Beyond Bedroom Guitar by Spencer Westwood - HTML preview

What’s different in this book from traditional guitar instruction books?

This book is different to every other guitar instruction book out there in many ways. Some of biggest differences are:-

 

It focuses on using your mind.

Getting improved self-awareness, learning how your mind works and how to use it to accelerate your learning of practical guitar skills and musicality.
It’s not full of pages and pages of music and diagrams that give you exercises to practice in the vain hope that you will learn to play better.

Yes you can go and buy those and follow them to the letter if you want. Some of them are worth reading while your mastering the skills in this book. A lot more are not!

It’s not biased towards one particular type of music or style.

A common occurrence with guitar tutorials , in general, is that they are targeted towards a specific musical genre – even if they pretend not to be. I have purposely avoided doing that. There are some techniques that are specifically for Heavy Metal guitarists, Country/Pop players, Fingerstyle Steel string, Jazz and Classical, but most of the techniques apply equally well to all styles.

It will be self-revealing

I knew that when I started this project it was going to be a long slog. Some of the techniques, as I tried and refined them, were going to personally challenge me to the max. Some of them are going to challenge you too. Some of them will highlight your weaknesses even though you have managed to hide them away .Be honest with yourself
- quite often it really is worth taking one step back in order to take two forward.