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.
User Ratings and Reviews
4 Stars The Right Stuff for beginning guitarists…
This book is excellent for beginning to intermediate acoustic guitarists 10 yrs. old and up. It’s not the be-all and end-all, but does the job quite nicely. I’ve been using it to teach 3rd to 10th grade students privately for about 2 years now. It is a little light on teaching how to read the treble clef, but the tab explanations are clear. It has very good examples on the CD’s also, which should definitely be part of the learning process.
5 Stars awesome book!
i went into this book knowing most of the things he talks about but i still learned a lot from his method. he teaches you to play and sing along, which drastically improves your playing ability. although the concepts discussed are simple, there is a lot of basic stuff covered that you need to know as a guitar player, such as chord progressions.
the biggest advantage to this book is the play and learn method. if you’re just after theory, “try play guitar in ten easy lessons”.
4 Stars Let’s Play the guitar
A practical, simple, and effective method to learn or develop techniques to play the acoustic guitar ithout the need of an instructor.
4 Stars Not bad
Not bad. Starts simple and builds as you go along. Overall, if you’re looking for a teach-yourself book, this one is not a bad place to start.
5 Stars The next best thing to lessons
I’ve strummed my acoustic guitar since the heyday of the Kingston Trio, briefly taking lessons, and plowing through Lord knows how many “easy guitar method” books.
But only after I stumbled onto Hamburger’s book did I really begin to play. His common sense explanations, practice exercises and recorded examples–played a tempo and then slow–have given me confidence. While his lessons are basic, the text is rooted in serious musicianship and musical theory, and does not insult my intelligence as an experienced choral singer.
I’ve learned more from Hamburger’s book in a a few weeks than I had in
40 years.
