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This is a book that has been voted by The Rolling Stones magazine as one of the top 3 guitar books for beginners. There’s a reason for that because every aspect of it has been specially designed and written for absolute beginners. It is also one of the more affordable books out there. It takes you step by step through the basics of rhythm guitar and lead guitar playing. This book, published by Berklee School of Music, in 1999, is more of a technical book. As it is from a very renowned music school, the methods are about serious musicianship. It is not too bad to learn how to read sheet music, right? Playing notes that are kept right in front of you, will only make you a better instrument player and will also help you fit into much more complicated musical scenarios. Nowadays new ways and trends have emerged to help you in your guitar lessons, some of them are in our free books. As you learn the notes and techniques to play your guitar, you need to learn how to read sheet music. Vai, despite being a lover of music theory, believes that it is not to be solely stressed upon, rather to be an effective musician you have to go deep into your creative, inspired space, and express it with zero excuses. Charles Kim is a renowned guitarist and educator and he teaches guitar, songwriting, and music theory at Chicago’s Old Town School of Folk Music. This is a lovely book for beginners. This is quite a popular guitar book which is quite similar to the teaching methods of ‘Guitars for Dummies’ which we read about earlier. It takes you through a wide range of topics, like Parts of a guitar, How to hold a guitar properly, What amp to choose, simple, popular songs to strum, hammer-ons, barre chords, and so on and so forth.
The first lesson in the books to learn to play the guitar is to get to know each characteristic of this instrument.This book does not contain any musical notations or chord diagrams. Yes, you read that right! But it is a book with an interesting flair. It is not a technical manual on how to play, but it is more a manual for your mind, body, and soul. It teaches that everyone’s got the music of their own and everyone’s unique. Zen Guitar teaches you music in a very refreshing, redefined way, and has interestingly got a few eastern methods of teaching too!
A lot of vastly experienced musicians as well have held this book in high regard, quoting that they visit this book from time to time for inspiration and it never fails! This is one of the most popular guitar books for beginners and is often recommended by professional musicians. In my opinion, it is a solid guitar book for beginners who are just starting out on the acoustic or electric guitar, especially for those of you who are under the age of 20! Memorizing the fretboard and building your muscle memory on the guitar is one of the biggest challenges faced by beginners and advanced players alike. It is a super underrated skill. It helps you in so many musical scenarios, whether it is songwriting, improv solo-ing with a band, figuring out shapes, memorizing the fretboard is a must.It contains 100 audio files for you to jam to. This book not just tells you what to do, but also why you’re doing certain things. This book is well illustrated and is a great starting point, and is a great resource to accompany you through your musical journey. As instrumentalists, we go through hours, days, months, and years of practice to get to a point we’ve been dreaming of reaching. And to get there you have to be habituated to the right way of practicing. A lot of times, whether you are a beginner player, or an advanced guy you’re gonna be in phases where you’ve not even realized you’ve been going about your routines the wrong way. This is not specifically suited for guitarists who want to go in-depth with their study of music theory and take their playing to more complex avenues, but meant more for students who are just starting out and want to just play for fun, for personal enrichment. This book lives up to its title! If you are interested, and you want to learn how to play guitar you have to know the strings and each element that conforms it to make its use easier. You must learn to tune the guitar, to know how to clean it, or how to change the strings, because it is also very important when playing guitar. Set aside some time every day for practice: Like any worthwhile pursuit in life, learning the guitar is all about putting in effort on a consistent basis. Even if you have a busy schedule, I’d much rather you spend 15 minutes every day rather than putting in 2 hours once a week. It’s the regular exercises that will build your skills.
This book covers a lot of music theory, hand and finger independence. The content is concise and clear, super easy to understand and apply! Bert Casey has been a performer for over 35 years and plays a bunch of instruments like acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass guitar, banjo, mandolin, ukelele, keyboards. He has used this sea of experience to author 8 teaching books. He’s revolutionary when it comes to instructional courses! What hooked me to this book is that it simply covers so many facets of the guitar. It starts off with helping you to buy your first guitar, choosing your first guitar amp. Then it takes you through basic playing skills, like tuning, preparing to play, basic music theory, scales, and beyond, etc. It contains a bunch of exercises which if done properly and with a bit of patience, you’re guaranteed to master this instrument! Some professional guitar players and teachers argue for this to be one of the most useful guitar books ever. Zen Guitar not only covers crucial concepts but also motivates you by sprinkling inspiring quotes all throughout the book. If you have read it once, I guarantee that you’re going to want to read it again! Dan Elwine is a super popular, widely respected guitar luthier, repairman, and guitar builder. He is a pioneer and an inspiration to many luthiers all around the world.Mark Phillips is an author, arranger, composer, and guitarist with an experience of more than 40 years in the publishing field. In the ’70s and early ’80s, he was the Director of Popular Music at Warner Bros. Publications, where he edited and arranged the songbooks of artists like Neil Young, James Taylor, the Eagles, and Led Zeppelin. He has also worked with legends like John Denver, Metallica, Guns and Roses, Van Halen, to name a few. He has got tons of experience taking classes in ear training, sight-singing and counterpoint. The book is a culmination of so many popular guitar and teaching techniques from around the world, and it contains 3 versions. The first part talks about the basics such as tuning, musical staff, basic chords and also contains over 80 songs which are super fun if you’re starting out. Book 2 covers a little more complex stuff (which is where you’ll have all the fun) like fingerstyle playing, syncopations, some more interesting, complex chords, etc. Book 3 covers a few advanced techniques like major and minor pentatonic scales, shapes which you can move along the fretboard, techniques like hammer-ons and pull-offs. Music theory can be a very intimidating factor for anyone who’s new to the field – that’s quite natural. This is because the theory is a visual thing that describes something that we hear. It takes time for our brains to process that, initially. This book throws all the scares, myths, and misunderstandings of music theory that one can have, out the window! Call me biased but there’s nothing that sounds sweeter than when you play a chord on a guitar, compared to any other instrument!
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