Progressive Classical Guitar Method: For Beginner to Intermediate Students [Book 1] Paperback – December 31, 2016

I have purchased other classical guitar methods books including Pumping Nylon, Parkening and one of the Romeros and I can say that this is the most user friendly, practical and genuinely educational one of them all. I found that you can put the information to use right away and noticed that my knowledge and even my practice has moved forward following the material in this well thought out book. The CD is a great plus giving you a model of what your practice should sound like. The illustration of the fretboard alone has been a great learning tool. The book demystifies much of what can confuse you and intimidate a beginning to intermediate student. I highly recommend this one.

I absolutely love all the method books that come from this publisher. This book is no exception and makes music reading easy to understand and includes both right and left hand technique, critical to learning the classical guitar. I would never use another method book to start this type of study.

I've been playing the guitar for about a year on a steel string string acoustic when I decided to start playing classical so I bought a classical nylon guitar along with this method book from progressive.I had other progressive series books and primer but for the classical guitar this was the best.This book has about a hundred pages or so of quality lessons and excercises.The book is all musical notations and fingerstyle lessons.It doesn't contain any TAB lines.It also contains a fretboard guitar notes diagram and a music glossary at the end of the book.If you have a passion to learn classical guitar this is the book for you.

Excellent book for me! I want to learn music theory and classical guitar. This book gives me what I need to continue to self-teach. But also gives me enough info to be able to ask a guitar player questions in an intelligent, savy sort of way. If you are self-motivated, this book is for you. I must admit that I use youtube.com and Guitars for Dummies to supplement my learning adventure.

If you are a serious student looking for a comprehensive method book that encompasses all aspects of the classical guitar, then books by Noad, Shearer or Duncan may be more appropriate.However, if you are looking for a quick start on the guitar, and if you would like to play some interesting pieces relatively quickly, then this book is for you.I think of it as an appropriate second book that complements the book I use (Noad's Solo Guitar Playing) since its organization (by the different keys as opposed to the positions) makes it a useful complement to that book.

I highly recommend this book. I purchased a lot of the wrong books for learning fingerstyle and other methods. This book takes you from beginner and beyond. I'm not a rank beginner but this covered all the basics quickly and clearly to impart an excellent review. The charming and progressively challenging etudes was what I was looking for to develop my skills for playing brazilian jazz. I like this book so much, I plan on purchasing the next level book. An excellent book.

This is a pretty good book. The information is kind of easy to understand but for people understand unless you have no musical background. The CD is terrible. Each lesson is on one long track and there is no click track to prepare the student to play along with the CD.

Easy to read, simple to learn. No CD included though

My husband wanted this particular book and it is everything he hoped for. He is really enjoying the exercises and is learning to read music. I can hear his progress & how well he is improving. Great book

This book is highly recommended fro the beginner, the cd is very useful. I extracted the exercises and studies from the cd and kept them as wav files so that they are easier to access on my pc.Amazing book!This is about the best book a beginner can get, you cant go wrong. Absolutely brilliant!

Disappointed as No CD included with purchase

I used to play classical music at the beginner/intermediate level but have neglected playing and practicing in the last 30 years, so it is like starting from the beginning. For this purpose this book is very good. May not appeal to everyone taste and needs, but it is really solid.

Great!