Beginner's Guide To Electric Guitar

Beginner's Guide to Electric Guitar is all you need to start playing electric guitar. With an easy-to-understand and down-to-earth tone, this book gets to the important stuff first and doesn't bog you down with all the details. Learn all about the different types of electric guitars, amplifiers, and effects, and learn how to play like Led Zeppelin, The White Stripes, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, Green Day, Metallica, Nirvana, Rage Against the Machine, Jimi Hendrix, AC/DC, Alice in Chains, and more. To keep things simple, the music examples are written in TAB only and are designed to get you playing quickly---from riffs on a single string to power chords, pentatonic scales, and tunes in drop-D tuning. The accompanying CD features a full band to play along with. / Guitare Electrique

A Beginner's Guide Featuring Step-By-Step Lessons with Audio Video and Popular Songs! The First 15 Lessons series provides a step-by-step lesson plan for the absolute beginner, complete with audio tracks, video lessons, and real songs! Designed for self-teaching or for use with an instructor, you'll build a solid foundation as you work through each lesson, learning the basics of the instrument and music reading while practicing the many exercises, concepts and song excerpts within. Must-know instruction so you can start playing right away, with a free online tuner and metronome! The electric guitar book features lessons on: guitar fundamentals, music reading, chords, strumming, arpeggios, syncopation, hammer-ons and pull-offs, slides, string bending and vibrato, double stops, harmonics, alternate picking, palm muting and scales and basic theory. Includes guitar parts from 33 songs: American Pie · Brown Eyed Girl · Crazy Little Thing Called Love · Hit Me with Your Best Shot · James Bond Theme · Layla · Runnin' down a Dream · Smells like Teen Spirit · Smoke on the Water · Under the Bridge · When I Come Around · You Really Got Me · and more. Fast-paced learning for your first year of instruction!

A Beginner's Guide with Step-by-Step Instruction for Acoustic and Electric G-Guitar for Kids is a fun easy course that teaches children to play Guitar faster than ever before. Popular songs such as Yellow Submarine Hokey Pokey I'm a Believer Surfin' U.S.A. This Land Is Your Land and Hound Dog keep students motivated and the clean simple page layouts ensure their attention remains focused on one concept at a time. The method is equally suitable for students using electric or acoustic Guitars. It can be used in combination with a Guitar teacher or parents even if they've never had any musical training themselves. The accompanying audio download contains more than 30 tracks for demonstration and play-along. Notablature included.

A Complete Guitar Course for a Beginner to Intermediate Level Guitarist-A complete guitar course for absolute beginners with Lee Hodgson. This easy-to-follow tutorial is ideal if you've just bought your first electric guitar or if there's been a guitar sitting around somewhere just waiting to beplayed. This DVD will take you from novice level through to intermediate level. Yet it requires no prior knowledge at all; it truly is for someone starting from the beginning. Slowly but surely the DVD guides you through all thethings that a beginner needs to know and very importantly points out what can go wrong. Each of the carefully designed chapters includes chord vocabulary while commonly used scales and technique are introduced strategicallyalong with some practical theory. Nothing too demanding just enough to help you understand what you're doing and why. You'll soon be strumming chords picking out melodies and hopefully writing some songs of your own! Makingmusic has never been so easy! Lee Hodgson is a versatile studio musician and vastly experienced stage performer. He is also a regularly featured columnist and transcriber for both Guitarist and Guitar Techniques magazines.

A complete guitar course for absolute beginners with Lee Hodgson! This easy-to-follow tutorial is ideal if you've just bought your first guitar or if there's been a guitar sitting around somewhere just waiting to be strummed??? This DVD will take you from novice level through to intermediate level. Yet it requires no prior knowledge at all: it truly is for someone starting from the beginning. Slowly but surely the tutor guides you through all the things that a beginner needs to know and very importantly points out what can go wrong. Each of the carefully designed chapters includes chord vocabulary while commonly used scales and technique are introducedstrategically along with some practical theory nothing too demanding just enough to help you understand what you???re doing and why. You???ll soon be strumming chords picking out melodies and hopefully writing some songs of your own! Making music has never been so easy!

Learn to play guitar and open up a brand new world of musical knowledge with this exciting method from Alfred. Beginners of all ages can start their journey to a lifetime of playing either acoustic or electric guitar. Beginning with the fundamentals, you will learn about various guitar types and the sounds they create, how to care for your very own guitar, and getting acquainted with standard musical notation and tablature. You will then move right along to playing different notes, chords, scales, and songs, lesson by lesson, all while continuing to increase your knowledge of reading and understanding standard musical notation and TAB. You will learn to play in an array of musical styles, including Rock, Heavy Metal, Blues, Country, Jazz and Folk. Near the end of the book, you will be introduced to advanced tablature techniques such as bends, slides, and palm muting, which will help you color your musical creations with your own unique, rockin' style. The book features the following helpful resources for reference during and after your lessons: * Tablature licks * Dictionary of tablature techniques * Guitar note chart * Magic chord accompaniment guide * Guitar fingerboard chart The accompanying CD provides a helpful reference for play-along and practice. Be your own teacher, and let Alfred be your resource every step of the way. / Guitare

The ideal reference guide for beginner guitarists of all ages and abilities La Guitare Ã?lectrique is undeniably the best way for beginners to progress in playing this instrument. Firstly this method is extremely comprehensive meaning it addresses all the elements that a guitarist must learn to succeed. Techniques like playing rhythm and chords. Since the method is so progressive and logically laid out everything is taught in gradually increasing difficulty meaning learning and assimilation happens smoothly. Music theory is used as an aid to learning rather than a constraint and using this book is fun thanks to the songs in the style ofpopular bands like The Who David Bowie U2 and Led Zeppelin.  The accompanying CD is packed with invaluable MP3 backing tracks so you can become used to playing as part of a group with other musicians. What's more the DVD not only allows you to hear the demonstrations but also to see them as played letting you grasp everything in a quicker and more efficient manner.