Books!!!

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Bass Freak

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are there any good guitar books out there?



my uncle has "guitar guru"

im looking for a good book to help me with chords and just playing in general.....and i need to figure out what finger goes where for a chord, or do you have to figure that out yourself?




freak
 
I have learned to play guitar completely from books and videos. The one that really got me started is called the Heavy Guitar Bible. Also anything by Arlen Roth or Keith Wyatt is good.
 
The "Guitar Case" series is good for chord charts and scales.

Amsco Publishing.

If you're at all interested in American country blues history/folklore "Invisible Republic" by Greil Marcus is highly recommended.
 
im thinking videos would be good since it would be easier to tell what finger goes where, ill have to look into those.






freak
 
I've got Guitar for Dummies. Comes with a CD so you can hear how it's supposed to sound, and, once you have hammered a few chords into your fingers, you can play along.
 
If you really are at the very begaining (I mean like you don't even know the name of those twistie things on the long end that the strings are tied to) you may take a look at Keith Wyatt's Ultimate Beginner Series - Guitar Basics, Step 1 form Warner Bros.

I use this system to teach my students.

Click here.

It's good, it works.
 
lol i know what tuners are, i rock peoples socks with my bass, just cant quite figure out the whole chord thing. its that whole, pushing some frets and not others and letting them ring while muting others, then moveing your fingers around really fast and then doing it all over again.....im quite happy with my big beefy strings.......that i just pluck and what not.




so if i get a tape, i can see what fingers the guys putting where?




freak
 
The tapes I've seen assume that you know finger position. There are probably basic tapes that include finger positioning, though.

I've got a book called "Jazz Picture Chords," that has photos of finger positioning, and diagrams, too. There is a "Rock Picture Chords" book in the series.

Where the fingers go is the starting point. As you point out, you'll have to do it all over again for a different chord in a measure or two, anyway.

Here's a suggestion: start with the C-F-G7 blues progression. Play the C-F, the F-G7, and the G7-C changes again and again, over several practice sessions. (With the F, you'll have to pinch the neck instead of grip the neck.) Once your fingers get used to going to the right places, try it as a song, very slowly. With new chords, the temptation is to stop the song while our fingers find their places. I keep the count going, hitting the root or bass note at least, while my other fingers find their places. The first time, you'll hear mostly muted strings and wrong notes. But over time, more and more of the right notes will sound at the right time.
 
The tape I mentioned above (Keith Wyatt's Ultimate Beginner Series - Guitar Basics, Step 1 form Warner Bros.) sounds like what you need Bass Freak. Not only can you see what he's doing, but he slows down and shows you one finger at a time. It's really very good. He does go into a few things that you may already know, but that's how it goes when you learn from books and vids. Just press fast forward and skip ahead to the good stuff.
 
We've got The Guitar Handbook lying around here somewhere (when I find it I'll add in whoever the hell it was that wrote it). It's really basic which was exactly what I needed to start with. It was a lot easier having diagrams to show me what the bits of the guitar were called (as opposed to asking lame questions) and has chord charts in the back as well. Anyway, as a newb who knows virtually nothing, its a damn good book. I highly recommend it to anyone that might be as clueless and musically impaired as I am :D ...I'll learn to play that damn thing even if it kills me...

Freak, I hope your hands are feeling a bit better. I'll put in some extra time on the bass in your honour (although if you heard me play you would probably cry from the sheer horror of it all).
 
I just watched the vid I recommended above and it may be a little too basic. In that tape he tells how to tune, change strings and gives you the 6 open chords. If you already know all that you might look into Warner Bros Ultimate Beginner Series - Electric Guitar Basics, Step 2 But he also does another tape for acoustic guitar. Get which ever one is what you're needing.

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