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Electric Guitar Basics

Electric-Guitar-BasicsThe Ultimate Beginner Series has helped thousands of aspiring musicians take their first steps towards experiencing the fun of playing music. This book, CD, and DVD package will teach you everything you need to know to start playing electric guitar. Topics include guitar basics, chords and strumming, music notation and TAB, the blues progression, lead guitar techniques, lead scales, and barre chords. The CD plays all the examples in the book. The DVD includes video lessons that clearly cover all the topics taught in the book. This Electric Guitar Basics with Book, CD and DVD set is the next best thing to a real teacher.
PRICE: $24.95 Includes Book, CD and DVD

Bass Guitar Basics

Bass-Guitar-BasicsThe Ultimate Beginner Series has helped thousands of aspiring musicians take their first steps towards experiencing the fun of playing music. This book, CD, and DVD package will teach you everything you need to know to start playing bass. Topics include picking techniques, common bass lines, playing with a drummer, slap and pop techniques, and reading music notation and TAB. The CD plays each example in the book. The DVD includes video lessons that clearly cover all the topics taught in the book. This Bass Guitar Basics with Book, CD and DVD is next best thing to a real teacher.
PRICE: $24.95 Includes Book, CD and DVD

Slide Guitar for the Rock Guitarist

Mel-Bay-Slide-GuitarThis book contains the scales, licks and techniques the lead guitarist needs to play electric slide in any key. Presents many options including several approaches to soloing in four open tunings as well as standard tuning. Sample songs illustrate how to play in the styles of today’s slide masters. In notation and tablature. CD plays examples and sample songs. Music notation and TAB makes it easy.
By Fred Sokolow
PRICE: $14.95 Includes Book and CD

You Can Teach Yourself Fingerpicking

YCTY-Finger-Pickin-GuitarEclectic guitarist and veteran Mel Bay author Tommy Flint provides a comprehensive introduction to fingerstyle guitar technique. Intended for the serious student learning the guitar without the advantage of having a teacher teacher- clear photographs, diagrams, and standard notation and tab will guide you every step of the way. The book is 96 pages. Also the included Cd contains 71 tracks of examples and sample songs. Original fingerstyle tunes and arrangements of folk standards abound in this book, driving home concepts of music theory, technique, syncopation, walking bass, barre chords, slurs, moveable chords, use of the capo, the Nashville Number System, and much more.
BY: Tommy Flint
PRICE: $19.95 Includes Book and CD

First Lessons: Clawhammer Banjo

1st-ClawhammerFirst Lessons Clawhammer Banjo is an ideal book for beginners and banjo players interested in learning the clawhammer style. This style of banjo playing dates back to the 1800’s where the player strikes the strings with the back of the fingernails of the right hand and plucks the bass strings or the drone string(5th) with the thumb in a melody-chord fashion. This clawhammer banjo style has evolved over the past 175 years, making it one of the most popular styles in country and folk banjo music. This clawhammer banjo style is easier to sing along with your playing. Just go to youtube and plug in “clawhammer banjo” and see for yourself. The book explains the basics of reading TAB, right hand clawhammer technique, and other elements unique to clawhammer banjo. Included are classic songs such as Little Brown Jug, Cripple Creek, Old Joe Clark, Policeman, and much more. The book comes with accompanying CD to help you along with the exercises and songs. This clawhammer banjo book by Dan Levenson is the best I’ve tried.
PRICE: $9.99 Includes Book and CD

You can Teach Yourself Banjo

YCTY-BanjoThis is the ideal beginner’s book, presenting the basics of playing the 5-string banjo is a way that is both fun and produces quick results. Janet Davis takes you on an extensive tour of this instrument’s fundamental techniques as well as some intermediate possibilities including rolls, chords, bluegrass banjo techniques, playing up the neck, licks, endings, and other basic information needed to play bluegrass and melodic-style banjo. This book teaches the Earl Scruggs (thumb, index and middle finger) and bluegrass style of banjo. In this banjo style, a plastic thumb pick and 2 metal finger pick are almost required. TAB is used throughout the book and no music notation is required. Thorough performance notes are provided from beginning to end revealing the secrets of this versatile traditional instrument. Approximately 35 popular bluegrass songs are taught here, plenty to get you started. The companion CD and DVD (The DVD teaches through Lesson 22.) is included. By: Janet Davis
PRICE: $24.99 Includes Book, CD and DVD

You Can Teach Yourself Fiddling

YCTY-FiddlinDesigned for beginning fiddle students, these 36 lessons present basic techniques by applying them to fiddle tunes. Reading music is unnecessary, as the lessons are explained step by step, and fingerings are given for every note. Each version builds on the previous one and helps students to create their own arrangements. Includes a split- track CD. Forty-eight songs from the book are on the CD. The DVD with this set is designed to complement the first 17 lessons of the You Can Teach Yourself Fiddling text. Covers tuning, holding the fiddle and bow, left-hand position, basic A, D, and G scales, shuffle bowing, slurs, double stops, and many tunes, including “Liza Jane,” “Shortening Bread,” “Going to Boston,” and “Bile Them Cabbage Down.”
By: Craig Duncan
PRICE: $24.99

First Lessons Ukelele

1st-Lessons-UkeAnyone can learn to play the ukulele, and play it well. No previous knowledge of music is necessary. Strum and pick both harmonies and melodies. First Lessons Ukulele provides a simple approach for learning how to play the ukulele without reading music. From the most basic necessities, such as holding the ukulele properly and forming simple chords, up to more advanced techniques, which include transposing, using second and third position chords, and picking and strumming melody solos. No previous music knowledge necessary.Strum and pick both harmonies and melodies. Takes you from basic skills such as forming simple chords, to advanced techniques, such as transposing and soloing. Companion CD included.
By: Jerry Moore
PRICE: $9.99 Includes Book and CD