Beginning Guitar Book Recommendation

Beginning Guitar Book Recommendation

Beginning Guitar Book Recommendation

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Beginning Guitar Book Recommendation

Q: Hello, I’m looking for a beginning guitar book recommendation. I would like to learn some rock and folk chord progressions. I would also like to learn a bit about music theory. Since I’m a beginner I’d also need some basic information on such things as; how to hold the guitar, the pick etc… Do you have anything like that?

A: Yes I think I have just the thing to help you. It’s called First Steps for a Beginning Guitarist.This book has just about everything you can think of to help you learn the guitar from the ground up. It has:

  • Key Note Recognition
  • Fanatic’s Guide to Sight Singing and Ear Training Volume One
  • Classic rock and folk chord progressions that sound great!
  • The book starts you right away playing music but also want to see the bigger picture by learning about the building blocks of music.
  • Gives you some tricks to memorizing chords, scales and rhythms quicker so you are ready to play with others.
  • Gives you video files so you can see how to play each exercise correctly.
  • Gives you MP3 files at multiple tempos so you can hear how to play each exercise correctly
  • Makes sure you are physically playing the guitar correctly so you develop good technique
  • Helps you if you have problems strumming and playing chords at the same time
  • Helps you if your playing never sound quite right because of unwanted muting of notes

This is also the beginning of a whole method so you can continue to improve by working on such books as:

But most importantly I’m available via email to answer any questions you might have so you always have a source to help you if you don’t understand something.

It is also recommended that you read Bruce Arnold’s Blog at his artist site. It contains more discussion of the musical topics found in these FAQs as well as other subjects of interest. You will also find the “Music Education Genealogy Chart” located here which shows you the historic significance of the music education products found on the Muse Eek Publishing Company Website.

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