard a recording of him, but
the books are just incredible. He goes into every possible shape of arpeggio and every scale
permutation and it can really open your playing up, giving you new and exciting ways of
playing things that normally sound average. Some of the major scale patterns are out of
this world, but sound beautiful and melodic. It's all dots again, NO TAB.

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The Jazz Theory Book by Mark Lavine

This book cover ALL JAZZ THEORY. In deep and from the start. It explains all the major jazz
components such as Chords and Scales, Playin' the Changes, Reharmonisation, The Tunes
and The Rest of it. It is the ultimate Jazz Theory resource. If you want to get into jazz
music theory, GET THIS BOOK. It is really really good. I can't fault it in any way, except
maybe that there is too much information to digest in a lifetime. It's not fair of him to point
it out.

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Books about music (not really instructional)

The Devil's Music: A History of the Blues by Giles Oakley

I found this book to be awesome. Spent a whole 4 month tour reading it and buying CD's in
every town of who it was talking about in the book. I learnt so much about the blues. It
really is a great read, well written, clear and well illustrated. Check it out if you wanna play
the blues.

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 Miles (autobiography) by Miles Davis

This book is an amazing account of the life of probably the most influential musician of the
20th century, Miles Davis. You can probably tell that I dig Miles, I feel that he really gets
inside the music and pushes it out and around in a very unique and musical way. I love the
silence he plays. This book (which would be a pamphlet if the four letter words were
removed) makes very interesting reading. It is pretty graphic, an adults book (NOT FOR
KIDS) and will give a you a perhaps unexpected glimpse of the life of a black American
musician during the birth of jazz. It is really a great read.

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