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The Beginner's Guide to Understanding Music

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I wanted this book for sentimental reasons, Richard Bell is my uncle who passed away a few years ago. I recently started guitar lessons, and am so happy I have the book now, it is easy to read, understand and follow. I would recommend this book to anyone starting out in piano or guitar, I found it to be very useful. I bought two copies, one copy I keep at home on my shelf for sentimental reasons and the other comes with me everywhere for when I want to study.

The man that wrote this wonderful book was my uncle, Richard Bell. He was the only person I knew that would be so swept away by any type of music that he would play and play for hours. He was the best uncle I've ever had and ever could have asked for. He gave me one of his books and wrote a very personal letter inside because the year the book got published he was begining to teach me how to play guitar 1 on 1. What a wonderful teacher he was! I wish he would have started his own guitar school! I know things that you wouldn't know and I'm not going to say what happened but things turned very ugly in his life and he always new where to take his feelings...to his music. I was amazed at how long it took him to write this book, because he needed and wanted every part of this book to be absoultly perfect, so that anyone of any age over 12 would be able to understand and be able to be gifted with the knowledge of music. He would be very proud to hear that he gets 5 star ratings from people who have purchased this book. When I saw that I knew how happy it made me! So please when you read this book think of how my uncle Richard Bell would want you to learn..."just take your time, dont rush, and you'll get it!" Are the words I live by when I think about him and pick up that guitar and start playing. Thank you for your time.

I personally have read this book! The Authors have real insight and understand music more than I thought music could be understood. this book unlocks the secrets of how to compose music like the greats do(or did) - like Led Zepplin or The Eagles. timeless secrets that put it all into reach. Even though this book covers how to read and write music, it gets advanced in an amazing curve that you can follow, and ends with advanced concepts that are above the norm.