Guitar for Kids - First Steps in Learning to Play Guitar with Audio & Video (Paperback)

With over 70 photographic examples, purpose-made diagrams and cartoons in colour, Guitar for Kids is a clear and fun guide on first steps of learning to play Guitar, starting with advice on buying your first guitar, how to hold the guitar correctly and how to tune it. The book goes into a bit of detail for some basic techniques (you might as well get it right from the start rather than develop bad habits), and is presented in a clear and fun way. Tablature is explained clearly. Simple melodies start by using only open strings (open strings means the fretting hand is not used) and towards the end are Blues and Rock duets to play with a friend. As tablature on its own doesn't indicate rhythm, numbers are added underneath the pieces to indicate this. The musical pieces and exercises have audio tracks to play over as 47 downloadable mp3 tracks in styles like Rock, Blues, Pop, Flamenco, Jazz and Reggae. EZ chords are covered (easy chords with less notes). Includes an introduction to Power chords with some Rock pieces to play. Sight-reading is popular in many childrens' guitar books but this one does it differently; it's not until the end of the book! Before that however, reading rhythm notation is covered within the chords section, so that by the time you get to sight-reading the only unfamiliar aspect is reading different notes. At the end of the book there is a quiz, no cheating!

General

Imprint:	Intuition Publications
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	2012
First published:	2012
Authors:	Gareth Evans
Dimensions:	280 x 218 x 4mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	35
ISBN-13:	978-0-9569547-2-5
Categories:	Books > Children's & Educational > The arts > Music > General Books > Children's Fiction & Fun Promotions
LSN:	0-9569547-2-3
Barcode:	9780956954725

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