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Posted by: Jesse Oct 8 2008, 04:55 PM

On request from my guitar-teacher, I orderd a guitar theory book! It has arrived and I'm very eager to check it out. I like books and stuff, because I really have something to cling on to. It's Intermediate ROCK GUITAR, discusses anything from triads to major to harmonic minor to diminished 7ths... almost anything:D After this book there is one more, mastering ROCK GUITAR which should be really complicated. There is one REALLY amazing feature, in the back there is a section with a table like, MAJOR SCALE= And then songs that really make use of the major scale, also for the DORIAN mode and harmonic minor and many more!!! That's really cool, because you can check the song and recognize stuff!

Posted by: jer Oct 8 2008, 04:59 PM

Cool.

I'd like to hear about some of the songs they list.

Posted by: Jesse Oct 8 2008, 05:18 PM

Ok Ill do 3 of every style in there, if you want to know more just tell me! There are alot of licks in the style of too to display for example major scale and such

MAJOR SCALE

allways with me, always with you - Satriani
Love song - Tesla
Goodbye to romance- Ozzy

Intervals!
Smoke on the water - Deep purple
Brown-eyed Girl-Morrison
And the cradle will rock - Van halen!

Triads and embellishments!( Have no clue whatever this might mean:P)
Little wing and the wind cries mary - Jimi Hendrix.
Panama - Van Halen!
Jimi Thing - Pearl Jam.

Diatonic harmony and arpeggio's!
Hotel California - Eagles.
Layla - Clapton
Spirit of radio- Rush.

Composite Scales!
T-Bone shuffle - T-bone Walker.
I know a little - Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Any van Halen song.
Rock and roll - Led zep.

New chords!
Hideaway - Stevie Ray or Clapton or Freddie King.
Any SRV song.
Josie - Steely Dan.
Warped - RHCP

Natural- and harmonic minor!
Any Iron Maiden song.
All along the watchtower - Hendrix.
Stairway to heaven - Led Zep of course;)
Europe - Santana.
Any Yngwie Malmsteen tune.

Dorian Mode.
Down by the river - Neil Young
In memory of Elizabeth Reed - Allman bro's.
So what - Miles davis.
Any blues tune.

Mixolydian mode.
Satch boogie - Satriani.
Freeway Jam - Jeff Beck.
Sweet home Alabama - Lynyrd skynyrd. Thats a few of em:)

Posted by: Smikey2006 Oct 8 2008, 05:24 PM

ive got a theory book too! Its called andrew's theory lessions

Posted by: Guitar1969 Oct 8 2008, 08:20 PM

I got a rock based riff book that does the same thing - teaches different ways to create riffs(such as semi tone riff, pentatonic rbased riff, etc) and then uses examples of popular songs with an analysis of how they were written.

It interesting, but I think creating a solo/riff needs to be a more natural process - is obviously going to come out of your skill set/knowledge. If it comes from reading a book, I am not sure its going to be very memorable.

Just my opinion

Posted by: Andrew Cockburn Oct 8 2008, 09:10 PM

Posted by: Canis Oct 8 2008, 09:11 PM

I made myself a book ^^
I printed out Andrew's Theory lessons, stapled each lesson together, and put them all in a folder

That way I can read them on busses and airplanes, like I did yesterday. I felt smart, sitting between two slobs while reading about musical notations

Posted by: berko Oct 8 2008, 09:19 PM

Exactly the same. The difference is that i take my battered folder to some extreme places too like the rafting camp 2 weeks ago. People there were like backing away from me when they saw the tables about 7th chords. I had to reassure them that there is nothing wicked in this stuff...

Although I think some handy ebooks or other guitar books can be really useful. Thanx Andrew anyway

Posted by: Guitar1969 Oct 8 2008, 11:15 PM

I made a word doc out of it - nice simplified way of explaining it all(But I am still confused., but that will never change).

Posted by: Bogdan Radovic Oct 10 2008, 12:08 AM

Its always good to have a theory book , you can take it with you on trips where you don't have access to guitar and still practice "playing"..