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Play Acoustic: The Complete Guide to Mastering Acoustic Guitar Styles |  | Authors: Hunter, Dave Hunter
Publisher: Backbeat Books
Category: Book
List Price: $29.95
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Rating:  5 reviews
Media: Spiral-bound
Pages: 192
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.7
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 9.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 0879308532
Dewey Decimal Number: 781
EAN: 9780879308537
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Product Description
Play Acoustic tells the people how to play "the instrument of the people." This detailed and beautifully illustrated book explores the history of the acoustic guitar, from the jazz age to the folk revolutions of the early 1960s and late 1990s to the current rebirth of bluegrass and the singer-songwriter boom of the past decade. It teaches readers the techniques of 11 playing styles, using exercises suitable to novice players and working up to full pieces and advanced techniques. The accompanying CD offers examples of the exercises in the book, covering styles such as folk, rock, pop, blues, country, bluegrass, jazz, advanced finger style, world music, and bottleneck. A 32-page insert with four-color photos is included.
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 Awesome, as good as "The Piano Handbook" (similar style) October 8, 2007
Chris (Philly suburbs, PA)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
This book is fantastic. The two CDs it comes with are great, too. Not all exercises are on the CDs... but there are a TON of exercises to work on. The author covers many, many styles.. classical, folk, "jangle", blues, rock, etc.. arpeggios, jangle sequences, fingerpicking, scale practice, chords, altered tunings..
You can't find a better book on acoustic guitar instruction. I LOVE the stuff put out by Backbeat Books... they're ALWAYS of the highest quality, and the most practical AND fun.... and here's yet another book that cites the Smiths as a reference with a certain style/sound. The Smiths (and especially Johnny Marr's work within the band)... that's great guitar, there.
Do yourself a favor and pick this up. The title's generic, I know... but when they say Play Acoustic, they mean it.
If you play piano, too... you can do no better than the Piano Handbook (same publisher, same spiral-bound book, same look and layout). A great find.
 Acoustic Guitar December 10, 2007
G. Readore
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
The reason I bought this book was because I am interested in learning to play African styles, and there is not a whole lot of info out there on it. This book has a short section on playing African guitar which I have really enjoyed. I also like the sections on other styles (blues, fingerstyle, Pop/Rock, Country, Bluegrass, etc.) I like all styles of music and this book seems great for that. Not a teach a beginner how to play book, but I think more for someone who has played the guitar for a little while and is interested in learning a variety of styles. This will be an excellent resource to use now and for the future. The CD's are also a nice addition. They really were useful in learning some of the African styles. I really like this book
a very good guitar course May 12, 2007
William G. Rogers
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
a very comprehensive course, i havent't started it yet but my guitar teacher has and thinks its great.
 Not for beginners, but might help if you're looking to learn different styles February 23, 2010
Tyson J. Cooley (USA)
Content
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I am new to the guitar and have only played for two years. I got this book somewhere during my first year and didn't know what to think. I wanted beginners music theory and some fun acoustic songs to play. This book doesn't give you that. It gives you sparse discussion about technique and different music styles. Not at all a beginner book as it only includes small chunks (not whole songs) of tablature and very little description (tabs are basically thrown at you with only a sentence or two of information on how to actually attempt playing them). Covers several strange styles of music, but you'll probably find yourself sticking to the more mainstream stuff. Also, the first fifth of the book is a lengthy history lesson about famous guitar makers. This is pretty much useless and somehow incredibly uninteresting (maybe because the writing is super dry, but it is an instructional book after all).
The physical items
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Book has a hard cover and spine, but is bound with a metal coil so it can lay flat on a table or stand. A couple of play-along CDs are included (which is handy if you need an auditory aid), but they really only serve to drive up the price of this book. They fit nicely in the book's CD sleeve (a problem with some book-CD combos), but aren't anything special. You'd be better off just playing by your self with a metronome.
The verdict
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Buy this if you have some guitar expertice and want to improve your skills and discover new styles. If you're a beginner like me, seek out a book with more music theory and explanation of techniques.
 An idea book, not an instruction book February 6, 2007
Paul G. Zomberg (Mount Airy, NC USA)
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
I compare this book to the companion volume on Classical Guitar in the same series, and the comparison is not favorable. The book on Classical Guitar begins at the beginning and proceeds in an orderly way into more developed techniques. This book on Acoustic Guitar only claims to be a "graded course": most of the content is for the guitar player who wants to try other "styles" of playing. The author seems not to know how to deal with the beginner, who gets a mere 16 pages. I give the publisher credit for trying to compress a lot into the book, and the diagrams are very clear (not always correct); but the beginner or intermediate player needs to proceed from the known to the unknown. One can find answers to many questions about guitar technique in this book, but finding them is very difficult, as there is no index. The typeface and notation are too small for my eyes: again, this problem is not found in the volume on Classical Guitar, which would have been a much better model for this book.
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