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Guitar Hanon (Private Lessons / Musicians Institute) | 
 enlarge | Creator: Peter Deneff
Publisher: Musicians Institute Press
Category: Book
List Price: $9.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 1065119
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 64
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 11.7 x 8.8 x 0.5
ISBN: 0793595908
Dewey Decimal Number: 781
UPC: 073999953213
EAN: 9780793595907
ASIN: 0793595908
Publication Date: March 1, 1999
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Product Description
This book by MI faculty instructor Peter Deneff is intended as a sort of guitar sequel to Hanon's piano classic The Virtuoso Pianist in Sixty Exercises. He teaches beginning to professional guitarists 51 exercises, covering: diatonic and chromatic scales; major, minor, dominant and half-diminished seventh arpeggios; whole tones; diminished arpeggios; and more.
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Not your first choice October 28, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
ok.. i'm not a big fan of this book, but I do feel the other reviews have missed the purpose of the book. as to the guy who said that Speed Mechanics was a better book -- Maybe, but you're comparing apples and oranges. his book isn't meant to be a course in shred guitar. The author states that once you have masterd it, you will have dramtically improved the strength and independence of your fretting hand; and speed and coordination of your picking hand. I cannot verify the accuracy of that statement, since I have not mastered the book.
My complaint is that there is no instruction on how to use the lessons in the book. Yes one does need to have some basic sight reading skills. But come on people! MG! You are trying to become musicians, right? If you need help here, get Music Reading for the Guitar by david oakes. while I could not be a session player from using it, it did give me the ability to read the simple "melody" lines in this book and figure out transcriptions to songs. You can't rely on tabs for the rest of your life! Plus they completely suck for giving the rhythm of a piece.
OK , back to this boook. When I first got it I could not figure out how to use it. OK... I'm an idiot maybe. But it has page after page of melody lines you are to work on. each line has Roman numerals above the first bar and a series of numbers 1 -4 unedr each note beneath the staff. I've finally figured out (I think) that the Roman numerals are the position (fret numbers) you are to play the piece in, and the arabic numbers 1-4 are the fingers to use for that particular note. It seems obvious now, but a simple explanation would have helped and also given me assurance that I am correct. I haven't startd using it yet since I have so many other freaking books to work through, but it does appear to require a good deal of disipline to get through (or apparently to even get started). I do plan to use it though since it's supposed to help with finger independence and the 3rd and 4th fingers on my left hand seem to be glued together. Hope that helps!
 Warning! October 27, 2008
Let's get right to the point. This book SUCKED! There is no tab. So if you can't read music, you are SOL. If you can read, but are not FLUENT, you will spend hours finding the right frets to make these exercises work. NOT a good investment, in time or money. You are FAR better off with Speed Mechanics by Troy Stetina, an excellent book.
 Incomplete enough to bother 99% of musicians... May 9, 2007
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
I bought this while going through my 'six hours of practice with a metronome every day' phase, ala Steve Vai or Joe Satriani. It was cheap, and at the time the seemingly dry, academic nature of the book looked to be just up my alley... and in a way, it was.
However, it was very, very frustrating.
What you get here is (for example) major seventh arpeggios off of every degree of the C major scale (all of the exercizes are in C major. Since none of them use open strings, they are easy enough to transpose), all the way up three and half octaves and down again. All standard notation, no tab. That's not such a problem - what IS such a problem is that there is almost NO fingering written in! So you literally have to slug through each exercize, trying to figure out WHICH string you're playing, sketch in pencil notes to that effect, and take about 30 minutes to do it for each exercize - BEFORE you even start using them!
The author of this book, it is important to note, is a keyboard player, NOT a guitarist, which would explain the lack of fingerings.
If you want to punch through this, if you're in the mood to be an eye-of-the-hurricane guitar nerd for a month or two, it's an okay book. Otherwise, save your money.
Also, it's worth noting that these exercizes are decidedly unmusical, meaning they're just x-chord arpeggios going up and down in key degrees or chromatically - that's all. No phrases or licks of any kind. Again, not necessarily bad, but probably not worth it for most musicians.
There is a book called the "Mel Bay Encyclopedia of Scales, Modes and Melodic Patterns" which does what this book is trying to do much more effectively and musically, although the Mel Bey is not guitar-specific in any way, just standard notation for any instrument. Then again, given the incomplete and poorly described fingerings in this one, I'd go with the Mel Bey from the get-go if I had to do it again. At least you could also get some usable musical phrases from that one.
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