Solo Guitar Playing: Book 2 (with CD) | Solo Guitar Playing: Bk 2 (with CD)

Great classical guitar book | Solo Guitar Playing: Bk 2 (with CD) | Frederick M. Noad

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	• Solo Guitar Playing: Bk 2 (with CD) Frederick M. Noad Music Sales America, 1999 - 159 pages average customer review:based on 21 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

I've owned this book for thirty years!

I stumbled onto this book as a teenager trying to teach myself to play the guitar. I found it both easy to understand and rewarding. Eventually I went on to minor in jazz guitar in college and spent several years as a union musician. A few years ago I returned to this book (I finally replaced my old copy with a new version) when I wanted to venture into classical guitar. Almost thirty years later I found it equally as captivating and rewarding as it was in my first encounter.

Recently I decided to learn to play the English concertina, but found that there were no quality tutorials readily available, so I turned, once again, to Mr. Noad. The exercises presented in the book have been very helpful and have allowed me to feel an increasing sense of aptitude on the concertina as I step through the lessons!

Solo Guitar Playing is built on a clear, accessible methodology and a well-paced progressive learning system that stands the test of time! If you could only have one guitar instruction book, this would be the one to consider.

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Solo Guitar Playing: Book 2 (with CD)

I ditto both previous review. Don't buy this book until after you have completed Noad's book one. It reviews some previous technique, but is much more advanced generally. I found a few mistakes in it so far, in the learning to count notation section, so it does have some notational errors. But overall, so far I think this is a good book worth the money. It would best to use this book in conjunction with a quality classical guitar teacher. Trying to learn classical guitar on your own with no professional guidance is begging to learn terrible playing habits.

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Great classical guitar book

First let me say that I would not recommend this book unless you are at least an intermediate classical player, if not, then begin with Noad's "Solo Guitar Playing 1", which goes from beginner to intermediate. Both of these books come with a cd containing most of the songs from the book, and neither one has tab. Solo guitar 2 has some technical instruction, such as counting dotted notes, rest stroke and free stroke, slurs, trills and other ornaments, and a number of definitions of classical music terminology. This book covers the periods known as classical, romantic, renaissance and baroque, with exercises and songs from each, by masters such as Sor, Tarrega, Guiliani (including his exercises for the right hand), Bach, Handel and others. The material goes from fairly easy examples that will improve your speed, accuracy and sight reading ability, to "Recuerdos de La Alhambra" and "Estudio Brillante de Alard", which are advanced concert quality pieces by F. Tarrega. There is also a song by Frederic Hand called "Study number 1", which isn't exactly classical, but it is quite nice anyway. This is one of my favorite classical guitar books, the material was selected to be educational and very enjoyable as well. If you put in several months (years ?) of work on this book you will not regret it, and by the end, you will be able to play these great songs, and just about anything else that you could ever imagine.

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Solo Guitar Playing Book 1

If you are just begining (or been playing awhile) and want to learn to read music, this is a great book. This book begins with A LOT of basic information about playing the guitar and then gets into actually playing. The exercises begin at an easy level of difficulty and the tempo on the instructional CD is at a very attainable rate. The book begins instuctional excersises on one string at a time and progresses slowly. Mr. Noad says this book alone should take about 2 years of study to master. I did not buy this book with the CD because from what I can gather, the CD that comes with the book does not have the excersises on it but rather playing selections included in the book. Go to Frederick Noad's web site and order the instructional CD's. There are 2 CD's for this book 1. They are well worth the money as you get to play the excercises along with the instructor. The CD was also created so the student portion is on one side of stereo and the instructor on the other.
I have bought NUMEROUS instructional videos and books with CD or video. This is by far one of the best organized and easy to follow. A lot more fun with the 2 instructional CD's.

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very pleased

his is the first classical instruction book i ever had with a cd i had flamenco books with a cd guide to show how you are playing i am looking forward to many hours of fun playing and learning using this book.

This second volume of the popular classical guitar method features instruction, graded exercises, practice studies, and a survey of the guitar repertoire. Volume Two develops technique, sightreading, and includes an advanced repertoire of thirty works.

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