Guitar for Kids: First Steps in Learning to Play Guitar with Audio & Video

Guitar for Kids: First Steps in Learning to Play Guitar with Audio & Video

by Gareth Evans
Guitar for Kids: First Steps in Learning to Play Guitar with Audio & Video

Guitar for Kids: First Steps in Learning to Play Guitar with Audio & Video

by Gareth Evans

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Overview

This is the Black and White interior version. The Colour version is ISBN 978-0-9569547-2-5

Guitar For Kids is a fun guide on the first steps of learning to play Guitar with over 70 photographic examples, purpose-made diagrams and cartoons. Starting with advice on buying your first guitar, how to hold the guitar and how to tune it, the music then begins with easy-to-play melodies using only open strings (open strings means only the plucking hand is used), before moving to simple pieces in which the fretting hand is also used. The book goes into detail for some basic techniques because you're better off getting it right from the start rather than develop bad habits.

- Tablature Based

Guitar for Kids uses mostly guitar tablature making this popular instrument more easily accessible for beginners (as do most adult guitar method books). The rhythmical aspect of Sight-reading is covered within the Chords section which eases-in the later Sight-reading section because the only new thing to learn will be reading different notes from the musical staff.

- Audio & Video

Guitar for Kids comes with 47 downloadable audio tracks with musical pieces in styles such as Rock, Blues, Pop, Flamenco, Jazz and Reggae. Each piece has a full band demo track and accompanying backing track with guitar part removed for you to play over. The songs also have video examples.

- What Else?

EZ chords are covered (easy chords with less notes) and are accompanied with diagrams of the full versions for later on, or if you feel like a challenge. There's an introduction to Power chords with Rock pieces to play named after healthy greens "Broccolli Rockilly" and "Rocket Salad". There's a Blues and Rock duet with backing band tracks to play with a friend, and at the end there is a Quiz, no cheating!

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Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780992834395
Publisher: Intuition Publications
Publication date: 08/20/2016
Pages: 36
Sales rank: 268,123
Product dimensions: 8.20(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range: 7 - 12 Years

Table of Contents

Buying your First Guitar

Parts of the Guitar

Tuning your Guitar

How to hold the Guitar

Plucking the Strings

Tablature

Smoothy

Bright

Alternate Picking

Malageuna

Up and Down

Fretting Hand Technique

Canon in A

Fret Rock

EZ Blues

Cowboy Stroll

House of the Rising Bun

Chords

G major

C major

G7

E minor

A minor

D major

EZ Reggae

EZ Rock

EZ Blues for Two

Power Chords

Broccoli Rockilly

Rocket Salad

Sight Reading

Notes on high E string

Notes on B string

Notes on G string

Old MacDonald

Ode to Joy

When the Saints

Hot Cross Buns

Quiz and Answers

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