I came to see how guitar is just one instrument, and there are others which are easily as wonderful and more than worth study.
I cared more about making great music rather than a great Metal and/or guitar song. The book opened up this glorious, capricious, infinitely wide and deep vista for me, and I'm grateful it came around in my life when it did. I ended up studying my way out of guitar and Rock lol! For the early part of my life guitar and that music were my greatest loves.after all my studies I saw behind Pop music and it's tiresome fashion-consciousness and limitations in form and fell in love hard with the orchestra and Art music.
Starting with ( relatively) simple string quartets are a terrific way to get down your four-voice composition chops.in fact, there's a fantastically helpful chapter in the Adler about Haydn's incredible "Emperor" quartet. I took that, tried to round up as many examples as I could for audio, and combined it with an intensive study of first Beethoven's early string quartets, then progressing up to the 9th Symphony and other heavy duty stuff like Wagner, Mahler, Schoenberg, Bartok, and Bruckner.
I'm glad that after my Rock/Metal early days a teacher recommended me the Adler, because it turned out to be the best book for me.
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