The Acoustic Guitar Method - Complete Edition: Learn to Play Using the Techniques and Songs of American Roots Music...

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 136 pages
• Published by: String Letter Publishing August 1, 2002
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 1890490555
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-1890490553
• Book Dimensions: 11.8 x 9.3 x 0.4 inches
• Weighs: 15.2 ounces

Reader Reviews
This review is from: The Acoustic Guitar Method, Book 2 (Acoustic Guitar (String Letter)) (Paperback) ...you may appreciate this book. The method is very patient and assumes you know nothing. If you already know chords though it can be quite aggravating as Hamburger plods through each chord and strum as if you are in pre-school. By the time you're up to book 2 it's time to learn the F chord. Whoa, slow down, not the F chord! Then when songs are learned, the writer sings along in his monotone voice and if the song is just flatpicking style, he shows you a very simple version of it that's not going to do you much good at all, such as with the version of Sally Goodin. At the beginning of each cd a pretty snappy song is played but then that song is never taught, just more very simple little dittys. On the level that books and cds are at, the lessons are quite well taught, but again it's seems more suited for little children and will little children want to learn the song selections that are in the books- I don't think so. In spite of this being quite a well done course, I think it's pretty much a waste of time. The Flatpicking guitar masterpieces, although a good bit more challanging are more like it. (String Letter, on Amazon as well) Also the Russ Barenburg book- the bluegrass one seems good but there's another on Homespun that I don't see on Amazon called twenty Bluegrass Guitar Solos- that's probably your best bang for the buck if you want to get into flatpicking guitar. I'd not have been so dissatisfied with the David Hamburger book reviewed here if there had been a tab of the opening little songs of each cd- they are easy enough to figure out but as they are presented they are more of the author showing what he can do and then turning around and dummying down the lesson he gives. Hamburger also gets into fingerstyle guitar and here too it's just too simple. In this area the books on Travis style picking and fingerstyle guitar by Mark Hanson are vastly superior. They cover the basics and then progressivly get more advanced. Hamburger's books just stay simple. Comment (1) | | (Report this)