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The art of perfect practice! - Speed Mechanics for Lead Guitar

Advantages: From basic to advanced, CD included, great guide
Disadvantages: Mainly aimed towards 'metal' guitarists

Fluidity of performance, finger independence and dexterity are all vital to a great guitarist. This book starts with the very basics and works its way up to some of the hardest techniques to give the reader an easy step by step guide to perfect practice a ...

McBeer 30.07.2012 · Read full review
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Review of Speed Mechanics for Lead Guitar - Troy Stetina

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Mapping it out helped me find my direction!

Advantages: Helps encourage you to use your own ideas
Disadvantages: Would be good if it helped you design layouts for specific events

I’ve always enjoyed and appreciated arts and crafts, but have never really given myself credit for being able to create something beautiful with my own hands. My best friend and her mother-in-law have been into making their own gift tags and greetings car ...

Luvlylana 02.12.2011 · Read full review
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Review of Scrapbook Page Maps: Sketches for Creative Layouts - Becky Fleck

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The songs of His Bobness come under the microscope

Advantages: Exhaustive examination of the relevant songs - all of them
Disadvantages: Only for the committed devotee; an occasional sense of superiority

Clinton Heylin is obviously a Dylan fan, a very knowledgeable and obsessive one to boot, and has already two other books on the subject to his credit. He has never met or directly interviewed His Bobness, who is known to guard his privacy quite fiercely m ...

JOHNV 06.01.2012 · Read full review
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Review of Still On The Road - Clinton Heylin

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The Coffee Table - The Final Frontier!

Advantages: Unique artwork. Fan boy happy!
Disadvantages: One off and will leave you wanting more!

...Every year a calendar is released that contains 14 stunning shots of ships from the Star Trek universe and very year since 2002 the calendar has received extremely high praise with what it shows. So when the early calendars were reaching a sold out status ...

Timbo3107 06.03.2011 · Read full review
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Review of Star Trek Ships of the Line - Doug Drexler

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Troika, Biba, Barbie, Twiggy, Hendrix - they are all here!

Advantages: Super photos, detailed and vibrant colours, plenty of icons, designs to look at
Disadvantages: Not enough information about styles, designers, difficult to keep pages open

As you know I live in Warsaw. We don't have a great selection of bookshops selling books written in the English Language. Last Xmas I wanted to buy my husband a book on 60s culture. He has always been into the 60s due to the fact that his mother was an ar ...

Praski 03.12.2011 · Read full review
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Review of Sixties Style - Judith Miller

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