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Just enough guitar Barre chord basics
Guitar software Beginning guitar
Electric guitar basics Rock and heavy metal
Acoustic guitar basics Blues - young guitarist
Fast-track method Heavy metal primer
Hal Leonard method Mel Bay Method 123
Your 1st guitar lesson Teach yourself guitar
Guitar chord basics Berklee method
The Advancing guitarist The formula of music
Voyetra Teach me guitar software Getting started on acoustic guitar DVD
Getting started on electric guitar Left Handed Guitar
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Just enough guitar

In this complete learning kit for beginning guitar, 15-year-old Andrew and his friends will show you 4 different ways to learn to play. In the 15 minute video, Andrew will uncover the mysteries about buying gear, getting started, resources, forming a band, getting gigs, and practicing. The video also includes a world premiere video of Andrew and his band, the Blue Tones. The CD-ROM (for Windows or Mac) contains your first 50+ guitar lessons. The animated content includes chord charts, the 12 bar blues structure, lead boxes, and video tips. The full color pocket-size book and audio CD duplicate the CD-ROM content and give you the flexibility to practice and keep learning where ever you are. At the Just Enough web site, you can share ideas, meet new e-friends, learn how to form your own band, get more lessons, free e-mail, chat, and more.

Minimum System Requirements for the CD-ROM:


Windows:
166 MHz Intel Pentium processor or compatible
Windows 95, 98, NT4, or 2000
32 MB RAM
8X CD-ROM Drive;
800 x 600 Monitor Resolution; 16-bit color depth
Sound card and speakers

Macintosh:
120 MHz Power PC processor
Mac OS 8.1 or later
32 MB RAM
8x CD-ROM Drive
800 x 600 Monitor Resolution; 16-bit color depth
Built-in or External Speakers (External recommended

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Software to learn to play the guitar

Click here for eMedia Guitar method 1 and 2 as well as guitar songs and blues legends and teach me guitar titles and more are offered.


Electric guitar basics  

The best-selling titles of the Ultimate Beginner Series} [R] are now packaged together for the first time! Two videos, one book, and one CD are now only $24.99, a saving of almost 25%. It's everything you need to start playing an instrument in one convenient package!  This book/CD/ 2 Video package is designed to help aspiring musicians take the first step toward experiencing the fun of playing music, and is packed full of tips, lesson s, and practical knowledge. Subjects covered include: guitar basics, chords and strumming, music notation and tablature, the blues progression, lead guitar techniques, lead scales, and barre chords.  

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Acoustic guitar basics  

The best-selling titles of the Ultimate Beginner Series} [R] are now packaged together for the first time! Two videos, one book, and one CD are now only $24.99, a saving of almost 25%. It's everything you need to start playing an instrument in one convenient package! This book/CD/ 2 Video package is designed to help aspiring musicians take the first step toward experiencing the fun of playing music, and is packed full of tips, lesson s, and practical knowledge. Topics include: guitar basics, chords and strumming techniques, music notation and tablature, the blues progression, fingerpicking, and using the capo. View picture here

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Fasttrack guitar method 

For electric or acoustic guitar - or both! Teaches music notation, tablature, Full chords and power chords, riffs, licks, and scales, and rock and blues styles. Method Book 1 includes 73 songs and examples. book/CD View picture here

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Guitar method book   Hal Leonard

Book 1 provides beginning instruction which includes tuning, 1st position melody playing (strings 1-6) the C, G, G7, D7 and Em chords, rhythms through eighth notes, solos and ensembles and strumming. Added features are a chord chart and a selection of traditional songs, including 'Amazing Grace,' 'Greensleeves' and 'When The Saints Go Marching In.' Pages are cross-referenced for use with supplements. An outstanding recording that features audio demos of several exercises with various accompaniments! Tracks include acoustic and electric examples and some played at two different speeds. View picture here

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Book 2 includes studies and songs in the keys of C, G, D, Em, and F, syncopations and dotted rhythms, more advanced strums, the most common 1st position chords, solos, bass runs and a variety of styles from bluegrass to blues-rock. A great selection of traditional songs including: 'Simple Gifts,' 'Mamma Don't 'Low,' 'Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms,' 'Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring,' and many more. Pages are cross-referenced for supplements. Guitar method book click here for latest sales price

Book 3 includes the chromatic scale, 16th notes, playing in positions II-IIV, moving chords up the neck (bar chords), finger picking, ensembles and solos, a wide variety of style studies and many excellent songs for playing and/or singing. Can be used with supplements. Guitar method book click here for latest sales price


Your First Guitar Lesson  

Play guitar in 7 days!

(For kids, adults, & senior citizens)
This one-hour video is guaranteed success because it follows the logic that the human being can only think of one thing at a time. You will learn the 19 main open chords and 23 songs that will give you plenty of practice to master and perfect all 19 chords quickly and easily.

Learn how to make a guitar easy to play, how to use small guitars and ukuleles for children and people with small hands. Learn the parts of the guitar and how to tune, and all the tricks that make learning quick and easy, so that you won't have any problems.

Unique Split-Screen View from Your First Guitar LessonIncludes: Auld Lang Syne, Amazing Grace, Aura Lee (or Love Me Tender), Away in a Manger, Camptown Races, Do Lord - Got a Home in Glory Land, Greensleeves (What Child Is This?), Happy Birthday, Heart & Soul, Home on the Range, House of the Rising Sun, Jingle Bells, John Jacob Jingleheymer Smith, Kum Ba Ya, Little Sadie, My Bonnie, Midnight Special, Mountain Dew, Oh Suzanna, Old Time Religion, Sloop John B, This Old Man (Barney Song), You Are My Sunshine.

*Everyone has different "favorite songs".  The songs in this course are IDEAL  examples of the variety of songs in the world, therefore, these are "models" that will help you to learn YOUR personal favorites!  (they will even serve as a preliminary path toward "figuring out" songs on your own.   This is important because, there's always a new song that you'd like to learn, and not always material available for it.  Ever seen those people who can just "automatically" play anything, even if they didn't previously know it?  We design our material to put you on your way to that ability! View picture here

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Guitar chord basics  

In this book, Aaron Stang will guide you through all the basic chords you need to begin playing your favorite songs. Plus, you'll learn the simple, music theory secrets that will allow you to understand how chords, and chord progressions function. This will enable you to begin figuring out the chords to popular songs. Including: The "CAGED" Concept, Common chords in the five most popular guitar keys, Common chords in the two most popular minor keys, How chords are constructed. book View picture here

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Barre chord basics  

If you can play basic "open position" chords you're ready for this book. Barre chords are one of the great advantages guitarists have. Because barre chords are "moveable" (transposable to any key), after learning just a few simple fingerings you'll be able to play virtually any chord, in any key! Including: "E" type barre chords, * "A" type barre chords, Major, minor and dominant 7th forms, Rock & roll style power chords and boogie progressions Simple "jazz" chords to spice u p the blues  book View picture here

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JAY JAY FRENCH  "Heavy Metal Primer" 

features: Special left-hand exercises, the JAY  JAY FRENCH "power" warm up, heavy metal power chords, heavy metal lead scales, licks, string bending and metal flash techniques. (60 min.) LEVEL 1-2 #VGF111 View picture here

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Mel Bay Modern Guitar Method Grade 1
by Mel Bay

BOOK (93200)    
This is the world's premier method for learning modern guitar. It is time tested and has proven to be quite successful in building the harmonic knowledge and technique needed to play any style. It teaches note reading and in book one, the guitarist will learn to play solos, duets, scales and chords in the keys of C, A minor, G and E minor. Notation only. 48 pages. View picture here

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Modern Guitar Method Grade 2 
by Mel Bay

Book (93201) 
Internationally acclaimed for its thoroughness, innovation, and ease of understanding, the Mel Bay Modern Guitar Method is the world's premier guitar course of instruction. This extremely popular method has been time tested and proven successful in building technical proficiency needed to master music of any style. Grade 2 features a tremendous amount of carefully graded playing material for the guitar student, including duets for student and teacher. This method placed special emphasis on picking technique and position playing. 48 pages. View picture here
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Modern Guitar Method Grade 3 
by Mel Bay

Book (93202) 

 

Grade 3 of the internationally acclaimed Mel Bay Modern Guitar Method features wonderful, intermediate level guitar solos and studies. It will take the student through a carefully graded method of melody-chord and position playing. Triads and four-string chords are presented in numerous keys and positions. Scales and technical exercises are presented in a careful manner to integrate technique with solo styling.  48 pages. View picture here Modern guitar method grade 3 click here for sales price


You Can Teach Yourself® Guitar  
by William Bay


Book/CD set (94301BCD)    

This is a very popular guitar method. Its success lies in the fact that it is extremely easy to understand and very flexible. It moves at a slow, steady pace and enables you to play chord accompaniments in 7 primary guitar keys! In addition, you will learn to strum blues chords and you will also begin to play fingerstyle backgrounds. This book is supplemented by a play along a compact disc. 112 pages. View picture here  

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A MODERN METHOD FOR GUITAR - VOLUMES 1, 2, 3 COMPLETE Berklee Methods

Composer/Author: William Leavitt

Now guitarists can have all three volumes of this classic guitar method in one convenient book! Created by popular demand, this new edition of the method used as the basic text for the renowned Berklee College of Music guitar program is a complete compilation of the original Volumes 1, 2, and 3. Innovative solos, duets and exercises progressively teach melody, harmony and rhythm. Perfect for the serious guitar student and instructor alike. View picture here

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Book 1 information:
The beginning-level book of this comprehensive method teaches a wide range of guitar and music fundamentals, including: scales, melodic studies, chord and arpeggio studies, how to read music, accompaniment techniques, special exercises for developing technique in both hands, a unique approach to voice leading using moveable chord forms, and more.

Book 2 information:
This practical, comprehensive method is used as the basic text for Berklee's guitar program. Volume 2 is an intermediate-level book that continues and builds upon the study of melody, scales, arpeggios and chords, covering the entire fingerboard. Also covers: intervals, chord voicings, improvisation, rhythm guitar techniques, and play-along duets.

Book 3 information:
Leavitt's practical, comprehensive method is used as the basic text for Berklee's guitar program. After mastering the fundamentals from Volumes 1 and 2, guitarists will be ready to take their skills to a more challenging level. This book teaches: techniques relating to scales, arpeggios, rhythm guitar, chord/scale relationships, chord construction and voicings, tips for advanced playing, and more.


THE ADVANCING GUITARIST
Reference

Artist: Mick Goodrick

Veteran musician and educator Mick Goodrick presents practical information for guitarists who want to improve their playing technique and style and simply become better musicians. Rather than a step-by-step method book, the information is presented in a general essay format, discussing ways that the various techniques covered may be applied by the advancing guitarist to enhance his/her own style of playing, some of the areas discussed include: • Basic Fingerboard Mechanics • Modes, Scales and Chords • Contemporary Harmony • Harmonica and Overtone Influences • Being Self-Critical • Improvising Short Pieces • Different Playing Situations View picture here The Advancing guitarist click here for sales price


ARLEN ROTH  "Beginning Electric Guitar" 

features: Chord positions, rhythm  guitar, rock chords scales, licks, proper left & right hand technique, plus all the elements to help make you a complete electric guitarist! (60 min.) LEVEL 1, #VGR107 View picture here $ Arlen Roth click here for sales price


The Formula Of Music

Understanding
The Formula Of Music
Makes it so Easy!  (2-hour video)

Would you like to learn how music really works?
"Whenever I hear a new song on the radio, I already know how to play it the moment I hear it!" Sounds like magic but the truth is, all good musician's can do that, and so can you, after we've shown you what to listen for. Be that guy who everyone thinks is a natural born talent!   Now you can learn on your own without being at the mercy of teachers and books. You'll have music in you coming out your ears!
Music is as simple as first grade math, but a lot more fun!

Watching this video will make you musically enlightened! Most of us start by taking a few lessons on an instrument, or by trying to figure out how to play on our own.  But it's a struggle because we're kind of in the dark.  You will gain an ear for harmony & melody, plus knowledge of the mechanics, as well as the language of musical terms.

Everything is laid out in the most logical order, with the easiest examples to practice on. The best thing about it is, it's so much fun that you'll forget you're studying! It will give you the understanding that the pros have! It's really just 4 years of college music theory condensed down into 2-hours of just watching TV.  Find out why those great musicians are so talented and join 'em yourself! It's not such a mystery if you know what you're doing. Split screen close ups & video graphics put it right in your lap!

Learn: Ear training, the Nashville Numbering System, Perfect Pitch, history of the formula, voicing, how to figure out the chords to any song, how to recognize intervals , tempered scale, circles of 4ths & 5ths, and much more! No matter what instrument you are learning,
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Voyetra Teach me guitar software

The best way to learn guitar is to play the guitar, and that’s exactly what you’ll do with Voyetra’s Teach Me Guitar™. Lessons show you how to play chords and songs with videos, intuitive charts and diagrams.

An online instructor demonstrates techniques, then talks you through a lesson as you play along. When you’re ready to jam, click on the animated fretboard, which shows neck fingerings in real time as you play. Control tempos or loop sections to learn songs at your own pace. When you’ve got the song down, step in and play with the virtual backup band! Comes with picks, a Pocket Guitar Chord Dictionary, and even a software-based tuning system! Teach Me Guitar™is perfect for beginners and advanced players alike.

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Getting started on acoustic guitar - DVD 320294

FENDER PRESENTS GETTING STARTED ON ACOUSTIC GUITAR - DVD. A Complete Course for the Beginner Guitarist!
Artist: Keith Wyatt

By far the most comprehensive DVD ever offered for the beginner guitarist - well over 3 hours long! Over 50 Interactive Lessons! Step-by-step lessons incorporating clear, easy-to-follow 3-D graphics and unique play-along tracks teach the viewer the essential chords, scales, and techniques used by acoustic guitar players in every popular style, including rock, blues and country. This DVD is separated into two major sections: The First Step: tuning up · string names · essential chords and scales used by all players · music reference section (notes, rhythms, chords and scales) · practice tips · fretting-hand technique · picking-hand technique · backing tracks for play-along · animated 3-D fretboard graphics Play Acoustic!: rhythm technique (bare finger/thumb, bass/chord, fingerstyle, etc.) · soloing technique (chord embellishment, open-string chords, using a capo) · electrified acoustic · rock, blues and country styles · rhythm and solo technique in each style · backing tracks in each style for play-along · tips on caring for your instrument from the Fender Custom Shop. Special DVD Features include: · Bonus footage, including a Fender Factory Tour! · Looping function · Web links, including a web site specifically designed for beginning guitarists · Multi-language feature so you can hear the DVD in English, Spanish, German, French, or Japanese · Universally encoded for playability worldwide. Total running time: Approximately 225 minutes.

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Getting started on electric guitar DVD 320293

FENDER PRESENTS GETTING STARTED ON ELECTRIC GUITAR - DVD
A Complete Course for the Beginner Guitarist! Series: DVD
Artist: Keith Wyatt

Getting Started on Electric Guitar offers a complete course for the beginning electric guitarist. Step-by-step lessons incorporating clear, easy-to-follow 3-D graphics and unique play-along tracks teach the viewer the essential chords, scales and techniques used by electric guitar players in every popular style, including rock, blues and country. This DVD is separated into two major sections. Part 1 - The First Step covers: tuning methods · string names · essential chords and scales used by all players · musical reference section (notes, rhythms, chords and scales) · practice tips · fretting-hand technique · picking-hand technique · backing tracks for play-along · an animated fretboard · & more. 102 minutes. Part 2 - Play Electric! covers: right-hand technique · left-hand technique · rhythm parts (muting, alternate picking, arpeggios) · soloing technique (string bending, vibrato) · rock, blues & country styles · rhythm and solo ideas for each style · backing tracks in each style for play-along · sounds (amplifiers and effects) · caring for your instrument · and tips from the Fender Custom Shop. 100 minutes. Special DVD features include: · bonus footage, including a tour of the Fender factory! · looping capabilities · web site links specifically for beginning guitarists · a multi-language feature so you can view the DVD in English, Spanish, German, French or Japanese · universally coded for playability worldwide. Total running time: approximately 225 minutes - over three hours long!

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