Guitar Mastery Simplified: How Anyone Can Quickly Become a Strumming, Chords, and Lead Guitar Ninja Author: Visit Amazon's Erich Andreas Page | Language: English | ISBN:
148265010X | Format: EPUB
Guitar Mastery Simplified: How Anyone Can Quickly Become a Strumming, Chords, and Lead Guitar Ninja Description
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"Erich has the ability to break the subject down into workable pieces. He blends the musical theory with practical demonstrations that enables you to understand the various basic skills. His use of videos and written material is well thought out. All you have to do is practice. This ebook is a great place to start learning the guitar. It's also an excellent refresher to review your skills." - Henry"This is an excellent book, with lots of encouragement from the author for the student. He has solid advice for everything except what to do about my small hands!... I recommend this book for beginning to intermediate guitar students." - G-MAn, "Gary"From the Back Cover
Guitar Mastery Simplified unlocks the quickest, step-by-step, full-proof system for mastering the guitar. Quickly tame left and right hand techniques like the masters and know EXACTLY where to play on the neck for melodies and rhythms. As the title states, the information in this book will FINALLY simplify your mastery of the guitar. Erich's unique teaching methods have made possible what was not possible before to millions of players throughout the globe. Whether you are a beginner, intermediate or advanced guitarist, the methods and paths chosen in this book will create immense breakthroughs even if you have studied this instrument before.
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- Paperback: 204 pages
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 1 edition (May 28, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 148265010X
- ISBN-13: 978-1482650105
- Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.4 inches
- Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
This book contains many gaps in teaching the basics, thus could even be a setback to beginners. Its author is strong on encouragement, but unrealistic about the basics of performance.
Seeing the great number of positive reviews on Amazon for this book, I ordered it, and hoped to pick up some pointers, but unfortunately, I was incorrect. One apparent reason for the many positive reviews and the author's claim it is the "#1 Amazon bestseller" (quite unlikely since it's been available only for a few months and is gotten mainly through mail, not at music stores) is his frequent pleading to the reader---SIX times through the book's pages---to click on the website given to email positive reviews for posting on Amazon.
But to the specific problems in the book's content:
1. The book's exercises are all drill, with nary a single song given to practice them. One learns guitar techniques and learns to enjoy the guitar mainly by playing songs. This is a serious flaw.
2. He omits many basics, the exclusion of which can get beginners practicing incorrectly, leading to even more difficulty in unlearning those errors later, e.g., chord changing, the kinds of strings and how to put them on, etc. The book purportedly is for both acoustic and electric guitarists, but he says virtually nothing about the latter, for instance, the use of power chords. On the other hand, he will sometimes go into excessive complexity for beginners to sort through, e.g., listing dozens of fingerpicking patterns, rather than giving a few most useful and versatile ones.
3. He develops unrealistic expectations about practice and proficiency. Note the book's subtitle: "How anyone can quickly become a strumming, chords, and lead guitar ninja.
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