Acoustic Guitar Book 2 (Book & audio CD) [Paperback]

Bert Casey (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 19, 2003

Acoustic Guitar Book 2 with CD by Bert Casey is the followup course to Acoustic Guitar Primer. This comprehensive book for intermediate players takes your rhythm playing to the next level by teaching a variety of rock & country strums, arpeggios, bar chords, and how to play along with other guitarists. By using 17 popular songs, the student plays and sings along with a full band on extended versions of all songs.

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About the Author

Bert Casey has been a professional performer and teacher in the Atlanta area for over 25 years. Bert plays several instruments (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass, mandolin, banjo, and flute) and has written 5 books (Acoustic Guitar Primer, Electric Guitar Primer, Bass Guitar Primer, Mandolin Primer, and Flatpicking Guitar Songs) and has made four videos (Introduction to Acoustic Guitar, Introduction to Electric Guitar, Introduction to Bass Guitar, and Introduction to Mandolin Video ). He is a professional instructor at ABC Music, which he owns, and also records extensively in his studio, where he has done the sound track to several movies. He performed several years with Home Remedy and is currently performing in the Atlanta area with his band Blue Moon.

Product Details

• Paperback: 74 pages
• Publisher: Watch & Learn, Inc.; 3rd edition (March 19, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1893907430
• ISBN-13: 978-1893907430
• Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 8.1 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #517,574 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Bert Casey has been a professional performer and teacher in the Atlanta area for over 30 years. Bert plays several instruments (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass guitar, mandolin, banjo, ukulele, and flute) and has written eight instructional books (Acoustic Guitar Primer, Acoustic Guitar Book 2, Electric Guitar Primer, Bass Guitar Primer, Mandolin Primer, Ukulele Primer, Flatpicking Guitar Songs, and Bluegrass Fakebook) and has made six DVDs (Introduction to Acoustic Guitar, Acoustic Guitar DVD Part 2, Introduction to Electric Guitar, Introduction to Bass Guitar, Introduction to Mandolin, and Ukulele Primer DVD). Bert performed for several years in Atlanta and the Southeast with his bands Home Remedy and Blue Moon.

25 years ago, Bert Casey and Geoff Hohwald started Watch & Learn to help revolutionize music instructional courses by developing well thought out, step by step instructional methods that were tested for effectiveness on beginners before publication. These products, which have dramatically improved the understanding and success of beginning students, have evolved into the Watch & Learn system that continues to set the standard of music instruction today. This has resulted in sales of more than three million products since 1979.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another excellent tutorial by Bert Casey, June 14, 2008

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This review is from: Acoustic Guitar Book 2 (Book & audio CD) (Paperback)

This follow-on tutorial to the Acoustic Primer Book is more interesting and varied. The Primer is excellent but emphasizes country bass runs with a variety of traditional or folk songs. This book starts with Rock strumming patterns which I found more enjoyable. The second section continues the country music picking techniques from the Primer but with more familiar music like Man of Constant Sorrow and Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain. Having digested Book 1, I actually found myself starting to enjoy the country style more than I would have thought. The third section teaches arpeggios, which was quite fun. The next sections deal with Capo techniques, barre chords, muted strumming, and accompanying other guitarists. Casey introduces songs featuring several interesting chords like Aadd9, D6, Am7, C/B, C/G, E/A, D/F#, Dm9, Asus2, Am9, FM7, G6, and Bm13. Overall, Book 2 was more of a hodgepodge of different styles and techniques but it was all quite enjoyable. If one takes both books seriously, practicing enough to play along with Casey at full tempo, then it seems believable one would be an "intermediate" guitarist by the end of the second book. Depending on how disciplined one is at working through all the exercises here, it seems to me that the $30 or so dollars for these two books might be the equivalent of at least 10 - 15 private lessons. Very well done, and a bargain.