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Guitar Book for Adult Beginners: Teach Yourself How to Play Famous Guitar Songs, Guitar Chords, Music Theory & Technique (Book & Streaming Video Lessons)

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With over 1 million books sold, Rolling Stone Magazine recommends music professor Damon Ferrante's Guitar Book for Adult Beginners as the 1 Best Guitar Books for Beginners! Based on over 30 years of teaching experience, his easy-to-follow method is used by over a million guitar students and teachers. This excellent, interactive book and 46 streaming video course provides a complete foundation for learning the guitar. It is the most comprehensive book available for beginners. Music professor Damon Ferrante guides you through how to play the guitar with 108 lessons that progress step-by-step and cover how to play 40 famous songs, strum chords, learn the notes on the guitar neck, develop guitar technique, learn music theory, and many more beginner guitar concepts. The 46 video lessons demonstrate how to play songs, guitar technique, and music theory.108 Lessons - 46 Video Lessons - 40 Songs! No Music Reading Is Required!This comprehensive book and video-lesson course will greatly expand your guitar song repertoire, improve your guitar technique, teach you the notes of the guitar fretboard, and give you an understanding of music theory. Designed for absolute beginners, the book's fun and easy learning style enables you to learn songs quickly and improve rapidly. Within a few hours, you will learn to play your first song! This book is a companion with Guitar Scales Handbook, Ultimate Guitar Chords, Scales & Arpeggios Handbook, Beginner Rock Guitar Lessons, Piano Book for Adult Beginners, and Guitar Book for Kids 5 & Up (all also by Damon Ferrante). Whether you are teaching yourself guitar or learning with a guitar teacher, this book and video course will take your guitar playing to a whole new level! You will also be supporting a US company. All of our books are 100% Made in the USA.Ask yourself this:1. Have you always wanted to learn how to play famous guitar songs, but did not know where to start?2. Did you start guitar lessons once and give up because the lessons were too difficult?3. Are you struggling to follow online guitar lessons that seem to jump all over the place without any sense of direction or consistency?4. Would you like to expand your musical understanding and learn how to play the guitar through an affordable, step-by- step book and video course?If your answer to any of the these questions is yes, then scroll up and click the “Add To Cart” button to get your copy today and start your exciting guitar journey! You will join over 1 million guitarists who are making their guitar dreams come true!Here are some of the famous songs that are covered in this book and video course: Amazing Grace House of the Rising Sun Scarborough Fair Shenandoah Happy Birthday Kum-Bah-Yah Jingle Bells Home on the Range This Little Light of Mine Take Me Out to the Ballgame Red River Valley Silent Night When the Saints Go Marching In Greensleeves Aura Lee And Many More Great Songs! Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Steeplechase Arts


Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 6, 2017


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Print length ‏ : ‎ 118 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0692996966


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 66


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.6 ounces


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.5 x 0.27 x 11 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #21,015 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #6 in Country Music (Books) #8 in Guitar Songbooks #12 in Guitars (Books)


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    • VERY GOOD ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS LEARNING BOOK!
Format: Paperback
This book is very good, a thorough introduction to learning to play the guitar with 0 experience! Coming from a classical piano (intermediate level) background, this book is quite easy to follow, intuitive if anything. When I was playing worship piano (urban Black gospel, CCM [Contemporary Christian Music] songs), for the various churches, I often struggled to follow along the guitar chords that the keyboardists were expected to know and have an understanding of, since a lot of today's Christian worship music is mostly guitar driven. I chose to take it upon myself to learn the guitar, in order to have a better understanding of how chords work. In classical piano, you follow the sheet music and play it EXACTLY as it is written, finger numberings and all. However, classical piano DOES NOT teach you how to improvise, and that is where I encountered difficulty in following along with the worship music lead sheet that was given to me during the worship rehearsal practices. I hope that having a basic and working knowledge of the guitar will help me to understand how to play the modern church music songs that have become so commonplace. Highly recommended book for everyone, regardless of the level. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2022 by Doozy.kaboo
    • Guitar book for beginners.
Format: Paperback
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I am new to guitar playing. I have chosen Electric Guitar as i like the build and looks. At first, I was learning from Youtube. I have gathered considerable knowledge in theory but lack the practical skills. This book from Professor Ferrante is complementing my missing gaps. Now i am already playing some melodies. I like the "Three Chords and the Truth". I keep my finger exercises concise that i have learn from Internet. I am currently in lesson 10 in the book and enjoying every moment. I highly recommend anyone who wish to learn acoustic or electric to grab this book, its a great start. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2025 by Wassim
    • Beginners guitar book
Format: Paperback
Good book but not as "beginner" as I would have liked. To me me it's leaning more towards intermediate.
Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2023 by Glenn
    • Very easy to understand, very helpful
Format: Paperback
I decided to pick up gutair again (I had played a little bit several years ago but I wasn't any good) and got this book so I could learn and help my daughter practice her gutair. I learned a ton! However, I was a professional musician and made a full time living with the military for a few years. I might be more prone to understand and pick things up. I typically can teach myself to play instruments. I was able to go through all the lessons (100+) in a few days. My perspective may be different than someone who doesn't have much musical or any musical experience. My only complaint is that I have a hard time understanding the barre chord section of the book. I wish the chord progressions for the songs had the tab for the chords on the same page so I didn't have to flip back and forth so much. They'd spread it out. One page you learn the chords, a fe lages later you use the chords in a song and then later on play the individual notes. So there'sots of flipping back and forth. Overall, I had lots of fun with this book and felt confident enough to order other books to help me build my skills as well as tab books for ACDC, ZZ Top, and Queen. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2023 by breanna
    • I'm at lesson 20
Format: Paperback
I'm a little conflicted with this book. It's a great book if you are looking to start learning cords as the book slowly progresses through many cords and builds on them. I'm conflicted because I spend some time hyper focused learning about music theory and root notes prior to its arrival. Here is the deal, the book starts you off with a few cords (ex: C major) but doesn't explicitly state it is omitting parts of the cord. This had me confused until I googled the actual cord and seen that they are only showing a part of the full cord. (the root note cannot be G if the cord is a C major ((it has to be C))). Then I got over to the next set where they begin to show some sheet music next to the cord and it doesn't seem that the sheet music they are showing represents the cord that they are expecting to be played... which is confusing. Perhaps later in the book things begin to clear up, I wont give up on it as I want to learn cords as well but the start has be a bit worried about methods. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2023 by Kayla
    • This is a fantastic instructional book
Format: Kindle
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This is a fantastic instructional book. I love how easy it is to follow and how the lessons progress in a manner that includes the previous lesson so you can continue to use what you previously learned. The diagrams are extremely helpful in understanding what the lesson should look like with the actual instrument. There is a little bit of something for everyone here. Wether you are just beginning or you are trying to continue developing your skills this book is for you. Having the interactive option of the video puts this instruction over the top! It is often hard to imagine what it should look like when you put the lessons from a book to use. Having the option to see it first hand is a tremendous bonus that puts this book above any other online or self teaching type of course. I would highly recommend this book to musicians of any age!! ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2018 by Marlena Johnson
    • Perfect for beginners
Format: Paperback
Terrific book for beginners. Written in a language we can all understand. Good deal
Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2025 by Amazon Customer

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