Can anybody recomend a guitar method book?!

Can anybody recomend a guitar method book?

I've been playing for a little more than a year. I have all the basics down, but I want to be more confident as a player. I originally started with the "Hal Leonard Play Guitar Today Level 1". Should I continue with Level 2 or is there something better?

If you are looking for a book, then go to any major guitar store in your area. Guitar Centers have a giant selection of books for beginners and intermediate players. It's difficult to recommend something, because it really depends on the direction you want to go.

Here's what I found from guitar method books. They teach you the basics of guitar and music, and they make you play some songs that I could really go without learning how to play. I recommend getting guitar lessons if you can afford them. The techinque in guitar, is really a major key to improving your skills. It helps to have somebody look at what you are doing and help you from there.

Also try online methods to learn scales, blues, solos, etc.

The most improvement I got, is when I decided to work on the basics on my own terms. Get a metronome and try to play songs that you want to learn or already know and perfect the timing of it. Timing is huge in music. If you can understand that timing is precise art in guitar, then you will improve greatly. Also posture and hand position is key. Make sure you are sitting straight up, that the guitar is completely vertical and not slightly slanted back towards you or away from up. Your strumming hand should be loose and relaxed and your wrist should be doing the strumming, NOT your arm.

I would check this site out.
www.e-chords.com

They have a lot of tools to get better.