Learn Guitar Improvisation By Faking

Learn Guitar Improvisation By Faking


A fake book can really help you a lot in developing your
improvisational skills. If you choose just one of the songs you will
find a source to many exercises that will help you become a much
better guitarist.
Do you know what a fake book is?
A fake book is made in a very compact format containing a lot of
songs. This is possible because you will usually only find the melody
of a song and the chords of a song.
The melody is written out with sheet music notation and maybe guitar
tablature and if it is a song you can find the lyrics beneath the
melody. The chords to play you will find above the notes.
Because this is a compact way of writing down songs a fake book can
contain more than 500 songs.
This very rudimentary way to write down the songs gives you as a
guitarist an opportunity to use your own musical taste when you
interpret the songs.
The songs will usually only contain very basic chord progressions.
When you hear these songs played the songs are often spiced up with
more interesting chords. Often there are also more chords used which
will make the chord progressions more interesting and exciting
musically....

* groups.google . com /group/learnguitarjamor

Re: Learn Guitar Improvisation By Faking


I thought for a moment that someone was giving away the essential secret
of improvisation, thankfully they weren't.

--- Derek



--
Derek Tearne - derek@url.co.nz
Many Hands - Trans Cultural Music from Aotearoa/New Zealand
* w w w .manyhands.co.nz/

Re: Learn Guitar Improvisation By Faking

In message <1iftmgi.p84bct15cz7shN%derek@url.co.nz>, Derek Tearne
<derek@url.co.nz> writes
>
>I thought for a moment that someone was giving away the essential secret
>of improvisation, thankfully they weren't.

I saw a book the other year in a local music shop, something like:

"500 songs for buskers, using only three chords"

Still, it's worked for Status Quo for over 40 years!.
--
Nigel Goodwin
C.Farmer Ltd.
Matlock

Re: Learn Guitar Improvisation By Faking

Nigel Goodwin <Nigel@cfarmerltd.co.uk> wrote:

> In message <1iftmgi.p84bct15cz7shN%derek@url.co.nz>, Derek Tearne
> <derek@url.co.nz> writes
> >
> >I thought for a moment that someone was giving away the essential secret
> >of improvisation, thankfully they weren't.
>
> I saw a book the other year in a local music shop, something like:
>
> "500 songs for buskers, using only three chords"

My brother has the entire collection of '101 hits for buskers' books - I
don't remember one with 'using only three chords' though.

<google>101 hits for buskers</google>Nope, can't find that one - I have
found some he doesn't have though, so Christmas will be easy this
year...

--- Derek


--
Derek Tearne - derek@url.co.nz
Many Hands - Trans Cultural Music from Aotearoa/New Zealand
* w w w .manyhands.co.nz/

Re: Learn Guitar Improvisation By Faking

You COULD just put some spare change in his guitar case...


"Derek Tearne" <derek@url.co.nz> wrote in message
news:1iftp9r.1qk0y68t0jdp8N%derek@url.co.nz...
> Nigel Goodwin <Nigel@cfarmerltd.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > In message <1iftmgi.p84bct15cz7shN%derek@url.co.nz>, Derek Tearne
> > <derek@url.co.nz> writes
> > >
> > >I thought for a moment that someone was giving away the essential
secret
> > >of improvisation, thankfully they weren't.
> >
> > I saw a book the other year in a local music shop, something like:
> >
> > "500 songs for buskers, using only three chords"
>
> My brother has the entire collection of '101 hits for buskers' books - I
> don't remember one with 'using only three chords' though.
>
> <google>101 hits for buskers</google>Nope, can't find that one - I have
> found some he doesn't have though, so Christmas will be easy this
> year...
>
> --- Derek
>
>
> --
> Derek Tearne - derek@url.co.nz
> Many Hands - Trans Cultural Music from Aotearoa/New Zealand
> * w w w .manyhands.co.nz/
>

Re: Learn Guitar Improvisation By Faking

Nigel Goodwin wrote:

> I saw a book the other year in a local music shop, something like:
>
> "500 songs for buskers, using only three chords"
>
> Still, it's worked for Status Quo for over 40 years!.

Those guys have had more hit singles in the UK than any band including the
Beatles, they just won't die! Perhaps not the most challenging music one
can find, but at least it's honest.