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"review", This book is good. A lot of song exercises. I recommed this book to those who have an general understanding of reading music. I'm a beginner myself and found this book easy in some parts yet harder in other areas of the book. A good buy for learning to play some of many classical songs.

"Wonderful Book, Made Learning classical guitar fun!", I had been playing guitar for 5 years before I dug into classical studies. A local classical guitar instructor recommended this book to me, to get me started. I had a fairly brief knowledge to reading standard notation, but the finger notation was completely new to me. Noad went into great detail about which fingers to use where, and how the notation is ment to be read. I am now a guitar instructor myself, and I recommend my classically interested students to this book.

It starts off slow, and to new standard notation readers, this is a huge plus. Even the easier exercises sound great and are fun to work out, and are easy to figure out. Then we get into the collection of wonderful solo guitar pieces presented in this book. It has a very wide varaitey of different musics, which will help students get an idea of the defining characteristics of each genre (baroque, classical, spanish, etc). There are tons of great songs with their each own little challenges to overcome to well round your playing. This will take you from a beginner classical player to intermediate, and you will have fun while doing it. It has helped me become a better reader (classically, I do notice that my reading of jazz lines have not improved, but this book is not for that. I just kind of thought it would help with that too (for what ever reason I don't know :P ).

I am a jazz major in college, and I have a greater appreciatation of classical music, and the classical style, because of this book. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

"Great Book If you have a teacher helping you.", This book is great if you have a teacher who is helping you. If you are trying to go through this book by yourself you will probably fail and become frustrated with the guitar. I do not recommend you use this book by yourself if you are starting out. Otherwise I love this book. I have a good instructor and I am learning alot. The book does not have tabs so you will be forced to read music (which is good) but harder. Buy the book with the CD so you can hear how the songs are played. I would have liked to see him include a DVD so that every musical section can be heard by the student, this is especially helpful to know if you are playing each section correctly and for the student who is trying to learn on their own.

"I've owned a copy of this book for 30 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.

"Moderate opinion", I bought the book with hopes I could learn to play solo guitar without reference to notes and conventional music notation. However, this book, although very instructive and thorough (and fast) in its design, still relies on the reader's understanding of proper music notation.
I hate notes. I started playing guitar by the ear only and still play complicated chords by the ear. I wanted to see some important techniques, not exercises, of playing solo.
The good thing though is that it comes with a CD to accompany some 40 exercises in the book.
If you are keen on notes and promise to sit and train 2 hours a day, you will play solo guitar freely after one year with this book. If you are like me and like to improvise on the guitar without any proper musical education this book will be too boring.
In either case, the key to playing guitar is practice anyway! So no matter what you play, spending some time with the guitar every day will yield the fruits sooner or later, with or without any book.

Read this reviews before You buy...

"Classical guitar", As someone completely new to guitar this book is very intensive and easy to understand.

"Beginning Guitar Books", Excellent book. Perfect for the beginning student. Highly recommend this book to all students.

"ITEM NOT RECEIVED YET", Just to let you know that I have not received the ordered item. The latest delivery date is March 21, so I'm still waiting to receive it.
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"I recommend this book/cd", I am virtually a beginner guitarist (strummed chords as a teenager, playing now 30 years later). I purchased a number of method books and like this one the best. I follow the lessons, listen to the cd and practice. The first 2 cd tracks are simple, nice sounding songs. They are perfect songs to practice hand position and get your fingers moving. I can see myself progressing, getting faster and I'm starting to instinctively put my fingers on the right strings. Just purchased the 2nd book in the series (more because my enthusiasm is high, than I needed it yet).

I feel that this book has helped me get to a point where I will keep at it. ...and what more can you ask. So for that reason I have left this review.

Good luck.

"Miraculous results!", OK, maybe not "miraculous," but for someone who has tried and failed to learn guitar sight-reading multiple times in the past 20-odd years, Noad's book seems like a miracle to me.

I bought this book in 2003 and it sat on the shelf, collecting dust with all the other guitar lesson books that did me no good. Noad's intro section seemed kind of imposing, the notation looked intimidating and I just couldn't seem to get motivated to actually work through the exercises. Finally in late 2006 I resolved to learn sight reading -- and after a couple of weeks of sporadic daily practice, ... wonder of wonders! I've just sight-read my first full-page Spanish solo piece, playing through it the first time I looked at it, with very little difficulty, at moderate speed! I can hardly believe it!

I should mention that I've been playing guitar by ear and reading a little tabulature for, ... um 28 years. I cannot say whether Noad's book would be the right place to start for the absolute beginner. I'm thinking it wouldn't be. Although all the basic technical information is there in the introduction, it's not heavily emphasized. Frankly, I think nothing except a lot of practice (preferably with lessons, or at least someone to give you pointers) will accomplish that.

However, for someone who already feels fairly comfortable with the fretboard and wants to expand his or her repertoire with the ability to sight-read standard notation, this book is simply indispensable. If you work through it patiently, the results will be almost miraculous!

A final note: One thing I found helped immensely is a shareware program called Music Theory Basics, available via CNET. This program helped me quickly memorize the names of the notes. Noad is good by itself, but Music Theory Basics (or probably any similar program) helps to strengthen one's note-recognition skills quickly and enjoyably.

Thank you Frederick Noad and Amazon! I will be buying Vol. II when I near the end of Vol. 1!

(BTW, I bought the Parkening book too; it's good but skims over the top more quickly than Noad does, and I don't think would be as effective by itself.)