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A complete collection of all three Acoustic Guitar Method books and CDs in one volume! Learn how to play guitar with the only beginning method based on traditional American music that teaches you authentic techniques and songs. Beginning with a few basic chords and strums, you'll start right in learning real music drawn from blues, folk, country and bluegrass traditions. You'll learn how to find notes on the fingerboard, expand your collection of chords by learning songs in various keys, and learn different kinds of picking patterns. When you're done with this method series, you'll know dozens of the tunes that form the backbone of American music, using a variety of flatpicking and fingerpicking techniques.
Songs include: Bury Me Beneath the Willow * Delia * Frankie and Johnny * The Girl I Left Behind Me * House of the Rising Sun * Ida Red * In the Pines * Little Sadie * Man of Constant Sorrow * Sally Goodin * Scarborough Fair * Will the Circle Be Unbroken? * and many more.- Songs include: Bury Me Beneath the Willow Delia Frankie and Johnny The Girl I Left Behind Me House of the Rising Sun Ida Red In the Pines Little Sadie Man of Constant Sorrow Sally Goodin Scarborough Fair Will the Circle Be Unbroken, and many more
The Acoustic Guitar Method, Complete Edition Book/CD (String Letter Publishing) (Acoustic Guitar) (Acoustic Guitar (String Letter)) Reviews
The Acoustic Guitar Method, Complete Edition Book/CD (String Letter Publishing) (Acoustic Guitar) (Acoustic Guitar (String Letter)) Reviews
| 43 of 44 people found the following review helpful  Everything I wanted for learning guitar except theory, By A Customer This review is from: The Acoustic Guitar Method, Complete Edition Book/CD (String Letter Publishing) (Acoustic Guitar) (Acoustic Guitar (String Letter)) (Paperback) I love this book and 3-CD set, but everyone learns their own way. What worked for me in this approach was the following: Mr. Hamburger includes a great amount of discussion with each lesson, belaboring how to transition from, say, a particular D chord fingering to a G chord, spelling out which finger to move when and where. There are small but clear photographs showing the appropriate finger position for chords and strumming positions. He anticipates the kinds of problems that you are likely to have, and offers clear suggestions on how to overcome them. He structures the lessons in a way that they build logically on each other. When he illustrates the music on the CD, he plays exactly what is in the lesson -- no embellishments to show his stuff, just clear examples of what you should be playing. He plays each tune at the right speed, and then replays the tune at the slow speed that he expects the student to begin with. It is easy to play along with Mr. Hamburger as you learn. The full... Read more 21 of 22 people found the following review helpful Nice intro to guitar, especially for folk music fans, By A Customer This review is from: The Acoustic Guitar Method, Complete Edition Book/CD (String Letter Publishing) (Acoustic Guitar) (Acoustic Guitar (String Letter)) (Paperback) I recommend this book for anyone who is picking up a guitar for the first time, but already has some basic knowledge of music notation. It gets you up to speed right away playing simple roots and folk songs, and emphasizes beginner drills, such as switching back and forth between two chords over and over until you can do it smoothly.This book might also be nice for a beginner who has some guitar experience and is looking for a colletion of folk-style songs to learn and practice 15 of 15 people found the following review helpful Solid intro for folk music fans, Amazon Verified Purchase This review is from: The Acoustic Guitar Method, Complete Edition Book/CD (String Letter Publishing) (Acoustic Guitar) (Acoustic Guitar (String Letter)) (Paperback) Hamburger does a good job of pacing things for beginners. Enough songs to keep you interested & focused on mastering basic skills, but not so much that you get overwhelmed. A good instroduction to the basic elements that define various folk styles. Also, as another reviewer points out, there are many practice tracks on the CDs, at least one for each exercise leading up to the featured songs and including recordings of simple SLOW strumming of each chord as it's introduced. This might seem like overkill to some, but for anyone who's new to learning to play an instrument, the first great lesson to learn is PRACTICE SLOWLY. Hamburger demonstrates this principle well! Also, playing along with the tracks helps develop solid timing and it's a little more interesting than strumming along to your metronome. If the flatpicking version of Sally Goodin is simple, well, that's because it's for BEGINNING players. Once I mastered Hamburger's simple arrangement, I was able to HEAR better when... Read more |
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