For electric or acoustic guitar - or both! Teaches music notation, tablature, Full chords and power chords, riffs, licks, and scales, and rock and blues styles. Method Book 1 includes 73 songs and examples.
Guitar 1 (Fasttrack Series)
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Fast Track Is The Right Track,
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This review is from: FastTrack Guitar Method - Book 1 (Fasttrack Series) (Paperback)
There are books that only focus on playing chords. And then there are books that convert notes into that easy to read tablature. But there isn't much sheetmusic or many songbooks written in tablature.
I don't want to count strings and frets for each note. I just want to look at the notes on any sheet of music and know what to play. That's what I do when I play piano and it's what I want to do when I play guitar. This book teaches you how to do just that in addition to reading tablature and chords. The CD makes practice more fun. Even the simplest exercises sound great with a little backup music. And if you aren't having fun...what's the point? Buy this book and start having some of that fun!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
affordable way to learn the basics,
By nick ropes "nick" (eastern US) - See all my reviews
This review is from: FastTrack Guitar Method - Book 1 (Fasttrack Series) (Paperback)
I bought my guitar over a year ago and wanted to learn how to play but couldn't afford to pay for guitar lessons. So I bought this book. It's amazingly clear on what to do and even shows you how to hold your hand for different chords and which finger to use for various notes.
You don't even have to be able to read a note of music to get started with this book: at the very beginning of it, before you actually start playing the guitar, it explains measures, whole notes, half notes, quarter notes (etc.), time signatures, which notes are on which lines and spaces, what a clef is, etc. Eventually (towards the end of the book) it gets into tablature. It comes with a cd so that you know what sort of a sound you're going for and to make sure that you're doing it right... plus it's fun to have some background music to play along with. Yes it is very sappy in that the book changes the names of songs from "ode to joy" to "ode to joyful rock" and "johnny be good" to "billy b.badd". The book doesn't just throw you into chords right away but instead gradually makes things tougher and slowly introduces you to different techniques. I highly recommend the FastTrack series to learn the basics and then taking lessons from an instructor.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great beginner's book and CD!,
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This review is from: FastTrack Guitar Method - Book 1 (Fasttrack Series) (Paperback)
This book is helping me learn to read music more fluently, while I am learning to play the guitar. The CD is helpful and encouraging. While simple, the songs provide good exercises that are getting me familiar with the guitar and building "finger memory" as well as strengthening my fingers for tougher stuff. I would highly recommend to anyone who wants to learn the basics.Good luck!
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Music is a language with its own symbols, structure, rules (and exceptions to those rules). Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Music is a language with its own symbols, structure, rules (and exceptions to those rules). Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Chord Trax New!
Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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