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Thank you for the video.

A advice for those who are starting in guitar is not using Berkley's guitar method. I started that method and frustrated me doing the chord exercise, and it has a little bit of a known repertory. I remember I was looking forward to learning guitar and my teacher told me that using the Berkley method would learn a lot. I didn't agree because guitar method books must be simple to read with easy songs to learn at home. Anyone who had the same problem with the Berkley guitar method?

THANK YOU, YOU BEAUTIFUL MAN

Thank you! May ask which has the best audio examples?

Suzuki's left-hand method 🍆✊💦🤤

I found a lot of success just working through a guitar theory book. I learned all the scales, chords, triads, 7th chords, arpeggios, and intervals without all the fluff of a method book. And it only took me a few months. I think the method book format is becoming outdated. Give students a syllabus, help them build a practice plan, buy a drill book or search for exercises on youtube. Repeat for a year or 2 and you're an intermediate guitar player.

Does anyone know a great book for chords only?

Excelent

Learn and Master Guitar 20 DVD version w/book.

Couldn't agree more about the Mel Bay Guitar Method. I've never used it for my own students because it was the book I had when I was very little and it was super difficult. It completely turned me off sight reading notation for quite some time.

Thanks, this was extremely helpful figuring out a book to teach my kids with.

Learn how to read music with the guitar, and you don't need a method… All you need is the music

Not really sure why guitar players are afraid to learn how to read music…

Have you tried the "Fast Track Guitar Method Book" by Hal Leonard?

Even with that technique barring an A shaped chord where your ring finger creates a second barre can still create wrist tension given enough time. E shaped barre chords don't stress as much.

I use "Everbody's Guitar Method Book 1". It's very similar to Hal Leonard but I prefer it's rhythmic interpretation of certain shared songs better. Plus I think it's easier to look at. It's also convenient to point students to the RUclips page sampling each lesson, though some of the samples are over accompanied to the point it may not be eady for young students to differentiate the melody line they are playing. But then Hal Leonard samples have the same issue.

Hello, Alan. First, thank you for such an articulate video discussing your opinions on these books. A quote I really enjoyed from a book I read this summer was "No muss, no fuss." This video embodies that, and I appreciate it. My question for you is perhaps not easily answered. I have been playing guitar for about, let's say 5 years on and off. I am by no means a great player, but I can definitely play some songs and have decent skills. In middle school and high school, I loved music theory classes. However, I feel that my interest and ambition to learn music theory and to become comfortable with chord progressions and scales and keys, etc. was lost in my transition to learning the guitar, self-taught through RUclips. I speculate that a good guitar book might take me back to the beginning enough to teach me in a more in-depth way to fulfill my eagerness to link my broad-stroke theory understanding to the guitar. The first book you recommended almost sounds like that may be the right choice, could you comment your opinion based on my situation? Perhaps other people are in the same spot. Thanks!

This is a great video needs way more views

I've used alfreds kid's guitar course for "guitar class" with 4th graders. I can't recommend it enough for young learners

*The Guitarist's Way* is a pretty good one, particularly up to the eight edition (1992). Subsequent ones all good but some tweaks may not have been necessarily beneficial. On a side note - thanks for the heads up on the Hal Leonard guitar book, the same one for *Ukulele* is one of the better books I've seen.

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Great video Alan! Concise and great tips! Keep ‘em coming

Simple and to the point😊

Amazing. I started teaching about a year ago and this will be great for my students, and even as a reminder for me!

Brilliant!

Thank u Very much, I really like hall Leonard book, its easy for teaching guitar

I appreciate your careful attention to detail in explaining the differences between each! Thanks again for being thorough for beginners like myself 😀👍

Have both HalLeonard, and Alfred methods. Really like Hal Leonard, and don't want to waste precious time going through the Alfred course simultaneously. I read music very well, with advanced theory since I am a singer, songwriter, composer, with experience on piano and other instruments. Just wondering how much I should take from Alfred beginning method, if at all, at this point. Check it Out! Ciao!!!

I'm interested on the book how do I pay and how do I get it?

In my country rigoletto is a sleng for puking haha

Super helpful. I’m gonna start to get to guitar lessons soon. Thanks for taking the time to do this.

I went through both the mel bay modern guitar method and alfred basic guitar method in the 1970s- 90s. it was difficult, but it did teach the fundamentals of music pertaining to guitar. the songs were lame, but it was really about a lesson in key signatures, sight reading and harmonized scales and of course dexterity of the plectrum or pick. i am older now but i now enjoy picking up a lead sheet and grasping the construction of the melody and harmony. so studying these two books over the years was not useless, it was just a long road to travel.

Hi again :) 1 - What is the best exercises you know which allow to use fingers on both hands independent of each other not symmetrically ,for example left hand fingers are going 1,2,3,4 but left hand figners strokes 4,3,2,1, (if You know what I mean saying "not symmetrically" english is not my native language,I use google translator haha) Generally, it's about the exercises developing the technique of the right hand like Rasgueado in flamenco etc etc 2 - How to deal with this picking problem: We have two strings for example E and B and now we want play E string down /\ and B string up \/ or E string up \/ and B string down /\ Alternate picking right? How to get maximum speed with tremolo in this patern: one note per string? What we should avoid, what will stop our progress? How to achieve the level of Shawn Lane ? ;D Fingerpicking is ideal for it,but plectrum picking is a challenge. 3 - Hybrid picking development :) Best exercise/licks which You know,to achieve mastery in this technique :) Could You share with us?

Another issue which escaped my attention is :) I'd like to learn to compose and play a few selected genre: post-bop, flamenco, bluegrass, classics. The rules are the same everywhere, major chord is major chord but all the styles mentioned are very different from each other so how to learn all of this things,what makes them different sufficiently enough to allow compose and improvise within the chosen genre? From which books?

Hi :) what do You know about harmonic Major and his modes?:) I mean,how to make modal progressions for each of this modes how it looks functional harmony for ionian b6 where we can find songs in this scale and modes of harmonic Major or books/dvds in which someone teach about harmonic Major because I don't understand why there is nothing all around :( What is wrong with harmonic Major? This is some kind of taboo or blasphemy? ;) Could You make video about harmonic Major mysteries? PS. and orchestration also called instrumentation,from which books you can learn it best, where to start? it's not about writing scores for a symphony orchestra :) just for myself and my rock band :D and a midi program that replaces the small orchestra ;)

Is hal leonard good for me as i am beginner and with no teacher?

You should create weekly guitar lessons using these correct guitar rudiments books to teach the correct and authentic and efficient way of playing guitar for absolute beginners.

Cheers for the video content! Forgive me for the intrusion, I would appreciate your thoughts. Have you tried - Riddleagan Skillful Playing Remedy (search on google)? It is an awesome exclusive guide for learning complex guitar chords and become a pro without the headache. Ive heard some great things about it and my old buddy Taylor got astronomical success with it.

Thanks a lot man.

Thanks for the video. That was helpful!

Which book would you recommend for me im 15 and im new to guitar

I was wondering if you can recommend the best one for a 12yo? My daughter plays the cello so she picks up quick, however, I don’t know much about guitar.

I am giving a shout out to the much overlooked "Everybody's Guitar Method". They are inexpensive, and I find them excellent (I have also checked out the Alfred, Hal Leonard, and Mel Bay books...all are sufficient, but Everybody's GM has so far been my favorite, and I have taught several beginners using it). I can't explain why, but the pace, the song selection, and especially the accompaniments just strike me as tasteful. It is my go to...within one or two lessons, brand new students are reading simple melodies that sound great with the accompaniment, and have a grasp of how reading music works. Anyhow, just wanted to let ppl know, for me it's been the one I go to first

Hal Leonard book was useless for me.nice diagrams with no explanation of how to read

appreciate the review --thanks

Excellent analysis of these books/series! Good advice for newer teachers.

How should you pace yourself with this book? A chapter a week? A few pages a week?

I have a few of Troy Stetina’s books - Metal rhythm vol. 1 and 2, and a thrash guitar book. There’s no standard notation to bog someone down, but he does use standard rhythm notation symbols, so they’re mostly technique books with a touch of theory. pretty good if someone is mostly interested in playing heavy metal and hard rock. I do want to supplement that with a good fingerpicking book.

Thank you so much for taking the time to make this video. As a newer music teacher, I found this super informative and I feel impressed and inspired by how clearly, calmly, and confidently you communicate. Have you tried any of the Suzuki Guitar Method Books?

Thank you. this was useful too. did some practice. and my playing improved a bit. i can change smoothly between bar chords now. still in minor bar chords like Am Gm, Bb some stings r damping but will get over it with practice. Thanks again