Review: Effective!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 3, 2014
The eBook Guitar: How to Master This Instrument And Train Your Ear for Awesome Band Results, by author Barbara Steinhoff Schneider,offers insightful strategies to acquire an ear for guitar chords, single-string ear training,  broken chords/arpeggios, scales, and intervals. Steinhoff Schneider renders a wonderful tutorial of the process of internalizing and externalizing music, also known as audiation, from the viewpoint of an expert music teacher, and from her natural love for music as an avid guitar player.The musical elements previously mentioned are not just mere consequences of playing music: they are the actual results of true, music production. Steinhoff Schneider provides active ways to let the ear of the apprentice musician acclimatize to the process of audiation, so that musical chords can become a natural part of the guitar player.  Strategies such as singing scales aloud, identifying intervals, and grasping pitch are just some of the steps that the author suggests. Moreover, the author warns against the downfalls of a hobby which could prove to be expensive:  traveling to “gigs”, avoiding energy-consuming “groupies”, and the time-consuming schedules of musicians are presented as challenges that test the limits of those who love to play for passion’s sake. Overall, this eBook will prove to be a very helpful tool for those who take guitar playing, and all that comes with it, in a very serious way.