Geared toward aspiring professional guitarists, this volume builds on foundational skills from previous books. It introduces innovative techniques for reading music, emphasizing various positions on the neck, syncopated rhythms, and advanced picking strategies. The text also covers four-note chord voicings and a range of articulations like harmonics and tapping. Each chapter features a two-guitar composition that reinforces the concepts taught, making it a practical resource for developing contemporary guitar skills.
This volume is designed for guitarists preparing for a professional music career, assuming familiarity with pitch reading in Positions I and V and rhythmic notation. It equips modern players with essential tools for success. Authored by Ian Robbins, the text introduces a fresh approach to guitar reading, emphasizing various positions in the lower neck, syncopated eighth-note figures, picking strategies, double stops, and diverse articulations such as hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, accents, and dynamics. Each chapter features a composition for two guitarists that reinforces the unit's material. This resource prepares aspiring professionals to read charts and information they will encounter in gigs, studios, or ensembles. Reflecting current trends, the examples cover a range of contemporary musical styles prevalent in today’s scene. Key components include a review of Positions I and V, study of Positions II-IV in all twelve keys, reading two pitches simultaneously, tips for coordinating picking with rhythmic groups, syncopation exercises, melodic and slash notation reading, chord symbol recognition, and guitar-specific articulations. Numerous practice examples are provided to reinforce the concepts throughout the book.
