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Jazzaferri

I just gotmthe news from Michael that he got cleaned put of the 25 pieces book :shock: at DIJ

I am going to have to wait until mid august to get my paid for copy

Mr. Givoine seems to have struck a chord with this one.

HotTinRoof

explains why I can't find it on DjangoBooks! Interested myself.

MichaelHorowitz

Yes, this book has been very popular as of late!

Will have more in a week or so, you can order here:

http://shoppingcart.djangobooks.com/tra ... ieces.html

Thanks!

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MichaelHorowitz

Just received more copies of Givone's "25 Pieces" book. Backorders shipping out today!

Jazzaferri

I saw the email Michael. Getting excited to see what he is about.

Lango-Django

Tried to get one of our Givone Guitar Group members to review the book at djangobooks.com, but no luck... so I wrote this up and posted it just today.

Will

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Quality Rating: 5 Value Rating: 5


Great book!

By: lango-django on 07/18/2012 01:08:49 PM

I just got my copy of the "25 pieces" book at last months Django in June 2012... therefore, I've only had a chance to learn about 10 percent of the stuff in this book. But I like it a lot, and I think you will, too.

1) You DO NOT need to have worked with Givone's first book, the "Guitare Manouche Methode"... though users of that book will recognize a lot of fingering patterns.

2) The book is very much like the musical examples found at the back of book one... you'll find some swingy stuff, some minor key traditional gypsy-sounding stuff including several waltzes, and some Latin-sounding stuff... there's even one piece written for solo guitar a la Django's famous improvisations.

3) Givone has a very smart way with chords, so quite a few of the musical examples sound quite modern and "advanced" even though they use mostly just garden-variety chords... eg, no "bebop" chords

4) Let's be brutally honest--- a lot of these various GJ methods that guys here purchase tend to wind up on a shelf... Which may even be true of this one, who knows? But I think even guys who just buy the book to cherry-pick some good licks out of it... (and here I'm looking at a certain western Canadian saxophonist/guitarist you may know)... are going to feel that they got their money's worth on this book. I find each of the 25 pieces seems to take at least a week or two to master... so learning everything in the book would probably keep you busy for 6- 12 months.

5) FYI--- as leader of the Givone Guitar Group, I've gotta say that people who buy this book won't really NEED any support to work their way through it, so I'm still trying to figure out if we should invite them to join our group of guys who are struggling to use the info in book one and get it into our playing... so we'll have to talk about that!

Will Wilson aka lango-django
Niagara-On-The-Lake, ON

MichaelHorowitz

thanks for adding that!

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Jazzaferri

Hmmm...i think i know that person

I have received anshipping notice a few days ago. When i get mine i will certainly add my thoughts to the review. I am quite looking forward to checking it out.

One thing about being a decent reader is i can gomthrough a book pretty quickly,mwithout even pickingup an instrument and get a pretty good feel for what is going on in it.

Jazzaferri

Wheee, my 25 pieces arrived today. Took a few minutes out from laying pavers to read the first few tunes. I am looking forward to working though this. Some of them even lay out ok on the sax in the key they are written in