(and is still published during this years)īy The Way William Leavitt method (proposed by Silver Light) is great, but this one is for person who needs different approach - maybe You :) This is the one of most venerated jazz guitar methods for a 30 years or so now. You don't know what You are learning but it definitely works! The drawback is little or no explanation at all. You will be assigned homework to !!! There is no tabs in this book only notation and chord charts - but You need only basic skill in reading. Hey! but this can be acoustic jazz :) Lessons are building material one on top of another. After a year You should be performing jazz player (yes, this is a jazz guitar method book. Author recommends one chapter a week routine. It focus clearly on useful things (chords, scales, etc.) to be practical out-of the box. I know the book/guitar method which teaches exactly the way You want. It contains great step-by-step excersises and gives you just the amount of theory you need to become a great musician. Why learn the chord shapes, if you can construct them yourself? Why learn songs by tabs, if you can trascribe them?įrom the books, I really recomend A modern method for guitar by William Leavitt. All the books are trying to "teach you how to fish". It is the same situation with guitar training. A good traing program will aim to make a full-scale musician out of the reader and, this, like it or not, cannot be accomplished without theory and lots and lots of boring excercises. I think that it is not so hard to learn 4-6 chords. There is nothing more exiting than to have a full set of tools on hand and to know how to use them. A good foundation of music theory will give you freedom, to play whatever you like. You need to understand, that there is a reason, why many good books, teachers and methods put so much theory into their teaching. Please let me know if anything is not clear. So suddenly there is too much information and too little practicing what you have learnt.ĭo you know of any book or training video that teaches acoustic guitar in a slow manner with lots of practices for everything you are learning? What I have seen in present books is each chapter dedicated to one aspect. So you are leraning little at a time and practicing whatever you are learning. It has a mix of learning tabs, chords, some simple tunes etc. So every chapter is similar to the previous one but it is still adding on to your knowledge. A good book in my opinion is one where every chapter you learn a mixture of different things - 1-2 chords, bit of patterns, bit of practice. One such book is the dummies one for learning guitar.īooks that I have seen seem to focus too much on theory. There are much more notations for the same period. Skip to the next and you see they have now increased the pace. Skip to the next tab and you see completely different notations from the first tab. There are too many variations on the guitar strokes (the pace at which you are playing), different chords (usually 4), different notations and to top it all the spacing between the notes is uneven. Next thing you see starting right from the very first tab its ridiculously complicated. While you're digesting this you come to the next section - reading tabs. Instead of making you practice simple chord-changes they stuff the entire encyclopedia on tabs down your throat. All I want to do is to learn how to hold down chords, practice playing 2-3 chords such as G C G C or G D G D and slowly be introduced to new content. They directly start teaching tabs like molecular biology. They are teaching too much instead of teaching little and practice little. Guitar books, that I have seen, all teach the same way - spend a lot of time (chapters) on guitar history, guitar specifications, different kinds of guitars, various famous guitar people, different genres of music, how to hold, how to tune, how to repair strings and finally they come down to how to reading tabs. So I'll explain my requirement more clearly. It is not currently accepting new answers or interactions.Īre there any books or videos courses that just teach you how to practice acoustic guitar and its not complicated either? I know that there are lots of video course, books, youtube videos out there for learning to play guitars. This question and its answers are locked because the question is off-topic but has historical significance.
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