Hi,

Does anybody know where I can get Troy Stetina Series (books/CD/DVDs) in Malaysia? and how much (price) ?

Im interested in

1) Speed Mechanics
2) Metal Rhythm Guitar vol 1 & 2
3) Metal Lead Guitar vol 1 & 2
4) The Very Best of Ozzy Osbourne (A Step - by - Step Breakdown of the Styles and Techniques of Randy Rhoads, Jake E. Lee & Zakk Wylde)
5) Beginning Rock Lead Guitar (Learn to Play Rock Leads! Troy Stetina DVDs Series)
6) Beginning Rock Rhythm Guitar (Learn to Play Rock Rhythms! Troy Stetina DVDs Series)
7) Heavy Metal Guitar Tricks

Does kinokuniya have them?
Thanks

Not sure if this helps but I bought this book from Harmony in DU (address in this thread). That was a long time ago so I don't really remember the price. But I'm sure its between RM80-RM100...

i ordered both of mine through amazon. costs a bomb and til now i havent even finished one book. Speed Mechanics is a killer (actually its more of i dont have time to sit down everyday goin through it for hours).

Thanks for the info. I might just call Harmony.
How do you find the "Trash Guitar Method" ? Good? Average? Bad?

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Added on January 29, 2007, 3:26 pm
Both? Whats the other book that you ordered?

Hows the shipping from Amazon? shipping cost? How long does it take to arrive here? Does ordering several books save any shipping cost?

Im thinking of getting the Speed Mechanics as I read a lot of good reviews. Maybe if one wishes to get the best result, would need at least 0.5-1 hour or more for the exercises.

Have you gain much benefit from the Speed Mechanics? Any noticable improvement in your shredding/guitar playing?

This post has been edited by Banzai_san: Jan 29 2007, 03:26 PM

Isn't Speed Mechanics one of the holy grails of shredding books? ..would love to get my hands on it...

Only Stetina book I usually see around town is the Ultimate Book of Scales (sp?), which is interesting but not really worth it since you could probably google/wiki all the different scales, modes etc. for free...

Damned good actually. It's a riff book suitable for beginners and focuses on building precision timing and achieving even and coherent notes. The riffs incorporate single notes and chords, played at a reasonably fast tempo (trash metal-style), so it's fun.

I'd like to recommend another one I used -- John Petrucci's Rock Discipline. I don't know where to get it, but you must seriously consider this one =D

Not sure if this helps, but i for one think that gilbert's Terrifying guitar trip licks really helped my playing alot. As well as intense rock 2

zeroleet, i have the paul gilbert ones too.

and yea, you must really check out petrucci's rock discipline.
hes too serious as a teacher, unlike paul gilbert, but he takes it one step further than paul.
kinokuniya has it, RM200 for dvd and small booklet with all the exercises notated.

where did u get intense rock 2?

speed mechanics is the holy grail book for shredders. theres alot of things to learn inside. it wont make u come up with superb solos, but itll prepare you to be able to execute things and works on your technical ability. i got it together with metal lead guitar volume 1 (amazon was having some promotion thing). i cant remember the exact price (coz dad paid for it) but it came around 2-3 weeks.

the last book that i saw that really interested me was 'ear training for the contemporary musician'.
http://www.amazon.com/Training-Contemporar...t/dp/0793581931
saw it yesterday at borders, RM79.

I saw some of these books in kikokuniya a while back.

Thanks for the added info. I went and search for the Rock Discipline. Quite interesting.

On the trash metal, Im not into that ATM . Im more on the old school Rock/Metal eg Randy Rhoads, Jake E Lee, Ritchie Blackmore, Vivian Campbell (during Dio time)

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Added on January 30, 2007, 8:23 pm
Thanks for chipping in. Paul Gilbert's get nice reviews too, and looks like fun (from reading the reviews).
Heh, watch out Jemi...! zeroleet has revealed his secret training methods to us. Step aside puleezzz ... ihihikss


RM200 ??? ouch...
I have Petrucci's Mystic Dream excercise vid. Yes, he's too serious a teacher IMHO


Thanks for the info winky.

This post has been edited by Banzai_san: Jan 30 2007, 08:23 PM

dang... I went to check Kinokuniya KLCC last night to see if they had Speed Mechanics... not in stock

aiseymen
shucksss... guess the next best thing is to follow echobrain route, ie order from Amazon