- ISBN13: 9780793565092
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
The ultimate source for guitar tricks, effects, and other unorthodox techniques. This book demonstrates and explains 45 incredible guitar sounds using common stomp boxes and a few unique techniques, including: pick scraping, police siren, ghost slide, church bell, jaw harp, delay swells, looping, monkeyÕs scream, catÕs meow, race car, pickup tapping, and much more.
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Popularity: 1%
November 17th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
This book is a very brief compilation of tricks used to produce sound effects using an electric guitar as if it were a synthesizer. If that is your goal, by all means buy the book. But don’t be mislead into thinking you’ll learn anything that you could use while actually playing the instrument, nor will you pick up any tips that will improve your playing skills. I sent it back for a refund.
Rating: 1 / 5
November 17th, 2009 at 7:43 pm
I got it just to see what tricks I could learn. A bunch are unimportant and I will probably never use them for anything. But there are some really good tricks in here as well.
The harmonics bits, and such are great for adding more to your arsenal of tones you can achieve, but you can learn the techniques in other books as well. I didn’t give a low rating because it does contain a hearty amount of techniques, they just aren’t what I’d use. But the book does deliver what it is supposed to.
If you’re really bored with standard guitar sound, and want to learn other off-the-wall tricks, get this book. Otherwise, harness your latent skills and just be more creative.
Rating: 4 / 5
November 17th, 2009 at 9:58 pm
This book is definitely not worth the price. Not even worth $5. There is no insight to cool effect techniques here. Basic common knowledge or simple experimentation tips. I returned it very disappointed. Also, shoddy printing job.
Rating: 1 / 5
November 17th, 2009 at 10:38 pm
You might be thinking this is some boring old instructional book. Well, you’de be wrong! This is a great gift to give and an excellent present to recieve. Chris has been my guitar teacher for over a year now and he has taught me a lot of cool tricks, fun licks, and great ideas. His book will show you how to perform these great tricks and even how to launch a guitar from a slingshot and through a window! That’s not all, you get 45 (44 if you don’t include the slingshot) really cool tricks that some of the most popular artist have used over and over. Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Steve Vai, Eddie Van Halen, Jeff Beck, Allan Holdsworth, and many more! “This book demonstrates and explains 45 (or 44) incredible guitar sounds using common stomp boxes and a few unique techniques.” I highly suggest you purchase this book! It is great for Electrical guitar players and some tricks for acoustics too! Hope you love it like I do!
Rating: 5 / 5
November 18th, 2009 at 12:57 am
This is not a method book in the traditional sense. It’s akin to a spice rack to flavor up your playing and help you think outside of the idiomatic nature of the guitar. It’s definitely a very good book and full of useful ideas. If you partnered this with Michael Mueller’s “Guitar Techniques” you will come away with a good understanding of the fairly current state of the art in electric guitar playing. (Mueller’s book is a more conventional starting point) For those who wish to take it one step further, seek out Peter Yates’ “Prepared Guitar Techniques” and John Schneider’s “Contemporary Guitar” (Schneider is an advocate of altered tuning systems – not scordatura – for the guitar) Unfortunately, there is no definitive book on extended techniques/systems for the guitar (microtonal, fretless, prepared, ambient, tabletop, etc) but these books come close. A volume on Tom Morello’s technique would be a good coda to this type of book.
Rating: 4 / 5