Created in collaboration with the GRAMMY Museum®, Daniel’s revolutionary open-string method may be one of the simplest ways to play fingerstyle guitar.

Reviews from music industry professionals

Daniel’s knowledge of guitar along with his abilities as an artist and producer combine to make these lessons not only achievable, but enjoyable. He teaches you the basics and then gently pushes you forward by using repetitive chord exercises, necessary in grasping the fingering technique. As a beginning guitar player myself, this book has taught me, with one finger on my left hand, how to start playing the guitar. Enjoy! – Kait Stuebner (Education Manager, The GRAMMY Museum®)

Daniel Ho’s Open-String Fingerstyle Method for Guitar is more than a beginner’s guide. It is a model on how to approach learning, and enjoying, any instrument. Starting with an introduction that Socrates would love, Daniel poses the question and then answers how best to learn to play the guitar and make music! As we have come to expect from his books, he offers a clear and logical path from holding the guitar to performing standard voicings, open-string fingerstyle voicings, and exercises in various keys. To move the student to the next level, he concludes the book with information on transposing and the use of the G Kilauea tuning—a tuning system based on his years of composing and performing. This book is integrated with exercises, musical examples, and a CD that allows you to tune your guitar, hear examples of voicings, and even play along with the examples. It is an outstanding work that could only be written by an accomplished musician, composer, and music educator! – William Doyle, DMA (Professor of music, El Camino College, Ars Nova Sinfonia)