Guitar for Dummies (For Dummies) |
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 | When my teenage son and I started playing the guitar I bought several 'teach yourself' books, and this is by far the best we found. It takes a refreshing, real-world approach to learning, offering plenty of encouragement (to keep you going through those early weeks of sore fingers) in the form of easy music and songs that you will be able to play from the very start. It also acknowledges that some things will be hard at first, and warns about them in advance. Despite this, it isn't 'dumbed-down', and is packed with far more information than the others we tried. Whether you want to play acoustic or electric; rock, folk, classical or jazz, there's everything here that you need to get started, and a good deal for the more experienced guitarist too. All the music is provided in both standard notation and guitar tabulature (which means that you don't have to learn to read music if you don't want to), and is also included on the accompanying CD. We could have saved the money we spent on ... read more.
Written by Mark Phillips and Jon Chappell.
Published 11 October 2005.
Published by John Wiley & Sons.
rrp £15.99.
408 pages Paperback.
ISBN: 0764599046
ISBN-13: 9780764599040 | |
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