Slur Exercises and Chromatic Octaves

5 star rating

Anonymous

Location: from

Difficulty Level:
Intermediate/advanced

September 22, 2008

Great Exercizes!

I have been playing for over 30 years and never realized how "weak" I am when it comes to slurring and chromatic exercises. Andreas Segovia played with such great tone, these exercises along with his "Scale Studies" will put you in the right direction!

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Sean-Thomas Gunnell

Location: from Champaign, IL

Difficulty Level:
Intermediate

March 20, 2008

Sluriffic!

Ok! Not the best headline but I love these exercises for slurs. The only thing this book doesn't do is what the good guitarist can do in his/her head. Use all the exercises on the other five strings. It's a challenge to keep from getting unwanted noises from the other...

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4 star rating

Lee J. Oswald

Location: from Massillon, Ohio

Difficulty Level:
Beginner

November 8, 2007

Best Warm Up Ever!!!!!

I've been playing through this every day since I've Aquired it 1 to 2 times through. Each excersize is pretty simple and definately sounds boring but thats not the point. This warms up yours fingers BETTER than the segovia scales. In fact this routine works out really well if you...

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Anonymous

Location: from Illinois

Difficulty Level:
Beginner

December 13, 2006

The Standard for the left hand

I simply can not understand why the young people playing jazz, blues,pop,etc. aren't using this book. These slur studies have set for life MANY a classic or jazz guitarist. Use your brains-use an original source. The only thing that is better than this is The Diatonic Major and Minor Scales...

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