Guitar Basics: A Landmark Guitar Method for Individual and Group Learning.: A Landmark Guitar Method for Individual and Group Learning, Book

Our daughter has an interest in guitar playing, which is not strange as it runs on both sides of the families. So we bought her an affordable guitar on Amazon that she can also bring to guitar lessons at school. But in order to get her a little head start we were looking for a clear intuitive instruction book. We easily landed with this one as it had the best and the most favourable reviews and the price was right. It takes the student through the guitar basics. It was ease for our 9-year old daughter to work through it. It also comes with an CD.. which was praised a lot in the review & which I can understand. But realistically.. CD players are getting scarce our daughter has banned hers from her room long ago as it looks ‘ancient’. So an accompanying app or website might be more appropriate these days. Aside from this fairly big practical issue the book, interestingly learns children how to read/play notes. I’ve learned to play guitar a little but only by playing chords. So I might evne take up the booklet myself to enhance my skill and understanding. If only I had a little more time..

My 7 year olddaughter's guitar teacher uses this book in lessons so we wanted her to have a copy at home. She finds it easy to understand and enjoys it.

Bought this book for a 10yr old boy and it is well written. However, although possible for a child to learn from the book, a tutor is still likely to be needed, for a few lessons. Once a child has had a few lessons, this book will be an asset in helping the child develop his / her guitar skills alone. Once a child has got the bare basics, he she will soon develop with the small clips of music that is written in the book. However, it has lost one star simply because the short pieces of music do not include any popularly known tunes and I believe that would have been improved with maybe a couple of nursery rhymes, songs sung in nursery / primary school etc. and then moving on to themes for children's programs etc. I recall how my daughter learned the Pink Panther theme and The Simpsoms theme on her saxophone. She get those from a book, had to download the music sheets myself, and as she knew how both sound she easily picked up on her errors and corrected them. I would still recommend this book but remeber that it would be wise to have a guitarist at hand to give a few initial lessons to get your child started.

Like many full-time guitar teachers, the lack of exciting and relevant teaching material is the bane of my working life. I have been using this book for 2 terms now, in group and private teaching and it is a revelation. This is the first time someone has really got it right - the well-thought out teaching technique and musical understanding simultaneously, perfectly paced (you actually end up doing nearly every piece instead of cherry picking) and all packaged into exciting music that kids just love. It really does make teaching much easier. I love the use of TAB later in the book to get the kids playing up the neck, and some of the pieces and songs are brilliantly written. The backing tracks are great and having James Bond in there is a master stroke!

It's written for kids, but I'm an adult beginner (not taking lessons) so I gave this book a go after reading reviews. I could already read music due to playing wind instruments, but no experience if guitars. It was very simple and easy to follow. Teaches you the actual notes, rather than chords, enough to play a few melodies. I completed the book in a couple of weeks but didn't get round to trying the CD that came with it. I've graduated onto a more technical book now, but this got me started.

I teach guitar 5 days a week and I consistently find myself using this book to teach any kids learning classical guitar. This book is ideally suited to kids up to about the age of 10/11 and is far superior to other similar publications (like the Guitarist's Way series). The main selling point for the book is the CD which is full of lots of entertaining and varied backing tracks that make learning pieces that would otherwise be fairly lifeless, such as playing melodies on the open strings, fun. The layout is logical and clear and it guides the learner carefully through each stage without any big jumps difficulty from page to page.

Why is there a whole load of music teachers out there, that just because they had to learn music (and so did I by the way) think everyone else has to do it as well. I can tell you for a fact that my 5 year old students don't want to learn music any more than they wanted to be able to read and write before they were going to be allowed to speak. This is a great book to start beginners on - buy why the all standard notation and hardly any TAB? So if, like me, you want to use this book for youngsters between 5-10 years old, you're going to have to TAB most of it or inflict notation on them. Personally I want young people to play first (as they do if left to their own devices). When they are ready they can develop a hunger for reading music (or not). As the majority of jazz, blues, pop, metal, folk fingerstyle and bluegrass players often don't know standard notation- but still seem to make a living - it's questionable whether students in Primary school will see the need either. And yes I know that if you want to be a pro player it's wise to learn, and yes I know how to read myself - but the majority of players won't become pros. So... I think the layout is very good and the progression from simple to harder is good and I'll be using it and TABing it myself. But I will also be using the Basic TAB Guitar Method books 1-4. Basix Tab Guitar Method, Bk 1: Book & Enhanced CD

My older son started learning guitar from this book at the age of 7, while my other son started at the age of 6. The method of learning is just amazing, with lots of fun. My older son have completed the whole series (including the Guitar basics repertoire and Guitar basics workouts). He has learned so much staff, that, after that, his teacher started him at Grade 4 of Rock School Electric Guitar. Can't recommend enough!

I am trying to teach my son guitar and this seems like a great book so far. All the other books seem to be dealing with simplified chords to play common kids songs. This books focus on teaching music foundation. It goes into musical notation almost right away. Surprisingly kids are good at sight reading. Even I am getting a bit of refresher on music reading. I am a player and not a teacher, and I would not be able to come up with better lessons at the basics than this book provides. The songs are original, only I had no idea about some of the Australian terms are in the lyrics. It may bore an adult student a bit, it would be usable for that, but the context of this book is aimed for kids. Guitar books for adults are also quite boring as well.

I felt like Rhymes book,I expected a proper Guitar Basics learning book,but felt like a kid after purchasing this just 48 page book.

attention si on ne fait pas attention au descriptif ,ce livre est écrit en anglais,aucun mots francais, bien lire avant de commander

I started this book with some of my new students and they love it! The book starts with the three first open strings and the tracks are very playful.