Product Description

The "First Stage" Guitar Book is Boldly Illustrated with a See and Do Approach....Only the Easy to Learn Guitar Information for beginners and for those who already play some.

Simplicity....This guitar book has been recently revised and updated with the addition of more easy to understand guitar learning instructions. Here is a brief summary of some it's contents:

Tuning your guitar. However, it is recommended to pick up a battery powered tuner at any fine music store which will offer a more precise pitch to each string.

Contains the most commonly and easiest chord form shapes for every key. In both Open and Barre chord shapes. Learn Power Chords. Learn how to change one chord into four different chords by just lifting a finger or two.

Illustrations of plenty of practice chord progressions in both Open and Barre chord shapes to prepare you to move on to the next level of learning more on the guitar.

Learn and understand tablature in minutes and how it relates to each string and fret on the guitar neck-fret board and to standard notation sheet music whether it be rock, blues, pop, country or your own compositions.

Learn a simple method to maintaining a steady rhythm while strumming, also learn the basic fundamentals of playing basic scale patterns with chords and bending strings.

Clear illustration displaying every note on the guitar neck-fret board and where each note is located in standard notation i.e., sheet music.

Learn to transpose any song to any key to fit your voice.

This is the only guitar book available today which contains the absolutely must have CHORD COMBINATION CHART which covers all the most commonly played guitar chords for each key. The CHORD COMBINATION CHART clearly presents to you which chords go with other chords in the same key....removing the guess work out. No need to have knowledge of music theory as the CHORD COMBINATION CHART has completed that for you.

The "First Stage" Guitar Book binding format allows this guitar book to remain flat for easy viewing of both the left and right side of each page.

Special Note: Both The "First Stage" Guitar Book and The "Guitar Book"-red cover contain the same information. Here you have the choice of which cover you would prefer.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #86574 in Books
• Published on: 2006-01-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• 98 pages

Russ Hucek - Kradle Guitar Picks- July 2001
"Finally, an enjoyable method to learning to play guitar. Chris Lopez makes the complex appear simple."

From the Publisher
READING MUSIC AND PRIOR EXPERIENCE PLAYING THE GUITAR NOT REQUIRED...Want to learn how to play the guitar EASILY and QUICKLY? This great book by Chris Lopez will jump start your musical development in the right direction. You will find what the beginning guitar player has for so long been looking for, for starters, a guitar book filled with complete and easy to understand illustrations on how to play the most commonly played chords - both open and barre forms. Areas covered include Major, Minor, Dominant Seventh, Dominant Ninth and Major Seventh chords. Includes easy to understand chord reference chart on related chords by key, and information on transposing chords and a great deal more that would have you looking forever in other guitar books for the simplicity, all presented in clear and boldly illustrated diagrams. As it has been said before, there is no magic to learning how to play the guitar, only the desire to learn and self-scheduling practice time and before you know it you will be playing the guitar to your favorite songs and imagine this, also be able to start creating your own songs.

From the Author
For all the years I have been playing a guitar, I have never seen a "learn how to play guitar" book that provides a means of learning how to play a guitar in an easy to understand format which provides for the beginning guitar player plenty of clear and bold illustrations. So I thought it was about time to make available such a guitar book. I truly believe a picture tells a thousand words and this explains why I believe it doesn't take hundreds of pages of words to show someone how to play a guitar. I decided to present a guitar book which contains less words and more of what I like to call SEE & DO so that you won`t spend a great deal of your time reading but spend a greater portion of your time with your hands on the guitar.

You will discover that this learn to play guitar book will not overwhelm you with more than you need to know at this early stage of learning to play guitar, however will provide you with only the must know basics, learning techniques about getting started on the guitar and only the essential guitar chords, presented in simple to understand illustrations. You will find that by focusing and learning the most commonly played guitar chords and how they work together. With the information provided in this guitar book, you will be on your way to playing the songs you enjoy as well as your own creations a lot sooner.

On another note, you may also wish to get a copy of a handy and quick reference guitar chord chart: The "First Stage" Guitar Chord Chart - Learn How To Play The Most Commonly Played Guitar Chords!

Customer Reviews

The First Stage Guitar Book
Better than I anticipated. I had expected the original version. What I received is a newer version which has been revised and updated: contains more pages with more examples, chord structures, and narrative.

Very, very nice.

OK
This book is better suited for people who already know guitar basics. You shouldn't play chords if you're not comfortable playing notes

Good as a companion to another method
This is primarily a book on chord progressions. Starting with the most popular chords used in music, and then moving to other chords in open in barre position. Interspersed here and there are some tips on playing guitar. Not much more than that, and not very well organized.

I would consider this most beneficial as a companion to lessons or to a complete method found elsewhere. There just isn't much to it. It's 80 pages, but each page generally contains two 4-chord progressions. I also found that several of the chords listed are inaccurate -- or at least inconsistent with several other sources I checked them against.

I've used about 6 different books and software on learning the guitar, and I found this to be the least helpful. But there are some great reference diagrams that I still refer to, and as it is entirely focused on popular progressions, it finds a home being used in conjunction with another book.