Hi Joe, I wanted to thank you for your comprehensive and articulate review of my book. I appreciate the kind words, and you had some great constructive criticism, which I always value. Thanks for doing such a nice job playing the examples as well - sounded great! Best of luck with your book and music. Best regards, Chad
Chad- Wow, thanks for commenting! Your Chapter 4 on arranging was so helpful for me when I originally worked through the book years ago. Since then I have guided many students through it, and my book is certainly inspired by it and builds upon it. Take care.
This seems to be wonderful Could you just open one page of your book with the type of notation of a song (traditional notes, tablature… chords indicated…. It’s the only thing which miss me to buy the book On the site all the samples have an example Thank you 😊
Hey - I can't seem to share a picture through a UA-cam comment. Email me at joemcmurrayguitar@gmail.com and I will send you a picture of a couple pages. The book always provides standard notation, TAB, chord names above the music (no tiny chord diagrams), and minimal right and left hand fingering (there is more right hand fingering towards the beginning of the book).
I agree with your review. The books biggest strength is the material used to illustrate various techniques. Much better to have pieces by the Beatles, Jim Croce rather than "music in the style of". Would you consider reviewing Mickey Baker's jazz guitar books?
Geoff - thanks for your comment! I do love the book's repertoire and its chapter on arranging. And if people enjoy that chapter, then I'd highly recommend my book on how to arrange for fingerstyle guitar, which goes into much more detail. Years ago I worked through Mickey Baker's "Complete Course in Jazz Guitar" Book 1. I may do reviews of jazz and rock books in the future, but I have many more fingerstyle/acoustic books to review first. However, I found Mickey Baker's Book 1 to be a great book for someone who already plays some jazz - lots of great info on intros/outros, nice chord shapes and sequences, some fun licks and riffs, etc. Not the best place to start learning how to improvise over changes, but it will give you some new ideas in your arsenal if you already have a foundation. You definitely need to continuously apply this stuff to actual jazz tunes. Hope that helps!
Have you and email? I just purchased your Fingerstyle ebook and did not receive the download. Also, I inadvertently purchased this twice and was hoping you would refund one of them. Thank you.
joemcmurrayguitar@gmail.com I see your double purchase and I will figure out how to refund you over email. Usually when you purchase the book you are redirected to a download page. I will make sure you get this over email! Thanks so much!
Hi Joe,
I wanted to thank you for your comprehensive and articulate review of my book. I appreciate the kind words, and you had some great constructive criticism, which I always value. Thanks for doing such a nice job playing the examples as well - sounded great! Best of luck with your book and music. Best regards, Chad
Chad- Wow, thanks for commenting! Your Chapter 4 on arranging was so helpful for me when I originally worked through the book years ago. Since then I have guided many students through it, and my book is certainly inspired by it and builds upon it. Take care.
@@JoeMcMurrayMusic I'm glad you found it helpful. 🙂 Take care!
I just discovered your channel today via a review you did on Amazon. Thank you so much for doing these in depth book reviews! Amazingly helpful!
Thanks for your comment! Glad I can help! It gives me a greater purpose in working through many of these. Let me know if you ever need anything.
This seems to be wonderful
Could you just open one page of your book with the type of notation of a song (traditional notes, tablature… chords indicated….
It’s the only thing which miss me to buy the book
On the site all the samples have an example
Thank you 😊
Hey - I can't seem to share a picture through a UA-cam comment. Email me at joemcmurrayguitar@gmail.com and I will send you a picture of a couple pages. The book always provides standard notation, TAB, chord names above the music (no tiny chord diagrams), and minimal right and left hand fingering (there is more right hand fingering towards the beginning of the book).
I agree with your review. The books biggest strength is the material used to illustrate various techniques. Much better to have pieces by the Beatles, Jim Croce rather than "music in the style of". Would you consider reviewing Mickey Baker's jazz guitar books?
Geoff - thanks for your comment! I do love the book's repertoire and its chapter on arranging. And if people enjoy that chapter, then I'd highly recommend my book on how to arrange for fingerstyle guitar, which goes into much more detail.
Years ago I worked through Mickey Baker's "Complete Course in Jazz Guitar" Book 1. I may do reviews of jazz and rock books in the future, but I have many more fingerstyle/acoustic books to review first. However, I found Mickey Baker's Book 1 to be a great book for someone who already plays some jazz - lots of great info on intros/outros, nice chord shapes and sequences, some fun licks and riffs, etc. Not the best place to start learning how to improvise over changes, but it will give you some new ideas in your arsenal if you already have a foundation. You definitely need to continuously apply this stuff to actual jazz tunes. Hope that helps!
Hello which guitar is this?…..sounds so amazing…
Hey Ben - I'm playing a Lowden O-50 with a cedar top and Madagascar rosewood back and sides. It's so lush sounding! Thanks so much!
Have you and email? I just purchased your Fingerstyle ebook and did not receive the download. Also, I inadvertently purchased this twice and was hoping you would refund one of them. Thank you.
joemcmurrayguitar@gmail.com
I see your double purchase and I will figure out how to refund you over email. Usually when you purchase the book you are redirected to a download page. I will make sure you get this over email! Thanks so much!
Thank you so much.