Red Hot Country Guitar (Guitar Signature Licks)
by Michael Hawley
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Author: Michael HawleyEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-01-01
ISBN: 063407640X
Number of pages: 88
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
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Book Review: Fantastic book on modern electric country guitar playing
Summary: 5 Stars
This isn't a Mel Bay country western sing around the campfire guitar book your grandpa used. This book is written for the electric guitarist that loves the new "Hot Nashville" style of Brent Mason Telecaster playing heard coming out of the recording studios of Music Row in Nashville today.
The book's greatest asset is in its format. Very well organized. Every lick, whether it be by Albert Lee, Ray Flacke, or Brent Mason, is preceded by a theoretical explanation showing which scale the lick came from in clear diagram form for you to practice. You can reference the CD which includes most examples, and which really helps to train your ear as far as what hot country guitar is supposed to sound like.
The scales are country specific. Not that they're ONLY played in country music but they're the most commonly used by today's Nashville session guitarist. What I found interesting are the composite country scales that include bebop chromatic notes. I've seen these composite scales before in jazz books as being called "blues scales" or "mixolydian bebop" scales, but now I see, and hear, how they apply to country.
Another great feature of the book's format is that a lot of music theory has been put at the end of the book for further study and for reference. You can tell the author, Michael Hawley, is a professional guitar instructor and you feel as though you're being taught country guitar in his master class.
There's of course Telecaster chicken pickin. There is even fast Doc Watson bluegrass runs played on acoustic guitar. The only thing I thought the book lacked was an in depth study of right hand technique, since the right hand popping of the strings is what makes country guitar sound different than other styles and takes years to master.
Great book Michael! Looking forward to more.
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