im looking to buy an instructional guitar book. i have about 30 dollars to blow. the internet has proven to be an awesome resource, but i gotta go somewhere on vacation soon and wont have internet for a while. i want a good book... i heard the guitar grimoire series was pretty decent. but uh, yeah, any suggestions?

get the mel bay guitar books. altho u may need a teacher to teach you from them, they arent supposed to self taught but they are good books.

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yeah im mostly teaching myself. i've been playing for about 2 years, and i only took lessons for about 3 months, when i was starting. but i'll check them out nonetheless.

That guitar grimoire is the way to go. I got to look at one in a bookstore. It was loaded down with info. The one I read was all about scales and modes, they have several focusing on different parts of your playing.

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Yes, I have two of those. One of them belongs to a mexican though. GREAT books, especially the chords one, and the scales at a close second best.

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I'm sure you already are aware that there's a wealth of resources available on-line (try Googling "shred exercises", "modes", etc....all you need is time and a printer), but the Grimoire series is fantastic - the best move I ever made for my playing was picking up a cheap quartz metronome and the Grimoire "Exercises" book!

I also picked up one of Troy Stetina's Metal Guitar Method books, which had a CD included, and it was pretty helpful! It's mostly for lead playing/shred technique, but also has hints on diatonic scales & learning modes. Here's the link on Amazon, if you're interested.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/A...0937866-5948141

im leaning towards picking up the grimoire 'exercises' book, but im not sure of my choice between that and the scales book. it isnt too hard to find various positions for most scales online, so if thats the only thing the scales book covers, i'll probably go for the exercises book. what kind of 'exercises' does the book have? im mainly aiming to improve my speed/accuracy at fast alt. picked licks and sweeps.

http://metaltabs.com/forum/showthre...?t=20255&page=1

Check that out for alt picking and fingering speed building.
I think theres a chart you make and your be able to take wherever youre goin.

Just check it out anyway

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haha yeah i already saw that and had that shit printed. looks like its going to be very helpful. up until now i was just doing the 1234 ascending, 5432 descending gig.

that was my first thread in metaltabs.hahaha i posted some sweeps and he wrote all this stuff and people thought i was on drugs

yea then they got served cause you were polluting my thread with sweeps, even though it wasnt a sweep thread... but its all aight, sweeps are my favorite.

TfH

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If feels nice someone actually cared enough to print it out and give it a try

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