Goodrick was notorious for refusing to give students "licks." Instead, he forced them to think. He believed that technical facility was a byproduct of mental clarity and a deep relationship with the fingerboard.
The text did not hand him rules. It offered provocations: exercises that folded back on themselves, diagrams that read like maps to places the maps refused to name. Goodrick's voice—if a book can have one—spoke as a companion, a provocateur, and a patient sculptor. Lessons were couched as questions. "Where do you start?" the book seemed to ask. "Where might you stop if you began from somewhere else entirely?" mick goodrick the advancing guitaristpdf
: Most exercises require a pedal or backing track to hear the modal colors. Goodrick was notorious for refusing to give students "licks
Most method books are linear. You learn open chords, then barre chords, then the pentatonic scale, then the major scale. They are staircases. It offered provocations: exercises that folded back on
Goodrick was notorious for refusing to give students "licks." Instead, he forced them to think. He believed that technical facility was a byproduct of mental clarity and a deep relationship with the fingerboard.
The text did not hand him rules. It offered provocations: exercises that folded back on themselves, diagrams that read like maps to places the maps refused to name. Goodrick's voice—if a book can have one—spoke as a companion, a provocateur, and a patient sculptor. Lessons were couched as questions. "Where do you start?" the book seemed to ask. "Where might you stop if you began from somewhere else entirely?"
: Most exercises require a pedal or backing track to hear the modal colors.
Most method books are linear. You learn open chords, then barre chords, then the pentatonic scale, then the major scale. They are staircases.
