Learn to play guitar the fun and easy way right from the beginning! Whether your passions lie in rock jazz fingerstyle blues or any other style of music the lessons in The Beginner's Guide to Guitar will introduce youto chords melodies and rhythmic patterns you need to start playing today. With this pack you'll learn: to play simple three- and four-note chords; the notes on the guitar's strings; to strum new rhythm patterns; how to play 32fun easy songs ? arranged for two guitars complete with tab.

Media Type : Book/CD Set Level : Multiple Levels Musical Genre : Jazz Series : Complete Number of pages : 184 This book is complete in the sense that there is something for everyone: beginners, intermediate players and professionals. Along with learning the basics, this book teaches fingerstyle guitar players to play two-string harmonies, accompaniment styles and much more. Alan De Mause has filled the companion CD to capacity with 90 examples of music from his landmark text. The recording features nylon-string guitar throughout in both solo and midi-accompanied settings. A full range of jazz guitar stylings is offered, starting from square one and proceeding through advanced fingerstyle solo material.

What do YOU want to PLAY today? The PLAY series has nailed down what today's musician really wants: lessons you can use anytime, anywhere. They're flat-out more convenient than private lessons, and just as valuable. The high-quality video of expert instructors will help players of all skill levels, from beginners and 'weekend warriors' to advanced students and pros. Whether you're into rock, jazz, blues, folk, country, or a little bit of everything, the PLAY series has all the resources you need at the click of a button. / Guitare

What do YOU want to PLAY today? The PLAY series has nailed down what today's musician really wants: lessons you can use anytime, anywhere. They're flat-out more convenient than private lessons, and just as valuable. The high-quality video of expert instructors will help players of all skill levels, from beginners and 'weekend warriors' to advanced students and pros. Whether you're into rock, jazz, blues, folk, country, or a little bit of everything, the PLAY series has all the resources you need at the click of a button. / Guitare

What do YOU want to PLAY today? The PLAY series has nailed down what today's musician really wants: lessons you can use anytime, anywhere. They're flat-out more convenient than private lessons, and just as valuable. The high-quality video of expert instructors will help players of all skill levels, from beginners and 'weekend warriors' to advanced students and pros. Whether you're into rock, jazz, blues, folk, country, or a little bit of everything, the PLAY series has all the resources you need at the click of a button. / Guitare

Du débutant complet de routine de l'échauffement et idéogramme Fitness Workout pour les guitaristes, présentés par Danny Gill. Ce DVD d'échauffement et de work-out vous guidera à travers 3 routines complètes : les 10 minutes, les forets de 20 minutes et 30 minutes ! Jouer avec danny comme il entraîneurs que vous grâce à des échelles, chaîne de flexion, exercices de cueillette, séquences, étirements et beaucoup plus pour donner à vos mains un défi. Une fois que vous avez maîtrisé les exercices de base, ce DVD peut devenir une aprt de votre routine quotidienne de la pratique, si vous jouez rock, blues, jazz, pays ou quelque chose entre les deux ! / Guitare

If you have ever been left feeling dazed and confused by the sheer volume and variety of guitar methods to choose from or simply put off by the amount of text to wade through before you even start playing then this book isexactly what you need. Using pictures and diagrams to show you the essentials here is the most simple and direct way to start playing the guitar - immediately! Perfect for the absolute beginner no prior musical knowledge orexperience is required as you progress effortlessly from tuning and finger positions to basic chords and strumming. In fact the Picture Guide To Playing Guitar will have you playing classic songs by the likes of ChuckBerry The Beatles and T. Rex within minutes! There really is no easier way without delay to become a musician - today! Arthur Dick is a session guitarist author and teacher with over twenty years' experience. He hasworked with Cliff Richard Selena Jones Barbara Dickson Helen Shapiro Susan Maughan Bernie Flint Chris Rea and Davy Jones amongst others as well as performing in many West End stage shows. He currently lectures on jazz andcontemporary guitar at Goldsmith's College University of London.

Solo Settings For Classical And Fingerstyle Guitar-This book offers guitarists a graded selection of 71 carols for the holiday season. Most of the arrangements are graded variations in that each tune starts with an easy reading beginner arrangement (excellent for students andthe last minute 'reading' gig) and ends with intermediate settings using techniques such as tremolo jazz voicings and three voice counterpoint. All of the music in this book is typeset in landscape format so that no page turnsare required and printed in standard notation only with suggested left-hand fingering. The book fits beautifully on any folding music stand and (because of the low landscape format) leaves plenty of room for any standard clip-onlight. The Holiday Gig Book is an excellent source of holiday tunes for the working guitarist.

Complete Edition-The Mel Bay Modern Guitar Method Complete Edition is known worldwide for the incredible array of music presented the thoroughness of educational music content and ease of understanding. The methodcontains hundreds of solos duets picking studies chord etudes position studies scale and technique etudes lessons in theory and harmony and much more! Every key and every position on the Guitar fingerboard is thoroughlytaught. Music is presented by many of the great master composers such as Bach Chopin Tchaikovsky Handel Grieg and also renown Guitar composers such as Sor Tarrega and Carcassi. The styles of music presented in thisexhaustive course range from Early Music to Jazz to Bluegrass and Country to Rock. This method will equip any guitarist to perform the demands of modern music with ease and will transition the Guitar student from beginnerto virtuoso. Part 1 comprises volumes 1 through 4 of the Expanded Modern Guitar Method and comes with extensive online audio and video. Part 2 comprises volumes 5 through 7 of the Expanded Modern Guitar Method and comes withextensive online audio.

Learn 12 MORE great Gypsy Swing/Hot Club standards (see song list below left) in the style of Django Reinhardt Stephane Grappelli and The Quintette of the Hot Club of France. Just like with the original set you\'ll play along with a great Gypsy Swing Rhythm Section and learn chords comping and melodies then let the band back you up as you practice chords and soloing. You play all the leads while the band backs you up. Beginners can practice basic skills while more advanced players can hone their improvisation chops each at their own individual learning pace. You\'ll learn moveable closed position swing/jazz chords and practice playing them with the swing guitarcomp. We\'ve also included information on basic chord substitution along with exercises on transposing melodies and chord progressions to different keys. These are essential skills for any swing/jazz musician. You\'ll also explore some basic chord melody passages! Book/CD set includes standard notation tablature chord diagrams lyrics playing tips and more. Each song is presented on the CD at slow and regular speed. First youâ??ll hear the melody played on guitar at a slow speed with just guitar backup then it\'s repeated at regular speed with the band. The back up band is a classic Hot Club- style rhythm section with two acoustic rhythm guitars string bass. Songs may be repeated at slow or regular speed as many times as you wish in order to perfect phrases melodies and solos in a band context.

Written in 4 volumes  Technique For All Guitarists is a progressive method for guitarists by Pierre Cullaz a French professor who specialises in Jazz Guitar. This second volume focuses on medium beginners with studies exercises and explanations on improvisation and the use of chords. Written in French it does include some tablature and some scores with chords written in English. This Technique For All Guitarists series is really useful to be able to play different style on the Guitar and to widen the possibilities of genres. They are definitely a must-have for those who areinterested in playing Jazz for example.

The Most Popular Method for Learning How to Play-Recognized for over 50 years as the best-paced and most comprehensive guitar method available Alfred's Basic Guitar Method has introduced over five million beginners to the joy of playing guitar. Now included are blues country folk jazz and rock styles plus more pop songs! DVDs are available for the visual learner and correlating theory chord and pop books provide everything you need from one complete method. Learning to play has never been easier or more fun than with Alfred's Basic Guitar Method---the first and best choice for today's beginning guitar students.Book 1 introduces you to the foundations of guitar playing. Learn notes songs techniques and many other important topics for a lifetime of musical enjoyment.For the first time companion audio tracks that can be downloaded or streamed online are included with the book so you'll have everything you need in one place. The available DVD is newly updated and features video lessons MP3 audio tracks as well as TNT 2 software which lets you slow down tracks isolate and loop parts and change tempos and keys for customized practice.

Gig Savers Complete Edition-Corey Christiansen: Rock Guitar Essentials combines the author's five previous pocket-sized editions. This comprehensive Gig Savers book contains everything the beginning guitarist needs to master the rockstyle. Part 1 of this guide gives aspiring rock guitarists a working knowledge of the most basic scales commonly used to improvise rock solos and write rock melodies. A discussion on how each scale can be used over a set ofchords is provided to help guitarists use these scales when performing. Charts provide the names of the notes on the fretboard and a section on sequencing scales makes it possible for guitarists to easily master rock scales.Part 2 teaches the rock guitarist how to play any barre chord providing insight on how to play them with ease and agility. Moveable chord shapes and practice etudes are especially useful for beginners. Part 3 presentscomprehensive warm-up and technical exercises. Studies begin at the most basic level and progress in difficulty. This chapter gives guitarists the information needed to continue constructing their own technical exercises.Part 4 presents accompaniment patterns for a wide variety of pop styles such as folk rock/blues country/bluegrass jazz and some Latin styles including bossa nova and samba. Basic fingerstyle accompaniment patterns aretaught in a simple manner presented with rhythmic notation and string numbers. This chapter pays special attention to the blues covering alternate changes and substitutions in a method that provides easy transposition.