Guitar - Teach Yourself Visually - 303 pages
It's a lot easier to learn something new when someone shows you how to
do it, instead of just telling you or simply reading how to do something. According to studies, some of us are known as visual learners and tend to have a preference
for a visual stimulation and learn much more from seeing things than from reading words to learn something. And this holds true for learning how to play the guitar as well. When we see with our eyes the method for performing something on the guitar, we get a better idea how it's done, and have a better chance of correctly learning it.
That's the concept behind the design of this guitar book from the Teach Yourself Visually.
This is a popular series of how to books that emphasizes the visual concept of learning, over a lot of boring or hard to understand text. With this book you get a large quantity of concise, 2 page lessons with a great amount of pictures and visuals. They actually show you how to play the guitar instead of simply telling you how to play.
So if you consider yourself a visual learner, this visual book of guitar instruction might be the perfect tool to assist you in learning to play. Read on to learn a little about the book. Including what kind of visuals and photos it contains, and also some idea about the nature of the content itself.
As far as the visual content is concerned, here's a look at what types of photos and charts are in the book. This book has a lot of close up photos of a musician demonstrating various guitar playing methods. At the front they show you how to hold the guitar. Also how to strum your guitar, both
with the pick and by simply using the fingers on your strumming hand. And how to play different chords, including barre chords, and open position chords. And it is very helpful to be able to see close up how the different chords are being fingered, and what the general hand position is in relation to the neck, etc.
Large photos dominate most every page. With some text to describe the method and what's happening in the photo.
What kind of lessons do you get with this book? And what specific guitar instruction does this book give?
This is your basic guitar 101 type of information in the book. Great for a beginner student who wants to know what to do from the beginning to get started enjoying playing the guitar. Both acoustic and electric guitar playing is covered. Getting started with the parts of the guitar, how to hold and strum the guitar, How to read music in standard notation and tablature. How to play some basic chords, and how to play the barre chords. There's a chapter on how to play specific guitar techniques like hammer ons, pull offs, bending and vibrato. There are also genre specific chapters for Rock and Blues music playing, as well as folk and country and classical music. There are tips on buying a guitar and accessories. How to care and maintain your guitar once you have bought it. How to do home recording of your guitar playing. There is a companion web site that works with the book where you can listen to all the audio from the songs and examples.
