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Latin Guitar: The Essential Guide to Brazilian and Afro-Cuban Rhythms | 
 enlarge | Creator: Bruce Buckingham
Publisher: Musicians Institute Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 244494
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 48
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 11.9 x 8.9 x 0.4
ISBN: 0634006037
Dewey Decimal Number: 787
UPC: 073999953794
EAN: 9780634006036
ASIN: 0634006037
Publication Date: October 1, 2000
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Product Description
Pro musician and G.I.T. instructor Bruce Buckingham covers all the basics guitarists need to know in this book/CD pack designed from MI elective courses. Rhythms covered include: bossa nova, samba, partido alto, baiao, bolero, cha cha, mambo, nanigo 6/8 and more. The accompanying CD includes 79 demo tracks.
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 Excellent introduction to Latin rhythm guitar July 21, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Finally! A rhythm guitar book/CD that does exactly what it's supposed to do, and it's in Latin styles to boot. Unlike a lot of tutorial books, the tracks on the accompanying CD are bare-bones - consisting of just a drum machine and guitar - and the exercises are directly applicable to improving your musical skills within the Latin idiom. I'm a fan of both approaches, as sometimes these books disguise their simplemindedness with elaborately produced backing tracks and meaningless exercises that distract rather than build real chops.
This book contains both traditional notation and TAB for multiple Latin styles. Half the book is Brazilian-based and half is Afro-Cuban/Merengue. This is not a complete compendium of Latin-related styles (there's no Tex-Mex, Merengue, or folk-style stuff here) but what it does cover, it covers in admirable detail.
Buckingham assumes you are at least an intermediate player. You don't have to be an intermediate player to start playing Latin rhythm guitar, however, and if you are a beginner I suggest substituting simpler chords for the more complex harmonies while keeping the rhythm notation intact. This book has definitely helped me add more complex chords to my vocabulary and repetoire and while some might quibble that all these 'jazz chords' aren't necessary I am glad that Buckingham provided me with reasonable challenges that help me to improve my ability on guitar.
Lastly, this is a rhythm guitar book. I can't stress this enough. You will not learn any lead licks. But if you'd like to be able to accompany yourself on arrangements of authentic modern Latin music (such as any Jose Feliciano ballad) you've come to the right place. I believe the skills you learn here can be transferred back into other styles as well.
I strongly recommend this book for any guitarist interested in learning more about playing Latin rhythm guitar.
 A great place to start for Brazilian/Afro-Cubano guitar March 9, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Mr. Bruce Buckingham is a musician and professional educator. As such, his academic approach seams to be very well designed to take you from the beginnings of Bossa Nova, into the more complex rhythms in a logical, progressive manner. My impression is that he is well familiar with the learning process and knows how to nurture it. He uses tablature, which on the one hand tends to tolerate the aweful illiteracy we find in so many guitarists, but on the other hand I guess if you want to sell guitar books, you have to include that majority of guitar players who are unable to read music. I recommend this book to my guitar students as a great latin resource, even though I wish educators would stop catering to illiteracy by using tabs; it's like making ebonics an official language so ghetto kids don't have to learn real English.
Good, clear book, good demo CD July 22, 2006
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is a great little book (not that little once you realise how long it will take to get it all down). Like more than a few people, I can play quite a few styles, but Bossa Nova is a new one for me, and it takes a while to get you head round the chord changes. The level is good for a guitarist who is already pretty familiar with everything but certainly doesn't have to be an expert; even the early lessons take a while to get down smoothly due to the peculiarities of right hand technique plus some occasionally tricky chord changes. The demo CD is good as well. Someone else here said there is a year's worth of work in this book, I'd say that's about right. But good fun work;-)
excellent ty January 15, 2006
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
excellent thank you
Practical, enjoyable introduction to Latin rhythms August 10, 2004
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
Tons of more advanced chord voicings there so you might want to be playing the guitar for a while. No need of virtuosistic skills, though. It is about internalizing the rhythms and becoming familiar with the typical chords of latin music. After mastering this book, you will be ready to read a bossa nova song-book and play the tunes with decent strumming patterns. It might help your cha-cha jams, too. The Cd really helps, too.
I am glad I purchased this book and I recommend it.
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