Extreme Warm-Ups and Chops Builders for Guitar
Electric Guitar - Sheet Music

Guitar - Intermediate-Advanced

SKU: MB.30510

Composed by Michael J. Anthony. Saddle-stitched, Style, Technique, Theory, Reference & Rhythm, Bluegrass, Contemporary, Rock. Jazz. Book. 68 pages. Mel Bay Publications, Inc #30510. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc (MB.30510).

ISBN 9780786688364. 8.75 x 11.75 inches.

In this comprehensive book jazz guitarist Michael Anthony addresses the need to build flexibility and technical proficiency in a way consistent with the melodic motifs of contemporary music. Though the warm-ups are numbered, there is no order that must be followed. The guitarist may approach them according to his or her interest and inspiration. They include: arpeggios, scale patterns, melodic minor forms, chord-melody groups, stretching and contrary motion, double-stops, octave displacement, walking bass with comping, two line phrases, out of the box geometric shapes, overlapping rhythms, long arpeggios and diminished scale patterns. The finish line exemplifies arpeggios outlining I-VI-II-V7 progressions in major and minor. In the words of Michael Anthony, I find that isolation of the right and left hand is useful, but ultimately it is the timing and coordination of the two that is necessary. The benefits of these warm-ups are threefold: 1. Technical improvement. 2. Fingerboard knowledge. 3. Ear training. Written in notation and tablature.