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Guitar players?
I've recently bought myself a lil black acoustic guitar and was wondering if anyone could recommend me any tuition books or DVDs?
Or if anyone is willing to teach me, for free, then that'd be even better! Thanks
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it depends what exactly you want to learn. if you look on the internet there are site's that give tips and mock lessons on how to play. Otherwise you could leach yourself, whihc sounds harder than it is, after a while is starts to become easier. Do you want to take exams in it?
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Hi Lil Bitch,
Is the colour important? |
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My wife got me a "book" called 'The Complete Guitar Player' by Russ Shipton. It had been recommended by a friend who plays guitar.
It's about £18 on Amazon. It think it's really good because it starts out with the basics (how to hold the guitar, strumming & so forth) & introduces new ideas a step at a time with lots of examples & tunes to play. Once you've picked up a little bit the best way to progress is to play with other people. I only wish I could commit the time to practice .Good luck. |
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Originally Posted by fanaticalabout
it depends what exactly you want to learn. if you look on the internet there are site's that give tips and mock lessons on how to play. Otherwise you could leach yourself, whihc sounds harder than it is, after a while is starts to become easier. Do you want to take exams in it?
![]() Thanks for the info! |
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Originally Posted by rzappa
My wife got me a "book" called 'The Complete Guitar Player' by Russ Shipton. It had been recommended by a friend who plays guitar.
It's about £18 on Amazon. It think it's really good because it starts out with the basics (how to hold the guitar, strumming & so forth) & introduces new ideas a step at a time with lots of examples & tunes to play. Once you've picked up a little bit the best way to progress is to play with other people. I only wish I could commit the time to practice .Good luck. Thanks for the info, really helpful! I'll check it out. Good luck with your playing too, I'll let you know how I get on! |
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Why "book"?
Thanks for the info, really helpful! I'll check it out. Good luck with your playing too, I'll let you know how I get on! It's ring-bound so you can have it open more easily while you're playing. I think of a book as being bound the way that one you read would be - which would not be as helpful. That's all. |
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Originally Posted by rzappa
Sorry - I meant to go on and explain that.
It's ring-bound so you can have it open more easily while you're playing. I think of a book as being bound the way that one you read would be - which would not be as helpful. That's all. Sounds like a good idea too!Thanks again
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Hi this website is cool for tips
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/lessons/ ive been playing the guitar for a number of years now, if your stuck on anything pm me (or post on this thread again)and i'll try and help you out |
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Quote:
Originally Posted by rzappa
My wife got me a "book" called 'The Complete Guitar Player' by Russ Shipton. It had been recommended by a friend who plays guitar.
It's about £18 on Amazon. It think it's really good because it starts out with the basics (how to hold the guitar, strumming & so forth) & introduces new ideas a step at a time with lots of examples & tunes to play. Once you've picked up a little bit the best way to progress is to play with other people. I only wish I could commit the time to practice .Good luck. I think after you learn the basics it's best to get magazines with a tutorial CD...one which features the type of music you are in to. this will keep you interested. |
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Thanks everyone, you've all been really helpful
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Quote:
Originally Posted by rzappa
My wife got me a "book" called 'The Complete Guitar Player' by Russ Shipton. It had been recommended by a friend who plays guitar.
It's about £18 on Amazon. It think it's really good because it starts out with the basics (how to hold the guitar, strumming & so forth) & introduces new ideas a step at a time with lots of examples & tunes to play. Once you've picked up a little bit the best way to progress is to play with other people. I only wish I could commit the time to practice .Good luck. Thanks
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Well, I'll tell you how I learned, so you have another choice of how to go about it.
I did start with one of those tuition style books but it all seemd a bit too much like work. I wanted to have fun, not sit diligently going through lesson after lesson. So I got a few guitar chord books for my favourite bands at the time...you can get books which have loads of songs showing you all the chords for each one ie the Complete Beatles song book. Chord symbols show you where to put your fingers for each chord. Its much more fun to learn while playing songs you recognise. After that I got some proper transcripts of my favourite albums. These have the chords as well as the lead guitar lines ie all the fiddly bits, the solos and that. The good thing is there is this thing called "tablature" so you don't need to know how to read music, as long as you can count you can work it out easy. Once you've got your chords going you should probably get an electric guitar if you can...even more fun to play. Good luck! |
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I learned thru tabs at ultimate-guitar.com
Also my friend had already been playing for a year so he helped me a bit /strokes his Ibanez JEM
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Originally Posted by lil_bitch
I was just wondering if you could tell me if this is the right book, as it doesn't mention about it being a ring bound book? I don't wanna buy the wrong one!!
Thanks ![]() if I remember rightly it has easy songs to play like "Tonights the night" and "Blowin in the Wind" so you can be playing something reconisable quite quickly. Which is a big thing when learning to play the guitar - it keeps your interest when you can play something and people recognise it. There are loads of books that have basic songs for "easy guitar".The next step is to learn some scales and keep practising them. Go for the pentatonic minor (sounds tricky but it ain't) this can be played in an easy to remember "box" shape that you can move up and down the fret to suit whatever key you are playing in. Loads & loads of solo's are basically played around this scale - there are loads of blues licks to be found here
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the basix guitar method books are good by ron mc manus
lots of books on different styles ,start with the method books and work up to the style you want for pentatonic scales as mentioned above the hip pockets book of pentatonic scales and power chords at a fiver is a good reference by adam kadmon |
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Thanks again for the advice everyone! I think amazon will be getting some of money in the near future!
![]() Please keep the advice coming, it's all really helpful! Really can't wait to get playing
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like mine a good addition to any acoustic is a capo at less than a tenner worth considering
(or any guitar for songs that require one ) |
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the Guitar Handbook by Ralph Denyer is a good one for learning the basic chords etc.
Amazon have it. Good luck. |
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