Recomendations of some Beginner books please!

oleo20 · #1 11-12-2010, 04:40 AM

Hi Guys

I would love to hear some of your recomendations of some good beginner GUITAR books.....NOT JAZZ! Any books that teach people how to play the guitar from scratch would be great!

Thanks for your time

billkath · #2 11-12-2010, 06:05 AM

Get a book/pamphlet of guitar chords. Get a book of 101 songs for buskers (that has songs you know), or something like that. Practice. That's how me and every guitarist I know learnt. None went for lessons. All make a living playing at it.

Or-

Go to Youtube. There's on line lessons there-millions of them.

matt.guitarteacher · #3 11-12-2010, 07:00 AM

Jerry Snyder's Guitar School is great. It's published by Alfred. Notes in the back chords/rhythm in the front. Get it with a CD especially if you don't have a teacher, and get a teacher. :-) I am one of the many self taught guitarists and you can waste a lot of time not knowing what you're doing.

God bless.

kevinmorris · #4 11-13-2010, 06:32 AM

Can I make a suggestion? Rather than get books, get a teacher!
I started playing guitar when I was thirteen and am now sixty. I'm very largely self taught but at three very important times in my career I was given extremely good advice by three different teachers. In each case, they changed my approach and radically changed my conception of what the guitar is and what it can do. Books are okay but every player I know has loads and buys them in the hope that they will supply the answers to the questions they have. Usually they don't but if you ask your teacher a question, he will supply the answer you need

pierre richard · #5 11-13-2010, 10:25 AM

mel bay guitar method

at least the first three volumes...

learn the instrument first...

time on the instrument...pierre

docbop · #6 11-13-2010, 02:52 PM

The Mick Goodrick Advancing Guitarist. Yes, the book is advanced, but some of the concepts would really be cool for a beginner. I know when I started playing bass my teacher was having learn things on one string, then two and it was really good for seeing, hearing, a lot of aspects of the fretboard. It was great for learning the notes of the neck playing C major scales on one string.

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Dad3353 · #8 11-14-2010, 07:02 AM

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derek · #9 11-14-2010, 08:08 AM

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Paul Kinnear · #11 11-14-2010, 06:13 PM

I would agree with Mel Bay methods, the first three are great and have new expanded editions. Two other Mel Bay books are Position studies for guitar and Mel Bays rhythm guitar chord system. The advancing guitarist is a great conceptual book you can read over and over for years and always find something new.

Goodluck and have fun
Paul

oleo20 · #12 11-15-2010, 02:52 PM

the books not for me guys! ive been playing nearly 10 years! ive started teaching some young kids who have never played before and was looking for some books for them...

ausninja · #13 11-16-2010, 07:11 AM

id look at the mel bay series for kids. Some excellent books, and I think Mel's method is very tried and true these days.

Susan Palmer · #14 11-16-2010, 11:55 AM

I agree that finding a good teacher is the best way to go. To do that, make sure you try a few teachers first to see who is the best fit for you.

dmort · #15 11-16-2010, 07:01 PM

I really guitar grimorie as a series for helping build skill with scales and patterns. There are the mini guitar grimorie books, (3 of them) chords and voicings, scales and modes, and another one which I can't remember. THey are each 5.95, and at amazon, they are available on the 4 for 3 deal. Which means you get to pick a fourth cheap book for free. I got this mini music theory book.

These books aren't method books, but for about $20 they pack a lot of easy to access info.

ausninja · #16 11-18-2010, 04:42 AM

Dmort>

I really found the guitar grimoire has too much information..it can be a little daunting for a beginner. It is more important to know why to use the said scale rather than the fingering and all scale inversions(modes). I also found that the information was reprinted a little too much. I dont get why they needed to replicate the major modes for 30 something pages? I just found it was a bit of overkill for me. I think this could over complicate the process of learning.

JohnW400 · #17 11-18-2010, 08:06 AM

I use Dick Bennet for a few reasons. Mostly because it's not too difficult and they introduce simple one finger chords early on in the book.

Mel Bay is a good series and so is the Berklee method but those books are harder than DB. I usually used those methods for people that already knew some things or wanted to learn to read music. for the absolute beginner the best book IMO is DB.