Reviews for Soulwinning: An Action Handbook for Christians

The average rating for Soulwinning: An Action Handbook for Christians based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-01-01 00:00:00 Styliani Vlachaki A mixed bag. Taking about 6 months off and on, I’ve worked my way through this entire book. It has a lot of good stuff and a lot of so-so stuff. Here are my impressions. The book is divided into two parts, each part very different from the other. Part 1 follows a very predictable pattern, repeating the pattern for playing in different keys. The pattern is: 1. Several licks to learn. 2. Pentatonic scales in multiple positions. 3. A rhythm practice song. 4. Moveable chord charts. The licks are the best part, by far. They are fun to learn, and really good practice. The scales are good practice, but not eminently useful. The rhythm songs vary. Some are fun, some are not. Some sound pretty old-fashioned. But they are good practice, nonetheless. The chord charts - while nice to have - seem pretty useless. Working through the first part of the book, I feel like you learn a lot about hammer ons, pull offs, bends, and slides. I feel a lot more comfortable with all of those now than before I started. Part 2 of the book has a different author and is not written as well, in my opinion. It is less logical, less concise, and goes all over the place with interesting but unnecessary background and opinion essays. The Good: 1. Gives some good lead solo practices. 2. Teaches you some basics of how to do finger tapping. 3. Teaches false harmonics. The Bad: 1. Unlike Part 1, the learning curve presented is way too steep. The difficulty level is significantly higher, and doesn’t give you anything to build your way up to it. 2. The CD constantly says “here’s the example, played at a slow speed”, and then proceeds to play the song at the fastest speed imaginable. That is very annoying. 3. One or two examples are missing from the CD. 4. On the Chuck Berry example, not only is the song played so incredibly fast on the CD that no beginner could even possibly hope to play it, but it sounds to me that the written music doesn’t match what you are hearing. This makes the song virtually impossible to learn, in my opinion. After many, many tries over the course of days, I finally just gave it up. It sounds cool, but this book doesn’t give you the tools you need to be able to actually play it. Part 2 overall gave me that feeling. Lots of interesting guitar solo sounds, but played at an insanely fast speed that is impossible to actually learn from nothing. It makes for a poor teaching aid. It needs either more practice examples at an easier level, slower song examples on the CD, or both. In summary, this book is okay. It has both tabs and notation, which I really like. It has a lot of good practice examples, and it feels great to be able to play a lot that I didn’t know before. The tapping exercises are very cool too. But as a learning aid, the book still leaves a lot to be desired.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-09-23 00:00:00 Ronnie Toth This book is for me a beautifully written allegory that touched me deeply and made me think.