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William Leavitt -A Modern Method for Guitar vols. 1, 2 & 3 Reviewed
By Alex Cortes of Guitar-Theory-In-Depth.com
William Leavitt
A Modern Method for Guitar vols. 1, 2 & 3
Book Review
William Leavitt taught at Berklee for many years, and eventually became Guitar Chairman there. A Modern Method for Guitar is the result of his experience with numerous pupils during that time. This method, published for the first time in 1966 by Berklee Press Publications, is a practice-focused, well-thought-of collection of sight reading exercises. They are arranged by their difficulty, from very easy, to very hard, covering rhythmic, melodic and harmonic problems quite thoroughly. The musical examples, though not really exciting, serve their pedagogical purpose well. Interspersed with the exercises there is an attempt at a system to "memorize" the fretboard using two octave fingering patterns for scales. This methodology, like so many other similar ones, is not only very boring to study, but not practical in that it doesn't get to the bottom of things and really explain how the fretboard works. It requires an excessive amount of rote study and does not provide deep understanding. Moreover, the musical examples have fingerings -for the most part- which is not ideal given the author's intention that the books should serve as a sight reading method. However, they are well worth your bucks if you can learn to ignore the suggested fingerings and stick to the notes. There are few such large collections of quality sight reading material available. It also contains numerous scale and arpeggio exercises and includes audio.
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