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Summary: ACOUSTIC BLUES GUITAR
Review: Excellent book, you'll be playing blues shuffles and melodies in no time.
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Summary: excellent book...
Review: Get the accompanying video. Great for people who have been playing for about an year and have basic knowledge. Great for acoustic blues and the side effect will be that you will also learn fingerstyle which can be later used for other styles of music as and when you progress.
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Summary: An excellent book
Review: I can't speak highly enough about this book. I've been wanting to learn fingerstyle guitar for years and have been through a number of books and a few lessons trying (unsuccessfully) to learn. His teaching method and his song picks are both excellent. The included CD is great. He includes both slow and fast versions of each song and explanations of the more complicated measures. Great Work!
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Summary: An excellent book
Review: I can't speak highly enough about this book. I've been wanting to learn fingerstyle guitar for years and have been through a number of books and a few lessons trying (unsuccessfully) to learn. His teaching method and his song picks are both excellent. The included CD is great. He includes both slow and fast versions of each song and explanations of the more complicated measures. Great Work!
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Summary: This MoJo is Workin' !!!!!!
Review: I happened upon Kenny Sultan quite by chance when I was taking a fingerstyle class at the National Guitar Workshop. The teacher threw me a copy of this book to work on because I was too advanced for the beginners class I was in, but not at the level to check out any of the fingerstyle seminars with Martin Simpson, Paul Rishell etc.. In any case, my first love is the blues and ragtime, and those couple of days with this book had me hooked. When I got home I went right out and bought this book and, at the risk of sounding sappy, it changed my life. My work schedule prevented regular jam sessions and strumming chords was boring as hell with no one to jam with. This book took me to a whole new level of playing and has brought great joy to those hours between work and bed. The cassette is invaluable, the tunes soulful and you even get to dip a little toe into some ragtime and slide licks. You will quickly want to find other books by Kenny and probably start scouring the guitar shops for a National or Dobro. This is easily the finest fingerstyle blues guitar book I have ever seen. And the author is not only a helluva player, but a fine gentleman, too. A letter I sent him asking for some tips on double time bass runs was answered in a week.
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Summary: A great "blues launching pad".
Review: I was exceedingly grateful to stumble across Kenny Sultan's methods in Acoustic Guitar mag. They seemed to get you truly playing blues even while still learning at half-speed ! So getting this book was a must and to be exposed to so many blues styles and ideas in one book, without being overloaded speaks volumes for Kenny's approach. Great for your chops..and great for your knowledge. Kenny Sultan..does a top job for blues guitar.
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Summary: From Zero To Sixty in Three Months
Review: I've been playing for two years. I've worked very hard at it. But I got nowhere. Then I bought this book. The guy at the store said, "This book ROCKS". He was right. It has lifted me from the "I can't play a thing" level to the "dude, you've really gotten good" level in about three months. I've bought maybe 50 guitar books, and although a few of them have been very good, none of them (except for a John Hurt book & CD combo) even approaches this one. If you've tried to learn fingerpicking and given up in frustration, then buy this book. It will make the difference. Guaranteed. The first things you learn are all very simple, but each successive tune cleverly builds on what you've learned so far, and adds just a little bit more. Kenny plays each piece slowly and then quickly, unlike those Mel Bay books where they play everything at blazing speed. In short, I can't find a single bad thing to say about this book. It would have been worth ten times what they charged me for it.
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Summary: From Zero To Sixty in Three Months
Review: I've been playing for two years. I've worked very hard at it. But I got nowhere. Then I bought this book. The guy at the store said, "This book ROCKS". He was right. It has lifted me from the "I can't play a thing" level to the "dude, you've really gotten good" level in about three months. I've bought maybe 50 guitar books, and although a few of them have been very good, none of them (except for a John Hurt book & CD combo) even approaches this one. If you've tried to learn fingerpicking and given up in frustration, then buy this book. It will make the difference. Guaranteed. The first things you learn are all very simple, but each successive tune cleverly builds on what you've learned so far, and adds just a little bit more. Kenny plays each piece slowly and then quickly, unlike those Mel Bay books where they play everything at blazing speed. In short, I can't find a single bad thing to say about this book. It would have been worth ten times what they charged me for it.
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Summary: Most Excellent Blues Book
Review: Kenny Sultan is one of my favorite guitar players he is the one who taught me about fingerstyle blues. when I was 18 I told my mom I wanted to learn how to play the blues so she went to a guitar shop and the sales person told her she should buy me this when I got the book I was a little overwhelmed (cause I wasnt expecting to learn how to play with my fingers... obviously I didnt know much about the blues then) and really excited cause what ever kenny was playin on the tape souned awsome any ways if you want to learn fingerstyle blues buy this I have to say this essential stuff
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Summary: Simple layout, picking technique is not explained though.
Review: Perhaps I need to get the previous beginners book first -- I am an intermediate blues guitarist but a novice to finger picking/slide. Pros:
- Simple layout structure. Clear.
- Good, friendly, helpful commentry
- Very nice simple boogies -- with some nice little embellishments Cons:
- Poor printing quality on photos (does not impede use of book though). Cheap old fashioned layout. - CD tracks are not enumerated in the text (as it used to be cassette based and has not been properly updated for CD). - There is a sudden increase in complexity after the initial simple boogies (which I can alternate pick with a plectrum). There is no description on how to pick these (I probably need the beginner book). I found it very difficult to get a decent sound finger picking. The author uses (but does not recommend) finger-tip picks -- which might help. Alternatively perhaps an electric guitar with a compressor to even the volume might help. Maybe practice will suffice! I plan to work with the book some more though and will update this review if necessary later.
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