Parkening and the Guitar - Volume 1 : Music of Two Centuries: Popular New Transcriptions for Guitar Virtuoso

Rating:
Summary: EXCELLENT BUT FOR BIBLE THUMPING
Review: I really have little to add to the praise of the didactic style and musical content of this book. However, I would like to just ask Mr. Parkening to leave his bible thumping out of the next edition. I bought your book to learn guittar not to be harassed by your own religious view points.

Rating:
Summary: EXCELLENT BUT FOR BIBLE THUMPING
Review: I really have little to add to the praise of the didactic style and musical content of this book. However, I would like to just ask Mr. Parkening to leave his bible thumping out of the next edition. I bought your book to learn guittar not to be harassed by your own religious view points.

Rating:
Summary: valuable
Review: This is a nice selection for any guitarist's collection. I don't personally find the proselytizing or "Bible-thumping", as another reviewer puts it, offensive, just somewhat, oh, say, gratuitous, I suppose. It's maybe a bit ironic, though, that all the actual selections are "secular", as they say. This puts me in mind of another guitar collection, Ron Rendek's "We Gather Together". "We Gather Together" considers itself an album of both "sacred and secular music", and in it there is no proselytizing at all, which just goes to show...something or other. (Its "sacred" music, by the way, merely comprises a few tasteful arrangements of hymn tunes.)

Anyway, get the Parkening for its music, and don't worry too much either way about the text.