I'm getting read to hit the road recruiting for my employer at a few colleges and I don't want to chat with the people accompanying me on this trip. What a better time than to actually learn something? Anyway, who can offer ideas for texts geared towards music theory? (Not true beginner stuff as I've already worked through a couple.) Anything geared towards the guitarist is a plus, though I don't expect many of those to exist.

- One school I'm attending lists "Music in Theory and Practice, Vol1" by Benward as required reading for Music Theory 1 and 2.
- Another lists "The Musician’s Guide to Theory and Analysis" by Clendinning & Marvin.
- University of La Verne may have textbooks online for MT I through IV that I overlooked, but I couldn't find that information.
- Berklee has their own and Amazon wouldn't get them to me in time.

Am I wasting my time? Should I just focus on technique and singing while playing?

http://www.scribd.com/doc/9664165/Guitar-Book-Nicolas-Slonimsky-Thesaurus-of-Scales-and-Melodic-Patterns

Thanks for the link but that looked like a lousy way to spend one's time. It looked like reference material and was presented in a more academic than practical way. So, do you actually use it? If so, for what and why did you think it was worth passing on?

Man, I guess this forum isn't into reading. Anyway, back to practicing technique.

There have been book recommendations. "The Advancing Guitarist" by Mick Goodrick. Also Coltrane's biography. The Thesarus of Scales and Melodic Patterns is a must have item but not a good "read" per se. Depends on what you consider a good read I assume.

My apologies, I'll search better. Thanks for the recommendations.

Where is that book by.......Mr. Brown!??

Those Soviet Publishers....take your money and print on Chernobyl paper!

:)