Dave Hunter: Play Acoustic - The Complete Guide To Mastering Acoustic Guitar Styles Spiral-bound – 29 July 2005

This book represents a broad spectrum approach to guitar playing. The eleven or so chapters are written by about ten different authors whose names (and specialities) are well known in the guitar world to regular readers of guitar magazines. These specialities cover the whole show. No guitar style is omitted, and there is even a short piece on Klezmer music with an enlightening description of the Freygish and Misheberak scales. This makes the book a top to tail examination of current world acoustic guitar identity.With two CDs to breathe musical life into the paper notation, the book is ideal for many. many guitarists. Very few will cover (or want to cover) all the material available here. But even moderately committed guitarists will find much of value between these pages. For beginners, a dazzling opportunity to experience the vastness and variety of the world in which they have chosen to engage.Highly recommended.

I have been playing guitar for many years now. Mostly as an accompaniment to my voice. I was hoping this would take me further and improve my guitar technique, it didn't.I don't want to write the book off totally. It didn'nt suit me. Maybe with a tutor I would have got more out of it, but as a self teach it didn't work.Maybe someone who likes auditory learning, or who already has some finger picking skills will find it more satisfactory.It does cover a wide range of guitar styles and comes with 2 CD's, although the CD's do not cover all the exercises in the book.Consider carefully before buying.

This book is packed with pages and pages of just guitar tabs in all kinds of music, blues, jazz, celtic, some pop rock but there's some information on the background of guitar.but i was hoping for it to show how songs in different styles are played but it don't really, having 2 CDs and playing along with them is great, you have to be good to keep up with most of the riffs, but that's what it's about learning and practicing.book could have been better, maybe i would have been better off buying a book on one style of music rather than just having bits of styles all in one book.