Customer Reviews

Acoustic Guitar Play-Along: Vol. 2

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The book is perfect in my opinion. Has great classics for the acoustic. Very well arranged, sounds just like the originals. Just keep in mind, the music is pretty much identical to the guitar parts in the original. You will have to sing to supply the melody. But I believe every guitarist should have some ability to sing. Btw, a couple of pieces require knowledge of finger picking like dust in the wind and blackbird.

This is a great book to keep your acoustic chops up. If you get bored with playing scales and arpeggio study and would rather practice by playing songs this is a great tool.

This volume, like the others in the series, is mainly chord strumming. There are a couple of pieces for which single notes, and embellished and partial chords are used. These arrangements are worthwhile, but the majority are pretty shallow and best for comping. When you play them, the song may be recognizable, but it won't be melodically complete.
One problem that is common to so many of this type of CD accompanied books, is that the guitar part in never offered in complete isolation. Percussion and other musical support sounds fine for listening, but to best learn the piece, a clean solo would be more helpful. I think the percussion, etc. is included to mask that weak arrangements of the strumming songs.