Berklee Basic Guitar – Phase 1 | Beginner Guitar Method for Technique and Reading Skills | Ensemble Arrangements for Solo or Group Study | Includes Chord Playing Introduction

Really good book, easy to follow along and everything is explained really well. This book is especially good if you want to learn how to read music or learn the specific notes on your guitar. The songs are a little boring and cliche, but It gets the job done

Easy-to-understand book. If you're new to music, however, I'd take a couple of lessons to get yourself started. The book takes it from there.

I use this book for all my adolescent and adult beginners of guitar. It's a great text because it's not heavily edited and I can write in 2nd-7th positions in pencil as the student progresses up the fingerboard. God bless BIll Leavitt -- he was a great guy and as important to guitar as Mel Bay.

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This is an excellent beginner guitar book. William Leavitt provides a very methodical method of teaching guitar that has a different appoach than the older style guitar methods. Note and chord recognition effectively aid the student in beginning phases of sight reading. The duets and arrangements are great for multiple students and useful for sight reading with advanced students who do not read well. The chord bonus in the back of the book is a good source of chord blocks for a basic beginner without overwhelming them with hundreds of unnecessary voicings. Over all this is a fantastic value.

I am only a few chapters into this and so far it is good.

great item for a great price

My guitar instructor knew the author and spoke highly of him. Having worked through the first half of the book, I can see why.It's a challenging and rewarding introduction to playing. If you practice it frequently between lessons, you will probably advance quickly.Most importantly, I find that this book has quickly built my confidence from zero to "wow, I think I can really do this!"Note that much of it was neatly handwritten. I had no trouble reading it though.Highly recommended for any brand-new student, especially with an instructor.

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I've used this book for teaching beginners how to read music on guitar for decades -- learn to read in first position by doing the entire book, then do it all over again in 2nd an 5th position (in half the time), 7th position even faster, and you'll know how to read using most of the fingerboard. If you can sing the simple tunes, and audiate them, you can learn to read up to 12th position :-)

La Berklee non si discute.Per quanto ne sappia non è propriamente attuale come il GIT di Los Angeles, ma è una scuola molto molto seria.Anni addietro era la preferita per il jazz, adesso non saprei.Il metodo è ottimo, ma come tutti i metodi (ne ho 200 tra VHS, CD, DVD e libri) deve essere studiato ore e ore ogni giorno.Non ho scoperto l'acqua calda, ma conosco mezzo mondo chitarristico che, come me, compra compra compra e studia poco.Da comprare... ma è un metodo serio e non facile.

Ottimo metodo per gli allievi principianti assoluti: per esperienza, posso dire che il primo volume del Leavitt talvolta è risultato un po' ostico perché troppo poco graduale all'inizio; questo invece rende l'apprendimento dei rudimenti della chitarra a plettro molto più facile perché affronta il tutto concedendo più spazio ai rudimenti diluendo in più pagine ed esercizi le nozioni basilari su note e accordi in prima posizione.

Il libro e' arrivato puntualissimo, ben impacchettato e in ottime condizioni. Si parte da zero, dalle spiegazioni delle parti della chitarra. Sinora ho studiato solo le prime pagine del libro, per cui non posso dire altro sul contenuto.