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    Learn to Play the Guitar: A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners
    Learn to Play the Guitar: A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners
    Learn to Play the Guitar: A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners
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    Learn to Play the Guitar: A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners

    By Trevor Beck

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    So you want to learn how to play guitar? This could be easier than you think!

    Finding a good guitar course can be hard. It can be especially hard when you're trying to teach yourself on the internet. Do you ever feel like when you're watching guitar videos online, you understand the "how" but not the "why"? Do you ever feel like you're just being shown music and chords for the purpose of being shown music and chords without any rhyme or reason? This book is the answer to your prayers.

    This excellent guide deconstructs the guitar and guitar method into bite-size chunks so that you feel like you're quickly gaining a lot of skill with little effort. By the end of this book, you're going to feel extremely informed on everything to do with guitars, as well go from a novice player to a very able one in no time flat.

    Over the course of this book, you're going to learn:

    • All of the different parts of the guitar
    • How to play the most important chords on a guitar
    • Various exercises specifically designed to increase your finger dexterity
    • How to strum and pick a guitar
    • A few different hit songs so that you can get started right away
    • And much more!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrevor Beck
    Release dateJan 20, 2018
    ISBN9781386827078
    Learn to Play the Guitar: A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners
    Author

    Trevor Beck

    Trevor Beck was born in Detroit in 1982 and started playing music at age 6. Coming from a family of musicians where music was everywhere, he immediately became interested in the guitar. He never stopped playing since and went studying the guitar at various schools like the Berklee College of Music (Boston) and the prestigious Manhattan School of Music in New York city.

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      Learn to Play the Guitar - Trevor Beck

      Learn to play the guitar

      A step-by-step guide for beginners

      by

      Trevor Beck

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Chapter 1: Guitar Structure

      Chapter 2: Guitar Fundamentals

      Chapter 3: Your First Chords

      Chapter 4: Even More Chords (7th and Barre Chords)

      Chapter 5: Guitar Exercises

      Chapter 6: Scales

      Conclusion

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      This declaration is deemed fair and valid by both the American Bar Association and the Committee of Publishers Association and is legally binding throughout the United States.

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      Introduction

      Congratulations on downloading Learn to play the guitar: A step-by-step guide for beginners and thank you for doing so.

      The following chapters will discuss how to start playing guitar. It’s pretty self-explanatory, really. However, for such a simply explanation, you need to be aware: this journey will be quite arduous. In fact, it may be one of the more difficult things that you’ve undertaken.

      This book isn’t going to simply set you up with a knowledge of the guitar; after all, any book can teach you how to play Sweet Home Alabama and then send you home packing. But when that happens, you’re left without

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