Guitar for Absolute Beginners
How to play guitar: The effective guitar method successfully used by thousands of busy New Yorkers in their classes at New York City Guitar School.
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Guitar for Absolute Beginners
on October 16, 2011 3 Comments
Absolutely Fabulous,
I have started to learn the guitar 3 times in my life during the past 12 years, the first two times i had terrible teachers and even worse learning materials and the third time was 6 months ago when I was given this book. And its official… I’m FINALLY a guitar player. After owning a guitar for more than a dozen years and never knowing more than 2 chords at any given time I am rocking out on a nightly basis at home and have begun the process of writing and composing my own music that has been stuck in my head for years – this book has brought so much to my life. It has given me the freedom to be bad and still look forward to getting better everyday. When every other manual has never been as encouraging, helpful, knowledgable, funny (yes the book is hillarious!) and an AMAZING teaching tool. I can not say enough good things about this book!!! For anyone who is lucky enough to take classes at NYCGS in NYC they know first hand how positive and supportive a learning environment it is there, but for anyone who can’t get to the studio or afford group classes or privates this is seriously the next best and closest thing! Thanks Dan for making me not only a guitar player but for giving your gift of teaching easy methods & tricks to those of us who have a passion and a desire but have never had the right teacher … until NOW!
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|What more can I say but Superb,
Ok, so I lied when I said the only thing I can say about it is ‘Superb’ but honestly it is such a good guide – beginning with knowing what a guitar is and does through to teaching you the basics to play countless songs. I was lucky enough to do this course with a teacher at the school but I gave this book to my girlfriend afterwards. Now there is no difference in my ability and hers! The only thing you need to do is to read it and practice, practice, practice! I can’t wait till I’m back from working in Hong Kong to take more lessons or to get the next book that will pick up from where this takes you. To add further information to this story I have tried other books and had a guitar for 4 years till I found out about these people and this book!
Oh and if Dan from NYC Guitar School reads this Please, please, please write the next one so we can get it!
I hope you all enjoy yourselves learning and playing, I know I’m loving it right now.
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|Beginner Guitarist Must Have,
(Need to change my profile city – I’m in NYC now!) I got this book as part of the Absolute Beginners class at the NY Guitar School and I don’t think I could have done so well in the class without it. One of my friends who has been playing the guitar for years, thumbed through it and said that he wished he had something like this when he first started — then he thumbed through it again and said, “S#@%! There’s stuff in here I could use now!” The book provides a natural progression of foundation guitar skills that’s really intuitive plus there’s helpful hints about practicing and what songs feature what strum patterns and chords. Even though I’ve moved on to a more advanced class and my skills are improving, I still go back and reference it regularly.
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