John McCoy's "Comprehensive Guitar Method"

John McCoy's "Comprehensive Guitar Method" is not just another boring method book.  This book contains much more interactive text explaining how, why, and what the various skills, techniques, and theory is leading towards.  The companion CD has over 90% of the books musical contents recorded with both the student part and the teacher accompaniment parts included.  The book has a modular design with six different sections covering and exercises/scales, chord section, note reading, finger style section, theory section, and pentatonic scales.  Since every one learns different elements of music at different rates because of past musical experience, hand size, and different aptitudes, the modular design of this book allows for a huge amount of flexibility.  This book covers the beginning level of guitar all the way through strong intermediate levels.  With completion of this book a student will find that they are well rounded and ready to pursue whatever style(s) they are interested in.

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Attention to Teachers and Retailers:  McCoy's Music offers discounts for multiple orders.  Contact us directly for SPECIAL ORDERS.  John McCoy's Comprehensive Guitar Method Book is used at Legend HS in Parker Colorado.  It is also used by several other Parker schools as a reference book.  Many teachers in the Denver Metro area use this book as their main method book with all of their private lessons.

John McCoy's "Magic Modes for Guitar" (available soon!)

Heard of Modes but find them Mysterious or Vague? Here is the Answer!

John McCoy's "Magic Modes for Guitar" book is subtitled (Understanding Lead Improvisation and Chord Stucture), and this sums up the content and goal of the book very well.  Many intermediate and even advanced students know some pentatonic scales and mode scales but really don't have a grasp of how to apply the scales in the correct chordal context.  John McCoy's "Magic Modes for Guitar" book gets rid of the mystery and confusion on how rhythm guitar and lead guitar are interconnected.  The book does cover how to play the scales and the theory of their construction.  Also, the application of chordal scales is explained in great depth which is the building of chords from the notes in various scales.  Each of the 14 songs contains a thorough commentary highlighting what each mode offers stylistically and artistically from the viewpoint of the composer.  Modulations, cadences, altering scales and chords for specific effects, and borrowing chords from other keys is covered.  There are two recorded versions of each song on the book's companion CD.  One version of each song has all the rhythm instrumentation included, but there are no leads.  This is perfect for the student to improvise all of the suggested lead scales in all of the different locations of the neck.  This allows the student to develope phrasing and correct application of the scales by understanding how and why different scales can be played over certain chord progressions.  The second version of each song does have John McCoy playing his improvised leads over the chord structure.  The purpose for this is to have the student play the rhythm chords using the supplied song charts and keep up with the CD to master advanced chords and various rhythmic techniques.

 

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