Instruct: Classify a review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: a poor help at any level

I'm a beginner and I bought this book looking for some sound advice on strumming, picking, some chord progressions, and maybe a few songs. This book was a huge letdown. it doesn't cover picking at all, strumming is covered on one page that is devoid of any useful information, and all the songs are hopelessly outdated. Who knows how 'little brown jug' is supposed to sound? For a while I thought that I just didn't understand the hidden genius of the book, but then I got the Hal Leonard Ukulele Method and realized that this first book was just terrible. The Hal Leonard book has actual practice exercises that get progressively harder and I learned a lot from. This Mel Bay book is just terrible.