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Buy 1st Steps for a Beginning Guitarist Volume One: Chords and Chord Progressions for the Guitar from Amazon now. -- The guitar is the most popular instrument in the world yet most students of the guitar are self taught. "1st Steps for a Beginning Guitarist" is a comprehensive for guitar students who have no prior musical training. Whether you are playing acoustic, electric or twelve-string guitar, this book will give you the information you need, and trouble shoot the various pitfalls that can hinder the self-taught musician. The author knows from over 20 years of teaching experience that students form most of their good and bad habits in the first six months of practicing. It is therefore extremely important to use a method book that clearly and concisely covers the important subjects of proper playing technique, tuning, picking, strumming, music theory and rhythm. Furthermore, the only way a student can remember the information learned is to apply it. The hardest part of learning the guitar for a student is switching between chords.
This unique method book contains chord progressions using both "open" and "barre" chords that gradually take a student from a beginning level to an advanced level. The publisher's website also has mp3 and midifiles to be played along with, for developing the strumming, time and feel for each chord progression. The chord progressions presented are commonly found in hard rock, rock, folk, blues and country, giving the student a solid harmonic foundation in all these styles. A picture is worth a thousand words and this method book not only gives you pages of pictures but also gives you access to video clips that can be downloaded from the publisher's website to demonstrate these playing basics in action.
The Muse-eek Publishing Company believes the education of a student shouldn't stop with the purchase of a book, therefor our website, offers a FAQ page where students can write in to the author with questions that may arise as they work their way through the method. It also offers a free "member's section" where students can download other learning materials to further their education. We are committed to making your experience with the guitar as positive as possible and hope you will give us a chance to prove it.
A reader writes: "Bruce Arnold is an accomplished jazz guitarist and educator. I reviewed three of his instruction books: 1st Steps for a Beginning Guitarist; Chord Workbook for Guitar; and Music Theory Workbook for Guitar. I also listened to an incredible jazz music album he provided for my listening pleasure. As a player, he is awesome. As a writer of instruction manuals, he is very good for the more advanced student. I compared his books with the Mel Bay series, which I use for my students (and on which I learned). His go into much more depth than those I'm accustomed to. Ideally, I would introduce his material after a couple of months. I am eager to see some of the other books he has in his series of over thirty instructional manuals. I believe depth is the best term to describe what this educator has to offer. He takes on some of the more difficult aspects for guitarists and digs deeply into the subject material. I would have killed to have manuals like these when I was in college."
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