The Hal Leonard Acoustic Guitar Method: A Complete Guide with Step-by-Step Lessons and 45 Great Acoustic Songs
- ISBN13: 9780634064524
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The Hal Leonard Acoustic Guitar Method uses real songs to teach you the basics of acoustic guitar in the styles of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, John Mellencamp, Jim Croce, Indigo Girls, Robert Johnson, and many others. Lessons include: strumming; fingerpicking; using a Capo; open tunings; folk, country and bluegrass styles; acoustic blues; acoustic rock; and much more. Songs include: Angie * Barely Breathing * Behind Blue Eyes * Building a Mystery … More >>
The Hal Leonard Acoustic Guitar Method: A Complete Guide with Step-by-Step Lessons and 45 Great Acoustic Songs
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The title of this book is a bit misleading. This is not a method book with step-by-step lessons. This is a song book. It does tell how to finger most chords used, but that’s the extent of the “lessons.” This is not for beginners. This won’t teach you how to play.
I purchased this book with the Complete Guitar Method series. This is an awesome supplement to that book. The included songs are fantastic, and the tab makes this very easy to use for those of you who don’t read music. I’ve got mixed feelings as the title lead me to think this was something it was not. However, I am happy I have this book because I now have some great songs ready at hand when I need them.
I searched through OLGA and a few other tab sites for these songs, and the quality of the book shines. When you get tabs from the net you get someone’s interpretation of a song. When you get this book, you actually get the song as it was actually written. Keep that in mind. I know it’s not true of all tabs, but sometimes you should really consider a real book rather than what could possibly be a sloppy rendition from a tab site. Free tabs are great, but you can actually rely on this book to give the true song.
Buy this for the songs, not for the “lessons.” It is worth the money just so long as you realize this isn’t for the beginner.
Rating: 4 / 5
One thing to note with this book is right on the cover it says “supplement to Any Guitar Method”. This is a book for someone who has learned the very basics and wants to see how all those chords, scales and strumming patterns apply to real music. It does assume a basic level of competence with the guitar. If you are brand new to the guitar, get this book in 6 months or so.
While browsing through the guitar section at a local bookstore, this book caught my eye because it shows real world examples of the techniques I’ve been currently practicing.
Again this is not for the beginner nor is it intended to be. But if you have the basics down and want to push your guitar playing to the next level this book will certainly get you there.
Rating: 5 / 5
I had seen this book in stores before I bought it, so I knew what I was getting into.
I think, over all, it’s a good buy. But if you’re just learning guitar, I’d wait until you got through Hal Leonard’ s guitar method books (1-3), or some other basic guitar method. After a brief review of stumming patterns, the book takes off quite quickly with difficult syncopated rythyms and fancy chords.
The other thing is that, even though it boasts having a lot of songs,I think around forty-five, most of them are just a few measures and riffs from those songs. Only at the end of each chapter is there a complete song to learn.
Rating: 4 / 5
I am a novice and this was not useful. I am keeping it around for when I get to the intermediate stages because there are some good information for once you know and understand the chords and how to read music.
Rating: 3 / 5
The book is not for beginners. You have to have a little more experience in notes before you take up this book. It is also not a step-by-step lesson. Basically it’s a song book. It’s good none the less.
Rating: 4 / 5