Play Acoustic: The Complete Guide to Mastering Acoustic Guitar Styles Spiral-bound – June 10, 2005

Great book! Quick shipping.There is a lot to learn from his book for even experienced players, but it is a good book for new players also.

I compare this book to the companion volume on Classical Guitar in the same series, and the comparison is not favorable. The book on Classical Guitar begins at the beginning and proceeds in an orderly way into more developed techniques. This book on Acoustic Guitar only claims to be a "graded course": most of the content is for the guitar player who wants to try other "styles" of playing. The author seems not to know how to deal with the beginner, who gets a mere 16 pages. I give the publisher credit for trying to compress a lot into the book, and the diagrams are very clear (not always correct); but the beginner or intermediate player needs to proceed from the known to the unknown. One can find answers to many questions about guitar technique in this book, but finding them is very difficult, as there is no index. The typeface and notation are too small for my eyes: again, this problem is not found in the volume on Classical Guitar, which would have been a much better model for this book.

This book is a must for amateur musicians who have a wide appetite for different styles of music and want a glimpse into it all. They even cover "Gypsy Jazz" (or Django Reinhardt, the only gypsy jazz guitarist I know) Well done.

The reason I bought this book was because I am interested in learning to play African styles, and there is not a whole lot of info out there on it. This book has a short section on playing African guitar which I have really enjoyed. I also like the sections on other styles (blues, fingerstyle, Pop/Rock, Country, Bluegrass, etc.) I like all styles of music and this book seems great for that. Not a teach a beginner how to play book, but I think more for someone who has played the guitar for a little while and is interested in learning a variety of styles. This will be an excellent resource to use now and for the future. The CD's are also a nice addition. They really were useful in learning some of the African styles. I really like this book

a very comprehensive course, i havent't started it yet but my guitar teacher has and thinks its great.