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Sonic Shapes and Super Chops

Posted on Feb 03 2010 | No Comments

The Howard Roberts Super Chops book

Those of you who’ve been working through Page Hamilton’s guitar instruction DVD will be familiar with the Howard Roberts “Super Chops” method Page refers to and utilises in the DVD. For the uninitiated (and the forgetful), it’s a programme which entails improvising 8th note lines over quite challenging chord progressions for 50 minutes a day.

Anyway, long story short, if, like me, you’ve tried to find a copy of the book and come back empty handed (it’s long out of print), you might want to know that there’s a group of people over at the Gear Page forum who’re working though it together throughout the coming months. Unfortunately, I found out about this a day after they started working through it and, from the look of things, a good couple of weeks’ run in is required to get to grips with the chord changes (and, if you’re anything like me, several other elements of it too), so joining in with the group is out of the question.

However, there is a scanned copy of Howard’s book available for download from the thread, and it already contains several pages of helpful information and discussion on chord fingerings and approaches to tackling the course, so, for anyone interested in working through Howard’s programme, you’ve got no excuses: you can get straight to work here.