Pumping Nylon: A Classical Guitarist's Technique Handbook (Book & Online Audio)

This is a fantastic book that covers a multitude of techniques as well as providing some excellent studies. So far I have only just scratched the surface.

Great book with tons of information and exercises to improve left and right hand technique. I had not played guitar for a while and was shocked at how much ability I had lost in both hands, having been an advanced player before. I also use Tarrgs's technical exercises to boost my technique but this book was brilliant. There are so many exercises that you can pick and choose which ones to work on such as improving slurs, accuracy and stretching the left hand and improving your reach. Lots of right hand exercises such as improving accuracy, I found I was hitting the wrong strings having lost the automatic memory for this. There is now a great improvement. All in all a very useful technical book to have.

this is well worth the investment. certainly an ongoing addition for someone working through the early/mid years of learning the classical guitar

Getting on OK with this but some of the exercises in the book are not described in enough detail for me to make sense of them. Now there is a DVD that can go with this and I've currently borrowed this from my teacher but I have to say unfortunately that the DVD navigation is amongst the worst I've ever seen. If I want to go to a video for a specific section of the book it's almost impossible. For starters, the 'top menu' features an unskippable section of Scott playing that lasts for minutes. Like every time you go back to the menu. I'm not sure who thought this was a good idea. Edit: gave it 3 stars when I was annoyed about the DVD navigation, a bit harsh, it's a good book

As described. Helpful for refining technical aspects of classical guitar playing.

Recommended by my daughters guitar teacher.

Its a great book but not easy, makes you work.

Bought as a gift, based on the author`s reputation. The recipient was very pleased.

If you are serious about getting better playing classical guitar this book is a must! It has a lot of skill building songs as well as the Giuliani exercises. Spiral bound so it lies well on music stands.

Nach nun einem Jahr mit diesem Buch kann ich mich den meisten Rezensionen anschliessen: ein ganz wunderbares Buch für das Selbstudium geeignet. Es hat mich, besonders mit den Aufwärmübungen und Fingerstudiuen ein ganzes Stück weiter gebracht. Meine Ûbungseinheiten strukturiere ich mir nun mit Hilfe/durch Inspriation des Buches. Da der Autor wirklich alle Phasen im Leben eines ( auch Amateur)-Gitarristen durchgeht, wird mir dieses Buch auch in Jahren noch helfen. Sehr zu empfehlen! Mein Favorit. Very good! I love it. Ich muss noch eines dazu sagen: Scott hat eine ganz besondere Art, das Gitarrespielen sehr "spirituell" zu sehen, scheinbar. Seine Kommentare und Tipps, gepaart mit Zitaten, die auf intressante Weise mit den behandeln Themen zusammen passen, machen es manchmal zu "Yoga"-Artigen Erlebnissen für mich. Das ist natürlich äusserst individuell, aber ich finde diese Herangehensweise sehr schön.

Un must! Spiegazioni semplici e comprensibili, esercizi funzionali. Dopo un paio di mesi ho subito notato dei miglioramenti. Interessanti le sezioni dedicate al tremolo e flamenco.

Excellent

Nicely done