The Acoustic Guitar Method
by Happy Traum
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Actor: David HamburgerDirector: Happy Traum
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 230 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-07-08
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Homespun Tapes
DVD Reviews of The Acoustic Guitar Method
DVD Review: comprehensive for beginners..
Summary: 5 Stars
this is a very comprehensive and beneficial source for beginners interested in folk,country and blues rhytms...DVD Review: Best DVD I have found for beginners and intermediate players!
Summary: 4 Stars
I have bought a lot of guitar learning books and a few DVDs. I feel I am beginning to be an expert, not with guitar, for " learning beginner guitar". For intro to learning, if you don't have a teacher, this DVD is great. A DVD is much more valuable than a book I think because guitar is really about hand movement. A book has pictures of how a chord should look... DVD you see David making the changes, and giving you some practice tips on learning new chords. David has a great laid back attitude as well. Learning guitar at first is really about chord changes and getting them down, and repeating them over and over until your have them in your muscle memory. Not the most fun at first but will payoff later. I saw the one bad review that some reviewer gave saying he only gets to the "F chord". I don't know what he meant by this, was expecting to cover barre chords? Well David covers most of the open chords. Barre chords you can move into after you have the open chords down.
The one challenging thing with the songs on this DVD is that they are very fast. Some upto like 200 bpm! For a beginner this is very difficult. He didn't really explain well that you should use a metronome, and start slow, and then build up to this(or close to this) I decided to try and get to around 160 bpm which is still fast, and the songs sound decent. So that's the reason I am taking the 1 star away. It would have gotten the 5 stars if there was some more tips on practicing. Most all books and DVDs I have seen don't have anything on how to practice properly, and how to tackle certain problems.
Just a few other comments. I like this DVD better than:
Fender Presents: Getting Started on Acoustic Guitar
The Fender DVD is good, but it covers a LOT of topics(barre chords,scales, power chords, theory) quickly. It's a good DVD, but I think tries to cover too much.
A good intro book to complement this DVD is:
Guitar Basics: Essential Chords, Scales, Rhythms and Theory by Buckingham
This book+CD is very thin, not a lot of blah,blah, but starts off with chords and strumming patterns. You'll just have to practice,practice,practice. Some of the chords are quite hard and I do sort of skip them(Gmin anyone?)
Both don't focus much on music theory,reading music, learning note names,where they are on the fret... but to me you can learn that matter with scales, and later on.
For reading music,notes, frets and notes you can get: Hal Leonard Guitar Method....
Hal Leonard is good, but doesn't focus as much on chords, and strumming. It covers them, but is not it's main focus IMHO.
Lastly the Acoustic Guitar method DVD is great to start practing singing and playing. Not an easy feat I have found.
In summary get this DVD!
DVD Review: Worthwhile purchase
Summary: 4 Stars
You definitely pick up tips from a DVD you probably won't get from a book. I'm still enjoying learning from this dvd, still on dvd 1 as I need to practise each lesson now quite a bit before moving onDVD Review: Good Stuff
Summary: 5 Stars
I previously tried another DVD to learn guitar and made much more progress with this one. Go for it!DVD Review: dvd content review
Summary: 5 Stars
quick delivery...I am looking forward to the going through the lessons inside. Content looks as though it will cover the basics and some. I purchased this product for a review and enhancement of what I already know...thanks
Description of The Acoustic Guitar Method
Homespun and String Letter Press, the publishers of Acoustic Guitar Magazine, have joined forces to create a DVD version of String Letter's best-selling guitar instruction book. This clearly organized, carefully graded set of lessons by popular guitarist and author David Hamburger teaches beginners to play guitar using the techniques and songs of American roots music.DVD 1 covers all the basic chords and flatpicking techniques; DVD 2 gives you a solid start on fingerpicking along with more advanced flatpicking styles.
David gives total beginners a great start as he teaches you how to tune up, use the capo, play bass runs, vary your strumming patterns and form all the most important chords and chord progressions. DVD 2 continues on an intermediate level, giving those with some previous guitar experience a solid start with fingerpicking and an introduction to more advanced flatpicking styles, including scales and single note playing.
Throughout the lessons you'll learn to play more than two-dozen classic songs drawn from blues, folk, country and bluegrass traditions, including Careless Love, Columbus Stockade, Darling Corey, In the Pines, Scarborough Fair, Man of Constant Sorrow, Stagolee, Hot Corn Cold Corn, East Virginia, House of the Rising Sun, Banks of the Ohio, The Crawdad Song, The Girl I Left Behind Me, Gambler's Blues and many others.
Bonus: A four-song play-along session with guitarists Happy Traum and David Hamburger gives you a chance to practice your newly learned flatpicking instrumentals.
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