2008-05-12 Great book

This is a great book and will help you advance both in technique and musical understanding. There are a over 20 tunes on it covering a wide variety of styles and techniques and really give you a good grounding in rock guitar. I would say, however, that this book is for guitarists with at least the basics of playing already down. if your thoughts immediately prior to opening this book at page 1 are 'So this is going to teach me how to hit the string things with the plastic triangle thing' then you're going to be out of your depth very quickly. The exercises are deceptively easy at the beginning but get much harder very quickly. You really have to make the effort with this book and thats what I like about it. I'm about two thirds the way through and really noticing my playing improving. It's great to start a new piece and not be able to handle the techniques or speed at all to begin with and then slowly get them together till theyre near perfect. I have a few of Troys books and they all do the same thing. They allow you to really see your progression very clearly and this really helps with the motivation when you have practice sessions where you cant hit the guitar strings with an oversized plectrum and a diagram.