Hal Leonard

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Teach Yourself to Play Guitar: A Quick and Easy Introduction for Beginners now comes with online audio. Teach Yourself to Play Guitar was created specifically for the student with no music-reading background.

With lesson examples presented in today's most popular guitar tab format, which also incorporates simple beat notation for accurate rhythm execution, Teach Yourself to Play Guitar offers the beginning guitarist not only a comprehensive introduction to essential guitar-playing fundamentals, but a quick, effective, uncomplicated and practical alternative to the multitude of traditional self-instructional method books. Tutorials also cover power chords, barre chords, open position scales and chords (major and minor), and single-note patterns and fills. This title includes lesson examples and song excerpts in a variety of musical styles, familiarizes the student with fretboard organization, chord patterns, hand and finger positions, and guitar anatomy by way of easy-to-interpret diagrams, photos, and illustrations.

Teach Yourself to Play Guitar provides complete, concise explanations while keeping text to a minimum, and prepares the student for the option of further guitar instruction.
Hal Leonard Teach Yourself to Play Guitar Book/Online Audio

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  • Sections on:
  • Tuning
  • Basic hand and finger positions
  • Open chords, power chords, and barre chords
  • Stumming and picking
  • Single-note melodies and riffs
  • Easy-to-interpret diagrams, photos, and illustrations

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  • ISBN: 1423442687
  • Size: 9" x 12"
  • 48 pages