- ISBN13: 9781890490072
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Learn bluegrass and folk with this book/CD pack featuring lessons by Acoustic Guitar assistant editor Scott Nygaard, award-winning guitarist Dix Bruce, legendary guitarist Happy Traum, and many others. Includes 16 complete songs to play: Banish Misfortune * Kentucky Waltz * Sally Goodin * Soldier’s Joy * Will the Circle Be Unbroken * more.
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Popularity: 1%
November 18th, 2009 at 5:03 am
This book is put out in association with the people at Acoustic Guitar magazine. It was this fact that led me to look at this book. The lessons are clear and easy to follow which makes it good for beginning guitar players and intermediate players also. The CD that is included with the book is very helpful. Without it the book would not be nearly as helpful. There are several styles covered in the books 89 pages. Some styles easier to pickup than others. Overall this is a good book that will help you learn flatpicking technique.
Rating: 4 / 5
November 18th, 2009 at 6:17 am
This book does exactly what its title says. I like the way it uses nine different instructors to teach different techniques. It does not waste space with guitar playing basics and starts right off with a full explanation of strum and bass note patterns. This is much more than the usual boom-chucka stuff I find in many books. It gives three pages of varied, and increasingly challenging, examples. After several weeks, I still go back to these pages to practice.
The accompanying CD is fun to listen to these experts playing. Fortunately, they were smart enough to play each example at a slower pace so you can actually hear and learn how to do it yourself. I find tremendous value by accompanying them in addition to doing it myself.
I have learned more and enjoyed my guitar more than any other book.
Rating: 5 / 5
November 18th, 2009 at 8:40 am
The first few chapters of this book are very much at the beginner level. The Lester Flatt G run chapter felt like it was trying to pad a simple riff into a chapter. And the “boom-chick” rhythm chapters were a little bit repetative.
But then we get into the real meat of the book with fiddle contest accompaniment and all the chapters past that. This is where we seem some real insigt. There are some very nice chord substitution lessons. If you ever got sick and tired of playing thesame G and D chords over Salley Goodin (Or A and E7 since the version in the book is in the key of A) then you’ll be happy to learn some very nice new chord sequences from that chapter. There’s also some very nice Irish backup ideas.
Then we move into the flatpicking melody section. The fiddle tunes and cross-picking chapters in particular are quite good. At this point you’re moving into intermediate to slightly advanced level techniques so be prepared to spend some practice time.
Normally, I can run through one of these String Letter “Essentials” books in a weekend. But this one has a bit more deapth than some of their other offerings. If you play acoustic guitar of any style, even if you’re not a bluegras fan, I think you’ll find something worth while in here.
Rating: 4 / 5