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50 Easy Classical Guitar Solos

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This book utilizes a great concept. The cd that comes with it helps you understand how the songs should sound, which helps guide your practice. I find myself ignoring many of the suggested right hand fingerings because the thumb is used in some areas where it really isn't necessary. The songs are beautiful. This book will have you playing some nices pieces quickly.

I started playing classical guitar a little over a year ago and purchased this book to break up practicing excecises and scales with something that actually sounds like music.

I thought this book did just what I wanted. The book starts out with easy songs and gradually builds but all of the songs are fairly easy. Only a few have fingering in upper positions but does include hammer on's and pull-offs. Some of the chords have been simplified for less experienced fingers. The CD is good in allowing the student to understand how the music should sound-even if I may never get up to the speeds indicated.

I started teaching myself classical guitar a few months ago. I picked up this book along with another instruction book. Once I learned the notes from the other instruction book, I started playing the songs in this book. They start off simple and get progressively more difficult. The CD is also very helpful in getting an idea of how the songs should sound. As a beginner, I am very pleased with this book. It has really helped me become a better player and get a few songs under my belt. I would highly recommend it.

I bought this book thinking there would be some intermediate level pieces included in it. However, all the pieces are extremely easy. I'm a fairly experienced intermediate level player and I could play the most dificult pieces with 10-15 minutes of practice. The author's fingerings for both right and left hand techinique are perfectly in line with classical guitar technique; using them will definitely benefit the beginner guitarist when they move on to higher skill levels. The pieces are very beautiful for being so basic and I will definitely include some of them in my daily practice. The only minor flaw is that the author's playing on the CD doesn't always match the tab, getting the sound that you hear requires a little more skill than the tab shows. But again, that's a minor issue.

This is the "tablature edition" : the book alternates the lines of standard notation with lines of tablature. I suspect that some of the works have been simplified from their original form to make them easier to play. Extensive right and left hand fingerings are given on many pieces. The keys are easy, mostly C and G. Dynamics markings are used very sparingly. There are a few half-barres and a few notes on alternative strings. I found that it's just challenging enough while still being playable and enjoyable. One minor quibble: the CD tracks don't always follow the the sequence of the pieces in the book, so you may have to refer to the table of contents to match page number to CD track. It's not spiral bound, so you'll need some way of keeping it open. All in all I'm very pleased with my purchase.