LOL... you mean like pentatonics?

Very Funny! The Commanding General of Fort Know once tasked me with writing a short information paper explaining in detail the Army enlisted promotion regulation. My information paper actually ended up 3 pages LONGER than the actual regulation I was supposed to be BRIEFLY explaining!!!!!!!!! Dumb HUH?

As far as the 64 pages goes, I believe that after teaching how to do something (for example) 5th and 6th string power chords, it gives you musical examples to practice what you are learning with such as songs like Iron Man, Layla, You Really Got Me etc. This covers a gripe that I have with most music instruction books where they show you something but don't give decent examples to help ingrain the information into your head and fingers.

The Drop D power Chords are covered by the way and the songs Outshined, Them Bones, and aerials are given (I never heard of them) as examples in the book.

Being an old fogey, I like books or videos that give as many practice examples as possible.

Would this be book 3?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK4XTIY_R2s

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Don't get me wrong, I play almost exclusively in dropped D (down a half step, actually) and I'm not talking crap about power chords... Just saying that there's not really a bunch of theory and method behind them. It's a root and a fifth, with or without octaves. That's it. I personally think power chords should be a few pages worth of coverage in a more comprehensive method book... not a book all thier own.

Granted, there are many subtle nuances one can add to a power chord based style of playing... adding in 2nds, 7ths, 4ths, inversions, and so on... but that takes it out of the realm of what a "power chord" is. The term "power chord" refers to a root/fifth diad, with the word "power" referring to how a chord consiting of only roots and fifths sounds clearer and more "powerful" under high gain than the same chord would if it contained the third, and/or any other chord "color" notes.


I was really just poking fun, but I stand by my opinion that any 64 page book on a power chord method is likely to be burdened by either a bunch of fluff, or just a bunch of attempts to make something relatively simple seem like it needs more explanation than it does. Hopefully you're right and it is mainly a collection of tablature examples from popular songs, and not an attempt at dragging out what should be a 2 page lesson over 64 pages. Let us know what you think of it after you get the book... I'm curious now too. In any case, no harm was intended, and I hope you enjoy the book. I also hope you find it helpful... there's nothing worse than deciding to spend money on a book to help improve your playing only to find out it did little more than confuse you, or worse, was a bunch of stuff you already knew. I've had both before... now I pretty much stick with guitar magazines. If the lesson columns aren't helpful to me, at least there's usually plenty of stories to read about bands I've never heard of and/or don't like, and reviews of gear I'm not interested in and/or already have... LOL!

Poking fun was how I took it too! Heck I was only poking fun back in the 80s and now they are 31 and 29 years old......