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Hal Leonard Country Guitar Method (Hal Leonard Guitar Method) | 
 enlarge | Author: Greg Koch
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Category: Book
List Price: $12.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 164540
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 64
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 11.7 x 8.9 x 0.2
ISBN: 0634039490
Dewey Decimal Number: 782
UPC: 073999973372
EAN: 9780634039492
ASIN: 0634039490
Publication Date: January 1, 2004
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Product Description
This book uses real country songs to teach you the basics of rhythm and lead country guitar in the style of Chet Atkins, James Burton, Albert Lee, Merle Travis, and many others. Lessons include: Chords, Scales and Licks * Common Progressions and Riffs * Carter Style and Travis Picking * Steel Licks, String Bending and Vibrato * Standard Notation and Tablature * and much more! Songs include: Could I Have This Dance * Green Green Grass of Home * I Fall to Pieces * Satin Sheets * Yakety Sax * Your Cheatin' Heart * and more.
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Cleared up a lot for me October 21, 2008
I'm a rock player that wanted to learn to play some country, so after trying a couple of other books, I picked this up. After going through the whole book, I can say that this a great intro to country guitar. It will give you a taste of most of the important techniques in the style without slowing you down by going too in-depth with any one aspect.
A very good introduction to the genre March 15, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
In this beginning to intermediate manual, Mr. Koch does a great job of spelling out, playing, and building on the basics. Travis picking, hammer-ons, pull-offs, bends, vibrato, scale runs, sus chords, double stops and chickin' pickin' are all introduced and presented in several forms. He peppers the manual with licks at each stage and provides several backing tracks on the CD you can solo over. Its progression is very intuitive and baby-steps-walk-before-you-run driven. Most of the material is very accessible to the beginner although some selections like Sugerfoot Rag at 234 bpm and the Jimmy Bryant licks will confound you. For this reason he provides a slow version which is still pretty fast. I used the Amazing Slow Downer to slow everything down and would come up to tempo using this software. Otherwise this manual is a very straight-forward, succinct introduction to country guitar. My basis for comparison is Michael Hawley's 'Red Hot Country Guitar' which is more advanced and develops some of the basic motifs like single note soloing in composite/blues scale, double stops, bends in much more detail. I would recommend Hawley's manual after completing Mr. Koch's. Both books will take approximately 3 months to thoroughly digest with a moderate (20 hour/week) practice schedule.
Simple to Detail Guitar Chop Chop October 18, 2007
This is really good source to learn and even teach other how to play country. Basic to detail you will, you will be able to play up to any different genre out of this country.
At first, I though the coutry music is only for those with oldy ears, but I totally regret and found the country is the source and the origin when you master the guitar.
Well described with play along CD that help a lot!!!
I recomment this lesson book to those who know a guitar only a litte or have few experience with it.
Begginer might feel little hard to start with, but only if you try.
Plenty to get you started April 24, 2004
23 out of 25 found this review helpful
This is the first Country guitar method book I've bought. I have other guitar method books for rock and I can't say that I am overly impressed with them, however this book has really taught me how to play something and make it sound like an actual song! I find the CD very helpful. The examples are very professional sounding but aren't played so blazingly fast that it leaves beginning and intermediate players in the dust. You'll be learning to play some of the most popular country records from the 50's to the late 90's. I have to admit that I've only mastered 5 songs so far (after 4 months) but atleast that's 5 songs more than I use to be able to play :-) I highly recommend it!
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