Absolute Beginners Guitar Course

Book  with CD

The book and CD will guide you from the very first time you take your guitar out of the case, to playing your first song. Right from the beginning, this book teaches you the basics about the parts on both electric and acoustic guitars. From this point forward you'll learn how to hold the guitar, sit or stand, how to connect cables to your amp and effects pedals. Then it's all about playing! Before you know it, you will be playing 5 major chords, as well as understanding theory, reading single notes and learning tab. Literally in no time you will be playing songs and having a blast.

• a look-and-learn course that uses clear pictures instead of long explanations
• CD audio tracks show you how things should sound, plus...
• full-length accompaniment tracks to play along with

Book  with CD and DVD

The hour long DVD in this package is just incredible!! It is laid out very well, pretty much following the book exactly. The visual is the ultimate learning tool. We really like how the DVD illustrates the basic chords and strumming patterns with the camera from the player's perspective, showing you the view as if you were looking down at your hands. We feel this is vital. Multiple camera angles really made this DVD for us, along with the professional backing tracks. In our opinion this is the best beginner DVD around!

• clear demonstrations along with jargon-free commentary
• easy-to-use menu
• chapter access takes you straight to where you want to go
• play-along section with professional backing tracks

Book TWO with CD

To add to this great introductory series comes the follow-up Absolute Beginners Two For Guitar. It's the book that everyone has been waiting for!

This book starts off with a chord reminder, new chords, and strumming patterns leading to your first song! From there you'll learn the basics of reading music, playing fingerstyle guitar, getting faster between chord changes, advanced picking, bends, pull-offs, barre chords and vibrato! The CD has 40 tracks including chords, scales and songs.

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