Steve Vai guitar Book - Help me choose one

[Rabin]

I was looking for a Steve Vai Guitar Extravaganza type of book on french Amazon site *the other day and I fell on those two books “Play Guitar with Steve Vai”(dated November 2000) and “In Session with Steve Vai”(dated January 2000). I was wondering whether any of you guys have one of these books. You could advise me on which one to buy. Thanks

[kingpheeel]

I have in session wth (I think its that one anyway)
It has full tab for

Hand on Heart,
For the Love of God,
Sisters,
Juice,
The Crying Machine.

It comes with a cd, and each song has the following;
Full track demonstration,
Full backing track,
Slow speed solo demonstration,
Slow Speed solo backing track.

I have found the book to be really helpful so far - its well written, accurate, easy to read (especially the tab) and the backing tracks are great.

Hope that helps

-- Phill

[Christopher Chen]

I would recommend the one mentioned by Phill! I've been looking for that book, the backing tracks are a really good tool to work with. Plus with sections slowed down, it's less tricky when figuring the stuff out by ear.

Another great source of Vai stuff would be the Hal Leonard transcriptions which are out for his respective albums. I have 3 of them, PAW, ALS and FG. I find them really really helpful. But it's all up to you to practice them, having the books is only the first step. Getting to sit down and learn the material is a whole different thing altogether. It can be preeeetty embaressing having all those books and not being able to play anything...which reminds me....

A great thing to do, for me, is to pick out key signature Vai licks which truely characterizes his playing and to play them on the guitar, it can be a very uplifting experience. Or better yet, go learn that Vai song that you've constantly been playing air guitar too!


Chris.

Woohoo! 777th post!!!

[kingpheeel]

ooops - forgot to mention that the book has the attitude song aswell.........

Sorry guys ;-)

--Phill

[Rabin]

Thanks guys!