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Summary: Simply the best,... beginner guitar book and cassette.
Review: My experience has taught me that you must buy ten guitar books to find one that is halfway decent. Stop right here. Shop no more, and buy this book/cassette series. It makes guitar playing incredibly simple. I'm not surprised that it has sold so many copies. I can't wait for it to come out on CD. I'm always lending my copy out to new students.
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Summary: Great for the Beginner!
Review: This book and cassettes really help get you started by using humor and by having the cassette play the song slower at first and then speeding them up which is very helpful. I like this better than many of the CD Pkgs.
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Summary: Great for the Beginner!
Review: This book and cassettes really help get you started by using humor and by having the cassette play the song slower at first and then speeding them up which is very helpful. I like this better than many of the CD Pkgs.
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Summary: For true beginners only
Review: This book covers only the very basics, some open chords and strumming patterns. You'd be disappointed, like I was, if you're looking for a primer on playing real country & blues songs. For the same amount of money, I'd get Arnie Berle's Beginning Fingerstyle Blues Guitar, which is much more substantive and more helpful if you ever want to get beyond the beginner's stage.
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Summary: For true beginners only
Review: This book covers only the very basics, some open chords and strumming patterns. You'd be disappointed, like I was, if you're looking for a primer on playing real country & blues songs. For the same amount of money, I'd get Arnie Berle's Beginning Fingerstyle Blues Guitar, which is much more substantive and more helpful if you ever want to get beyond the beginner's stage.
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Summary: A great book for the impatient student!
Review: This book was perfect for my style of learning--impatient. I have tried many times to begin learning how to play guitar, but found that beginning guitar books were too basic for me. I didn't really want to learn individual notes and to pluck out songs note by note. I wanted to play like real guitarists do! I wanted to learn chords and strumming, so I can accompany myself on songs and have fun at parties/campgrounds. This book mercifully skips the music theory and teaches what, physically, needs to be done to really play! (Theory is included in small doses in the text, and in appendixes, for the interested.) The tapes are wonderful, and logically sequenced. Carol McComb has a relaxed, easy-going style and a pleasant voice. She also is very reassuring when I find myself getting frustrated. I'm not an accomplished guitarist yet, but this book makes me feel that someday I will be one. I'm making real, tangible progress and I LOVE IT!
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Summary: This is just a nice little starter guitar book.
Review: This is a fully adequate way to learn the chords for beginners and a little bit of how it goes and the chords in some very popular songs. It is fairly easy to read and amusing enough to keep your attention. It would be alot less adequate without the tapes that I have to go with it. The only problem is the title. This is not an adequate blues starter. There are some old blues tunes here that show up now and then in blues, but it really is just the same chords as the rest of the songs. Just a nice book. Don't expect more than a beginners understanding of chords and a little finger picking if you can pick up on the more difficult style. To be honest though, I'd cut straight to Roy Clark. And if you want just the down home blues stuff, try Keith Wyatt's acoustic blues books.
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Summary: Great Book!
Review: This is a wonderful book! I've taken guitar and vocal lessons from Carol McComb and she is simply amazing!
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Summary: Great way to start Guitar
Review: This is where I turned to learn the guitar. I had wanted to learn how to play the guitar for many years but never could find an engaging way of getting started without paying for lessons. I saw this book in a store somewhere, loved the text on the back cover and bought it. Ms. McComb is entertaining and engaging. This book and audio presentation sets a perfect pace for people who know nothing about a guitar. There is a little bit of music theory, but nothing intimidating. You will not be a professional musician when you are done with this course, but you certainly will have the ability to strum along to a lot of songs out there and modify a lot of others to match the knowledge that you have gained. Just as importantly, you will have the confidence and ambition to pursue further. I love this book, and I have bought it for a few others who have found it very helpful as well.Thank you, Ms. McComb, for finally teaching me how to play the guitar!
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Summary: Excellent for Beginners
Review: This is where I turned to learn the guitar. I had wanted to learn how to play the guitar for many years but never could find an engaging way of getting started without paying for lessons. I saw this book in a store somewhere, loved the text on the back cover and bought it. Ms. McComb is entertaining and engaging. This book and audio presentation sets a perfect pace for people who know nothing about a guitar. There is a little bit of music theory, but nothing intimidating. You will not be a professional musician when you are done with this course, but you certainly will have the ability to strum along to a lot of songs out there and modify a lot of others to match the knowledge that you have gained. Just as importantly, you will have the confidence and ambition to pursue further. I love this book, and I have bought it for a few others who have found it very helpful as well. Thank you, Ms. McComb, for finally teaching me how to play the guitar!
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