Metal Mike is selling guitar instruction books, and I was thinking about buying his entry level one-- "Monster Coordination-- Guitar Bootcamp"

Anybody ever use his books before?

I am looking for excersises to get more coordination and speed. If you have better suggestions for books let me know. Thanks.

i think that gitar books can be pretty goddamn near useless especially when you have MT where theere are many talented musicians and even a recording artist (ihave27frets) to ask shit about to them such as speed, endurance, accuracy and so on.

as for coordination and accuracy try doing a simple 6 note linear pattern and just build up your speed for it i.e. E F G A B C
xcept on 2 strings (high or low, whichever you feel is better)

and then just advance to more/bigger/different scale runs

I must admit I found Instruction books, sooo incredibly boring. If I had to choose a way of progressing then I'd buy a copy of Guitar Pro Software (makes it a lot easier to learn songs) and just rip tabs off the internet. Screw videos too, its still reverse, no help at all! Or If you are even lazier (aka me) just noodle for 12 years to become half-proficient. I swear lessons and books and thoery made me want to quit guitar not persevere. People are different though, you may enjoy a structured learning curve. If you do the Troy Stetina series aren't too bad, Speed Mechanics is a good place to start if you are low-intermediate level or maybe his range of Heavy Metal- based books.

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the few books that i have checked out just leave me feeling like they require more discipline than i might be capable of, and i'm no slouch. i'm all for challenging yourself and learning and improving techniques, but practicing too rigidly turns fun to frustration. as gorath said, GuitarPro is a great tool (if you get an accurate tab, anyway). you can easily loop riffs and slow them until you can play along accurately and then gradually speed up. similarly, if you do chromatic exercises to a metronome, you will know exactly how well you can play.. not just how fast, but how neat because the clicks will tell you. it's hard not to push yourself to improve when you get objective results like that.

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