Guitar For Absolute Beginners Author: Daniel Emery | Language: English | ISBN:
B008VIJHTS | Format: EPUB
Guitar For Absolute Beginners Description
How to play guitar: The effective guitar method successfully used by thousands of busy New Yorkers in their classes at New York City Guitar School. Learn the fundamentals of guitar in the motivating step-by-step comprehensive course for beginners from New York City Guitar School. This program cover all the basics of guitar playing, and includes detailed practice session plans, motivating stories and great song examples. Topics covered include: The Fundamental Habits of Great Guitar Players; Identifying Strings, Frets and Fingers; The Rest Stroke; How To Read Chord Diagrams; The D and G Chords; How To Fret Properly; How To Tune Your Guitar; How To Practice; Quarter Note Srums; The A7 Chord; How To Play With A Pick; The Secret To Memorizing Songs; How To Read Tab and Play Cool Licks; What Are Pivot Changes; G Major; E Minor; D 7th; The Concept of Chord Progressions; examplesThe Small Barre--Gateway To Future Guitar Greatness; Lock Your Hand In With The Beat; How To Count and Strum Eighth Notes; The Gentle Art of Riffing; A Minor (The Saddest Chord); How To Change Between G and C; Rhythm 101--Understand This And You Will Understand How Chords Work; Learn ""The Basic Strum""; Learn ""The Best Strum""; How To Change Chords in The Middle of A Measure; Mixed Rhythms and Split Measures; A Major and E Major; and More. This book is ideal for use with a teacher or in a class, and has also been used successful around the world as a self-study course. Students who complete this book will be able to play arrangements of songs such as ""I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For"", ""Last Kiss"", ""Crazy"", ""Stand By Me"", ""Viva La Vida"" by Coldplay, ""Wild Thing"", ""Knockin' On Heaven's Door"", ""Brown Eyed Girl"", ""Sweet Child O' Mine"", ""Redemption Songs"" and LOTS MORE. For added help, students can visit NYC Guitar School's youtube channel for video examples of the lessons.
- File Size: 2939 KB
- Print Length: 195 pages
- Publisher: New York City Guitar School (February 15, 2009)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B008VIJHTS
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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(Need to change my profile city - I'm in NYC now!) I got this book as part of the Absolute Beginners class at the NY Guitar School and I don't think I could have done so well in the class without it. One of my friends who has been playing the guitar for years, thumbed through it and said that he wished he had something like this when he first started -- then he thumbed through it again and said, "S#@%! There's stuff in here I could use now!" The book provides a natural progression of foundation guitar skills that's really intuitive plus there's helpful hints about practicing and what songs feature what strum patterns and chords. Even though I've moved on to a more advanced class and my skills are improving, I still go back and reference it regularly.
By Kellee J
I have started to learn the guitar 3 times in my life during the past 12 years, the first two times i had terrible teachers and even worse learning materials and the third time was 6 months ago when I was given this book. And its official... I'm FINALLY a guitar player. After owning a guitar for more than a dozen years and never knowing more than 2 chords at any given time I am rocking out on a nightly basis at home and have begun the process of writing and composing my own music that has been stuck in my head for years - this book has brought so much to my life. It has given me the freedom to be bad and still look forward to getting better everyday. When every other manual has never been as encouraging, helpful, knowledgable, funny (yes the book is hillarious!) and an AMAZING teaching tool. I can not say enough good things about this book!!! For anyone who is lucky enough to take classes at NYCGS in NYC they know first hand how positive and supportive a learning environment it is there, but for anyone who can't get to the studio or afford group classes or privates this is seriously the next best and closest thing! Thanks Dan for making me not only a guitar player but for giving your gift of teaching easy methods & tricks to those of us who have a passion and a desire but have never had the right teacher ... until NOW!
By Briana
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