The Beginner's Guide to Playing Guitar: A Simple, A to Z Guide for First-Time Musicians

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The guitar is one of the most versatile musical instruments and can be used to play an assortment of musical styles, such as folk, country, blues, rock, pop, jazz, classical, and even flamenco. Learning to play it can be complicated, but it needn't be, as The Beginner's Guide to Playing Guitar so expertly shows.
In the experienced teaching hands of Douglas J. Noble, players who haven't touched a guitar before, nor have any prior musical knowledge, can easily learn the basics. ...
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Overview

The guitar is one of the most versatile musical instruments and can be used to play an assortment of musical styles, such as folk, country, blues, rock, pop, jazz, classical, and even flamenco. Learning to play it can be complicated, but it needn't be, as The Beginner's Guide to Playing Guitar so expertly shows.
In the experienced teaching hands of Douglas J. Noble, players who haven't touched a guitar before, nor have any prior musical knowledge, can easily learn the basics. All the musical examples included here were written for the novice, with easy-to-understand notation and straightforward timing.
Key chapters include: 
* Guitar Music Notation
*The Twelve Bar Blues
*Classical Guitar
*Barre Chords
*Music Theory
*Jazz
Although the book does contain some actual songs, it concentrates on material written specifically to improve a certain aspect of playing. Readers will work progressively through a variety of styles - from classical to rock, blues to jazz - with the knowledge that each style influences the other.
Advocating a practice routine of ten to fifteen minutes a day, Noble stresses a basic, no-nonsense approach that will have even the tone-deaf strumming away in days.


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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781592282760
  • Publisher: Lyons Press, The
  • Publication date: 4/1/2004
  • Pages: 176
  • Product dimensions: 10.40 (w) x 7.70 (h) x 0.40 (d)

Meet the Author

DOUGLAS J. NOBLE has sixteen years of experience teaching guitar, and works as a music journalist with Guitar Magazine and UniVibes, the Jimi Hendrix magazine. He also acts as an examiner for Rock School/Trinity College of Music. During his career he has interviewed many of the world's top guitarists, including Jeff Beck, Carlos Santana, John Williams, Mark Knopfler, Andy Summers, Brian May, as well as James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett of Metallica.
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Table of Contents

Introduction vii
Chapter 1 Getting Started 1
Chapter 2 Guitar Music Notation 17
Chapter 3 Major and Seventh Chords 29
Chapter 4 Minor Chords and Ear Training 39
Chapter 5 The Twelve-Bar Blues 45
Chapter 6 Classical Guitar 61
Chapter 7 Completing the Open String Chords 73
Chapter 8 Barre Chords 83
Chapter 9 Music Theory 95
Chapter 10 The Blues Scale 109
Chapter 11 Interesting-Sounding Chords and Progressions 119
Chapter 12 Jazz 131
Chapter 13 Discography 143
Afterword 151
Glossary 153
Index 161
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