Edition: Paperback Book & Online Audio, Guitar

The Complete Beginning Guitarist makes learning fun and creative. It combines note reading with creative rote and by ear styles of playing the guitar. Simultaneously use melodic, strumming and fingerpicking approaches while learning to read music, understand music theory, improvise, and perform song accompaniments. The 112 page book includes online audio. Plus, free MP3 and interactive Guitar Guru song demos are available for download. Woven throughout the book is information about the various types of guitars available, their differences and genres they are associated with, and discussions of musical genres that are common to the guitarist and the great players from those genres.

Read music and play by ear
Play melodies and chords; pick and fingerstyle
Learn practical music theory
Play along with the included recordings
Explore a variety of musical styles
Learn about different types of guitars, accessories, and more
Includes two play-along CDs
Free MP3s and Interactive Guitar Guru play-along tracks available at alfred.com/expressions/cbg.asp