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Play Guitar in 10 Easy Lessons: A Simple, Beginner's Guide to Learning Guitar

by Jon Buck

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A ten-lesson path from guitar basics to chords, scales, and early improvisation

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A ten-lesson path from guitar basics to chords, scales, and early improvisation

Organized as ten lessons, this beginner’s guitar guide moves from choosing and tuning an instrument through posture, open chords, basic fingerwork, and tablature. It also introduces note relationships and simple music theory before extending into barre chords, scales, arpeggios, chord extensions, and first approaches to soloing and improvisation. Illustrated instruction is central to the book’s practical format, with guidance for chord shapes and technique alongside a directory of more than 250 chords. The scope reaches beyond an initial introduction, covering strumming and fingerpicking in different keys as well as new playing styles.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Adult beginners starting guitar from the fundamentals
  • Learners who want illustrated help with chords, tablature, and posture
  • Players seeking an introductory route into scales, arpeggios, and improvisation

Themes

Guitar fundamentalsChord vocabularyTablature and music theoryScales and arpeggiosImprovisation

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Book overview

A clear and concise beginner's guide to playing the guitar.
If you've ever wanted to play guitar, this is the quick and easy way to learn. This clearly illustrated guide shows you all you need to get started playing the guitar, from getting to know the instrument, posture and reading tablature to playing advance chord extensions, scales and arpeggios. There are tips for perfect technique and innovative illustrations show you how to play even the most complicated-sounding chords. By the end of the 10 lessons you will be able to play chords and scales, improvise your own solos and finger pick and strum chords in every key. Easy-to-follow text helps you understand the relationship between notes and there is even a directory of over 250 chords for you to experiment with.
Learn how to:
  • Buy and tune a guitar
  • Get to know the correct posture
  • Learn open chords and basic fingerwork
  • Understand simple music theory and note relativity
  • Discover barre chords
  • Understand how to play simple scales
  • Take your first steps to soloing and improvising
  • Read any kind of tablature
  • Extend your chord repertoire and learn arpeggios
  • Develop your skill and learn new styles of playa
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