Creative Guitar 2: Advanced Techniques

So I’m a classically trained guitarist who just decided about a year ago to start on electric (for real). I had dabbled in electric guitar here and there for many years, but never took it as serious as classical. I spent a month looking for the best electric guitar book I could find. The Reddit guitar community highly recommended this series, so it was a no-brainer.Ok let me talk about the book specifically now. You need to have a rudimentary understanding of guitar before using this book-—it’s not for total beginners in my opinion. The book contains a long foreword from Guthrie that’s filled with a lot of real good advice on questions that not a lot of books go over. The real meat of the book starts with the scales and chords chapter. I really like the simple way Guthrie explains everything. You should just go ahead and learn all the exercises—there simple but really help right and left hand communication (very essential). The CAGED system is covered in detail as well as the modes.Anyway, you should just buy the book because Guthrie Govan wrote it and I think he knows what’s going on in terms of guitar playing.

Guthrie Govan is one of those rare guitar players who has mastered the instrument. His style and touch is that of Allan Holdsworth and Shawn Lane. He is truly a great, and it is sad that he like the aforementioned will probably never get the recognition he deserves, but such is life.Where this book excels above the rest, is its simplistic approach to the subject at hand. It never bogs you down with whiz kid termonology, it is straight-forward and spot on. This is not to say that it won't appeal to us nerdy guys who want to know it all, it just balances out to make the perfect book.The exercises are fun to play and will tie your fingers in a knot in no time flat. But more than that, they work the things that most guitar players never think to work. Let's face it, there are two ways to practise, the right way, and the wrong way. That is why you meet players who have been playing 20+ years and they are mediocre, and then you meet a kid who has been playing 4 years and he burns like the best. One practised the right way, the other spent his time noodling scales.This book is a must have if you really want to delve deep into guitar insanity. But be forewarned, this book will not make you play like Guthrie, only years of hard work will do that. But if you want the right path to guitar greatness, this book will guide you there.

Tear their faces off with blazing virtuousity is what you'll do when you master the techniques in this book! I have quite a few other technique books by Troy Stetina, Satriani, and Musicians Institute I believe. They are alright and have some decent and some useful information in them but have not made the impact on my guitar playing I was hoping.Particularly useful in this book is that exercises and ideas are written in both standard notation and tablature. Sometimes its easier to see patterns in standard notation than it is in tab form; notation also helps a lot in learning the fretboard. I was worried this book would skimp on the technical side of playing and be geared more to standard scale exercises like other books I own. This is not the case. Two handed tapping, eight finger tapping even, legato picking, strange sequences similiar to those found on Vai's Passion and Warfare album, odd rhythm grouping patterns, double stops, and even how to make your guitar sound like a Hammond organ and other intruments are included.This is a fantastic book geared to highly technical guitar playing. References to other great guitar albums are also sprinkled throughout to expand your listening library. I would highly recommend this book to anyone serious about mastering the guitar and wish I had it years ago myself. I've been playing for almost 15 years now.

I have been a great fan of Guthrie Govan (the author of this book) since I read his articles in the pages of Guitar Techniques magazine (also a great resource):)I really liked the way the author summarized and verbalized the techniques that are involved in playing. For me, it was a great way to explain how each technique should look like and feel like which for this part, I believe is the sign of a good teaching technique.This book is great for people who have played for a while and think are pretty familiar with the majority of concepts the instrument has to offer and Guthrie here throws a monkey wrench into the system. As guitarists we realize that the comibations and scale patterns are virtually endless but he offers combinations and ideas that sound melodious and musical.I particularly liked the sections on picking (a great simple explanation of a big topic), the immitation of other instruments on the guitar (now I don't need that mandolin) and the two handed techniques deserve hours and hours of expirementation. If you have been playing for several years and if you feel like you in a bit of a rut this one is for you.

Seriously, this guy can do anything with a guitar. Not only one of the best players out today, but one of the best teachers. Guthrie Govan really gives you insight on some of his techniques, and it's up to you how/where to use them in your playing. Yet, I wouldn't recommend this book to a beginner or even the early-stage intermediate player. Some of the topics and techniques can get really gnarly, but there very effective for the guitarist who plays 3 hours a day everyday. This book is pointless if you can't play the exercises and most of these exercises will take a while to conceptualize even for the seasoned player. That being said, I love this book and I love his playing. The CD that comes with the book is pretty much Guthrie Govan showing off for a few hours, but was needed to hear reference to what you are reading about. Govan is the man and his musical prowess will grow further as time goes on, I expect awesome things from him on both the playing, as well as the teaching side.

Guthrie is an incredible teacher. He takes what were once complicated concepts and puts them in such a way that allows you to wrap your brain around it. I highly recommend this book.Shipped very quickly and arrived in perfect shape.

ガスリーゴーヴァンのアプローチやサウンドに共感して本書を購入しました。彼のファンならずとも、この教則本は実用的で、一部の教則本にありがちな駆け足でコンテンツが進んでいく本ではなく、実に丁寧に表記されている教則本です。ガスリーゴーヴァンの教則本といえば、ぶっ飛びテクニックの非現実的な近寄りがたい、会得は困難な内容と想像される方もおられると思いますが、洋書の教則本でこんなに緻密で丁寧で且つ、読者の目線に合わせた内容は素晴らしいです。彼のそれぞれのリックへのコメントも実に分かり易く、ユーモアもあり、「教え上手」な彼の人間性も感じ取られる内容です。一部の超絶ギタリストの著書にありがちな、一部の人にしか理解されなくても良いというようなもの、第三者が仲介して編集された、本人の意思に齟齬があるものや（具体的にいうとタブ譜面のポジションなど）いい加減な内容ではない（洋書にありがち）。本書は、彼に共感できる人、できない人、彼を知らない人、を問わない。

If tired of Jamming with Songs over and over and over !!! This is the book to get !!!

ガスリーの著書、Creative Guitarの第二弾です。第一弾から発展して本書では様々なリックがまとめられています。前半のオルタネイトピッキング、レガート、スウィープの章で覚えたフレーズを自分で様々なスケールに当てはめれば、引き出しはきっと増えることでしょう。後半は８フィンガータッピングやら飛び道具系が多いですが、変態フレーズの組み立て方などもわかるので変態を目指す方にはいい教本になると思います。ガスリー本人が弾くデモ音源がなかなか鬼畜です。

Excellent!