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The Hal Leonard Acoustic Guitar Method: A Complete Guide with Step-by-Step Lessons and 45 Great Acoustic Songs | 
 enlarge | Author: Chad Johnson
Publisher: Hal Leonard
Category: Book
Buy New: $16.95
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 19991
Media: Paperback
Pages: 80
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 11.7 x 8.7 x 0.5
ISBN: 0634064525
Dewey Decimal Number: 781
EAN: 9780634064524
ASIN: 0634064525
Publication Date: June 1, 2004
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Product Description
The Hal Leonard Acoustic Guitar Method uses real songs to teach you all the basics of acoustic guitar in the style of The Beatles, Eric Clapton, John Mellencamp, the Indigo Girls, Robert Johnson, James Taylor and many others. Lessons include: strumming; fingerpicking; using a capo; open tunings; folk, country and bluegrass styles; acoustic blues; acoustic rock; and more. Songs include: Angie * Barely Breathing * Behind Blue Eyes * Building a Mystery * Change the World * Dust in the Wind * Fast Car * Here Comes the Sun * Jack and Diane * Landslide * Leaving on a Jet Plane * Maggie May * More Than Words * Name * You've Got a Friend * Yesterday * and more. In standard notation and tablature.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
Good, but not for a beginner. August 1, 2006
R. Jones (Oklahoma City)
31 out of 31 found this review helpful
The title of this book is a bit misleading. This is not a method book with step-by-step lessons. This is a song book. It does tell how to finger most chords used, but that's the extent of the "lessons." This is not for beginners. This won't teach you how to play.
I purchased this book with the Complete Guitar Method series. This is an awesome supplement to that book. The included songs are fantastic, and the tab makes this very easy to use for those of you who don't read music. I've got mixed feelings as the title lead me to think this was something it was not. However, I am happy I have this book because I now have some great songs ready at hand when I need them.
I searched through OLGA and a few other tab sites for these songs, and the quality of the book shines. When you get tabs from the net you get someone's interpretation of a song. When you get this book, you actually get the song as it was actually written. Keep that in mind. I know it's not true of all tabs, but sometimes you should really consider a real book rather than what could possibly be a sloppy rendition from a tab site. Free tabs are great, but you can actually rely on this book to give the true song.
Buy this for the songs, not for the "lessons." It is worth the money just so long as you realize this isn't for the beginner.
 For the Advancing Beginner January 30, 2007
R. Yentzer
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
One thing to note with this book is right on the cover it says "supplement to Any Guitar Method". This is a book for someone who has learned the very basics and wants to see how all those chords, scales and strumming patterns apply to real music. It does assume a basic level of competence with the guitar. If you are brand new to the guitar, get this book in 6 months or so.
While browsing through the guitar section at a local bookstore, this book caught my eye because it shows real world examples of the techniques I've been currently practicing.
Again this is not for the beginner nor is it intended to be. But if you have the basics down and want to push your guitar playing to the next level this book will certainly get you there.
Awesome for Learner August 22, 2005
James E. Gulley (Nashville, TN)
10 out of 24 found this review helpful
Great book, focused on the nuts and bolts of the Acoustic. For me, much better than the normal Method books.
Good but not for beginners. May 24, 2007
Cody C. Engdahl (Ferndale, MI. United States)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I had seen this book in stores before I bought it, so I knew what I was getting into.
I think, over all, it's a good buy. But if you're just learning guitar, I'd wait until you got through Hal Leonard' s guitar method books (1-3), or some other basic guitar method. After a brief review of stumming patterns, the book takes off quite quickly with difficult syncopated rythyms and fancy chords.
The other thing is that, even though it boasts having a lot of songs,I think around forty-five, most of them are just a few measures and riffs from those songs. Only at the end of each chapter is there a complete song to learn.
 Not for beginners May 16, 2007
Bruce Rogers (California)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I am a novice and this was not useful. I am keeping it around for when I get to the intermediate stages because there are some good information for once you know and understand the chords and how to read music.
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