Most Valuable Music Book - Your Opinion?

[paranoid]

Guitar for the practicing musician. Subscribed to it for many years, starting in mid 80's. Had so many, and they took up so much room, I cut out all the transcriptions and lessons and put them in folders in a file cabinet, that I still go through from time to time. I was so sad when they quit some time in the late 90's. I just never enjoyed guitar world as much, even though I also subscribed to it from early 80's to about 2010.

 

[AtomicJeff]

Before Internet, there was something called "Rockschool". Still have the book that's quite instructive about how chords are built and intervals. Someway this part of music theory instruction better works on paper then on a screen.

Man, who wouldn't want a book titled, "Rawk-Skool!"

 

[secondwindow]

Guitar for the practicing musician. Subscribed to it for many years, starting in mid 80's. Had so many, and they took up so much room, I cut out all the transcriptions and lessons and put them in folders in a file cabinet, that I still go through from time to time. I was so sad when they quit some time in the late 90's. I just never enjoyed guitar world as much, even though I also subscribed to it from early 80's to about 2010.

I liked GftPM, too. Sometimes wish I'd held on to my back issues.

 

[lauke-lux]

Man, who wouldn't want a book titled, "Rawk-Skool!"

It was beginners stuff, but surprisingly for the 'catchpenny' name, not the usual soporific material.

 

[Lolo-G]

The internet has changed things a bit... but these three books remain references for me, especially "The Sound of Jazz Vol. 1".

 

[Lolo-G]

And this one!

 

[Tonedeaf]

My Mountain Climbing Songbook. It was the first songbook I bought or saw that had tabulature. Learning Leslie West's (RIP) licks note for note really springboarded my playing.

 

[FullReverse]

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I have the same book although it doesn’t have Hendrix on it. My dad got be this from a second hand book shop in Belfast, Northern Ireland, about 20 years ago. The floppy record is still inside.

A book a really wish I got when I was just starting is Al Di Meola - A guide to Chords, Scales and Arpeggios.

That was $9.99 in 1976??! That is apparently the equivalent of ~$57 usd in today’s money. Just insane if accurate.