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Acoustic Blues Guitar (The Ultimate Beginner Series)

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Great book and CD. I am a beginner and have used Keith Wyatt's Acoustic Guitar Basics to start. I moved to his Blues Guitar Basics and found it a little too difficult. This one seems too start at a better level for me. Explanations are great and the book is easy to follow. It's great when after a lesson you can play what you have been taught and feel like you have learned something. Dallas, whoever you are, you shouldn't be so hard on ol' Keith Wyatt, I think his stuff is great!!

Like many others I have purchased many guitar books with high hopes only to find that only one or two licks are worthwhile and another 20 bucks has come and gone...not so with this book!! Wyatt has a great acoustic style, a great instructional style and a wealth of bluesy guitar ideas in this volume!!

Lots of variations on the 12 bar blues with beginner to intermediate licks, riffs and fills to keep the guitarist engaged and the audience listening. Wyatt incorporates and intertwines fills and ryhthmn parts in a very cool, fluid style. With just a little practice many of the examples are quickly mastered.

The book breaks down the parts into easy to learn chunks and then gradually adds fills and licks and bass runs until you have a tiny little blues masterpiece, easy to follow well worth the $$

This is a OK book although its a little difficult to follow at times. It's like a lot of instructional books, I doubt its understandability was tested by giving it to a couple dozen new struggling guitarists to try out, and then take note in gaps in logic and instructional gaps etc. That would have helped in this case. If you know a topic really well, sometimes its hard to imagine how someone would not understand your explanation. Still its got a lot of good stuff. This particular incarnation has the audio cd which at times is not that great a help. I would buy the version with the DVD.

Great book. I have been playing for a couple of years and found that I really like acoustic blues e.g., Robert Johnson, etc. I would look at the sheet music on these guys and not have a clue as to where to start. This book allowed me to at least get some pleasant sounds out of my box and progress past simple strumming. I picked up this book and learned some of the basics and cliches that are always used in blues. I have another of Wyatt's books and also find it a good start. I have gone back to this book now that I have studied more music theory and that has made it easier to understand without simply memorizing the excercises. Now that I have a better understanding of the theory I am getting as much out of the book as I did the first couple of times-so you can grow with it. By the way, you can use a lot of the excercises on electric as well.