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the exercises are targeted exclusively at developing One-finger-per-fret left hand technique. Basically , it's notated exercises that go thru every possible permutation of 4 frets, 4 strings and 4 fingers, which is not something too hard to work out for one's self.
and that's all it covers.
The examples are really not musical either. However,
if you do em all, your LH can't help but strengthen, and it might improve your reading.
I use 1-2-4 fingering alot, and I was hoping for more varied LH technique info, so I was a bit dissapointed.
The book is ok. But if you understand the idea behind the exercises you can make them up yourself and save the money :-)
The exercises have absolutely nothing to do with music though. They are not meant to either. It's purely gymnastics. Question is if you don't get more from a techniqally hard piece of music (like bach ore something), where you learn to read and interprete music too at the same time.
i don't think the book will help your reading one bit. Again it's not meant to.
But if you want something to do in front of the tv it's great ;-)
Its £4 from amazon, its not that much of a saving if you decide to just make up exercises. I like the idea of spending ten minutes warm up on this book because what ever I come up with as an exercise I can already play, my fingers already find the notes familiar. At least this way every page will be something that my brain hasn't come up with, and I can open the book on any random page to keep it fresh
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