Hal Leonard Guitar Method, Book 2
$14.00
Publisher : | Hal Leonard; 2nd edition (January 1, 2000) |
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Language : | English |
Paperback : | 48 pages |
ISBN-10 : | 0634013130 |
ISBN-13 : | 978-0634013133 |
Item Weight : | 7.5 ounces |
Dimensions : | 9 x 0.16 x 12 inches |
UNSPSC-Code : | Report an incorrect code |
Best Sellers Rank: | #231 in Music Instruction & Study (Books) |
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Customer Reviews: | 453 ratings |
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One Star
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Challenging experience
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Four Stars
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Lo ayudo mucho
👍🏻👍🏻
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Do the job
The. I’ll do the job…
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for beginners
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Me –
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Great book to learn guitar.
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Rated 5 out of 5
Abhisek Ghosh –
Perfect for a beginner
Perfect for a beginner.
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Rated 4 out of 5
Osiris –
PRICE
COOL
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Rated 4 out of 5
Gary Covert –
Great learning book but did not have audio access
Great book for learning but did not have audio access.
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Rated 3 out of 5
bobby b –
Good ole Hal
It could teach on a more basic level.It skips over basic symbols and terms a beginner does not know and then doesn’t introduce them and expects a student to somehow know. A beginning student doesn’t even know the definition of a note.
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Rated 5 out of 5
Ron H –
Guitar lessons
My daughter learn to play the guitar with this book. She brought it again after so many years to learn again.
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Rated 4 out of 5
REN MIAO –
Beginner book
Good beginner book for guitar
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dennis neuhaus –
If you are looking for a good basic beginners book this one is highly recommended
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Amazon Customer –
Very basic.
If you’re learning to play guitar and learn the basic notes and chords then this book is what you want. It’s very corny and the songs are outdated but it sure does train you what you need to learn.
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Rated 4 out of 5
Me123 –
Excellent book. Kinda nice that they teach you the …
Excellent book. Kinda nice that they teach you the notes on a string one at a time. However right after you learn the 4th string it skips to a couple chords and then resumes to learning the 5th string about 10 pages later. Just make sure you use the table of contents. You need to skip around at times for a more logical flow. Also, it would be nice if scales were in the book which incorperated what you learned thus far. I got these from my guitar teacher. I feel the book is really good but it is missing just a little something. I would still recommend it over other books I have seen.
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howsthesky –
No tabs, goes straight to staff notation
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Rated 4 out of 5
Red Bullock –
Good practice
Good book, just be aware that this is not the one with the CD
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Mac –
Goo lesson book
I got this for my 13 year old daughter. She likes it. She’s going through the lessons with a teacher. It’s a great way to learn.
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michael Diaz –
Lo que esperaba
Lo que esperaba
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Steven R –
Great beginner guitar book
Great beginner guitar book. Clearly written and easy to understand. Good for a beginner or refresh if you haven’t played in awhile.
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Rated 1 out of 5
Joey 😁 –
Not for beginners
If you want to learn how to play guitar 🎸 this book is not the best!! Unless you have someone experienced that can teach you how to read it.
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AshleeW –
Nice
This is the book that was recommended by my son’s guitar teacher, and so far he is loving it, very easy to follow along with.
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Rated 5 out of 5
Thomas True –
Good for starting out with a program or alone.
See title.
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Rated 5 out of 5
Steve T –
Good starter book
I teach from this book. Great for students
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Rated 5 out of 5
Thomas Rayburn –
Great book, especially for beginners
I’ve been teaching guitar for about 8 years now. This was the first book I used for my students and I’ve stuck with it for all these years. The book has a good method for teaching the student to read music, the songs are good and the cds add another demension to the lessons, asa whole. I only wish book one got into chords a little more in-depth but I have found a way around that issue.
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sandra m. –
best book for beginners
Excellent book for learning or teaching guitar.
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Rated 5 out of 5
Linda K. Anderson –
Great method book.
Are use this book to make a tow students.
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Rated 5 out of 5
kareem alzubaidy –
really good book , fulfilled my expectations.
Very good for those who played other instruments before and are just new to the guitar!
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Rated 5 out of 5
Missy –
Good beginners book. thanks 🙂
thanks 🙂
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Rated 5 out of 5
Jessica H. –
Nice book and good price.
In new condition and what I expected.
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Rated 5 out of 5
Mike Foster –
I only use Hal Leonard books
They contain everything you need in one book
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Rated 5 out of 5
Fausto –
Awesome book for learning
Awesome book for beginners
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Rated 5 out of 5
ws4life17 –
For beginners!
Just as described, perfect book for beginners.
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Rated 4 out of 5
S. L. Campbell –
Great starting point…
I bought this because my husband got me a guitar for Christmas and I am taking lessons. It is a great book for beginners, teaching the strings and how to hold your guitar and pick, and then progressing slowly through notes on the various strings. The songs that are provided are fun to play. Great starting point for someone who wants to learn the guitar.
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Rated 5 out of 5
Denyse S. –
Excellent for beginners
This is a great book for a beginner guitar player.
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Rated 5 out of 5
Earwax Candles –
Happy with this guitar book
Happy with this guitar book! It’s very easy to read and understand. It’s very basic, so it’s not a good book for an intermediate guitar player. Love how it illustrates the notes on the guitar and the notes on the staff lines. Great tool to learn guitar!
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Rated 5 out of 5
Kaleb –
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Love this book. Simple. Good basic song to strum to.
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Rated 4 out of 5
M. Fowler –
It mixes fun and function
This is a tried and true method. It mixes fun and function, and is an easy book to follow.
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Rated 5 out of 5
Fernando M. –
Good for beginners
Good for beginners
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Rated 5 out of 5
JLM –
use it daily to learn chords, notes on strings …
use it daily to learn chords, notes on strings, uploaded the CD to my NAS so I could play the songs we’re practicing from any wireless device in the house.
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Rated 5 out of 5
Linda Adkins –
Helpful aid
Great book for beginners
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Rated 3 out of 5
mgoodwi1 –
Mediocre
Some pieces for the students to play sounded odd. They were not standard.
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Rated 5 out of 5
alexsandrea arpino –
Five Stars
Just as I expected and even delivers earlyMy son is taking lessons and loves this book
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Rated 5 out of 5
Amazon Customer –
Very fast delivery
Fast shipping. Product brand new.
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Wayne Simonds –
Good Second Book in the series
Good Second Book in the series. My son seems to be learning from these so no problems. We will continue to send him to class and utilize this book.
One person found this helpful
richard p walker –
Five Stars
orderd book 2 but receives book 1
Paul –
Hal Leonard Guitar Method Books
I use all 3 books in this method for my students….and it works well.
3 people found this helpful
Robin Bird –
Great
This book & CD was very helpful. I haven’t played guitar in several years and was able to get right back into it. The lessons go from simple to complex and the CD is great to play along with.
One person found this helpful
SD –
Loves it!
My son loves this book!
Sarico –
Very good method
I am learning music by myself and the Guitar Method books are very good, even if you don’ t have a teacher.
Tammy Goodrich –
Perfect for beginner that is ready to move up!
Really walks through the chords and strings. A lot of familiar songs to work with and learn. Diagrams make it easy to follow!
Oligoxue –
Five Stars
good methods book
charles evans –
Four Stars
good
Donna F. McCullough –
Guitar Method Book 2
I will be working in this book shortly. I fills my needs of continuing the Hal Leonard Guitar lesson process.
Dakar –
a good continuation of Book 1
This book continues from Book 1. Has notes and chords and discusses some of the music theory such as root notes for chords etc. This is for learning music notes and not for Tab. But learning the primary chords by name, such as C, E or G7, is very valuable. Even if you don’t want to learn all the indiv notes. Learning the chords by name is easier to play than by tab even.
One person found this helpful
whistleinmyboots –
A mixture of strumming and notation exercises
The learning purpose of the book could be more clearly defined. Book 1 was designed to help students read music. Book 2 alternates strumming exercises with reading, which could either be desirable or undesirable based on your goals. If your goal is to read music, you are going to have a drastic jump in symbol decoding for music notation fromThe first book and you will need more reading supplements. Students struggle a lot with this book
7 people found this helpful
mgoodwi1 –
Bought for someone
I can’t really say.
Matt R. –
Good
As expected
Dave –
great instructional book
I’m already a bit beyond this book with my playing but it’s a great learning tool anyway. I like all of Hal Leonard books. This is no exception. I like that these books go step by step in progression, each book leading to the next.
Christine in WI –
Just starting but seems to move on nicely from book 1.
I had completed and enjoyed all the lessons in book 1 so I decided to continue with this same line of teaching. So far I have enjoyed the content and think it will be very useful in helping me progress in learning to play guitar.
Amazon Customer –
I like it
Helps with my guitar practice
Josh –
Easy to interpret
I have almost completed Book 1 and curiosity got the better of me so I took a quick look through Book 2. It looks to be well written and straightforward. Simple enough to teach yourself and nice to discuss and play along with an instructor.
Melissa Asr –
Great book. As described.
Great book.
Jarrett A. Webster –
Great product
Great product
Mark Chyna –
the only way to learn guitar
Hal Leonard books are very well organized and give you step by step instruction to learn your instrument while getting the fundamentals down along with avoiding bad habits. Make sure to get the manual with the audio CD- it is indispensable!
Praveen –
Great
Great book👍
Gary Covert –
Great book
Great book.
Connie –
… lessons and our class asked if this was a good book to have and he said yes so I …
I am taking guitar lessons and our class asked if this was a good book to have and he said yes so I bought it and am enjoying leaning new things that are in it.
Carolyn H –
They do not include the pattern exercises so that a beginner could hear what something sounds like and repeat it
My biggest problem with the books is that the CD only includes certain tracks. They do not include the pattern exercises so that a beginner could hear what something sounds like and repeat it. Obviously there are hundreds of those in the book, but it would still be helpful to have access to it so I know if I’m doing it right or not.
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Guitar Player –
Geezer can play guitar now…
I finished book 1 and now am almost finishedwith this book… book 2.Buy it and play guitar…. from sheet music too !Nice !Next will be book 3… then the BLUES BOOK too !!!I can make fine noise on a guitar.
4 people found this helpful
Ann in the northwoods –
Great book.
Great series of teaching books. Love the cd that you can play with. Helps with the learning process. Songs are classics that have been around for ages.
One person found this helpful
Amazon Customer –
Great fun for me
Getting a lot of practice and learning out of this book. Great fun for me.
David T. –
Good beginner book
I have all 3 books of the series. I have tried other books to learn on my own and this one explains the basics better then any other series I have tried.
One person found this helpful
mte1955 –
Five Stars
More difficult than Book I and still pushing through it but well done.
Amazon Customer –
Perfect books for learning Guitar!!!!!!!!
These Hal Leonard guitar books are perfect series of books to learn to play the guitar. From beginner to more advanced, each book has a more advanced level of learning. Highly recommend.
Peter Drake –
nice item
I’m using it with a student, and we really like the sound tracks that come with it.
The Waterballoonist –
Better than book 1
I have used book one of this series for years in my teaching and finally decided to give book two a shot. It’s so good! There are a bunch of passages that are riffs from legendary tunes. Very straightforward explanation of tab and fingerpicking.Definitely worth it if you/your student is ready.
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Angela Johnson –
No bends or ripped pages. Good buy
Came in perfect. No bends. Only thing is that I thought it was supposed to come with a cd too, and it didn’t.
MrBeercan –
Great for the Beginner to move on.
This book is a follow-on to book 1. I like the Hal Leonard series better than the Mel Bay series. Mel Bay’s books go too far too fast.
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Romanza –
Good, but considerably harder than book 1
Good book, except Hal Leonard makes a big jump from book 1 to book 2 intellectually. Kind of like going from Elementary School right to High School. Maybe this is because book 1 is typically easier than other Guitar 1 methods from other book companies. it’s definitely the right choice after Hal Leonard 1 (Hal Leonard is an easier system than Mel Bay and some others). Really surprised Hal Leonard hasn’t covered power chords and a warm-up exercise up to this point?
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Patrick M. –
fun to jam!
I really like using this book alongside of Mel Bay Book 2. The combination of the two books gives students a great foundation for playing the guitar. This book offers some outstanding practice with strumming patterns. The CD is a must if the student is to really get a feel for playing the style and playing with others. So often students who play guitar don’t getting a chance to play with a group. This CD gives the student this opportunity in addition to making playing the guitar a blast! I have taught many students over the years and have found this book to be extremely popular and well worth the money.
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Jessica Dekovitch –
Not for me.
I felt like this really didn’t expand my knowledge from the last book especially considering I wanted to learn music notation.
edwyn perezedwyn perez –
El libro es el modelo diferente a la foto de venta
El libro llego, pero es el modelo viejo. Diferente al publicado en la foto de amazon.
Jill B. –
Great book for beginners
This was a great book for learning how to play the guitar. My daughter loved it.
Tammy M –
Five Stars
perfect beginner book!
Anthony De Lucia Jr. –
Simply Excellent!
I tried a few different guitar method books in teaching my son to play – everyone get you through the notes on the six strings and then dumps you in the middle of no-where.After a few false starts with other methods I found the Hal Leonard Guitar Method books and I absolutely love them. They are the best by far and we’ve been very please with them. I play a bit of guitar but never had formal instruction. These books served as my “lesson plans” for teaching my son and it works!We’ve gone through all three (Book 1, 2 & 3) and then started working with a few specialized/focused books (Blues guitar, Rock guitar, Guitar Theory, etc.). They all move at a good comfortable pace and leverage exercises that build and reinforce the concepts being taught.If you’re thinking about learning to play or teaching your children to play, this book is a great investment.
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RiseOne –
awesome in depth training
just like my title says…if you are just starting out on guitar…go through books 1-3 its good help! sweeeeeeeeeeeeeet
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Kindle Customer –
Needs complete update
There’s no question that you can learn to play guitar with this method, but you’re not likely to enjoy the songs. Polly Wolly Doodle, Sinner Man, Frere Jacques, Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desire, Kumbayah? I am 60 years old and these songs are too outdated and religious for me. I can’t imagine youngsters enjoying them.
Jwclaw –
Big jump from kids book 2.
I got this book because I thought the kids book 2 and book 1 over lapped too much. But once I got the book 2 I realized it was a huge jump and that book 1 was just right for the next book.
Shawn Parker –
Hal Leonard is king
Stick with a teacher, and make that teacher Hal Leonard
Nane –
Great book
Great book for those learning how to play…
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margaret mary sutcliffe –
I also like the layout which somehow seems user friendly
A bigger step up from Book 1 than I expected so it helped to have done Book 1 well without rushing it. Lots more new things to learn and still very varied and interesting. I also like the layout which somehow seems user friendly. These are very good tutor books, full of fun and not too easy.
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Parminder S Singhera –
Three Stars
GOOD
Olivier Darveau –
Five Stars
good book…
bruce p farenwald –
Four Stars
using the CD with Amazing Slowdowner makes the process very comfortable.
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yihan yang –
Five Stars
It’s good!
L A Read –
Exactly!
Just what we needed to continue with our guitar lessons and tutorial at school. We recommend it for guitar students.
granny pm –
Five Stars
Son learned to play using this
candidademo –
good book
helpful & easy
Daniel Lambertson –
Five Stars
Good book
Mitchell Green –
good
good
Sue Gates –
If you just learned how to read guitar notes,this book is perfect
After i learned how to read notes,i was given the Complete Book (1-3) It takes you from notes to chords and everything in the middle. This is a treaure. I will Always refer back to it. The Big Red Book!!
Celeste Martella –
Hal Leonard Guitar Book 2
Took 18 days for company to send in-stock 47-page booklet. Company never responded to my email concern/request. Booklet was in excellent condition. . . just took too long to receive.
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Guitar –
Five Stars
Great book used Ha Leonard to teach guitar and love his step by step books.