Speed Mechanics for Lead Guitar - Troy Stetina

A Guide To The 'Speed Mechanics for Lead Guitar Book' (with CD) - by an experienced guitarist. This is a book written by metal head Troy Stetina (including a CD for you to play along to) unashamedly concerned with speeding up your playing!! WHAT DOES IT DO? The book is well laid out in sections (using guitar tablature) designed to address various aspects of speed playing. There is unashamedly a book for heavy rock and metal enthusiasts.... With regard to content it certainly delivers enough exercises to get your finger speed up to par. Though in all fairness, (with the odd exception such as when you learn 'new' techniques like sweep ...  Read the complete review

Fluidity of performance, finger independence and dexterity are all vital to a great guitarist. This book starts with the very basics and works its way up to some of the hardest techniques to give the reader an easy step by step guide to perfect practice and performance. I had been looking for a decent book for practicing guitar for quite a while. I knew of all the scale books, chord books and even tablature books from bands, but these didn't help me with the practice routines I was looking for. I found a few websites online, but none that worked out to be that great. After researching and browsing the web on many different guitar forums I found the same book ...  Read the complete review