Instruct: Classify the given review as either positive or negative.
Query: Author is "clawless"

I have only been playing a few months and wanted a simple method to follow. This book starts off with different tunings and drop thumb techniques, neither are basic beginning stuff in my opinion. It seems like he wrote the book for someone who is already a musician, not a novice as the name implies.I have a hard time just tuning it to G!Directions just did not seem clear. I have not used it at all.The book itself looked like it was printed off an old Xerox making the illustrations hard to see. I expected more out of a name like Mel Bay Publications.Save your money, you can do better just browsing the internet or Youtube.