I Just Bought My First Guitar

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.

Restart Guitar helps you pick up where you left off! This book has been written especially for anyone who wants to return to playing the guitar no matter how long ago they gave up. If you keeplooking at the Guitar you bought so many years ago that's just sitting there gathering dust why not pick it back up again? This book will give you the inspiration and drive you need to work the rust out of your fingers andremember those essential chords and scales. Whether your old instrument needs a bit of sprucing up or you need to invest in a brand new one Restart Guitar will give you the best advice on what to gofor. After you've got your Guitar sorted all you have to do is start playing it again. This is where Restart Guitar really shines. It gives you various different starting pointsdepending on your existing skill level or how much you remember. It can get you going right from the beginning if you've forgotten everything or it can help bring you up to speed if you've had a momentarily lapse of memory. Ifyou feel like starting again at a more advanced level the clear headings will help you to skip the irrelevant bits and get the skills you missed the first time. Best of all RestartGuitar is enjoyable and fun. You will learn at the same time as playing things that aren't dull and boring so that you stick with it this time around. The Restart Guitar refresher course willmake sure you start playing and keep playing! The innovative Download Card that comes bundled with the book gives you instant online access to helpful audio demonstrations and practical backingtracks.

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!

It has been over 20 years since I released the first volume of ?100 Ultimate Blues Riffs for Piano/Keyboards? in 1996 my most popular selling book. One of the constants has been the continued popularity of my Blues music instructional books for not only piano/keyboards but also Saxophone Flute and Guitar. With developments in music software faster internet download speeds for downloading mp3 audio files (over 5 hours of downloadable audio backing tracks for this book) I felt it was time to author a 2nd volume that uses newer software for improved sound quality. Also it is the 50th anniversary since I started to learn to play Blues piano in 1968. Iremember the wonderful feeling I had when I started to learn from the first two Blues piano books I bought from a music shop along the Charing Cross Road in London I still have both books ?Just Blues? a compilation of Blues Jazz and Boogie-Woogie songs and ?How To Play Blues Piano? by Junior Mance. I have again created 100 Blues riffs with many of them having elements of Rock Funk Country Jazz Boogie-Woogie Gospel and Latin styles. The riffs are in the order that I composed them giving you the learner an element of surprise as to what the next riff is going to sound like. Each of the 100 riffs have been recorded twice the 1st time the piano part with a rhythm backing track and the 2nd time a rhythm backing track to practice playing along with. I have also created a separate play-a-long track that consists of 10 choruses of the 12 Bar Blues progression. I would hope that you will use each riff to build your own Blues ?song? through the 12 Bar Blues progression.