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Guitar for Beginners: How to Play Guitar for Beginners up to Intermediate Players
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Music Instruction: GeneralMusic Instruction: GuitarGuitar Songbooks
ISBN13: 9781912135790
Publisher: Intuition Publications
Published: Dec 17 2025
Pages: 124
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.34 Width: 8.27 Depth: 11.69
Language: English
Welcome to Guitar for Beginners. This book explains in a comprehensive yet simple way, the fundamentals of how to play guitar for beginners. With over 150 photographic examples, illustrations and purpose made diagrams, the book also includes 42 downloadable mp3 tracks. Some subjects are important for a beginner guitarist to understand sooner rather than later, so these are covered in detail, such as techniques for left and right hand, using a plectrum, alternate picking, basic music theory, basic scale and chord construction, fretboard layout and how to navigate it, chord changes, strumming, and more.
- Guitar Melodies
Play and learn guitar with completely original musical pieces, making the process practical and enjoyable. These come in various styles like Pop, Blues, Jazz, Country and Rock (to hear some samples of the music, please click the link in the eBook preview just after the contents). Each musical piece includes an audio demonstration and a backing track for you to play over. The commonly used system for reading music for guitar, known as tablature, is clearly explained and used throughout. As tablature does not indicate rhythm however, rhythm numbers have been added underneath guitar tablatures to assist and get you straight into playing music.
- Playing Chords
Changing between chords and strumming are approached separately at first so you can develop coordination in each hand. They are then brought together, starting with easy exercises, getting gradually more advanced until there is a rhythm guitar musical piece to play.
- Music Theory
The major scale, minor scale, pentatonic scales and basic chord construction are explained in terms of the fretboard and are reinforced by being used in the musical pieces, to put the theory into context.
- Reading Rhythm
Musical notation almost always features above guitar tablature and this book is no exception. For this reason an entire chapter is dedicated to reading rhythm from notation. This will give you a fuller understanding of how to use it alongside tablature.
- Further Techniques
Further guitar techniques are also explored including power chords, movable barre chords, palm muting, basic lead guitar techniques and improvising. All include musical pieces.
- What Else?
Each chapter ends with a set of questions to revise your knowledge. All answers are at the back of the book, along with advice on how to practice guitar and a handy chart for all major scales and their note names.
Don't miss out on this comprehensive guide on how to learn guitar and get on your way to becoming a skilled guitarist. Grab your copy today!
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