December 2011
3 posts
The first thing to go...
The first thing that I’m chopping out of the new edition are scale fingerings. Looking back, I think they take up a lot of space to show both fingerings and intervals. And, honestly, I don’t think you need them. The intervals are much more important to show, if I’m going to show anything in the scale diagrams.
I’ll be discussing the importance of the intervals in the...
Why a new edition?
Why would I change a something that’s selling well and is one of my most popular books? One of the goals of The Efficient Guitarist is to be extremely efficient. In the years since I wrote the second edition, I’ve continued to think about the material in the book and whether or not I could improve upon it. I finally feel that I have enough to warrant a new edition.
One of the main...