The Acoustic Guitar Method, Complete Edition Book/CD (String Letter Publishing) (Acoustic Guitar) (Acoustic Guitar (String Letter))
by David Hamburger
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Author: David HamburgerBrand: Hal Leonard
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2002-08-01
ISBN: 1890490555
Number of pages: 136
Model: 695667
Publisher: String Letter Publishing
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- 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
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Book Review: Solid intro for folk music fans
Summary: 5 Stars
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 listening to other recordings of the tune and understand how fiddlers and guitarists and others have embellished and expanded it through improv over generations. It didn't take long before I started experimenting with adding to the arrangement myself--but you have to start at the bottom. He also does a good job of emphasizing the need to learn clear chord changes, something that's best learned a few chords at a time and that can save you a lot of frustration down the road if you focus on it from the start. I appreciate the emphasis on quality of sound in the early stages rather than on pages of chord diagrams.
The layout of the book itself is very clean and easy to read--something many other methods could improve on. My only "complaint" is the stiff binding--spiral would have been nice.
There's not much theory here, but I had theory from other sources before I started learning the guitar. I'm not sure how this method would look to someone who doesn't know music basics already. It's been so long since I had my first do-re-mi lesson that I can't quite picture the world without solfege anymore. As a general intro to folk guitar, this one's as good as the best I've seen.
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Summary of The Acoustic Guitar Method, Complete Edition Book/CD (String Letter Publishing) (Acoustic Guitar) (Acoustic Guitar (String Letter))
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.Instruments & Performers Books
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