If you are interested in learning to play guitar and are looking for inexpensive, straightforward and effective instruction, you will love the guitar instructional program that I designed for the complete beginner. Getting Started is a guitar instruction program (book, CD and DVD) in which I demonstrate not only important beginning guitar techniques and exercises, but also address the questions and pitfalls that frustrate most beginning guitar students. The DVD contains excerpts from my next-level instructional course (Comprehensive Guitar Instruction) that are relevant to the beginning guitar player and will fill in many of the gaps that you might experience from working without personal instruction. The CD is a recording of all of the songs in the book, with tips added to help you play along.
The book includes nine commonly known songs that will help you learn to play guitar chords in an accompaniment style (both strumming and fingerpicking). The songs progress in a logical order, so that you learn a new guitar skill with each song – always challenged, but never over-faced. By listening to the CD repeatedly, you will pick up the rhythm and feel of each song. Watching the DVD will help you learn how to hold your guitar properly and position your arms and hands so that you can comfortably get the best sounds from your guitar!
In Getting Started, I also show you how to find the notes on the guitar and on the staff, which provides an introduction to the musical language and helps you read and understand charts for songs you want to play. Once you learn the songs and guitar accompaniment patterns in Getting Started, you will be able to use songs books and the Internet to play countless songs. (You can even get transcriptions of the songs of your choice through my Music Transcription Services!)
In addition to learning notes, chords and technique, you will learn how to tune your guitar and change the strings and even how to sing with your own guitar playing. You will have questions answered that you didn’t even know you had!
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41-page spiral-bound book, CD and DVD included $14.95
Click here to look inside the book and here to purchase.
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Once you learn the chords and accompaniment patterns in Getting Started, you’re ready to play a lot more songs! This e-book contains lead sheets (melody, chords, and lyrics) for 20 great songs in easy-to-play keys. I even included a brief history and links to inspiring performances of each song! Get your free copy here!
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