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How to Play Guitar: Everything You Need to Know to Play the Guitar (How to Play)

How to Play Guitar: Everything You Need to Know to Play the Guitar (How to Play)

enlarge enlarge 		Author: Roger Evans
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 reviews
Sales Rank: 3011

Media: Paperback
Edition: Revised
Pages: 128
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 7.2 x 0.4

ISBN: 0312287062
Dewey Decimal Number: 787.87193
EAN: 9780312287061

Publication Date: December 10, 2001
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Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: Brand new item. Over 3.5 million customers served. Order now. Selling online since 1995. Order with confidence. Code: B20081119222050T
Also Available In:

  • Paperback - How to Play Guitar: A New Book for Everyone Interested in the Guitar (Prod. No. 85-05)
  • Unknown Binding - HOW TO PLAY GUITAR: A NEW BOOK FOR EVERYONE INTERESTED IN THE GUITAR
  • Paperback - How to Play Guitar
  • Hardcover - How to Play Guitar: A New Book for Everyone Interested in the Guitar
  • Paperback - How to Play Guitar : A New Book for Everyone Interested in the Guitar
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Product Description
In How to Play Guitar guitar players of all levels will find a wealth of instruction and inspiration. Whether you want to play pop, folk, country, rock, blues, jazz, classical, or any other style of music, you will pick up the basic techniques without tedious drills and exercises. Using real music and a step-by-step approach, How to Play Guitar will teach you about:

Choosing and buying a guitar

Tuning your instrument correctly

Reading sheet music, guitar music, and tablature

Playing melodies with chords

Fingerpicking

Mastering left-hand techniques, including sliding and bending notes

Transposing melodies from one key to another and much more.


Customer Reviews:   Read 16 more reviews...

3 out of 5 stars It's Okay   October 12, 2008
M. Mannahan
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

I found this easy to read and understand but I don't like the way the book is set up. You learn a few notes and then move onto chords. I would have preferred to learn all the notes and then move onto chords because that seems much simpler to me. But you can skip through the book to find the other notes.

I also thought there should be more songs to practice with when learning the notes, there were only rwo or three tiny little bits after learning the notes.

All in all it was just adequate for me.


5 out of 5 stars Helpful book   September 30, 2008
ewoh46 (Upstate NY, USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

This book helped me out within five minutes of opening it. I have no time in my life for taking guitar lessons so I had been using the internet as a resource for learning to play as well as another book that I have. I had some basic skills, two scales, and a few chords in my arsenal but had been struggling mightily forming the C major chord. I was getting frustrated and thinking maybe my hands were too small and my fingers too fat to play this basic chord (and more complicated ones as well). One look at the drawing (from the player's perspective- rather than the front of the fretboard- of the left hand fingering of C major and I realized that I was going about it all wrong. My wrist angle was too perpendicular. I copied the drawing, and presto- C major. So I was quickly encouraged again.
There is nothing flashy about this book, but I have been having FUN going through it- which is pretty important when practicing and the whole point of playing the guitar I think. Rather than just show you where the notes are on the fretboard (which it does in the back as a reference) you learn them by playing simple songs like Beethoven's Ode To Joy. Very cool and I'm already impressing my wife even though it is pretty easy. I also like that it teaches you to read sheet music which I can't wait to learn (once I master the skills deemed necessary to get to that point). So buy this cheap book and have fun!


5 out of 5 stars How to Play a Guitar   July 24, 2008
Andrea M. Bahr (St.Louis)
I gave this book to my boyfriend, so I can't say much about it. But he was playing tunes the first day he opened the book. I was impressed


5 out of 5 stars Great Book For Beginners   July 17, 2008
Ernie (MA USA)
I just picked up the guitar 2-3 weeks ago. This book has been my guide since before I bought the guitar and now that I am learning to play. At the thought of learning to play the guitar I was at first intimidated but this book does a great job of easing you into the guitar and playing.

I recommend it for similar folks learning to play.


5 out of 5 stars Helpful for getting back into guitar   July 1, 2008
Guitar Guy (San Francisco)
I recently got back into my guitar hobby and this book has been invaluable to me. I agree with the others who appreciated the user-friendliness here. THe book skips the fluff and is concise, which I appreciate. It gives you all you need about finger position, how to pick, how to read notes, etc. Also has some great songs in there. Highly recommended as long as you're not an expert.

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