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

    By Gareth Evans

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    “Gareth has written a really well thought out first book for teaching young children how to play. This one is definitely the one I'll be using.” Bob Lucas - Bob Lucas Guitar Studios (Missouri US)

    Guitar For Kids is a fun all-colour 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 Tracks - 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.

    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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    Please Note: The eBook includes musical pieces so is not suitable for smaller screens.

    “I looked through Guitar for Kids thoroughly when I received it and I think its great. I will be recommending that my students buy one.” Chris Nastri, Bachelor of Education (B.Ed) Phoenix Arizona US

    "It looks like Gareth spent a lot of time writing Guitar for Kids. I think the illustrations are very helpful in keeping people's minds interested and engaged." Tim Woosley - Music Director, Lincoln School of Music (Nebraska)
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIntuition Publications
    Release dateDec 15, 2013
    ISBN9780957650657
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    • 5/5
      Thanks. I love this book, it´s so funny and easy.
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      I have been playing guitar since I was four years old (I'm 34 now, so it's been quite a while), and I found this to be a very good beginner book. It shows readers each part of the guitar along with appropriate terminology. It gives basic chords as well as a good introduction into tab. It also includes links to audio, so you can actually hear what you are trying to play. This is a great book for anyone learning to play guitar, not just kids.

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    Guitar for Kids - Gareth Evans

    Table of Contents

    Introduction

    Audio Tracks

    Buying your First Guitar

    Parts of the Guitar

    Tuning your Guitar

    How to Hold the Guitar

    Plucking the Strings

    Tablature

    Smoothy

    Bright

    Alternate Picking

    Malaguena

    Up and Down

    Fretting Hand Technique

    Canon in A

    Fret Rock

    EZ Blues

    Cowboy Stroll

    House of the Rising Bun

    Chords

    C major

    G7

    E minor

    A minor

    D major

    EZ Rock

    EZ Blues for Two

    Power Chords

    Rocket Salad

    Sight Reading

    Old MacDonald Had a Farm

    Ode to Joy

    When the Saints Go Marching In

    Hot Cross Buns

    Quiz

    Answers

    Thank you for buying this Book

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    Written by Gareth Evans

    Photography and Diagrams by Gareth Evans

    Cartoons by Chris Evans

    Copyright © 2012 by Intuition Publications

    Cartoon characters Jumbalees © 1999 Chris Evans

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    Hello and welcome to Guitar for Kids. This book can be used by an individual as well as by a teacher for 1-1 or group lessons. The musical pieces in this book have audio tracks in styles like Rock, Blues, Pop, Flamenco, Jazz and Reggae. You won’t find Three Blind Mice or Row Row Row your Boat styles in here (well at least not until the sight reading section!). In some of the Demo tracks guitar effects are used but all the pieces

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