Beyond Basics: Fingerstyle Guitar (The Ultimate Beginner Series) Paperback – 1 June 1998

Graded teaching and melodious compositions make this book sufficient for beginners.

Bonne méthodeBien expliqué

Me gustó mucho, aunque está delgado pero trae Buenos ejercicio para practicar, estoy satisfecho, lo recomiendo ampliamente

semplice, veloce e poco noioso. Credo che per iniziare il fingerpicking sia uno dei migliori testi che mi sia capitato tra le mani

Very useful

I am a self-taught guitarist and I considered myself a beginner. Being self-taught, I'm pretty directionless and whimsical when it comes to practicing and learning. I randomly pick songs off YouTube to mimic, download random tablature and more recently I decided to start investing in guitar instructional manuals to try rein in my lack of discipline. Beyond Basics Fingerstyle Guitar is one of the books I purchased a few weeks ago.For someone who is attempting to self-teach and lacks direction, this book is great. The book is broken down into several sections, each of which build up to a simple but beautiful song. The author takes different measures out of the song and explains both in the book and on the CD and the breakdown is very clear and logical. The author is also very encouraging, especially on the CD; he has a very patient and calm voice - feels like having a nice teacher in the room with you. He plays the tracks slowly at first and then speeds up to tempo and adds encouraging words along the way.Given the title "Beyond Basics" I assumed that the author was assuming at least some foundation in fingerstyle but he starts from the very beginning and the book, I feel, doesn't take you very far beyond that. This is not a bad thing. I feel that he tries to make sure you've developed basic fingerstyle skills without frustrating you, so while progress might seem incremental, they are building solid foundational skills in a slow but non-frustrating way. Other instructional books I've acquired seemed to jump around with skill level and techniques and this book is like a nice comfort blankie to come back to because it assures you that you are progressing while other books may suddenly drop a roadblock on you.One thing that was a little different about this book was that the author immediately takes you up and down the fretboard (albeit on the same two strings). Other beginning instructional books usually never stray past the first 5 or even 3 frets so that was a nice change.Overall, I recommend for the absolute beginner. If you already have some guitar skills and are looking to develop some fingerstyle skills, this book may not be for you. If you already have some fingerstyle skills (you've developed some right hand finger independence), this book may be OK especially to review but it will not take you very far. I felt it was a little easy for me but I really enjoyed his teaching style and will definitely move on to his other fingerpicking books.