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James Shipway’s books are better than excellent and he can add humor to his, that is always welcome in a “boring” knowledge learning explanation. Good choice. I have his books also. Both of these do a great job of explaining the ” mystery ” of keyboard knowledge.
One of my many guitar roadblocks is I sometimes allow my ego to get in the way as I am just too “good’ of a guitar picker to “need” anything but a very fast review of fretboard knowledge so I just lightly read and skip area’s that, could, actually help me become a better guitar player.
I skip exercises as I am above that level(not). Today is Monday and I almost skipped practicing Tony’s lesson as it was below me. What an stupid reaction to a learning experience. Then I did the lesson and actually had to slow down as for some reason(lack of practice) , lack of concentration maybe) My picking wasn’t very smooth. This forced me to take the proper time to concentrate on my up/down and down/down strokes for about 20 minutes to correct this error. I am my own worst enemy during guitar practice sometimes.