CP54047 - Progressive Rhythm Guitar - Book/CD/DVD

To the Beginner: Get this book. Go from chapter to chapter. Work your way through this book and master the material especially sections 1 and 2. Become so proficient in this material that you can go from any chord to any other chord in a nano second. These are the basic fundamentals of guitar playing.Ok- now to the review of the book. This is a pretty good book. It is well organized. A beginning guitar student could start with this book with absolutely no prior knowledge or experience. In fact, I can't think of a better book for a beginning guitar student to start with. The book teaches the open position chords, barre chords, the blues shuffle, hammer ons and pull offs, staccato, palm muting, arpeggio picking, 7th chords, 9th chords, sus chords, and basic rhythms. It has a lot of illustrations and a music CD with example tracks.Only a little basic music theory is discussed. It's a good introduction and enough to tweek the interest of someone who might be interested in it, but it's not too much so someone who just wants to learn where to put their fingers on the fretboard can ignore it if they want to.But it's only for beginners. Title suggests that the book is for beginner to advanced students. This is misleading. This book is for beginner students only. If you consider yourself an intermediate or advanced guitar student, then don't get this book.Probably all of this material is available in one form or another via free lessons on the internet. Nevertheless, this book organizes the material so that a beginner can learn the fundamentals and not miss anything.Finally, this book does not cover everything. There is still a lot to learn even at the beginner level. It does not cover a lot of territory that a modern rhythm guitar player should know. Triads are not covered. Power chords are not mentioned. Power chords. Please! I can't comprehend why the authors of this book decided to not include power chords. I mean come on! But despite these short-comings, it's still an excellent book for a beginner.

I can't say enought positive things about this book/cd set. It introduces rhythm patterns and counts in an easily understandable format. It teaches styles applicable to all forms of guitar, including the common rhythms of jazz, country, ragae, and rock. The CD has helped my ability to follow complex rhythm and pick patters immensely. The CD is very user friendly. As an added bonus, I discovered the guitar track is on the right channel, so you can turn it off and play with the drum sequence. The ability to play with the drum tracks has helped my timing greatly and has been a great break from the metronome. The book explains as much theory as you need in order to understand what you are doing, but no more, which I really appreciated. Too many of the music books I have used previously either ignore theory totally or bog you down with it. For children, I would expect a 9 or 10 year old to be able to use this program well, so long as they know the basic chords and are able to make basic changes.I would recommend basic familiarity with chords before using this book. It provides diagrams of the chords but immediatly begins presenting rhythm patterns, so you should be familiar with the basic fingerings. This book was worth the money just for the alternate chord fingerings which facillitate rapid chord changes.This is a very general book, but the company puts out several geared to specific types of music, which I hope to progress to shortly.

I wish I've bought this book before. Finally a book you can start from scratch and build up rhythm technique to create grooves and songs.One of the great things here is that you learn to count music beats in differents styles to creat fun, and flawless rhythms. The variety of musical styles at first seemed like it would miss the point, but it actually helped me upgrade my musical vocabulary. And it is good because of the method used in the book - The first guitar book with a learning system that finally helps me.Way better than " Complete rhythm guide to blues bands", " "rhythm guitar by steve trovato", "Complete rhythm guitar guide", and others I own.The DVD that comes along is direct, cristal clear, unlike the majority of video guitar lessons.Not all Progressive books are good, but most of them are really amazing.

I used the progressive series of books and, uh oh, cassettes well over 12 years ago...well, teaching some friends and decided to use the same methods.CD replaced tape, great.But the DVD is non-functional altogether.It's just garbage out of the box and you can tell that it's no error...it was authored that way.Didn't care. [...] bucks was the price I paid and it's a great book, as are all of the progressive series.But hey...you guys need to get your DVD authoring act together. This isn't the first nor the second lousy DVD from this company and I'm sure it's not the last.

This book has been very helpful for me to learn chords and chord transition. It's still early in the process but I'm happy I have this instructive book. The description should be changed. This book does not come with a CD/DVD. It gives a link to view the videos online.

I am a guitar teacher and have used this product for years. If you work hard and finish this book, you will know more about rhythm playing than your friends. One word of caution though, don't use it without a teacher. Some of the chord fingerings work, but aren't the best, sometimes not making any real sense at all.Face it, you need a teacher anyway. If you are trying to teach yourself, you have a guitar teacher who can't play guitar. That doesn't make much sense.

I'm a big fan of the Progressive Guitar books because they are so well written and easy to follow and taught me to play guitar and read Tab in blink time so I'd advise anyone to buy them. They are the best on the market and will save spending a lot of money on Guitar Tutors whom I found ALWAYS held me back.

In very poor condition. No CD as advertised, only a page inside the front cover suggesting you buy the cassette tape to go with it.

Arrived before said date, item just as discribed

this is NOT a CD and DVD version at all. the picture in the advert is of the CD/DVD version but you will be sent the book only.

Good