pianistic style

I love the Van Eps books, probably some of my most-used books.

Anyway, the thing to learn first is triads, start with closed then move to open.
Closed: 4 string sets ( ead, adg, dgb, gbe ) and 3 inversions. Start as low as
possible and go as high as possible. When you`ve done this horisontally, try to do
it vertically ( in position ) - in ALL keys.

Another good thing to do is practice all your scales up the neck, and not only in
position. Then do all the intervalls up the neck. After a while doing this you will
truly look at the guitar in another way.

Yeah, if you like Van Eps, you MUST check out Jimmy Wyble and of course Ted Greene.

I went through one of them. It really helped me in two ways: voice-leading and
understanding the fingerboard up and down, instead of just across in positions. I
don't play jazz now, but my blues playing is still very linear, fingerboard-wise.
This helps me navigate into positions for string bends, and also helps me play more
vocally by keeping melodic segments on one string. I have gravitated toward amps
that help me bring out the sounds of individual strings, which for me have been
Trainwreck and D-Style amps.

While I don't play much 3-note and more chord stuff, I play 3rds, 4ths, 6ths, and
octaves up and down the fingerboard a lot, which helps my blues playing.

Any method books that promote voice-leading are OK by me. It is a very subtle and
nuanced art.

I dont have the method book -just the H.M. books - and based on those, yep, I could
imagine that the principle in each exercise needs to carried over into different
keys and positions; and that you may well have to map those out. Apart from working
in string groupings, Georges stuff doesnt seem to be about learning the fingerboard
- there is a tacit assumption you know your keys and positions in H.M. Its more
about concepts for right hand fingering and harmonic devices.