Etudes for Electric Guitar - Book 1: Twelve Solo Pieces for Guitar in Standard Notation and Tab by Kris Lennox

I've been stuck in a rut, playing the same stuff for years. This is a much needed jolt to change things up a bit. The writer has a video of one of these etudes on youtube. It's pretty cool and looks fairly easy on the surface but when you get into the fingering and string skipping it becomes more difficult than expected.....in a good way. Gives me a reason to practice something new. Highly recommend.

Kudos to multi-instrumentalist K Lennox for authoring this. Definitely fills a need for serious etudes for electric/shred guitar. Excellent performance notes, and great for practicing alternating/inside/outside picking. They also explore flat keys, which aren't common to guitar players.The only feedback I can give is while they're definitely classical in structure, they're too long (an average 4 -6 pages) to get the musical idea across and don't generally use repeat signs. I could never write a book like this, but have learned enough of the Carcassi, Sor, Aguado etudes for classical guitar. While technically challenging, the Lennox etudes are missing something to make them memorable. The other challenge is how to make electric guitar etudes scholarly but interesting enough without sounding too stiff, less improvisatory.

Was looking for solo electric guitar work (without the need for backing tracks) that sounds good and builds my chops. This fits the bill perfectly! All of the pieces are *very good* but my favorite ones are Etudes in: Gm, A, D, Bbm (love the bell sounds), and Em.

This is very fun book. I am going through it right now. I hope when I'm don wit it there will be Book 2 out.

Excellent. One of the problems with the electric guitar is it's viewed almost entirely as an ensemble instrument i.e. to be played with others. This leaves practicing often feeling unfulfilling as only a part of the music is being performed.These studies sound great as stand alone pieces for solo electric guitar as well as being great technical studies in the same way violinists have been using etudes for centuries.The style is contemporary bordering on rock in places. All the examples are played with a distorted guitar, but would work just as well with clean sounds.

I am about 18 months into learning the Guitar, I picked this up about 6 months in and put it to one side as it seemed overly challenging at that point - picked it up recently and have found the etudes to be more manageable now. Don't get me wrong they are certainly challenging and probably too much for an absolute beginner, but once you get a few months of 'diagonal' fret exercise/practice in they become more approachable. I like Etudes because they tend to be less complex than learning classic rock/pop songs, but you still get a sense of playing a structured piece of music (well, to some degree). Practice 1 bar at a time, speed up a little using a metronome as you become more familiar with them and it will come together.

I don't know its a mistake or a printing issue, but at the end of the bar this fingering is doesnt make sense. 1 4 2 4 instead of 1 3 1 2. And this is only the 3rd bar in the first etude.