Chris Letchford's Guitar Technique Book

So today I received a nice gift in the mail, even though I purchased it.

Front Cover of the book.

It's Chris Letchford's guitar instruction book, he's the guitarist from scale the summit an instrumental metal band with a fair bit of progressive features and a lot of two handed tapping styled stuff. First time I heard this band I was amazed by the musicality, although I couldn't list to them over and over as it starts to kind of sound the same, but shuffled in with my other music its excellent, and really fun stuff to play. So I decided to buy his instructional book, I've had a quick look through and it looks really awesome, description and then the tabs, and gives 'bpm goal'.

I'm really looking forward to playing through it and hope I get something out of it, I've heard nothing but great reviews about this book, so I'll give a followup review in a week or so once I've properly gone through it.

• left hand and right hand technique 
• string skipping 
• scales 
• modes 
• alternate picking 
• chord stretching 
• chord arpeggiating 
• odd meter 
• metric modulation 
• sweep picking 
• sweep picking in odd meter 
• hybrid picking 
• sliding 
• legato 
• bending 
• grace notes 
• hammer on / pull offs 
• economy picking 
• arpeggios 
• rolling bar technique 
• tapping 
• tapping with multiple fingers 
• tapping with slides 
• visualizing the neck exercises 
• chromatic 
• combing multiple techniques 
• using octaves 
• melodic exercises 
• applying all 4 fingers 
• using tritones 
• right hand picking exercises and warmups 
• harmonic minor exercise


Quite an extensive list of techniques looked at through the book, and is really well set out and simple.

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