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Rating: 
Summary: Way too much filler.
Review: Justify the cover price by making the book thick:
75 pages of the history of the guitar ("the lute had a number of drawbacks") and famous guitar players -- 12 pages of glossary, several pages of blank music staffs, an overly inclusive index--there's too much air in this book. Advice on buying a guitar: 'bring along a friend who knows about guitars' The beginning songs presented are the same old 'twinkle twinkle' 'merrily we roll along' 'jingle bells' that are in EVERY old, not-very-good guitar book--this wasn't written for children, why all the children's songs? The bits and pieces of music theory are not well organized. The general tone of the writing is condescending. And there's way too much filler: you've just learned "twinkle twinkle" -- do you really need a chapter (well, a couple of pages) on recording yourself in a studio? If you have ANY beginning guitar books already, then 90% of the actual guitar-playing information in this one is redundant.
Rating:
Summary: Way too much filler.
Review: Justify the cover price by making the book thick:
75 pages of the history of the guitar ("the lute had a number of drawbacks") and famous guitar players -- 12 pages of glossary, several pages of blank music staffs, an overly inclusive index--there's too much air in this book. Advice on buying a guitar: 'bring along a friend who knows about guitars' The beginning songs presented are the same old 'twinkle twinkle' 'merrily we roll along' 'jingle bells' that are in EVERY old, not-very-good guitar book--this wasn't written for children, why all the children's songs? The bits and pieces of music theory are not well organized. The general tone of the writing is condescending. And there's way too much filler: you've just learned "twinkle twinkle" -- do you really need a chapter (well, a couple of pages) on recording yourself in a studio? If you have ANY beginning guitar books already, then 90% of the actual guitar-playing information in this one is redundant.
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