Guitar For Dummies, with DVD

✍ Scribed by Chappell, Jon; Phillips, Mark

• Publisher: For Dummies;John Wiley [distributor]], Wiley
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 388
• Series: For dummies
• Edition: 3rd ed
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The bestselling music guide - now updated and with a FREE DVD!

Have you always wanted to learn to play guitar? Who wouldn't? Think of Jimi Hendrix wailing away on his Stratocaster. . . Chuck Berry duck-walking across the stage to "Johnny B. Goode". . .B.B. King making his "Lucille" cry the blues. No doubt about it—guitars are cool.

Guitar For Dummies gives you everything a beginning or intermediate guitarist needs: from buying a guitar to tuning it, playing it, and caring for it, this book has it all—and you don't even need to know how to read music. Full of photo-illustrated exercises and songs you can play to practice the techniques discussed in each section, this step-by-step guitar guide will take you through the basics and beyond before you can say "Eric Clapton."

• Helps you choose the guitar and equipment that best fits your needs and budget
• Shows you how to build strength and dexterity while playing
• Teaches you to play in different styles, including rock, blues, folk, jazz, and classical

Fully revised and updated, with an all-new interactive DVD packed with video and audio clips that help you learn, tune, and play along, Guitar For Dummies is the perfect introductory guide for any novice acoustic or electric guitar player.

CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of the e-book file, but are available for download after purchase.
 
 

✦ Table of Contents

Content: So you wanna play guitar. Guitar basics
tuning your guitar
Getting ready to play --
Starting to play : the basics. Getting stated by strumming chords
Playing melodies --
Without reading music!
Adding some spice with 7th chords --
Beyond the basics : starting to sound cool. Playing in position
Doubling up with double-stops
Stretching out : barre chords
Special articulation : making the guitar talk --
A pile of styles. Let's rock : rock guitar basics
Bluer than blue : blues guitar basics
Around the campfire : fold guitar basics
Maestro, if you please : classical guitar basics
Sunglasses and berets : jazz guitar basics --
A guitar of your own. Shopping for a guitar
Guitar amps, effects, cases, and accessories
Changing your strings
Guitar wellness : basic maintenance --
The part of tens. Ten (or so) guitarists you should know
The ten greatest guitar songs of all time --
Appendixes. A, How to read music
B, 96 common chords
C, How to use the DVD.

✦ Subjects

Guitar -- Instruction and study. Guitar -- Methods -- Self-instruction. Guitar.