Guitar For Dummies Author: Mark Phillips | Language: English | ISBN:
B008KPM31Q | Format: EPUB
Guitar For Dummies Description
The bestselling music guide - now updated and with a FREE DVD!
Have you always wanted to learn to play guitar? Who wouldn't? Think of Jimi Hendrix wailing away on his Stratocaster. . . Chuck Berry duck-walking across the stage to "Johnny B. Goode". . .B.B. King making his "Lucille" cry the blues. No doubt about it—guitars are cool.
Guitar For Dummies gives you everything a beginning or intermediate guitarist needs: from buying a guitar to tuning it, playing it, and caring for it, this book has it all—and you don't even need to know how to read music. Full of photo-illustrated exercises and songs you can play to practice the techniques discussed in each section, this step-by-step guitar guide will take you through the basics and beyond before you can say "Eric Clapton."
- Helps you choose the guitar and equipment that best fits your needs and budget
- Shows you how to build strength and dexterity while playing
- Teaches you to play in different styles, including rock, blues, folk, jazz, and classical
Fully revised and updated, with an all-new interactive DVD packed with video and audio clips that help you learn, tune, and play along, Guitar For Dummies is the perfect introductory guide for any novice acoustic or electric guitar player.
CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of the e-book file, but are available for download after purchase.
- File Size: 6068 KB
- Print Length: 408 pages
- Publisher: For Dummies; 3 edition (August 28, 2012)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B008KPM31Q
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #53,109 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Arts & Photography > Music > Instruments & Performers > Guitar
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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