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Simply Guitar Reviews
Simply Guitar Reviews
| 9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:  Good book and DVD for a good price, By This review is from: Simply Guitar (Book and DVD) (Spiral-bound) I bought a Takamine G-240 as a Christmas gift to myself. Received this Book & DVD as a Christmas present. It is a pretty good. The DVD is easy to understand. It starts with describing how to buy a guitar. Talks about the structure of the guitar. Teaches basic cords, major and minor chords. Then goes on to teaching practice exercises to help you play. Includes more advanced stuff like barre chords and finger transitions to help you play faster. I am a beginner guitar player (I've been playing for a little over a week and I like the material-I'm really new). This DVD / book combo was exactly what I needed. The DVD is helpful and cooresponds to the book. Basically it gives you the tools to become a decent player, but it takes practice. I recommend the book / DVD combo to the beginning player. But I think it is being discontinued. 8 of 8 people found the following review helpful: This may be the easiest way to learn the guitar--EVER!!, By This review is from: Simply Guitar (Book and DVD) (Spiral-bound) I hate guitar lessons. More than that, I hate guitar lesson books. Of course I want to play the guitar. It seems everyone in L.A. can play the guitar but me. I can play piano, and I can make random noises on my drum, but guitar books just don't seem to work for me. But I like this one--a lot! It's a picture book. There are a lot of instructional picture books these days, with lavish full-color illustrations and short paragraphs, snappy headlines, and they all make learning look easy, but not all of these pretty books are created equal. I know this because I have read every one I can get my hands on, no matter what the subject. What makes this particular picture learning book work is that behind the pictures and snappy headlines and short paragraphs, someone who knows how to teach took the time to put everything in order and not take things too fast. The result is that you don't get instructions that skip around or seem to jump ahead, leaving you behind if you are not... Read more 6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:  Some Caution Required, By ewoh46 (Upstate NY, USA) - See all my reviews This review is from: Simply Guitar (Book and DVD) (Spiral-bound) This book has been most helpful at getting me through some cord progressions. But be warned, this book (or at least the revision I have of it)has NOT been carefully proofread. I have seen at least two places where it suggests forming G major with your first finger on the high E string rather than the third finger, then 2nd and 3rd finger used on the low E and A. Good luck with that if this is your first book and you don't have a correct reference elsewhere. Also, where it describes how to change from one chord to another it describes (in one instance) moving fingers into positions that aren't even part of the new chord. That's the stuff I've found and I haven't been through all of it yet. I'm not trying to be all high and mighty with this review- I'm a beginner hence the purchase of the book/DVD. The book is more helpful than not, just saying some stuff in it is sloppy and you should be careful. |
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