Scott Olson's Favorite Music Book
The Following Books Have Been Helpful To Me In My Development as A Musician. Most of the books mentioned are for guitarists, some can be adapted to any melodic instrument. I Hope You Have The Opportunity to Check-out(no pun intended) Some of These Books and Get Some Helpful Knowledge from Them
- Practical Theory-Sandy Feldstein
- John Brimhall's Music Theory Workbook-Out of Print
Beginning Guitarists
- Hal Leonard Guitar Method 1/2nd Ed. w/ CD
- Mel Bay Guitar Method 1
Intermediate/Advanced Guitarists
- Mel Bay/Guitar Position Studies- An excellent book for working your way up the neck. (Your reading abilities do not end in the first position)
- Jazz Guitar 1/Mel Bay
- Jazz Guitar 2/Mel Bay
- For Guitar Players Only/Tommy Tedesco
- Mickey Baker's Jazz Guitar/Mickey Baker
- The Advancing Guitarist/Mick Goodrick
- For Guitar Players Only-Tommy Tedesco
-Out of Print
Bass Guitarists
- Mel Bay Electric Bass Guitar Method (books 1 and 2)- Roger Filiberto
Beginning Pianists
- Older Beginner Piano Method-(Bastien)
Jazz Emphasis
- Sam Most/The Metamorphosis of the Jazz Solo
- Learning to Improvise by Learning How to Compose/??
- Improvising Jazz/Jerry Coker
- The Jazz Language/Dan Haerle
- The Real Book (Yes, The Illegal One!)-The Jazz Musician's Bible
I will be working on making links to places where these books may be purchased on line. My current local (San Diego) suggestion, is Alan's Music On University Ave in La Mesa
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