Rating: 
Summary: Excellent book!
Review: I am a rank beginner, having only purchased my first classical guitar 4 months ago. I use several method books in my daily practice (Noad, Parkening, et al), but the one I open the most is this excellent compilation by Jerry Willard. It is well organized, starting with easy pieces that get gradually more difficult. The book has both standard notation and tablature.
The first few pieces are easy enough for even an early beginner like myself to play (not like Mr. Willard, of course, who plays all the songs beautifully, but well enough to keep me interested and keen to practice). The songs are simple but very attractive, and I find myself actually listening to the accompanying CD a lot, at work or in the car.
The only reason for not giving this 5 stars: I would have preferred a spiral binding - it is not that easy to keep the book open, and after a few months of daily use I am getting worried about pages starting to become loose. Not a big deal at all, though. If you are a beginning or early intermediate classical guitarist, this book will definitely not disappoint you.
Rating:
Summary: Good for beginner
Review: I bought this book thinking there would be some intermediate level pieces included in it. However, all the pieces are extremely easy. I'm a fairly experienced intermediate level player and I could play the most dificult pieces with 10-15 minutes of practice. The author's fingerings for both right and left hand techinique are perfectly in line with classical guitar technique; using them will definitely benefit the beginner guitarist when they move on to higher skill levels. The pieces are very beautiful for being so basic and I will definitely include some of them in my daily practice. The only minor flaw is that the author's playing on the CD doesn't always match the tab, getting the sound that you hear requires a little more skill than the tab shows. But again, that's a minor issue.
Rating: 
Summary: Great for beginners, not challenging for higher skill levels
Review: I bought this book thinking there would be some intermediate level pieces included in it. However, all the pieces are extremely easy. I'm a fairly experienced intermediate level player and I could play the most dificult pieces with 10-15 minutes of practice. The author's fingerings for both right and left hand techinique are perfectly in line with classical guitar technique; using them will definitely benefit the beginner guitarist when they move on to higher skill levels. The pieces are very beautiful for being so basic and I will definitely include some of them in my daily practice. The only minor flaw is that the author's playing on the CD doesn't always match the tab, getting the sound that you hear requires a little more skill than the tab shows. But again, that's a minor issue.
Rating:
Summary: Great book for the beginner classical guitar enthusist
Review: I just got a classical guitar for a gift and have had a difficult time finding music to become accuainted with the instrument. You need to know how to read simple tabulature so some knowledge of guitars is nessary. A excellent book to get started with guitars is "GUITARS FOR DUMMIES" which has a small section for classical guitar. Once you have to basics down, this book will give you a good direction to go. The pieces start off easy and gradually gat more involved and show you a good cross section of music for classical guitar
Rating:
Summary: Good for beginner
Review: I started playing classical guitar a little over a year ago and purchased this book to break up practicing excecises and scales with something that actually sounds like music. I thought this book did just what I wanted. The book starts out with easy songs and gradually builds but all of the songs are fairly easy. Only a few have fingering in upper positions but does include hammer on's and pull-offs. Some of the chords have been simplified for less experienced fingers. The CD is good in allowing the student to understand how the music should sound-even if I may never get up to the speeds indicated.
Rating:
Summary: Great for a beginner
Review: I started teaching myself classical guitar a few months ago. I picked up this book along with another instruction book. Once I learned the notes from the other instruction book, I started playing the songs in this book. They start off simple and get progressively more difficult. The CD is also very helpful in getting an idea of how the songs should sound. As a beginner, I am very pleased with this book. It has really helped me become a better player and get a few songs under my belt. I would highly recommend it.
Rating:
Summary: A really fun book and cd.
Review: I was really suprised that the guitar solos sound as good as they do. This isn't really a instruction manual to the classical guitar, it's actually more important than that. The learning of these pieces in my opionon will help far more than most technique books since the man goal isn't to play the guitar, but to make music.
Rating:
Summary: A really fun book and cd.
Review: I was really suprised that the guitar solos sound as good as they do. This isn't really a instruction manual to the classical guitar, it's actually more important than that. The learning of these pieces in my opionon will help far more than most technique books since the man goal isn't to play the guitar, but to make music.
Rating:
Summary: Good Set of Easy Classical Guitar Solos
Review: I'm an accomplished flat-picker and finger-picker. I picked this book up a couple of weeks ago and have been learning the pieces in it, and I'm satisfied. The fifty pieces in the book are arranged in more or less increasing order of difficulty. There is a nice variety of different tempos, time signatures, keys, etc., and the pieces are about as good as they can be at this level of difficulty. I'm torn between four stars and five stars for this book. The reasons that I've decided on four stars are: The pages in the beginning devoted to brief biographies of the composers would have been more useful had they been devoted to things like explaining that p means the thumb, a means the ring finger, and general advice on right-hand patterns where the notation does not explicitly give right-hand fingerings. The notation should give right-hand fingerings more frequently. Very often, I can get the notes in several different ways. My guess is that some of them will build up bad habits when I move to more demanding pieces; it would be helpful to be practicing patterns that will prove helpful in the future. These are, however, minor criticisms. This is a very nice collection of pieces, and I can recommend it whole-heartedly.
Rating:
Summary: recomendations
Review: If you are not an advansed player you can be best pretender, before you reach the summits!
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