1st Steps for a Beginning Guitarist - Tapa blanda

First Steps presents you with all the information you will need to get started on the guitar.  All the chord forms you will need to play your favorite songs whether they be rock, folk, or country are here. The book contains clearly illustrated and easy to understand pictures, and our website offers hundreds of free videos and files to supplement your learning.  A picture or a movie is worth a thousand words so if you learn best through actually seeing and hearing someone demonstrate what they are teaching, then 1st Steps is your best choice; it's like getting a book, Audio CD and DVD all together for one great low price.   First Steps content 1. All the most commonly played guitar chords Major, Minor, Dominant 7th along with videos on how to tackle the typical problems students have with learning them.   2.  Both Open and Barre Chords with practice chord progressions and the strumming directions. Strumming patterns of various difficulties so that you can start making music as quickly as possible. All chord progressions have online video and audio files presenting the material at different speeds.   3. Videos demonstrating chords with special added notes used by such artists as Jimi Hendrix show you how added notes and phrases   4. The easiest fingering patterns for both chords and scales along with tips on the common problems you will encounter this really speeds learning.  Videos present you with common alternate fingerings, muting, and alternate chord forms so you can sound better with more variety in your playing. 5.  The scratch method This will get you switching between chords more fluidly and make your songs sound like music right away. 6.  Information on how to tune the guitar is found both in the book and on line with audio files to hear what the correct pitch for each string sounds like. 7.  Music Theory information in the book is accompanied by on line video. 8.  A note chart showing you all the notes found on the guitar fretboard. 9.  Ever wonder why certain chords go really well together? The book and on line videos show you which chords go together. 10.  Hammer-ons, Pulloffs, Slides, Bends, Vibrato these are some of the essential techniques of the guitar, and our videos show you exactly how to play these cool effects to enhance your playing.   11.  Learn through the online videos how to add notes into chords to give them more interesting sounds, and to build your understanding of chord theory. 12.  A learning tool called cycle 5 is presented with a video to help you memorize and play the barre chords.  13.  An entire section in the book explaining all aspects of rhythm so you can understand and play any rhythm you find in music. 14.  Most American popular and folk music has some element of the Blues. First Steps gives you access to a large online resource showing you how to play the blues with tons of information on alternate ways to play the chords along with the scale patterns, turnarounds, fingering patterns, bending notes, and the blues triplet feel.

Guitarist Bruce Arnold has developed an extensive reputation as a composer educator and guitar virtuoso. He has created a unique signature sound that stems from his combination of jazz techniques and 20th Century compositional methods. He has played with such diverse musicians as Stuart Hamm, Peter Erskine, Joe Pass, Joe Lovano, Randy Brecker, Stanley Clarke, the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Arnold is also deeply devoted to music education and had written more than 50 music instruction.  He heads the guitar departments at NYU and Princeton University and is the director of the New York University Summer Guitar Intensive He has taught at some of the most prestigious music schools in America, including the New England Conservatory of Music, Dartmouth College, Berklee College of Music, New School University, and City College of New York.