Fingerstyle Guitar Masterpieces

Rating:
Summary: This is a very good, and very advanced, book
Review: If you're looking for something that challenges you more than String Letter's "FingerStyle Guitar Essentials" book then this is it. But be prepared to work on it.

It starts off with an easy tune by Leo Kottke (That sounds odd, an "easy" Leo Kottke tune?) then the tunes get progressivly more difficult. The Kottke tune, "Three Quarter North" isn't difficult from a technique perspective, but it's challenging to play something that's slow, subtle, and beautiful while still keeping the tune moving. I've already added Adrian Legg's tune "Queenie's Waltz" to my repetoire and I play it just about every night that I perform. Chris Proctor's version of "California Dreamin" is next on my practice schedule.

I'm impressed with just about every song in this collection. A couple of them don't fit my style but that's actually a good thing. It shows that there's a deapth to the selections. You may enjoy different tunes that I do, but there's enough stylistic variation that I think everyone will find at least a few pieces that they'll want to learn.

The CD is quite good and is worth listening to on it's own. In fact, I listened to the CD about 20 times on a road trip just to get the songs firmly imprinted into my mind before I started studying them.

Most of the pieces are fairly advanced. But if you've been playing for a few years and you're looking for something that will challenge you, and also add to your performance repetoire, then this book is a good choice.

Rating:
Summary: This is a very good, and very advanced, book
Review: If you're looking for something that challenges you more than String Letter's "FingerStyle Guitar Essentials" book then this is it. But be prepared to work on it.

It starts off with an easy tune by Leo Kottke (That sounds odd, an "easy" Leo Kottke tune?) then the tunes get progressivly more difficult. The Kottke tune, "Three Quarter North" isn't difficult from a technique perspective, but it's challenging to play something that's slow, subtle, and beautiful while still keeping the tune moving. I've already added Adrian Legg's tune "Queenie's Waltz" to my repetoire and I play it just about every night that I perform. Chris Proctor's version of "California Dreamin" is next on my practice schedule.

I'm impressed with just about every song in this collection. A couple of them don't fit my style but that's actually a good thing. It shows that there's a deapth to the selections. You may enjoy different tunes that I do, but there's enough stylistic variation that I think everyone will find at least a few pieces that they'll want to learn.

The CD is quite good and is worth listening to on it's own. In fact, I listened to the CD about 20 times on a road trip just to get the songs firmly imprinted into my mind before I started studying them.

Most of the pieces are fairly advanced. But if you've been playing for a few years and you're looking for something that will challenge you, and also add to your performance repetoire, then this book is a good choice.