Learn to play the guitar using this quick and easy guide. Whether you dream of playing classical guitar, a B.B. King lick, or just the opening bars to "Stairway to Heaven," this book can get you there. This easy-to-use guide introduces the beginning guitarist to all styles of playing, from classical to jazz and pop. Using basic exercises and a selection of popular tunes, it shows how to do everything from reading tablature and chord diagrams to performing simple accompaniment. This book is designed for the child or adult beginner who wants a "user-friendly" introduction to the most popular musical instrument. It contains numerous sidebars and illustrations, making learning the guitar fun and easy. Z Features exercises in all styles from classical to rock and jazz Z Includes checklists of popular books, videos and instrument dealers, and tips on purchasing and maintaining your instrument. Frederick Noad is an expert guitar teacher and author of dozens of guitar methods, including The Virtual Guitarist, Solo Guitar Playing and Playing the Guitar, all from Schirmer Books. He is the inventor of Speed Score, the computer notation software and is universally known as a master teacher of the instument.
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Learn to play the guitar using this quick and easy guide. Whether you dream of playing classical guitar, a B.B. King lick, or just the opening bars to "Stairway to Heaven," this book can get you there. This easy-to-use guide introduces the beginning guitarist to all styles of playing, from classical to jazz and pop. Using basic exercises and a selection of popular tunes, it shows how to do everything from reading tablature and chord diagrams to performing simple accompaniment. This book is designed for the child or adult beginner who wants a "user-friendly" introduction to the most popular musical instrument. It contains numerous sidebars and illustrations, making learning the guitar fun and easy. Z Features exercises in all styles from classical to rock and jazz Z Includes checklists of popular books, videos and instrument dealers, and tips on purchasing and maintaining your instrument. Frederick Noad is an expert guitar teacher and author of dozens of guitar methods, including The Virtual Guitarist, Solo Guitar Playing and Playing the Guitar, all from Schirmer Books. He is the inventor of Speed Score, the computer notation software and is universally known as a master teacher of the instument.
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49 of 49 people found the following review helpful:
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Complete Idiot's Guide as a fine Teaching Literature,
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This review is from: Complete Idiot's Guide to Playing Guitar (The Complete Idiot's Guide) (Paperback)
Although this book is clearly intended for self-help I was interested to read it for possible use with my students. I am familiar with Noad's books, having used his SOLO GUITAR PLAYING with great success for a number of years; but I was curious to see what this latest book might have to offer that was new or different. A glance through immediately revealed two major differences from his SOLO book. First, the scope is much wider, with the inclusion of popular styles such as Blues and Flamenco. In addition I found extensive use of guitar tablature as well as standard notation. Students find tablature very easy, and this enables them to play more advanced pieces at an earlier stage. Some teachers regard this as a crutch, bur Noad clearly wants to get students into interesting music as soon as possible. I found the choice of music most appealing, including the famous Anonymous Romance which is credited with drawing more people to the guitar than other single piece. In summary, I plan to use this book with students who wish to experiment with various styles to find where their major interest lies. I find the text clear and interesting. The sidebars with cartoons and information on "Guitar Gods" etc. are a bit overcute for my taste, but are actually quite informative. In contrast the hand drawings by Linda Trujillo are some of the best and clearest that I have seen in any music instruction book. My only regret is that a CD was not included. Nowadays most self-instruction books seem to have these, and I feel that the publishers would be well advised to include this in a future edition. Overall, a fine addition to the teaching literature.
44 of 45 people found the following review helpful:
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Fredrick Noad's Complete Idiot's Guide to Playing the Guitar,
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This review is from: Complete Idiot's Guide to Playing Guitar (The Complete Idiot's Guide) (Paperback)
I have had a fantasy about playing the guitar since childhood, but only recently as an adult took the plunge. I wanted to do more than simple "picking and grinning" so I rejected quite a few beginners' books before I came across Frederick Noad's Complete Idiot's Guide to Playing the Guitar. From the title I was not expecting much depth but found myself drawn in by the clear explanations and step-by-step approach. I particularly enjoyed the Spanish pieces and am currently working on the first part of "Romance." Since all the selections have guitar tablature as well as music notes, it has made it easy for me to dive in and play enjoyable songs before having all the notes memorized. Admittedly, I jump ahead and try to play more advanced music than I am really ready for, but what the heck - I love this book! I'm really learning to play the guitar!
33 of 33 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not bad for cursory reference. Strongly recommend a teacher,
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This review is from: Complete Idiot's Guide to Playing Guitar (The Complete Idiot's Guide) (Paperback)
Not a bad book, but a bit frustrating for the complete beginner. I realize that writing a book for beginners is difficult, because you are taking many complex topics and trying to cover them in a few pages, but this book did not intially "click" for me. However, two years after I bought this book, I have found this book to be good review material. I was a bit puzzled by the direction to grow fingernails out and begin playing finger picking. I found much greater success learning the basics with a pick first and fingers later on. The much quicker progress with a pick encouraged me during the difficult and frustrating first year. My advice: Get a really good teacher for the early basics (I cannot overemphasize how important this was for me). Buy this book for cursory reference. Get Fretboard Logic (Bill Edwards) to get a really simple, straight forward set of building blocks. Buy a songbook of music that you really want to learn to play. Be persistent! I fumbled for the first 1 1/2 years and then at 2 years it finally started to click. It is well worth it! Good luck.
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Before you begin to learn to play the guitar, you might be curious to learn a little bit about the instrument and where it came from. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
rest stroke, fretting finger, chord block, peg head, guitar gods, fifth fret, first fret, tuning machines, guitar tablature, twelfth fret, free stroke, fourth fret, third fret, tap tap tap tap tap Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Least You Need, Les Paul, Kay Thought, Andrés Segovia, Pick Hit, Study Notes, Take Mote, New York, Django Reinhardt, Eric Clapton, Ramón Montoya, United States, Aura Lee, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Fernando Sor, Francisco Tárrega, Key Thought, Ferdinando Carulli, Leo Fender, Robert Johnson, The Least You Mead, Will the Circle Be Unbroken New!
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