Carl Fischer Guitar Grimoire - The Fingerpicking Book

by Carl Fischer

Product Features

• Pattern Fingerpicking
• Scale Fingerpicking: Major & Minor Pentatonic
• Ostinato Bass patterns included, 202 pages
• ISBN # 0-8258-3926-2

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B0023GTC12
• Item model number: GT103
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #48,485 in Musical Instruments (See Top 100 in Musical Instruments)

Product Description

Starting with chord fingerpicking patterns and expanding to scale (major and minor) fingerpicking and ostinato bass variations, author Adam Kadmon uses thousands of charts, diagrams, and musical examples to guide and instruct you on how to master the technique and the instrument. All the examples are working and function operations that will lead to the immediate application and creation of progressions, songs, and compositions.

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1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A waste of money., August 14, 2010

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Dubious Credentials (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Carl Fischer Guitar Grimoire - The Fingerpicking Book

This book gives you a few different patterns you can use for fingerpicking, as well as the guitar grimoire's usual explanation of music theory at the beginning which I still can't understand. All I see is a bunch of tables and numbers. There are only a few different fingerpicking patterns presented, and then only two ways to finger pick a scale. Then as usual, he repeats these two patterns for many, many pages. Even though the only thing that changes is the fret position. It's no wonder that this is the least popular guitar grimoire. It doesnt really teach you anything and it's still expensive. I would recommend instead Mark Hanson's Beyond Basics fingerstyle guitar.