The Road to Stardom Starts Here-A method for young children teaching the basic principles of Guitar playing. Guitar For Kids teaches all aspects of learning the Guitar with full band backing tracks too. This book also includes a follow along DVD. Guitar For Kids includes: 68 pages with text and tablature lessons. Full length DVD with 25 lessons included. Download audio backing tracks and demonstrations. Complete beats rhythm and timing course included with downloadable audio. Free lifetime web membership for online lesson support.

William Bay introduces his popular and creative method for teaching Guitar to young children in Children's Guitar Method Volume 3.From the very beginning it integrates chord playing with notereading the student starts with easy one finger chord forms and strums accompaniments to numerous songs. Note reading is methodically and carefully introduced. The design features Ron Wheeler's colourful cartoon artwork makingthis book not only a great learning experience but a fun and entertaining adventure as well. Includes access to an online video which has a duration of 31 minutes.

Rock Guitar For The Young Beginner was written by musician and Guitar tutor Corey Christiansen with the young student in mind. This book will teach you all of the essentials necessary to master rockGuitar while the featured etudes will ensure that learning is fun. Subjects including Open Chords Power Chords Barre Chords Rock Scales Arpeggios and Slash Chords are all presented with fun songs and graded learning.The accompanying online audio tracks featuring a great rhythm section are fun to jam with and allow students to hear how the etudes should be played.

A Beginner's Guide with Step-by-Step Instruction for Acoustic and Electric G-Blues Guitar for Kids is a fun easy course that teaches children to play guitar faster than ever before. It can also function as a great supplement for kids who already play guitar. Cool blues riffs chords and solos keep students motivated while the clean simple page layouts ensure their attention remains focused on one concept at a time. The method is equally suitable for children using electric or acoustic guitars. It can be used in combination with a guitar teacher or parent. Lessons include: selecting your guitar ? parts of the guitar ? holding the guitar ? hand position ? easy tablature ? strumming and picking? blues riffs and chords ? basic blues soloing ? and more. Demonstration and play-along audio tracks as well as a metronome and tuner are provided online.

Volume 2 Book With Online Video-William Bay's Children's Guitar Method is a popular teaching method for young beginners. From the beginning it integrates chord playing with note reading. The student starts with easy onefinger chord forms and learns to strum accompaniments to numerous songs. Note reading is then methodically and carefully introduced. The subsequent volume completes this course. Children's Guitar Method - Volume2 includes access to online video.

Volume Two - Really Playing-Turn it on tune it up and start playing! Now that all the basic have been covered it's time for kids to move on to grooves and techniques that really rock. Pete Kennedy and Marcy Marxer bring the level up several notches as they guide young Guitarists through important new skills and musical development including new skills and musical development including barre chords blues progressions metal power chords rhythm grooves and playing chords and scales in different keys. To sound good Guitarists have to learn the 'language' of electric blues and rock styles. Pete and Marcy show the slides pull-offs hammer-ons vibrato and otherways to make a young Guitar player sound like the pros. Once again Marcy and Pete make it fun with humor energy and plenty of interactive play-alongs. Extra: Jam-along audio tracks so you can practice what you've learned along with a rhythm section.

Book 1-Start your learning of the guitar with this superb easy-to-follow method teaching you to play using both standard music notation and guitar tablature at the same time. Written by Mary Thompson this book will help you to findout about note names and notation as well as signs and symbols used in music.

Hal Leonard Guitar Method-Guitar for Kids is a fun easy course that teaches children to play Guitar faster than ever before. Continuing where Book 1 left off popular songs in this volume such as Eight Days a Week Let It Go Rock Around the Clock Fields of Gold Oye Como Va and Dust in the Wind keep kids motivated while the clean simple page layouts ensure their attention remains focused on one concept at a time.The method is equally suitable for children using electric or acoustic Guitars. It can be used in combination with a Guitar teacher or parent even if they've never had any musical training themselves. The priceof this book includes access to over 30 audio demonstration tracks online for download or streaming.

Younger students will enjoy this creative approach to playing simple guitar chords. Chords are taught with exercises that build upon each other and eventually lead the student to playing logical and common chord progressions.These progressions include I-iii-vi-ii-V-I and twelve bar blues in many different keys. Chords are shown in chord diagram form with detailed illustrations showing finger positions in relationship to the fretboard. Open chords forfolk music as well as power chords for rock music are presented clearly and easily in this text. A complete easy chord chart and capo chart is provided at the end of the book for easy reference. Examples and exercises arepresented in strum bar notation.

Folk Harp for the Young Beginner is designed for beginning harpists with no prior musical experience. The book presents two new methods for reading notation built around recognizing common musical patterns over traditionalsingle note reading. Each group of songs has fun engaging exercises that will build the student’s coordination and confidence. The material draws from timeless melodies from classical Renaissance Celtic English old-timeand traditional folk repertoire. Topics covered in this method include: How to tune the harp Reading music notation and counting rhythm including two methods for reading ledger linesRecognizing basic fingering and bass patterns Changing keys with sharping levers Using brackets to help see note patterns Chord inversions Additional resources include rhythm practiceand workout pages to test your musical knowledge. Helpful reference photos can also be found inside. Includes access to online audio.

Banjo and Uke-With the Three-Chord Children’s Songbook you will need only minimal playing skills and three chords G C and D7 to accompany each song in this great book. The jam-packed book is invaluable for all beginning musicians casualmusicians teachers family bands and performers. Melody lyrics and chords are included for all songs. Guitar uke and five-string banjo diagrams are included for the three chords along with basic accompaniment tips.Transposing and how-to-use-the-capo tips are included for singers. An invaluable sourcebook for teachers and a handy compact fakebook for performers.

38 Fun Songs for Singing Playing and Listening-Perfect for singing playing and listening this collection contains 38 songs that kids love. The book presents the melody lyrics and guitar chord frames for each song and the accompanying CD includes a full performance of each song. Songs include: Alphabet Song · Bingo · Candle on the Water · Do-Re-Mi · Eensy Weensy Spider · For He's a Jolly Good Fellow · The Hokey Pokey · If You're Happy and You Know It · Kum Ba Yah · London Bridge · Mickey Mouse March · Old MacDonald · Puff the Magic Dragon · Row Row Row Your Boat · A Spoonful of Sugar · This Old Man · Yankee Doodle · Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah · and more. Includes illustrations by Mitch Mortimer.