Jerry Snyder's Guitar School, Method Book, Bk 2 (Book & CD) Review

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(More customer reviews)I use this method book in my studio to teach students of all ages. Level 2 is for students who have mastered the basic chords and notes to the fifth fret.It offers a lot of music theory though I would like to see more applications for the theory, especially using intervals.
This book also comes with a CD (which isn't always offered on this site) which is very helpful.Like the first book, it covers a huge range of musical styles for guitar including classical, rock, country, folk, bluegrass, metal and introduces different modes and beginning improvization.The teacher's book has supplemental material as well as worksheets, tests (and does come with a CD) which would aid any student so it's not for teachers only.Read my review on the teacher's book.

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Well-respected educator and best-selling author Jerry Snyder has put together the most versatile guitar method available. This comprehensive method for classroom or individual study comes in two sections: the first section teaches chords and accompaniment, while the second teaches note reading. This flexible method allows you to start with either section or use both sections simultaneously.The Teacher's Guide helps the instructor develop and organize a guitar class curriculum and provides background on the guitar class, teaching tips, elements of music and how to address the National Standards for Arts Education.The Teacher's Guide also includes 48 pages of reproducible worksheets. The ensemble book offers graded duets, trios and quartets as well as optional parts for bass.

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Play Guitar Today! - Level 1: Play Today Plus Pack (The Ultimate Self-Teaching Method) Review

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(More customer reviews)Taught myself guitar in no time.Get the CD out of the book, play along with the songs, learn them (don't cheat by moving on until you have mastered the song just like the CD plays it), and soon enough you'll have mastered strings.Chords take a bit of practice, but once you get those, you feel pretty good about playing guitar.Then its off to level 2.A most efficient "self teaching" method I must say.Addicting almost.

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This ultimate self-teaching method teaches: chords and riffs; picking and strumming; playing tips and techniques; standard notation and tablature; and much more! Includes lots of examples on CD, and 5 fantastic songs: Brown Eyed Girl * Every Breath You Take * Let It Be * Time Is on My Side * Wild Thing.

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Easy Pop Rhythms Book only Hal Leonard Guitar Method Supplement 2nd edition Review

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(More customer reviews)I was looking for a book to use solo, not with an instructor. Unfortunately, this isn't it. While they do include a number of strum patterns at the end of the book, they do not show strum patterns for each song -- you're left to figure it out on your own.

I'd hope that the CD would make that easier but the other instruments sometimes make it hard to hear the guitar part. They didn't do what's sometimes done and separate the guitar on one side and the backing parts on the other side so you can't isolate the guitar.

The chords are the easy part. All the songs are transposed into simple 3-finger chords (C, G7, G, D7, Em, D, A7).

Overall, I'm disappointed.

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Strum along with your favorite hits from The Beatles, Eric Clapton, the Rolling Stones and others! These songs are presented in order of difficulty, beginning with simple 3- and 4-note chords and ending with songs that contain many chords, including 7th chords and barre chords. 20 songs, including: Closer to Free * Hurts So Good * Iris * Jambalaya (On the Bayou) * Let Her Cry * Surfin' U.S.A. * That'll Be the Day * Twist and Shout * Wonderful Tonight * and more.

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Beginning Fingerstyle Arranging & Technique for Guitar (Book & CD) Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is a very good book - BUT for music theory NOT for arranging.

I thought that with this book I would be able to listen to a song I liked and then have the tools to figure out how to arrange it to be played on the guitar.That the book would show me how to listen to a song and then figure out what key it is in, whether I needed to add a baseline and what type, what kind of finger picking I should do, how I should play the chords or just appregiate them, and so on.

Instead, this book is about fingerpicking -in general-.Its about keys -in general-.Its about I-IV-V chords -in general-.

I have no more ability to arrange anything after reading this book than I did before.

Now if somebody had no idea about music theory AT ALL I would say this is a fine book, great even.But there are lots of fine books on music theory.

And if you like what it says about finger picking and Travis picking I would ask "Why is this listed as accompanying their fingerpicking series of books 1 through 3 then, don't they cover fingerpicking?"Yes they do obviously, so its a rehash in this book.

Soooo, if you want to become a composer of music and able to take a song you like and make a version of it for the guitar then forget it, this book is not for you.

Unless you're the type that can take a book of grammar and from it know how to become a writer.

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This supplement to Beginning Fingerstyle Guitar is a perfect companion to any starter method and can also stand alone as a fingerstyle instruction manual for anyone wanting to arrange for solo guitar. Topics include monotonic bass, walking bass, block chords, changing keys, changing time signatures, chord substitutions, secondary dominants, a variety of picking patterns, and techniques like harmonics, slides, hammer‑ons and pull‑offs, all covered in a friendly, easy‑to‑understand manner. The music is shown in standard notation and TAB and demonstrated on the CD.

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Acoustic Masters Series: Mark Hanson's Fingerstyle Wizard -- ^The Wizard of Oz} for Solo Guitar Review

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(More customer reviews)Mark Hanson has done a fine job of arranging the original orchestrations for fingerstyle guitar.Some of it is approachable by the advanced beginner; intermediate guitarists should find their efforts rewarded with a fun little repetoire which offers room for musical expression.(There are some fairly tricky harmonics.)The more advanced guitaristcan develop a suite with much charm and a great deal of humor.
Mark's study notes anticipate most technical problems the student will encounter.It would have been helpful if they were printed with each piece instead of in their own section.As usual, the CD is a great study aid.CDs with music books are the greatest thing since the pull tab. Oh, and I wish they'd printed Yip Harburg's wonderful lyrics somewhere.In TAB and standard notation.

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Mark Hanson captures the magic and joy of Oz in contemporary acoustic guitar settings. The arrangements are based directly on the actual movie score and feature all of the subtle and intricate details of the film's music. The 13 titles include: Over the Rainbow * Come Out, Come Out * Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead * The Coroner's Song * Lullaby League * Lollypop Guild * We Welcome You to Munchkinland * We're Off to See the Wizard * If I Only Had a Brain * Optimistic Voices and more.

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