Product Description

A new edition, Classical Guitar Method offers an elementary approach to playing the guitar. It provides a table of relative value of notes, definitions and explanations about the rudimentary elements of guitar playing such as scales and tempo. This is one of the most famous guitar method books for students and teachers!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #350424 in Books
• Published on: 1962-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Customer Reviews

Very essential...
This book chases me for decades... it is so enormously complete, full of sophistication, examples, techniques...
If you want step on a way of real guitar music learning it is a way to go. If you can get through this volume it will make you musician.
All that said, you must take some lessons with qualified teacher who can put you on a track so you could proceed with the book. It is very hard in a beginning but as you make it over hill you will appreciated how much you learned and skills acquired!
In one word: it is the book!

Lots here, but hard to use
This a very complete book, which is its strength, and the reason I bought it. The whole of Carcassi's method is here, and then some! But, the pages feel crowded and busy, making things difficult for a marginal music reader like me. I get lost. Also, I much prefer a spiral binding like the Mel Bay series. This one is not happy when open on the music stand! Still, it may be the best and most complete reference for Carcassi's method that is readily available.

Good technique builder; recommend supplement for repertoire
This was my first method book for studying classical guitar after having gone through book one and part of book two of Mel Bay's Modern Guitar Method. At that time, I was a teenager, and didn't find Carcassi to be the most exciting book for classical guitar study as each lesson takes on a certain sameness. Therefore, if using this book, I highly recommend supplementing your study with a book of solos to provide variety and build repertoire, such as The Classic Guitar Collection Vol. 1 (Classic Guitar Collection)by Harvey Vinson.

As a teacher, I now appreciate this book more than I did as a teen student. It helps build solid technique; the songs are charming; and the scale and chordal studies in each key provide a way to discuss music theory in a practical way. In closing, a good addition to your classical guitar music library.