Guitar Method for Young Beginners: Book 1 - Progressive Lessons with Video
By LearnToPlayMusic.com
- Release Date: 2012-01-23
- Genre: Music
Description
Experience the joy of creating music with younger students. Learn to play your favorite children's songs, as you discover new notes, chords and rhythms. Develop correct techniques right from the start, using easy-to-understand diagrams and beautiful color illustrations. Anyone can learn from this book as no previous musical knowledge is required.
Featuring traditional notation and easy-to-read strum patterns, this best-selling lesson plan contains over 50 exercises, including simple note and chord arrangements of popular guitar songs for children.
Starting with the basics of holding and tuning the guitar, it also details the correct posture, hand position and fingering technique for five notes in the open position and four simplified chord shapes. Explore musical concepts that include note values, rests and time signatures, using great sounding examples. Discover plenty of tips, shortcuts and tricks for reading and playing any music notation, including free sheet music for guitar.
This enhanced edition contains over 50 video lessons and audio examples, featuring full-page scores, live video footage and score animations for all exercises. The audio examples include solo guitar, band-only and complete versions in order to study each part by itself, experience playing in a band, or hear a full performance.
An exciting and comprehensive introduction on how to play the guitar, this carefully graded, lesson-by-lesson learning method is a favorite with students and teachers worldwide.
