The Acoustic Guitar Method

This product is for those who have next to no experience on the guitar. He teaches very basic chords, doesn't even talk much about scales, and teaches 3 very basic fingerpicking patterns. I am a self taught guitar player and wanted to close some gaps in holes of my own teaching. I personally found no use out of this product. It doesn't mean it's bad, it's just wasn't for me. He's not the greatest teacher, but he does get the point across for the most part. If you know basic major, minor, and seventh chords, can keep a rhythm, and know some basic fingerpicking patterns... I wouldn't waste your money. If you're just starting and you enjoy folk music (That's all you learn is folk music), then this might just be the video for you.

I have previewed other high rated learning guitar instructional dvds, and this one seemed to be the only dvd that teaches you how to play songs. It was a lot of fun to me. The instructor is funny at times, as opposed to other instructors that are too serious and tended to be boring. This is the one guitar dvd I would recommend if you're just beginning, because it kept me practicing to learn more songs. He teaches you the chords as an introductory of playing a song and the songs get tougher as you progress. The songs range from bluegrass to country. I also have an electric guitar as well as an acoustic guitar, and would like to learn to play music other than country and blue grass, although I doubt the songs I really want to play are available for lessons, but this dvd is a great start to the right direction of learning them later on your own.

There are plenty of instructional DVDs for Rock and electric guitar, but not a ton of stuff for acoustic guitar. I don't have a lot of time for guitar lessons, so I need to have materials handy for when I have time to learn. David Hamburger is a great acoustic guitar instructor. The DVD starts from the beginning learning basic open chords, which was a bit too basic for me, but each lesson intoduces a different strumming pattern and folk song to play using the newly learned chords and strumming pattern. Petty soon, you know all of these cool acoustic folk songs. I'm only half way through the 2 DVD set and my acoustic palying has become more fun to play and interesting to listen to. I recommend this DVD set to anyone who is interested in getting better at the acoustic guitar.

I am a self-taught guitarist, returning to the instrument after not playing for several years. I consider my skill level to be intermediate, but I wanted to start fresh and take a more systematic or disciplined approach to my guitar education.
This 2 DVD set is a great tool for my purpose. The instruction is clear, well illustrated, and moves along at a nice pace.
I highly recommend this product.

Lots of information squeezed into 2 dvds. Good teacher though he gets a bit boring sometimes.
Dvd should give you a solid accoustic/fingerpicking foundation.