But, for ages 13 and up I think it’s fine as long as there is a good teacher to simplify, filter, and add context to the information. That said, I’m not a huge fan of teaching through books with tons of text and explanation, it can sometimes be rigid and confining. Any student who completes all four books is going to feel confident and secure in their skills (especially reading skills).Ĭriticism? It’s difficult to find fault in such a comprehensive and well structured series. Each book provides vast amounts of content to work through a different aspect of classical guitar pedagogy.
Guitar harmony series#
Overall this is a great series with a modern approach but still includes all the wealth and content that we expect from the traditional Shearer materials. The best part is your can speed up or slow down tempos, control the volume for the different tracks, hear only one part of the duets, turn the metronome on and off, loop sections and more. Multimedia – The TNT2 Technology allows you to watch videos and listen to audio.Much more comprehensive and integrated into the series. More diagrams – Jazz books have long used diagrams to teach fingerboard knowledge but now we have them combined with reading notation all in one book.More duets – This is essential for a natural learning of rhythm and musicality.Dynamics and musicality exercises early in the book.Tons of new educational and perfectly suited repertoire for students to learn various concepts.The transition to repertoire will now be seamless. This is essential for students because repertoire requires it and there’s always been a disconnect between method books and repertoire. Use of the 4th finger on D and G on the top strings.This is good for some students and bad for others but teachers can easily decide/filter for the student. Fully comprehensive, they skip nothing.Text can bog down the learning experience so getting to actual playing faster is a big improvement here. Quicker integration of pieces and exercises embedded within the large amount of text.Along with the new multimedia supplements, the Shearer method has reached the 21st Century! The books give you a combined 830 pages of advice, theory, exercises, repertoire, and more. This is the most comprehensive method series currently available for beginner to intermediate classical guitar. Book 1 dates back to 2012 but with this year’s release of the new harmony book by Alan Hirsh, the set is even more complete. The first three books, written by Shearer, are a result of a lifetime of playing and teaching. I have used the old series for a long time, in particular the Classic Guitar Technique and Scale Pattern Studies but this new series by Aaron Shearer with videos by Thomas Kikta and compositions Alan Hirsh is at a whole new level. I recently looked at Book 4 from this series and was very pleased to receive the complete set from the Aaron Shearer Foundation.
Guitar harmony plus#
By Aaron Shearer, Thomas Kikta, and Alan Hirshīuy the Books via Amazon, Aaron Shearer Foundation, Sheet Music Plus
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