 | 100 Tips For Guitar You Should Have Been Told (includes CD) by David Mead
Buy new: $19.75 / Used from: $5.10 Full of wonderful tips and exercises to get those fingers moving. Lots of repetition with his Acoustic Guitar Tips and Blues Guitar Tips books, you just need one of them.
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 | Guitar Scale Guru: The Scale Book - Your Guide for Success!
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $6.29 Best intro to scales for beginners in my opinion, I used to bash my head against the wall with scales and I kid you not after 20 minutes things began to click once I started reading this book.
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 | Guitar Chord Guru: The Chord Book, Your Guide for Success! by Karl Aranjo
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $7.44 Does for chords what the above book does for scales, things just start making sense after reading this book.
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 | Fretboard Logic SE: The Reasoning Behind the Guitar's Unique Tuning + Chords Scales and Arpeggios Complete (The Fretboard Logic Guitar Method Volumes I and II) (Fretboard Logic Guitar Method Ser) by Bill Edwards
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $12.16 Worth reading alongside the Scales Guru book above, throw a bit of mud and some of it will stick and all that ;-)
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 | The Secrets of Successful Practicing for Guitarists by Kevin Downing
Buy new: $29.95 / Used from: $12.82 Mostly common sense but it's good to have someone else reinforce what you think you should do. Mind you you can't beat a good guitar teacher.
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 | Barre Chords: An Easy Introduction to Moveable Fretboard Shapes by Adam Perlmutter
Buy new: $11.66 / Used from: $18.07 A great book for introducing Barre chords, the concept is simple but it's good to have loads of exercises that are fun to play!!
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 | How to Write Songs on Guitar: A Guitar-Playing and Songwriting Course by Rikky Rooksby
Buy used from: $2.11 This book is great for theory, by understanding the structure (aka. rules) you'll be able to remember songs better, improve over chord progressions etc...
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 | Rhythm: A Step by Step Guide to Understanding Rhythm for Guitar by David Mead
Buy used from: $8.61 Another book by Mead, great for getting that right hand strumming.
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 | Acoustic Guitar Magazine's Private Lessons: 24 In-Depth Lessons, 12 Full Songs to Play Book/2-CD Pack (Guitar Instruction)
Buy new: $18.96 / Used from: $15.01 Lots of useful lesson for budding acoustic guitarists.
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 | Chord Progressions for Guitar: 101 Patterns for All Styles from Folk to Funk!
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $9.24 A mix between Mead's Rhythm book and Rooksby's How to Write Songs on Guitar. Lots of good exercises and lessons.
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 | Speed Mechanics for Lead Guitar by Troy Stetina
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $9.24 You'll spend the first few days recovering from brain outs but if this doesn't get your left hand moving and your hand in sync then nothing will ;-)
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 | Guitar Fretboard Workbook
Buy new: $15.38 / Used from: $11.26 Another fretboard book, similar to Bill Edwards Fretboard Logic above but different and good enough to merit having it as well.
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 | Beginning Fingerstyle Blues Guitar (Book and Audio CD) (Guitar Books) by Arnie Berle
Buy new: $14.93 / Used from: $8.00 If you want to play acoustic fingerstlye blues then this is THE book.
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 | 10 Minute Guitar Workout by David Mead
Buy new: $23.35 / Used from: $5.50 Just one more Mead book. It'll add 10 minutes to your practice each day (do it before you go to work) but it'll make a big difference.
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