Good music book recommendations

[Sandstorm]

I thought this might make for an engaging post.

I've collected a lot of music books over the years and am certainly no expert on all the different genres and techniques but I do appreciate all kinds of styles and music and will always be willing to learn a few things or "take a page from ____'s book."

I'll go first..."Pat Metheny Guitar Etudes - Warmup Exercises for Guitar" and was pleasantly surprised.  There's a lot of great phrasing up and down the neck, you can play it with a pick or with your fingers.  The notes melody sound good and the rhythm is steady so as you get familiar with it you can speed it up.  Gives some good insight into a great player.  For me it kind of gave me something new to practice without having to think too much and I think the muscle memory of playing some of these will take me out of a rut of playing similar phrases.

Sometimes the novelty of a new book wears off and I don't always get out of it what I intended, this book I like.

Anyone else?

[William2]

A music book I really like is Leo Brouwer's Simple Etudes. Never a big Brouwer fan when I was young, I became interested in these little studies after listening to Lindsay Straw perform some of them on YouTube. They are for fingerstyle guitar. I like their shortness that is tied with a specific technical issue. The 20 studies have much commentary on each study including recommendations as to tempo and other things by Frederic Zigante and Brouwer himself. They are published by ESCHIG and edited by Frederic Zigante. The book includes a CD of the 20 studies. While Lindsay Straw said she would record all of them, she appears to have stopped at #9. I see her point. The first 9 include the most important issues of the 20 studies. The others appear to incorporations of the first 9 studies. And who wants to spend their whole life playing studies LOL?

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiuyv7TlNu4

[StringPicker6]

Fretboard Logic vol 1 and 2 (combined) has always been a popular one.  I can vouch for the first 3 pages, but I never progressed past that.   

[Sandstorm]

Fretboard Logic vol 1 and 2 (combined) has always been a popular one.  I can vouch for the first 3 pages, but I never progressed past that.   

I've got a lot of books I've never worked through as intended but if there's a few meaty looking pieces I can work on it gives me a break from working on original stuff.  Overtime, I think it helps to develop as a player.  For example, I've never been a jazz player but I do enjoy this Metheny book or some books with interesting jazz chords where maybe I'm not learning a piece note for note, but still taking some inspiration from it.

[StringPicker6]

Legend has it that the beatles would learn a few jazz chords when they were young, which made their songs so catchy.

[unclrob]

1001 chords 

[William2]

1001 chords 

LOL!!! How does anyone learn 1001 chords? I always found it interesting in music school how jazz musicians had different names for a chord classical musician used. One of my favorite guitarists said that the bass note was the name of the chord above. And continuo players just had a bass note with numerical figures above to fill out the chord. Having always played prepared compositions, I never really got that interested in just learning chords. I do marvel at reading a piece and watching how the composer put something together on the sheet music. I do of course now how to build chords in my heard, but composing, not here LOL.

[BlueBowman]

LOL!!! How does anyone learn 1001 chords? I always found it interesting in music school how jazz musicians had different names for a chord classical musician used. One of my favorite guitarists said that the bass note was the name of the chord above. And continuo players just had a bass note with numerical figures above to fill out the chord. Having always played prepared compositions, I never really got that interested in just learning chords. I do marvel at reading a piece and watching how the composer put something together on the sheet music. I do of course now how to build chords in my heard, but composing, not here LOL.

I always liked Joe Pass' take on chords. He broke it down into three chord families: major, minor, and dominant. Thinking in those simplified terms really streamlined things for me. No matter what extensions (he calls them "tone colors," I believe) you wanna stack on the chord, it can always be broken down into one of those three.

[B0WIE]

I always liked Joe Pass' take on chords. He broke it down into three chord families: major, minor, and dominant. Thinking in those simplified terms really streamlined things for me. No matter what extensions (he calls them "tone colors," I believe) you wanna stack on the chord, it can always be broken down into one of those three.

 As I'm learning theory (again) I'm finding myself gravitating to Joe Pass videos. The guy who supposedly "didn't know theory".    The mathematical part of my brain doesn't really turn on for music but when I think of it in the way Joe explains it, the math becomes a mood, it becomes musical again.

[BlueBowman]

As I'm learning theory (again) I'm finding myself gravitating to Joe Pass videos. The guy who supposedly "didn't know theory".    The mathematical part of my brain doesn't really turn on for music but when I think of it in the way Joe explains it, the math becomes a mood, it becomes musical again.

Yes, you get it. His style of casual and simplified teaching works so well for me. Almost like when reading a poignant and deep, good book for the first time, you feel as if the author is speaking directly to you -- the truth of it hits immediately and then becomes internalized.

[unclrob]

knowing diff chord voicing can enhance a tune.playing in  a duo can enlarge there sound