GREAT Beginning Fingerstyle Book

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	• Beyond Basics Fingerstyle Guitar (The Ultimate Beginner Series) Mark Hanson Alfred Publishing Company, 1998 average customer review:based on 24 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Top Drawer Instruction

I went a little crazy after inheriting a Guild guitar from a family member and purchased 10 guitar instruction books from Amazon. "Fingerstyle Guitar" is by far and away the best. It will teach you to turn simple chord progressions into beautiful and "artful" sound. Also, Marc Hanson encourages you add your own notes to personalize each song and give it your own style.
When I first received the book I listened to the entire CD and thought that it would take forever and involve a great deal of work to learn these songs. The instruction is so straightforward that you'll easily learn a song in a given evening. I hope Marc Hanson writes a follow up book with even more advanced techniques!

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GREAT Beginning Fingerstyle Book

The songs start pretty easy and are broken into sensible exercises and segments to help the beginner master the entire pieces. They start out very easy and progress to a few pieces that are more challenging and showy. All the songs are fun to play. GREAT BEGINNING fingerstyle book.

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Mark Hanson is THE MAN

if you want to learn how to play fingerstyle guitar this book is the one. It takes you from the simplest arpeggios and teaches you how to play gorgeous tunes with them. It is the best.

Mark Hanson's products are all amazing. Not only is he a master of the fingerstyle guitar, but he is a master of teaching.

His musical arrangements, compositions, and performances are wonderfully melodic and musical. I am learning Golden Valley and Canyon Canon right now and plan to learn a lot more of them. I have his Christmas books and his Contemporary Travis Picking book. All of them are top notch.

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Be careful of the level...

Let me be clear; this book is very good, but I made a mistake. I read the reviews here and took it that the peices would be harder than they are. If you have basic finger separation and the ability to play two and three note thumb patterns you may easily be able to play, and remember, everything in this book in a bit over an hour. It is straight-forward.

I disagree with the people here that say the peices will make you sound better than you are. What you get with this book is peices that bring out the beauty of the *sound* of the guitar. Most people, including us guitarists, are just suckers for the open ringing you get so easily with a (decent) guitar and that is what these peices exploit. If you play these peices you will not sound like a pro (at least not to a musician, maybe to your grandma). You will, on the other hand, sound....lovely.

So, I recommend this book one hundred percent to a beginner who can play a few chords competently and wants to get into fingerstyle. But if you can play with you fingers a little already, look around for a slightly more advanced book.

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Simple and Effective

Excellent book. Ihad been playing for about 2 years when i purchased this book and I love it. You'll quickly learn several different patterns of fingerpicking while learning to play in different styles of music. And as it is the with the guitar and this book, Its pretty easy to sound OK but pretty hard to sound great.

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