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The Online Guitar Store - Girl's Guitar Method, Book 1 (Book and Enhanced CD) (Book & Enchanced CD)
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List Price: $14.95
Our Price: $14.95
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Alfred Publishing Company
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 781
EAN: 9780739029060
ISBN: 0739029061
Label: Alfred Publishing Company
Manufacturer: Alfred Publishing Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 48
Publication Date: 2002-10-01
Publisher: Alfred Publishing Company
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Studio: Alfred Publishing Company
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Editorial Reviews:
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Finally—the first complete guitar method written especially for girls! This issolid guitar instruction that promises a sure start down a lifelong path of musical enjoyment, approached from a girl's perspective, with a style and design adrressing interests of today's young women. An enhanced CD is included, with a dictionary of 96 chords and a guitar tuner. Students can see the music, adjust the tempo of songs, and even record themselves playing with a band!
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Lighten UP!
Comment: The critics of this book/CD are a little over the top in my opinion. My 8-year-old daughter has enjoyed this book and has gotten a good start on guitar. I'm a guitarist and guitar teacher, so I'm familiar with similar books for this age range. Most are pretty much the same. I like the mix of original rock-oriented tunes and traditionals, which is a little different than some. The combination of single-string melody and strumming is handled well. The girl-oriented graphics are more interesting and colorful than what is offered in traditional method books, and if that helps even a little getting a young girl interested (and past that early phase where it hurts your fingers, whether you're a boy or a girl!), I say more power to it.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A Woman's Perspective
Comment: Another reviewer had concerns that he would appear chauvinistic for saying the book was a regular guitar book with girly designs. I have to say he's not being a jerk. I picked up the book wondering what unique insight it had for female guitar players and was a little put off to find that they drew hearts and flowers all over the pages and then called it a girl's method. It's insulting.
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Summary: Deceiving title. No different than any other modern guitar book.
Comment: The far, far majority of rock musicians have always been male. I honestly have no idea why, but that's the hard truth. As a result, few companies ever bothered to market something specifically for female musicians. However, by the mid-1990s a significant number of guitar-driven bands with one or more female musicians had made waves on the scene (White Zombie, The Breeders, Veruca Salt, Smashing Pumpkins, Jewel, Hole, Cheryl Crow, etc.). And today, a higher percentage of women can be seen in the local music scenes and even in working in musical instrument stores.
Tish Ciravolo took advantage of this new target audience and created Daisy Rock: a line of guitars and basses created for female musicians. Not only are they made to look more "girly", but since women are physically different than men, the guitars also have a different contour in the body and the length is scaled smaller. It was a smart move on Ciravolo's part, and one that was long overdue. For women who want to start playing guitar or bass, I highly recommend checking these out.
It was all because of Daisy Rock's success that Ciravolo was approached to write a guitar book. Hence, "Girl's Guitar Method". It's a guitar book/CD for beginners with some flowery graphics and...well, unfortunately that's about it.
In and of itself, the book is a decent guitar lesson book. It includes what you normally find in other guitar books: tablature readings, instructions on how to tune, construction of chords, a chord dictionary, and modern examples ("alternative music" and the like) to listen and play to, structured into lessons that start at the most basic level and get increasingly advanced. But strip away the curvy fonts and other girly doodles, and you're left with a book that's really no different from the numerous other guitar books on the market today. To me, that makes the title rather deceiving, especially to those just starting on the instrument.
In all fairness, I don't see how one COULD write guitar lessons for women specifically. It would be like trying to write a book called "Men's Crochet Method", by taking a random crochet book and putting Freddy Kreuger's sweater on the front cover, maybe an irrelevant centerfold inserted too. Same book, just repackaged in order to market it to a new audience. Unfortunately, "Girl's Guitar Method" is no different. I'm sure some will blindly assume I'm a chauvinist and mark this review as "not helpful" just out of spite, but for those who value your playing more than fancy marketing, you may first want to check out some of the much more informative (and cheaper) guitar books out there.
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