Guitar For Dummies, with DVD Author: Visit Amazon's Mark Phillips Page | Language: English | ISBN:
1118115546 | Format: PDF
Guitar For Dummies, with DVD Description
From the Back Cover
The bestselling music guide — now updated!
Gearing up to play the guitar? Whether you're a new or seasoned player, this handy guide makes it easy. You get expanded coverage of musical styles ranging from rock, blues, and jazz to folk and classical; you'll also find updated photos, new songs, and the latest advancements in guitars and accessories to keep you up to speed.
- Guitar 101 — find out how to tune a guitar, read guitar tablature, pick and strum, and produce a clean, clear, buzz-free tone
- Start playing — jump right in with real music by strumming major and minor chords, picking single-note melodies, and adding color to your music with 7th chords
- Be cool — move beyond the basics and discover how to play lead and rhythm guitar, use barre chords, and create cool-sounding effects
- Find your style — discover the many popular music styles for playing acoustic and electric guitar, including rock, blues, folk, classical, and jazz — and everything in between!
Bonus DVD includes
More than 50 short videos that show you how to play key examples, more than 150 audio recordings of the songs and exercises in the book, printable chord sheets, and tab paper
Please see DVD appendix for complete system requirements.
Open the book and find:
- The parts and workings of the guitar
- Everything you need to play chords and scales
- How to play hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, and bends
- Helpful guidance on shopping for a guitar
- What to look for in guitar amps, effects, cases, and accessories
- Fast and easy instructions to tune your guitar, change strings, and more
- Plenty of music examples and hands-on instruction
- Strum basic chords and play simple melodies
- Tune, change strings, and make simple repairs
- Expand your range with songs using special techniques
Play along with the videos and audio tracks on the interactive DVD
About the Author
Mark Phillips is Director of Music at Cherry Lane Music, where he has edited or arranged the songbooks of artists such as John Denver, Van Halen, Guns N' Roses, and Metallica. Jon Chappell is an award-winning multi-style guitarist, arranger, author, and former editor-in-chief of Guitar and Home Recording magazines.
- Paperback: 408 pages
- Publisher: For Dummies; 3 edition (October 2, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1118115546
- ISBN-13: 978-1118115541
- Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 0.9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
I wanted to review this because all of the other reviews were from beginners. I consider myself somewhere between "Advanced Beginner" and "Low Intermediate" and wanted to give a review from there: would you learn anything if you already knew a bit about guitar and would it be a lot or a little?
I was very pleased with this book. First, I liked that the author, Mark Phillips, got right into the basics and saved all the part about how to choose a guitar for much later on. I think it's a very good book for beginners--shows what everything means, where it is, how to play single notes and chords, gives you songs to work on.
Beyond that, I liked that it covers a lot of different things--keys/chord families, how to read music, how to read tablature, and a variety of styles of strums and genres--a taste of classical, blues, jazz, rock, folk, fingerstyle, etc. This is excellent when you're beginning as you can see what type of guitar playing you really gravitate to--and it may not be only the kind of music you listen to. There are many examples and the directions for everything are very clear.
But what really sold me on this book is the DVD. It has 150 examples and they are VERY well demonstrated. I loved the way there were two images showing how to play at the same time--your left hand in one corner and your right hand, showing the fretting, down below. Perfect for "learning by doing". Even in a class, you rarely would get the chance to see the hand position/finger positions so close up and have a chance to study the techniques. Demonstrations of things like hammering on were so well done--so much different watching and imitating than just doing it from reading.
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