Learn To Play Guitar (Book & DVD) (Alfred's Max)
- Book & DVD (Sleeve)
- By Ron Manus and L.C. Harnsberger
- Format Book & DVD (Sleeve)
Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance (2008, Paperback, Reprint)
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From Beginner to Beginner,
This book/DVD combo is a comprehensive beginner course in guitar. The user can lay a excellent foundation by following by the side of and doing the exercises, doubtless with small or no outside help. The user is deliberately and carefully taught to play the guitar exclusively by reading music (no instruction on playing by ear) with exercise songs such as “Down in the Valley”, “Ancient MacDonald Had a Farm”, “A-Tisket, A-Tasket”, and “Home on the Range” (torture).
Although this course is quite competent, despite the title, it isn’t “complete”. Yes, the book contains additional information on music scheme, but specific instruction and exercises terminate when the user is still a beginner (nobody will impress their friends with the level of playing at which this instruction terminates) with no guidance on how to proceed from where the book leaves off.
Given that the title of this course is really “Learn to Play Guitar COMPLETE”, I’m disappointed that this course, which includes levels one and two combined, would leave the student hanging, rather than as long as instruction or a process that would take him to, at a minimum, the intermediate level.
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|Very small visual instruction,
I have been playing guitar for about 5 years now, but for the most part had been self taught and have done everything with guitar tab. I thought it would be cool to be able to read music and play via sheet music. This set may do that, but the “songs” and exercises that you do are all audio on the DVD, you then follow by the side of in the book. I reckon they could achieve a better, more interactive, lesson if they had the music showed on cover and had the clarification light up when you are supposed to play them. I guess I was expecting a small more out of the DVD, this seems like it force work over time….but it is a painful journey to get there. I loved the Fender Presents: Getting Started on Acoustic Guitar — A Guide for Beginners and the same translation for electric guitar
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