Easy To Understand Introduction To Guitar - 64 pages paperback
This is about as easy to understand of an introduction to guitar playing
that you're ever going to find. And at the same time, it's packed with solid guitar 101 type information.
You'll learn a lot of the essential details about buying, owning and playing guitars, without getting overwhelmed or confused by long winded explanations. We all know the saying that a picture is worth a thousand words, and the author of this book puts it into practice: This book is full of large color photos and diagrams that explain key concepts of guitars without needing to use a lot of extensive text for explanation.
Here's an overview look at the contents and major topics you'll find in this instruction book: There are sections on getting started with the process of learning the guitar, they teach you some introductory chord shapes. They teach you about something called the three chord trick, on which a large amount of popular songs have been based. Incidentally, once you're up and running with the 3 chord trick, you really begin to enjoy your playing ten times more because you're playing the songs you like and the songs you are familiar with. To continue with the contents, there are a couple of sections about playing the Blues, which is another vital area of guitar playing as other styles are based on this. (not to mention it's about the best music there is.) Following in the book are sections on other genres, including Heavy Metal, Funk, Folk, Reggae, and Flamenco guitar.
There are also sections on Classical guitar styles and Jazz guitar. The book talks about how you can record your playing at home in a home recording studio. There are tips about the subjects of playing in a band, and equipment issues for when you play and perform in live settings. There's also a buyer's guide and a glossary at the rear of the book. All in all, for it's size, this is a comprehensive treatment of topics related to learning and playing guitar. Another nice feature of the book is related information is presented as a cross reference at the bottom of the pages. The typical way that lessons and information are presented in the book is through the use of a lot of color photos and diagrams. Close ups of the guitar are shown whenever needed to illustrate a point. Most anything that might not be understood by the reader is shown in an accompanying picture. Step by step instructions and bullet lists are common on most of the pages.
Overall, this is a good book to select if you're looking for an easy to understand, picture intensive introduction to playing the guitar. An added benefit of this book is that the style of presentation used makes it an appropriate guitar introduction for students of any age. By reading this book, you get solid fundamentals of the basics of guitar playing, delivered with a very non-threatening, step by step method.
