Guitar World Presents Steve Vai's Guitar Workout | Advanced Guitar Exercises, Scales, Chords, Music Theory, and Sight-Reading | 10-Hour and 30-Hour Practice Routines for Shredding

by Guitar World Magazine

(Guitar Educational). Since its appearance in Guitar World in 1990, Vai's intensive guitar regimen has been the Holy Grail for serious players. Here is the lesson that shaped a generation of guitarists. Vai sat down with guitarist/transcriber Dave Whitehill and outlined his practice routine for the January 1990 issue of Guitar World . Never before had a guitarist given such an in-depth explanation of his musical exercise regimen. It became a must-have for guitarists. Many of the players interviewed in GW have cited it as an influence on their development as guitarists. Here's a chance to experience the workout in its original form and to learn some of the things Vai has done to develop his formidable chops and remarkable music vocabulary. In this book, Steve Vai reveals his path to virtuoso enlightenment with two challenging guitar workouts one 10-hour and one 30-hour which include scale and chord exercises, ear training, sight-reading, music theory, and much more. These comprehensive workouts are reprinted by permission from Guitar World magazine.

Genres: Music

40 pages, Paperback

First published June 21, 2013

About the author

Guitar World began publishing in July of 1980. It is published 13 times per year, with 12 monthly issues and one holiday issue. Each issue contains contains artist interviews and profiles, lessons, gear reviews, news, and tablature for guitar and bass of several songs.

Stanley Harris launched Guitar World magazine. He was replaced as Editor-in-Chief by Noë Goldwasser. Goldwasser left the magazine in 1988 and was replaced by Joseph Bosso. He was replaced for the June 1989 issues by Brad Tolinski. Tolinski left the magazine in April 2015, and was replaced by Jeff Kitts. Kitts was replaced by Damian Fanelli in June 2018.

Guitar World was published by Harris Publications (1980–2003), Future US, Inc. (2003–2012), NewBay Media (2012–2018), and then Future US, Inc. (2018–present).

Reviews

[Scott · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was really cool. I had read pieces in Guitar World before but to have to whole book was nice to see his total attitude for learning and breaking through on guitar techniques. Put simply, if there is something that is hard to do, just slow it and repeat until it's not hard to do anymore. It seems like a no brainer but sometimes we forget when we get frustrated with something that's not working how to practice it. That's why the whole book is important as well, cause you just do something else when you get frustrated, there's always something to work on in technique. He goes beyond that though and gives you a taste of how what you work on can lead you to creativity expansions as well.

[Nicolas · Rating 5 out of 5]

If one follows all the advise given in this workout day by day, one surely will become a guitar god. The question is if one will do so ;)

[Pedro Werner · Rating 5 out of 5]

good technique exercises

[Liuyang Li · Rating 2 out of 5]

The 10 hour workout is a subset of the 30 hour workout, so there is significant duplicate in the book. Otherwise it is a great book with many exercises.

[Nuno · Rating 3 out of 5]

Probably you do not find a specific path to guitar playing in this book but it describes perfectly how Mr Vai becomed a virtuoso. Many, many great ideas and advices. Not for beginners.