Rhythm Guitar: The Complete Guide [Paperback]

Bruce Buckingham (Composer), Eric Paschal (Composer)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 1997

A comprehensive source for learning rhythm guitar in a variety of musical styles. It covers: open chords, barre chords, and other movable shapes; strumming, fingerstyle, flatpicking and arpeggiation; common progressions and basic chord theory; triads, sixth, seventh, ninth, and many other chords; and much more.

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Musicians Institute Press (October 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0793581842
• ISBN-13: 978-0793581849
• Product Dimensions: 11.9 x 9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #122,397 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Practice Book, February 20, 2005

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XNU Dismantler "A reader" (Palo Alto) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rhythm Guitar: The Complete Guide (Paperback)

This is an excellent book for all guitarists--beginner to advanced. The book starts with very basic chords and rhythm, but by 8th chapter (there are 37 chapters), I started feeling the limitations of my limited playing style. Note that the book is meant for serious guitar players and requires quite some dedication in terms of practice. My only compaint is that there is no accompanying CD, which I think is essential for any music book. In any case, it's a great book. I also recommend buying the book "Latin Guitar" by the same author, which is a little more advanced. All of MI's books are great, wish they had easier admission requirements :-(

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Rhythm Guitar, The Complete Guide, September 22, 2004

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Joey Heshion (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rhythm Guitar: The Complete Guide (Paperback)

Bruce Buckingham is a highly sought after and competent instructor from the Guitar Institute of Technology, at Musician's Institute, Hollywood, California.

Bruce and Eric do an excellent job in laying out and presenting systems of information in regards to fretboard knowledge. They also present a very thorough presentation of all of the various facets of learning and playing rhythm guitar. With THIRTY SEVEN chapters, this book far outweighs it's competition on the market, without beginning to consider the price comparisons. To find that it is more than competitively priced then becomes an added bonus. I had the wonderful experience of having Bruce as both a classroom guitar instructor and a private guitar instructor while attending G.I.T. I was considering trying to find something from the M.I. press and comparing it to other books available for use with my own guitar students. Not only is this book extremely thorough, I found that there were things that I still needed to review contained in it. After having classes with Bruce, it will be nice to take the learning one step further before passing it on to my own students. I will most definitly be using it as an intermediate guitar primer with my students, in supplement to my own additional curriculum.

32 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not user friendly text book style!, February 25, 2006

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Guillermo Ortiz-coln "GOC" (Mayaguez, Puerto Rico) - See all my reviews
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Rhythm Guitar: The Complete Guide: This book seems to be design as a text book for a course, therefore is not easy to follow without the help of an instructor. Understanding of music theory and many music concepts are presume to be understood. In other words, if a have not read "Music Principles for the Skeptical Guitarist" by Bruce Emery before buying this book I would have lost my money. Exercises are presented in a "vacuum" and I find myself just strumming along a chord progression whose implication or role within chord music theory is not explained. Because the book does not have a CD, I am unsure if I am performing the exercises correctly. If you have a good understanding of chord theory or somebody that can help you with it, go ahead and by the book as it is very comprehensive (141 pages) and I am sure you will get a lot from it. However, it your are just starting to play guitar, or you do not have a good understanding of chord theory buy something else because the book will sound to you like a chemistry or physics text book, perhaps even worst, because Rhythm Guitar: The complete guide do not have as much written explanations, but a ton of diagrams.