Solo Guitar Playing/Book 1 with CD (Classical Guitar) by Frederick M. Noad Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Solo Guitar Playing/Book 1 with CD (Classical Guitar)
Book Review: Steady
Summary: 5 Stars
I've taken up the classical guitar again after 40 years, and chose this book after looking at several at my local library. It takes a "slow but steady" approach and the author says there is at least two years of study in the book. It sometimes seems a bit repetitive, but if you really work at each exercise, by Lesson 8 you discover how the author has been carefully building up your technique and gradually preparing you for more difficult music. That's what a good teacher would do, and it's what makes this book ideal for anyone working on their own. There's also a fair selection of genuine pieces to work on. My only real criticism is that there could perhaps be a few more illustrations to help with posture and hand positions, but overall this book is hard to beat. Book Review: Solo Guitar Playing.
Summary: 5 Stars
This is an excellent book to learn solo guitar playing ,I have found it very helpful and I am making excellent progress.
D.Walden.
Book Review: Fundamental Method....
Summary: 5 Stars
I agree with the other reviewers here - this is one of the best tutors for beginners who are serious about learning what is actually a difficult instrument. The author warns that at least a month should be spent on each chapter, amounting to two years work. That's hard to image when you start but eventually you realise he wasn't exagerating! It is enormously helpful, these days, to find lessons on basics on the internet (Guitar Artzt for instance) and you should check these as classical guitar depends on being held correctly, the angle of the hands, motion of fingers and the like. It's all logical but you can save many months if you see it demonstrated compared to a book's explanations.
The music in this book is also good, in sets of several pieces at the right level for that lesson. These take a while to work on and you come back to them months later to find you have made progress. They can all be learned by heart as worthwhile repertoire.
I would also recommend Noad's '100 Graded Classical Guitar Studies', a nice complement to his tutor books, and have also found John Mills's 'Classical Guitar Tutor' good for a change. For daily sight reading, William Leavitt's 'Reading Studies for Guitar' is good. (Work on sight reading is crucial for classical guitarists and is a skill which responds well to practice.) Finally, Noad had put together some very nice anthologies from different periods. - something to aim for!