Daniel Ho Creations - Open String Fingerstyle Method for Guitar

I first met Daniel Ho in early 2009 when he came to The GRAMMY Museum® to perform with Tia
Carrere for what was to become an annual staple of the week before the GRAMMY® Awards show,
“Hawaii Night at the GRAMMY Museum®.” Far before I knew what a successful artist and producer
he was, I was struck by the effect his music had over the entire audience. When the first chords to
“The Breakfast Song (Pineapple Mango)” were strummed, spontaneous dancing broke out in our
Sound Stage. Whether of Hawaiian decent or not, people relate to Daniel’s music.

Open-String Fingerstyle Method for Guitar is a perfect combination of simplistic teaching methods
and intelligent musicality that makes mastering the basic concept of open-string technique enjoyable
for students of any age and musical ability. Daniel’s enthusiasm for his craft and ability to adjust lessons
and exercises to both beginners and seasoned players makes it easy to start at any level—whether that
be learning the parts of the guitar or jumping into the exercises with a new, open-string approach.

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