With the more advanced topics, you may feel you need to learn from something with a more personal touch.

The Christopher Parkening Guitar Method is a comprehensive and well-organized guide to learning classical guitar techniques. I didn't want to do a bunch of exercises that didn't sound anything like music or practice on songs that I'd never want to play. Having been just released, this new edition doesn't have any reviews yet at the time of this writing.I’ve added some extra tips and explanations to help students understand the directions more clearly and updated a bunch of the video lessons. I no longer accept new students, but I had all my students do the first half of any of the standard guitar series (Mel Bay, Alfred, etc.

The Hal Leonard Guitar Method uses a longstanding and thoroughly vetted guitar curriculum, and many guitar instructors still swear by this book and have their students follow the method. You can think of the Guitar Aerobics: A 52-Week, One-lick-per-day Workout Program for Developing, Improving and Maintaining Guitar Technique as a workout plan for your hands.Up next we have Essential Elements for Guitar which is a fantastic resource for anyone looking to learn the basics of guitar playing. However, it will explain how to play chords and what all the notation means in a clear, concise manner.

Complete Technique for Modern Guitar’ contains 200 exercises that are designed to help you play with more precise timing and dexterity. And, to help readers develop their musical ear, Brewster includes lessons on scales and how to use them to create melodies. This is the book we’d recommend to the less-reading-more-strummin The book starts out with the fretboard, key signatures, intervals, and continues on to teach about scales, chords construction, key centers. Comes with 2 DVDs, 1 DVD-ROM and 1 CD containing guitar videos and audio demonstrating all examples.If he knows his music theory well, than I would recommend the Hal Leonard Guitar Method book, that will get him playing guitar quickly. In conclusion, after reviewing the most popular beginner guitar books on the internet, I still think the book should be a supplement to learning guitar, with the primary learning tool being video lessons. It covers the basics of guitar technique, including proper hand position, posture, and strumming, and gradually progresses to more advanced concepts such as chord development and finger placement. This book is an outstanding resource for training yourself to go beyond the simple ability to play notes and chords on the guitar. The lessons are structured in a way that allows students to progress at their own pace, and the book does not require readers to be able to read music.