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This is a book about developing speed. Thus it is classified as "technique". I expect no music theory from this sort of book, and as expected, there isn't any. I did find the comments on how to practice for speed, comments about understanding what you are trying to get from an exercise, and concentration on those things for each exercise to be especially good practice tips. Sounds like common sense but I am sure many guitars just try to play without much real focus on exactly what a particular exercise is trying to accomplish.

I have purchased a lot of guitar books - I think this is a good one, and I recommend it. But...I rated it 4 because it needs some updates to the audio tracks. Rather than having 1 audio track per exercise, which allows you to load that into a looper and practice that one exercise, it lumps several exercises into a 10 minutes track called "right hand" and another into another 10 min track. You can still set markers and loop between those points if you have the right software, but you shouldn't have to. I think this is just left over from the fact that maybe it was originally produced for a cassette tape format and they didn't take the time to reformat each exercise as its own track when they produced the CD. So..one star ding.

I've not used the whole book but I've looked it over and read a lot of it. I've only begun to use the exercises so can't comment on results - but like all guitar activity it comes down to volume of practice time and effective practice methods. I think this book provides good exercises and good tips on effective practice if you take them to heart.

It's better than 80% of the materials I have purchased so I resisted the urge to rate it only 3 stars and gave it 4 instead. Its definitely a rock guitar/speed metal kind of book...kind of a change of pace in my collection.

Do not buy the kindle version it is useless with no audio and bad graphics. Buy the paper book version with a CD of the audio tracks.


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