Hal Leonard Guitar Method Book 1: Book Only | Beginner Acoustic and Electric Guitar Instruction | Step-by-Step Guitar Lesson Book with Chords and Exercises | Essential for Self-Teaching and Classes Paperback – January 1, 1970

Excellent learning tool

Played for years and relearning sight reading. Good starter for that and I refined a few techs.

We got this for my son who is just starting lessons and it has been a great starter book! My son is 7 and he was picking it up pretty well.

This book is great as long as you have an instructor, which referred me to this book. There are things a beginner wouldn’t understand if attempting to learn on their own

Excellent book. Kinda nice that they teach you the notes on a string one at a time. However right after you learn the 4th string it skips to a couple chords and then resumes to learning the 5th string about 10 pages later. Just make sure you use the table of contents. You need to skip around at times for a more logical flow. Also, it would be nice if scales were in the book which incorperated what you learned thus far. I got these from my guitar teacher. I feel the book is really good but it is missing just a little something. I would still recommend it over other books I have seen.

As a guitar teacher I have been using this book for 20 years- it is an excellent starter for all guitarists. Of course I supplement it with songs that I give them to also learn chords earlier than the book introduces them... because I think it is more fun for students to also play and strum songs... but this is my go to to teach reading music and playing melodies and understanding basic music theory in a very gradual practical way.

I would recommend purchasing the book that contains the audio files instead of this book that doesn’t. It’s well worth the few dollars more and makes your learning experience less intimidating and frustrating. I purchased book 2 and 3 with the audio files. Much better experience. Overall the lesson books are very good.

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