Customer Reviews

Mel Bay Mastering the Guitar Book 1A: Spiral (Mastering the Guitar)

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This is the fruit of decades of guitar teaching books. With this book you learn not only to read music, but tablature and you learn all styles from blues to classical to fingerstyle to rock etc. The book really eanbles you to cover it all methodically. Makes learning the guitar easy and accessible. Get the accompanying CD.

As a person new to playing the guitar, I have bought a lot of books, trying to learn. 80% are to advaned for me. This is the best book I have bought. Takes you step by step through the learning process. If you are new to the guitar, buy it.

I teach from this method book. The teacher who said this isn't innovative or revolutionary or whatever is right: how much innovation can there be to a book about music?

What this book does is comprehensively introduce students to music, the guitar, different techniques, scales, chords, melodies, and covers more material than most technique systems do in any three books, saving my students money because they only have to buy this one book.

The teacher teaches. The book is a tool. This is a good one, and I usually keep a few on the shelf so my students have one to take home from their first lesson.

Very nice book - needed for a college course and was in exactly the shape described. Thank you for the product!

I am a total beginner and find this book frustrating, even working with a teacher. I like the Hal Leonard 'Guitar Method Book 1' better.

I sometimes teach guitar, and I am always interested in finding good method books. Many of the reviews here claim that this method is "the best" and "great." I purchased it based on these reviews. I found this method to be average at best. There is nothing remarkable about the songs or the way it teaches technique. Also, be aware that this book does not include the accompanying CD; perhaps it can be ordered separately. If this book included the CD for the same price, I might be willing to recommend it to a beginner.

This textbook exceeded my expectations. It arrived quickly and in very good condition. The spiral factor comes in hand often. I am happy with my purchase.

Okay, this is getting out of hand. My girlfriend's daughter started lessons, and the teacher said to go buy this book. So I pick it up WITH THE CD. Oh no giant mistake. Each track on the cd (gee, only 150 tracks) has no "count." Useless. Guess when the track starts. Now? How about now? Oops, you missed it. What a hunk of junk. A waste of $20. "Corporate" America at its finest.