| The Acoustic Guitar Method |  | Director: Happy Traum
Actor: David Hamburger
Studio: Homespun Tapes
Category: DVD
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Sales Rank: 7,072
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Autographed: No
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Region: 1
Discs: 2
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Running Time: 230 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 641892
Model: 641892
ISBN: 1597730718
UPC: 073999738360
EAN: 9781597730716
ASIN: B000A7S1TU
Release Date: July 8, 2005
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| • | Published by Homespun Video | | • | 2-DVD Set taught by David Hamburger | | • | Author: David Hamburger |
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 Excellent Resource December 31, 2009
DesertRex (Alpine, TX USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The following is essentially the same as what I wrote in my review of book/CD version of this course. I love them both!
David Hamburger has put together a wonderful beginning course for those that want to learn to play the acoustic guitar. I have the book and the DVD set. Each, on their own, is a VERY good resource. Together they are fantastic. Everything positive that is said about this course in the other reviews is absolutely true. Whether you read the book or watch the video, Hamburger comes off as someone who has thought about the best way to communicate to a new learner. The extras on essential listening and other information just make this superb instructional material that much better.
If you are thinking about buying this material don't hesitate. Get it today. You'll be glad that you did.
comprehensive for beginners.. April 12, 2009
G. Günaydýn
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
this is a very comprehensive and beneficial source for beginners interested in folk,country and blues rhytms...
 Best DVD I have found for beginners and intermediate players! January 30, 2009
P. Lau
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have bought a lot of guitar learning books and a few DVDs. I feel I am beginning to be an expert, not with guitar, for " learning beginner guitar". For intro to learning, if you don't have a teacher, this DVD is great. A DVD is much more valuable than a book I think because guitar is really about hand movement. A book has pictures of how a chord should look... DVD you see David making the changes, and giving you some practice tips on learning new chords. David has a great laid back attitude as well. Learning guitar at first is really about chord changes and getting them down, and repeating them over and over until your have them in your muscle memory. Not the most fun at first but will payoff later. I saw the one bad review that some reviewer gave saying he only gets to the "F chord". I don't know what he meant by this, was expecting to cover barre chords? Well David covers most of the open chords. Barre chords you can move into after you have the open chords down.
The one challenging thing with the songs on this DVD is that they are very fast. Some upto like 200 bpm! For a beginner this is very difficult. He didn't really explain well that you should use a metronome, and start slow, and then build up to this(or close to this) I decided to try and get to around 160 bpm which is still fast, and the songs sound decent. So that's the reason I am taking the 1 star away. It would have gotten the 5 stars if there was some more tips on practicing. Most all books and DVDs I have seen don't have anything on how to practice properly, and how to tackle certain problems.
Just a few other comments. I like this DVD better than:
Fender Presents: Getting Started on Acoustic Guitar
The Fender DVD is good, but it covers a LOT of topics(barre chords,scales, power chords, theory) quickly. It's a good DVD, but I think tries to cover too much.
A good intro book to complement this DVD is:
Guitar Basics: Essential Chords, Scales, Rhythms and Theory by Buckingham
This book+CD is very thin, not a lot of blah,blah, but starts off with chords and strumming patterns. You'll just have to practice,practice,practice. Some of the chords are quite hard and I do sort of skip them(Gmin anyone?)
Both don't focus much on music theory,reading music, learning note names,where they are on the fret... but to me you can learn that matter with scales, and later on.
For reading music,notes, frets and notes you can get: Hal Leonard Guitar Method....
Hal Leonard is good, but doesn't focus as much on chords, and strumming. It covers them, but is not it's main focus IMHO.
Lastly the Acoustic Guitar method DVD is great to start practing singing and playing. Not an easy feat I have found.
In summary get this DVD!
Worthwhile purchase November 20, 2008
Kb Schumann (South Africa)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
You definitely pick up tips from a DVD you probably won't get from a book. I'm still enjoying learning from this dvd, still on dvd 1 as I need to practise each lesson now quite a bit before moving on
Good Stuff September 27, 2008
Fred H. (Pittsburgh, PA USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I previously tried another DVD to learn guitar and made much more progress with this one. Go for it!
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