David Hamburger, leading sideman, solo performer and teacher, guides players through this complete introduction to bottleneck slide guitar playing with progressive lessons in open tunings and fingerstyle technique, tips on slide guitars and gear, technical exercises, and full songs. The accompanying CD features all of the music played slowly, then up to tempo. In standard notation with tablature and chord diagrams.
This review is from: Acoustic Guitar Slide Basics (Acoustic Guitar Magazine's Private Lessons) (Sheet music)
I've been playing guitar for years and have always wanted to get into slide playing. This book was the perfect purchase. Although at a first glance, the opening exercises appear very, very simple, Hamburger has carefully chosen a step by step method to emphasise not only hitting the notes, but getting good tone and sound with a slide. Following through this book step by step has got me excited about the guitar again. It has opened up the guitar, almost making it a new instrument for me.
The organisation is superlative, and Hamburger writes in a clear, entertaining and engaging way.
Buy this book and give its method a chance. You'll be playing bottleneck in no time.
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This review is from: Acoustic Guitar Slide Basics (Acoustic Guitar Magazine's Private Lessons) (Sheet music)
This book is a must for the serious guitarist or guitar hobbyist to learn the proper way to play slide. Open-tuning slide playing "plays itself", and one can improvise and make music, but to really learn the nuances of slide technique is another issue. If you're serious about learning slide the right way, this book's for you. David Hamburger's sense of humor, his use of short learning "clips" with associated sound bites (played normally and slowly to help the student) and the use of songs at the end of each chapter to pull together all the small lessons into one "finished product" is a joy to work with. Serious about learning slide? Buy this book!!!!
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This review is from: Acoustic Guitar Slide Basics (Acoustic Guitar Magazine's Private Lessons) (Sheet music)
Although the book is well thought-out, clearly taught, and simple to understand, I found the material that Hamburger actually teaches you to play to be weak. Most books like this one use the author's own compositions to teach with, and frankly, I don't find his riffs and phrases to be very interesting. I kept playing along and asking myself, "why learn this phrase? I can't imagine wanting to play it." Not very bluesy in the sort of gritty delta style that I was looking for.
Also, he teaches in open D and open G, but has you changing back and forth way too often, without explaining why. If he's got a reason for doing so, he should explain it - when in fact he's actually coy about his motives, which I found patronizing.
I haven't tried Woody Mann's book yet, but he teaches actual songs by the legendary Bluesmen like Son House, Robert Johnson, and Charlie Patton. I'm buying it instead of this one which I checked out from my local library.
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