I'm starting up in "Mastering the Guitar" as well, as part of my skill building. Right now I'm probably an intermediate level strummer with some reasonable arpeggio skills. I really want to grow in the area of single note work.
I know there are several good series out there but what helped me decide to commit to this series was:
1) Use of both standard music notation and TAB.
2) The upper skill end of the series is fairly high ( as if I'll ever get there)
3) It has CD examples support of many of the excercises.
4) I wanted something systematic ( but not for primarily classical players ).
5) It seems to touch on quite a variety of genres and I'm fairly ecclectic in my musical tastes.
I may pick up the Mark Hanson materials as well. It seems that in this thread people have been seeing them as complementary to the "Mastering the Guitar" series.
I hope this thread keeps resurfacing as those of us working through this material encourage one another and get tips from some of the wealth of experience of the forum.
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A Strummer
"Let's lute the city", said the minstrels.
Oftentimes the only result I get from a thought experiment is a messed up lab.
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