120 ARPEGGIOS For FINGERSTYLE GUITAR: Easy and progressive acoustic guitar method with tablature, musical notation and YouTube video

Excellent excercises! My hand is now on its own playing by itself. Best of the best!

I am a beginner. First I slowly looked at tabs and then strings and after a while I was able to put the two things together, haha. I went through the book but then stopped. Wait, guitar players don't get on stage and read tabs. So I went back and looked at the music written AND the tabs. But then realized. not good enough. Now I play violin in symphony orchestra (all on hiatus because of Covid) so know how to read music and play on the note written. I'd best familiarize myself with guitar strings and the written notes. Well guess what...that is much harder because the strings on a guitar EADGBE aren't anything like a violin. So it's a whole new playing (pun) field. Back to the beginning of the book. I am where I was tab reading behind a month but with brain memory/muscle memory (oh, this is sooo frustrating) it's coming along. I guess I could do this without this book but then you get sidetracked, bored....you need structure to give you the satisfaction of progress. My violin teacher once told me, do it three times correctly and then "it's yours" thank you for the book,Nick

These finger exercises are fun to play, and also melodically satisfying. I was looking for exercises to improve my agility on the guitar, and these were exactly the right tool to help me toward that goal. Plus there are videos you can watch---very helpful.

GREAT EXERCISES FOR YOUR RIGHT AND LEFT HAND. I USE THIS IN CONJUNCTION WITH ALTERNATING BASS PATTERNS AND MARK HANSON BOOKS

I liked this book because it is helping me to improved my fingerpicking skills on the guitar. It starts out with simple exercises and then increases the challenge. The author has helpful notes for many of the exercises. It is often difficult in fingerpicking to use the correct finger to pick the string and this is one of the main reasons I bought the book. And it has not disappointed. The arpeggios are very melodious as well. I highly recommend this book to beginner to intermediate players.

Self taught? This is for you!

I've had this book for about a month and I find it is a very good tool for refining both your left and right hand technique plus the exercises are very nice/enjoyable to play. Well worth the cost, bravo Mr. Mandorino.

I highly recommend this book for fingerstyle players who want to reach beyond traditional two-finger picking patterns and explore close voicings and pinched harmonies. 120 crafted studies that culminate with a wonderful performance composition. The online video lessons are well shot and recorded with a split-screen view of both right and left hand. They are youtube videos but cleverly embedded on an indexed screen for navigation purposes. Perhaps the best-organized multimedia lesson plan I've seen from a printed book.

Tolles Buch, die Schüler lieben, nicht so teuer und schnelle Lieferung!

Very simple concept of gradually introducing harder arpeggios as you progress through the book. As a bonus the exercises have a touch of musicality rather than straight scales, they sound nice. For anyone starting to learn fingerstyle acoustic I can highly recommend this book as a graded learning tool. At a minimum they make a great warm-up resource. I think I'll be referring back to this book for a very long time as the skills developed will not age or become redundant.

This book consists of 120 exercises designed to move guitarists towards technical proficiency. The idea behind the book is that the various tuneful arpeggios gradually develop increasing dexterity in both hands. The exercises are in both tablature and standard notation, so one could learn note reading from them, but that is not their chief purpose. The one limitation of the book is the Nicola Mandorino does not adequately explain the entire purpose of the exercises in either the Introduction of the very brief and infrequent comments about the exercises. Nevertheless, this book definitely offers a way for even beginning guitarists to develop technical proficiency. I am using it in conjunction with Mandorino's other book, "Alternating Bass Guitar Method." If I could have only one book, I would choose that one, but both are excellent. In fact, I believe any guitarist wanting to move beyond mere rhythmic strumming should get both.

I like the online videos which I can watch and play along. Would be great if add in chords for each bar and different plucking patterns for different time signatures.

I hope the author doesn't mind me including photos of one of the first and last pages of the book to show difficulty. I'm somewhere between beginner and intermediate and found this excellent as a daily workout. I like the way the author develops the exercises, for example the first 10 pages feels like you are playing the same piece but with added complexity or different finger patterns. It therefore feels like you are bringing what you've learnt to the next exercise! I've been trying to learn some nick drake pieces and whilst all the pieces here are far easier, the fact that I'm struggling to play these cleanly with a metronome set to 75 suggests I've been trying to run before i can walk. This book by Nicola Mandorino, aka guitar nick is an enjoyable way learn technique, finger independence, timing. I suspect it'll take me a month or two so great value for money!