Keep It Simple Guides: KISS Guide to Playing Guitar

Terry Burrows - Author

£12.99

The only guide you'll ever need...to make beautiful music with your guitar

Introduction

The Only Guides You'll Ever Need!

The Keep It Simple Series is your trusted guide through all of life's stages and situations. Want to learn how to surf the Internet or care for your new dog? Or maybe you've always wondered how to play the Blues, or how to become the next Tiger Woods. Just pick up a KISS Guide and turn to the first page.

Expert authors will walk you through the subject from start to finish, using simple blocks of knowledge to build your skills one step at a time. Build on these learning blocks and by the end of your book, you'll be an expert yourself.

The KISS Guides deliver what they promise: simple access to all the information you'll need on one subject.

• Choose the right guitar for you and learn the basics of posture and technique
• Start playing simple tunes, using easy-to-follow diagrams
• Learn rhythm and lead guitar, and play along to backing tracks on the free CD
• Specialise in your favourite styles, from classical to country, jazz to rock
• Foreword by Bill Wyman

Reviews

Review by: James Gordon, 07 September 2005

I'm a guitar instructor and I think that this is one of the best books for beginners I've come across.

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Press reviews

"...the book doesn't lose sight of the fact that it's actually written for people who don't play - yet."
Guitar Magazine

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Table of contents

Part 1: Simple Basics
A Bit of History
Guitar Music
How Guitars Are Made and How They Work
Choosing Your Equipment Wisely
Strings 'n' Things: Maintaining Your Guitar
Posture and Fingering
Part 2: Making a Noise
Getting in Tune
Three Chord Tricks
Timing and Rhythm
More Chords, More Tunes
Picks or Fingers
Moving Around the Fingerboard
Part 3: Music Theory Basics
Reading Music
Playing Some Tunes
Getting to Know Keys and Scales
Building Chords
Part 4: Getting into Style
A Touch of Blues
Rock Lead Techniques
Country Styles
Jazz and Latin Styles
Classical Techniques
Part 5: Sounds, Studio, and Stage
Amplification
Altering Your Sound
Recording Yourself and Your Guitar
Home Recording
Making a Name for Yourself

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