Product Description

Everything you need to know to start playing the guitar! With both tablature and standard music notation, photos and diagrams, teach yourself the differences between the various types of guitars and the sounds they create. In addition to learning advanced tablature techniques, such as bending, hammer-ons and pull-offs, you’ll teach yourself to vary your style as you learn to play music arranged in rock, heavy metal, blues, country, jazz and folk styles. One of our most popular books!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #81879 in Books
• Published on: 1992-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 80 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780882846798
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Customer Reviews

Great book for beginners!
This is an excellent guitar instruction book for beginners. I had never even picked up a guitar before, but thanks to this book I am playing songs on the guitar without the expense of lessons. This book will teach you how to read notes and also where they are located on the guitar, as well as what fingers to use on the left hand. This book also teaches tabulature for those interested in that. All around, this is a fantastic guitar instruction book for beginners.

great book!
this is a great book if you are an absolute beginner! it made playing very easy, and was not discourging at all, like some other books i've tried that started out too hard or were too boring. i've finished it, and feel like i have a good foundation in guitar now.

Why the hype???
I do not understand all the other reviewers who recommend this as a book for beginners. I have never played guitar, or any other musical instrument, and this book is not helpful.

It's only 80 pages long, and 68 of those pages require that you know how to read tablature. They only spend one page teaching you how to read tablature, which is completely inadequate for someone who is a complete beginner. There is minimal text in the book - everything is taught through tablature. There is almost no guidance on how to hold the guitar, and no guidance about hand positioning. No way is this a good book for an absolute beginner.

I recommend getting a DVD where the show you how to hold the guitar, position your hands, and strum. I assumed that would be on the "enhanced" CD, but it isn't. The CD is a joke - way too complicated for a beginner and poorly made. The CD would've been impressive 10 years ago, but it is very weak by today's standards. No video, small window size (it fills about 1/4 of my screen), and minimal explanation of what you're looking at. If you're a complete visual learner, this book and CD may be helpful. If you have been taught the basics, it might be helpful. As a beginner, it is pretty much worthless. The poorly produced DVD that came with my guitar is infinitely more helpful than this book and CD.