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 | | Melodic Rhythms for Guitar by William Leavitt ISBN-10: 9780634013324 ISBN-10: 0-634-01332-7 ISBN-13: 9780634013324 ISBN-13: 978-0-634-01332-4 Paperback 1986-11-01 Berklee Press Publications Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description A thorough presentation of rhythms commonly found in contemporary music, including 68 harmonized melodies and 42 rhythm exercises. This highly respected and popular book is also an excellent source for duets, sight-reading and chord studies. | ||
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Hokey Melodies but Useful I wouldn't be caught dead playing any of these exercises in anyone else's presence but you can always reharmonize and throw out the childish phrases once you've mastered the exercises and then they can be interesting assuming you know how to do that. This book forces you to think in terms of rhythm which can be immensely helpful to your improvisational skills. You get many variations on 4/4 and 3/4 time but no grace notes, 16th notes,sextuplets etc. You can always play around with those variations once you master the basics in at least a few positions and octaves. I suppose this book is aimed at beginning to intermediate guitar students(beginners could play these melodies while I think it would take an intermediate student to play the chordal accompanyments which are pretty good especially with the suggested extentions. The reason I bought the book is it gave me ideas just reading through the teaser pages and I wasn't disappointed when It arrived in the mail. It will help your sight reading skills but if that's all your interested in, you've only brushed on the book's potential. A more advanced follow up book would be nice which would include more advanced rhythmic concepts and perhaps cooler melodies and harmonizations. | ||
Melodic Rhythms for Guitar This is a useful and challenging book, extremely helpful as a structure for mastering the discipline of playing tight rhythm in a multi-guitar group. To some extent the principles are simple common sense that could be worked out without any book, but Leavitt's exercises provide a ready-planned progressive development path that helps a student to get the balance between perfecting what they can already do and pushing on to try new things. The print quality of this book is adequate but not great - the paper is coarse and the ink is smudged in some places, especially stave lines and 'full-body' notes (crotchets and quavers). In other places (particularly titles and explanatory text) the ink is under-applied, leaving the text faint and therefore harder to read. | ||
great for rhythm guitarists I learned a lot from this book. A great guide to becoming to become a better rhythm guitar player. | ||
Invaluable for sight reading I use this book in conjunction with Reading Studies for Guitar. It has just about every quarter note and eighth note rhythm one can encounter. Your sight reading will improve immensely. | ||
THE sight reading tool This book is essential for any guitarist hoping to make it in the world. Sight reading is very crucial, as it is the language of music. If you couldn't read, then how good of a job could you get. The bitter truth is, if you can't sight read, what kind of gigs are you going to get? Back to the book. This book approaches sight reading with a very meticulous approach. It first examines a particular rhythm, then gives tons of differnet lines that go with that rhythm. This book is in my hands at some point the day after school. My reading has improved drastically since I bought this book. All in all, if you want to be able to read, buy this book and play away! | ||