Re: Best Chord Melody Guitar Books?

On 2008-05-22 12:05:24 -0700, Todd Lainhart <tlainhart@xxxxxxxxx> said:

On May 22, 1:47 pm, Gerry <somewh...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

For

fingerstyle solo guitar Howard Morgen has a series that teaches you to
do write your own. They are in three volumes: Preparations, Concepts,
and Fingerstyle Favorites. Search for "Howard Morgen" here:

<http://www.elderly.com/cgi-bin/elderly/search.pl?start_position=&orig...>


Great reply!

I think that any of the Galbraith books are gold mines. How would you
compare the Morgen books to those?

Morgen's books are about techniques and application for a solo arrangements. His actual arrangment folios, and I have a few, are all really great for performance. Many of them are not easy. He makes full use of open strings in unique "guitaristic" voicings, liberal use of harmonics and that kind of stuff. On the other hand Barry's arrangements seem MADE for busting open and doing it your own way if/when you see fit. You can certainly improvise on them easier than the Morgen charts.

Relative to the first two books (above), Barry's technical exercises are nothing like them. Barry's approach is really to show you stuff, you glues it together. Morgen has attempted to give you a course for activity.
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